Dr. Thaddeus Q. They, clearly
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[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.
This family is lucky they didn't have an oak tree in their front yard or they'd have all been shot in self defense
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
Homer Simpson is why unions are important
It would be a lot better if Congress could pass a comprehensive privacy bill, but we lack a functioning government so I guess this is the best we can do.
Greatest democracy in the world, right here.
So it's only okay for them to suppress democracy and increase polarization if they use American platforms? Because that's already happening.
Yeah because Facebook totally doesn't do that.
Yeah, if China wants the data of Americans they should buy it from American companies, not harvest it themselves.
They're not mad about leaking data, they're mad that China is drinking their milkshake.
This consumer will be doing his part by not buying any car made after 2018
80% of my work is on websites, and the other 20% is in a text editor or terminal. As long as I could map my old keyboard shortcuts I don't see why not.