Some countries (like Sweden) don’t use gas at all for home heating or cooking. We went fully electric in the 70s when we built up our nuclear reactor fleet (sadly, some of now have been closed due to the “nukes are bad” crowd) and that helps a lot now when it comes to relying on renewables.

I don’t have kids

Yeah I think you should abstain from having opinions on what their generation is doing then. In the whole of human history no older generation has ever been correct regarding what the upcoming generation should or shouldn’t do.

The study you link says the exact same thing as Burnett does. It doesn’t support “social media is bad for kids”.

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In all, the available meta-analytic evidence suggests that SNS use is weakly associated with higher levels of ill-being [14,17, 18, 19, 20] but also with higher levels of well-being [17,19], a result that suggests that ill-being is not simply the flip-side of well-being and vice versa, and that both outcomes should be investigated in their own right [11,39]. Finally, all meta-analyses reported considerable variability in the reported associations. For example, in the meta-analysis by Ivie et al. [14], the reported associations of SMU with depressive symptoms ranged from r = −.10 to r = +.33.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X21001500

but we have to acknowledge the negative side, which in my opinion […]

I don’t do opinions. Burnett (a neuroscientist) has linked many sources - maybe you just need to read a bit more.

Additionally, your claims about what’s “smartphones” and what’s “social media” are strange - my kids use Snapchat to communicate. Do you think they use SMS?? How old are your kids?

“Probably”

This is your definition of scientific?

Thanks for proving my point.

great account to follow regarding the science on the subject: https://ohai.social/@Garwboy/113554246823274751

Lots of people believe things not supported by science.

News at 11.

Yeah. We’ve learnt a lot from how countries have acted when we’ve tried giving weapons and munitions to Ukraine the last few years.

The Swedish Gripen airplanes are still not in Ukraine. It’s not due to Sweden or Ukraine …

… which would cause Trump to cancel trade most certainly. I’m a citizen of a European Nato member and I don’t believe we can take that risk.

Without the agreement of the US a lot of the weapon systems NATO members have cannot be used. That’s the downside of using common components and platforms throughout the alliance.

I assume this is “the Trump plan” so he’ll say agree to it or he takes the US and goes home.

It’s that the game, story, or environment is being sacrificed to shove a political message down your throat.

… said by people who only know of this because today we talk about that message. The same people who loved Starship Troopers without realising it’s a tale about the dangers of fascism. Who cheered Fight Club not realising it criticized male stereotypes. And lauded the Fallout video game series even though it on purpose allows same sex relationships since Fallout 2.

Sheep. Led by Russian propaganda filtered through their current favorite “I tell it like it is”-influencers.

… anymore. In the beginning you could even find scene release group names in the album titles.

https://torrentfreak.com/spotifys-beta-used-pirate-mp3-files-some-from-pirate-bay-170509/

h/t @rasmusfleischer@mastodon.nu

(although I do believe I am one of those persons who saw those filenames myself, but I mean … that was a looooooong time ago now)

There are many stories on how the receiver of a transplant has felt themselves being “changed”, sometimes in ways that would remind people of the donor.

https://www.mdpi.com/2673-3943/5/1/2

No, they should be where no entity outside of European jurisdiction can influence their messaging.

The EU commission has their own Mastodon instance. That’s how all public services should do it.

That’s just replies to a post. It doesn’t solve not all posts reaching everybody.

It cannot be “fixed” unless you centralize into a single firehose like Xitter and Bluesky.

Those of us running smaller instances can choose to use relays and fetcher-tasks - and there is a PR to put one such fetcher into Mastodon - but if the goal is 100% of everybody always sees 100% of the content then no decentralized solution will ever offer that.

“Slight” difference in bandwidth between these cables and Starlink.

If you know better than Dr Mann perhaps you should publish a few papers?

It sounds more like you’re one of those doomists he describes.

Tell that to Michael Mann, perhaps one of the most distinguished climate scientists:

“Actually, the warming of the planet is very much in line with early climate model predictions. Some impacts, such as ice sheet melt and sea level rise, and the slowdown of the ocean ‘conveyor belt’ are exceeding those predictions.” Current policies alone likely keep warming below 3°C (5.4°F), nowhere near the “worst-case” scenarios.

https://www.aps.org/apsnews/2023/09/climate-doomism-disregards-science

Until there is another instance it’s not federated.

We’re seeing a substantial increase on the Mastodon instance I help moderate too, but there’s no aggregate marketing department at Mastodon so we don’t get any headlines.