Semi-Hemi-Demigod @ Semi-Hemi-Demigod @kbin.social

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Dr. Thaddeus Q. They, clearly

[US social psychologist Jonathan Haidt] links the rise of the “phone-based childhood”, continual supervision by adults and the loss of “free play” to spikes in mental illness in young people.

So phones are one out of three of the cited problems, but the only one they're doing anything about. These poor kids are going to have to deal with helicopter parents and no free time with one less form of escape. Something tells me that'll make it worse.

"It's not fair! The Bush family got to be president twice! It's only fair that we have two Kennedy presidents, too!" - Bobby Junior, probably

People have forgotten that the Internet is a repository of information, not just a broadcast medium.

You're right, I'm really more of a ska guy than a grunge guy. Look forward to checker shoes, cargo shorts, an open button-down over a tank top, and trillbies

Just a reminder that Dan Patrick has still not paid Fetterman the million bucks in Sheetz gift cards he's owed for finding a Republican who got an absentee ballot so his dead mom could vote for Trump.

I'm happy about this because I can still afford to drive there, and this means there will be fewer cars so driving will be nicer and parking will be more available.

Make public transport free. Imagine if we had to pay a fare to use an elevator.

OP shorted it and is trying to wag the dog

After the boondoggle that Vogtle became I don't think building new ones is a good idea. That's a lot of money tied up and not making energy.

I do think refurbishing and reactivating old plants when possible makes sense. The timeline is a lot shorter, and it's a lot cheaper than renewables. For example, the plant in the article can produce 2.5GW, and the same price would only get about 500MW of solar.

I'm aware that Gore did, in fact, win the election. However, without the factors that mindbleach mentioned and, I think, Lieberman being on the ticket it would have taken the powers of Brooks Brothers, Banana Republic, and Forever 21 combined to overturn it.

The internet interprets paywalls as damage and routes around them

Everybody's talking about his role in the ACA and video games, but I am firmly of the belief that if Gore hadn't picked him for VP he would have won the election. Having Lieberman on the ticket turned off enough people on the left.

That's not entirely true. I've been a Mac user since 1989 and I also recommend Brother laser printers

Once you get out of the DC/Baltimore suburbs Maryland gets racist real fast.

The Apple Store experience was so different from what shopping for a computer used to be like. Knowledgeable, friendly staff, computers you can actually use instead of just playing screen savers, and training, repairs, and support at the same place. Not at all like going to a Best Buy or Circuit City.

Favorite Holy Book: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Favorite Non-Fiction Book: Humankind by Rutger Bregman

Favorite Print and Audiobook Series: The Aubrey-Maturin Saga by Patrick O'Brien, narrated by Patrick Tull

Favorite Terry Pratchett Book: Going Postal

Sweet, I get to ride in Johnson's Motor Car!

People think mainly of the Hindenberg when you mention airships, but there were a lot of other ones that met tragic ends. The US Navy's Akron and Macon both crashed due to storms, the former with the loss of all but three sailors.

I think the troposphere is just too turbulent for big fragile bubbles like this to work. Maybe if we had blimps like Neil Stephenson's The Diamond Age - where they are made of diamond and use vacuum for lift - they could be strong and small enough to work. But the idea of using something like this to deploy wind turbines is just asking for trouble.

To be fair, adding skins is a lot easier than fixing performance issues, and probably involves different, non-overlapping teams