What about "but with so much of the world already living on the brink of nutrient insufficiency, a drop of just a few percentage points has the potential to push millions of additional people into a health crisis. "

can you fail to understand? Your tomato and strawberry anecdote is just that, an anecdote. Only an American would think your example was telling: after all, if it happens in America, it must be happening everywhere with the same proportionate consequences. And how do you know that taste indicates nourishment potential. What kind of *science* degree do you have that makes you believe such a thing?

And the article precis never claimed it was the primary reason people were undernourished, just the decreasing their nourishment is bad thing.

"Sometimes, you do have to practice the boring stuff, like math."

There's the problem right there. Math is being treated as boring, and kids certainly pick up on that. Math is not boring. If kids get can get their jollies by playing games, they can get their jollies by "playing" math as well. Math requires exploring an abstract space, just like games. Maybe we need math games with lots of whizzy things that MBAs can see and think we wants more of that, whatever it is. The games have to be serious about allowing students to explore the landscape behind math problems.

Yes, let's bring up a debunked vaccine-autism link.

Nobody cares? How about we poll the victims and ask them if they still care? Maybe it is okay for you to have rich folks preying on little girls with no repercussions but to families with little girls it is a very big deal. Allowing it to go unpunished just promotes the perps to do more of it and against any women, they have no worries with this alleged Justice Dept. and a serial female abuser in the WH.

I think you mean the Trump-Epstein Iran Crisis.

Yet another example of la Presidenta's rump government hiding behind National Security. What's in the deal, you Nazis! Or will the Maggots get their pretty little panties in a twist over being surveilled?

They answered this: "tectonic rumblings deep in the Earth's crust, and (this is the part that matters) by the mundane mechanical heartbeat of cities: ageing pipes, HVAC systems, traffic, industrial machinery. "

so we are missing the HVAC systems and industrial machinery. The traffic was horsedrawn lorries. Plus, I might be wrong but it seems to me the further one goes back in time, the less people were likely to look for common explanations for things they didn't understand and quicker to ascribe those goings-on to spooks. Now we just use aliens....hell, aliens aren't doing anything else we might as well use them for things we do not understand....a full employment program for aliens.

that's spot on. Now if we could only get the AI crack addicts to understand that. The AI crack dealers already do and they know damn well the effect it will have. They don't care as long as their get their money NOW, not tomorrow, NOW, tomorrow is too long, NOW, NOW, NOW!!

Working math problems is intellectually hard if you treat it as a chore rather than an opportunity to explore an abstract landscape. Most people are too uneducated to realize a math problem exists in a landscape. If you learn the landscape, the problem becomes much easier. I suspect kids are not untrainable. The gamers will spend hours exploring an abstract landscape but it is spoon fed to them on the screen. If they could ever break their immediate feedback and reward mechanism from the screen, their skills might even become useful.

You can curtail classroom screen time all you want. As soon as the knee biters leave school, they are going to be on their personal gratification devices. At home, it will be similar. When the finally conk out for sleep, and wake up, it will be back on their devices again.

Some kids do not have responsible parents, some kids have no parents. Turning to parents not a solution.

And eventually we will all inherit this uneducated lot after they turn 18 and have the attention span and intellectual level of a gnat. The older folks who turned their brains over to AI in the intervening years will be incapable of helping them.

Time will cure the backlash against Elmo, especially when the youngins who know nothing of him will gladly glom onto something they consider useful. I doubt most Americans know squat about him and if they do, it will be because he screwed up their SS with DOGE or because they "heard" he streamlined the federal government. The latter won't peek behind the headlines to understand how royally he screwed their privacy by helping to turn it over to Thiel and his merry band of Nazis.

This assumes Elmo can keep from screwing up again. Personally I wouldn't trust him further than I can spit a two-headed rat.

And when we had a respectable Executive Branch, I would agree with you. However, we don't. la Presidenta will pack it with Maggots who will not be independent.

Oversight? From this alleged administration? What ARE you smoking?

Aside from not being able to monetize grants given by NSF, they are not under Project 2025's thumb; it bothers them. Plus scientists say things they do not like and cannot counter, so their only recourse is to shut them down.

Does anyone believe that el Bunko got up one day and decided the independent body had to go? Does anyone believe he even knows what NSF does? This is merely yet another example of Project 2025 doing their damnest to fuck up America beyond all recognition. el Bunko is merely a useful idiot who sign anything they put in front of him.

I don't think that's it. The Republicans in Congress are like crack dealers and the Maggots are the users. The dealers issue a constant supply of bigotry and cruelty and the Maggots lap it up even though there is some part of them that knows it is go not good for them or the country but they are addicted. Every time one of them gets an independent thought, the rest are there to cow them back into subservience. The Republicans in Congress know this, and know without their drug supply, they are toast. So they keep it up.

You left out environmental concerns, including costs to flora and fauna, not just people. How is are those data centers to be powered? If it mean pumping lots of CO2 into the atmosphere, then that cost must be brought in. Insurance companies have actuaries that can put a price on your grandma, we have scientists to can predict the effects. Put them together and come out with a cost. Then charge taxpayers that cost and see how welcome are the data centers.

Yep, Ellison's little Nazi sprog is going to run the entire show. CNN will finally be brought under state control, expect their new division to get knifed.