Yeah, and tanks and jeeps don't need smooth roads. But they are a lot less efficient. As for "Mars rovers", the problem is we don't have a good engineering of legs yet. Wheels are easier to build. (Just look at the problems of designing a good hand for a robot to get an idea. They've tried all sorts of approaches.)

Actually, a bipedal gait is a difficult problem. Quadrupeds are much easier, but they don't work as way in spaces adapted for people.

The wheels are just barely possible for evolution to create. It's happened, but only among microbes. What's impossible is the roads and smooth floors. (Well, except indirectly, by having people create them.)

Are you sure about that? Dremels have a lot of vibration when in use.

I'm certainly not going to argue that you're wrong, but what you pointed out is in addition to rather than in contradiction to what I said.

You're thinking in too restrictive a mode. Try this:
1) Sugars make food more attractive, so you tend to eat more.
2) Sugars are also a source of calories, so they increase the caloric content of the food.
3) Those two factors in combination tend to increase the amount of calories consumed.
4) Calories are a source of energy to be stored as fat.

Yeah, there are many more complex arguments and interactions, but that thread holds up through all of them.

That's one of the worse ones, yeah, but all sugars figure in here. They both make food more attractive and increase the calorie load.

They also aren't exclusive. Asahi Linux could make parts of their code available to other projects under their choice of license on a "by request" basis. It depend on whether, e.g., the BSD project needs things available that Asahi considers too significant. That would still mean the scrapers (What's a better word for that?) would be scraping GPL licensed code.

However, "keep your code 100% human-written" is going to be an expensive alternative. And if AI keeps improving at even 1/10th the current rate, it's going to be quite unrealistic.

Yeah, I write my own code. I do it for myself, and I'm retired, so I can do it because I want to. If I were part of a group doing it in competition with another group, this wouldn't work even now, much less 6 months from now.

No. The correlation is clear. But what's not clear is the direction of causation, or whether there's a feedback loop.

My, non-expert, guess is that Alzheimer's causes beta-amyloid clumps. This is largely because drugs that reduce beta-amyloid clumps seem to have practically unnoticeable effect on the disease.

Well, considering the number of updates that have been hitting me recently, I'd say that they've likely been already patched. But I sure wish I felt more certain.

Sorry, but that's unfair. You might not approve of the use, but it is using water, not wasting it.
OTOH, it *does* mean that it's not available for other uses.

A brief search indicated that those are fresh-water species. (Perhaps not all of them, though.)

Apparently I really need to start using <humor> tags.

Makes sense, but doesn't explain the blue. Exact wavelength spectra would be more diagnostic. (Not to me, but to experts in the field.)

Yes. Never doubt that. The questions are "How many?" and "Which people?".
Before anyone sensible should believe it, it should come with easily enforceable penalty clauses that are stiff enough to be meaningful.