The ability to focus is an acquired skill. There is a quantitative difference between watching a series of 30 second shorts and watching a 30 minute T.V. show, or a 2 hour film.

Rather ironically, however, whilst the 'just one more episode / chapter' 'addiction' phenomenon exists with all media it seems to be worse with Tiktok, or doom-scrolling in general, than it ever was with books or television (e.g. the boxed sets of 24 / GoT proved a willpower challenge for me, and I regularly read into the wee hours). This will have an influence on a user's physical, mental and emotional health, even if it takes a while to manifest.

"Only that which has no history can be defined" - Friedrich Nietzsche

There's nothing wrong with me. Not sure about you though...

From CATL's website: "CATL's Naxtra Battery breaks through the performance boundaries of the material itself, achieving the mass production of sodium-ion batteries for the first time."

This was in April...

How is that short relevant to a discussion about electric cars?

Ah, wait, don't tell us you fell for the propaganda in the title and actually thought that showed an electric vehicle blowing up? rofl!

As for a citation demonstrating "twice as good at half the cost" I'd suggest that this comes close. Tbh, given that there are plenty of others out there, it's a little strange you're unaware of what's going on in the field...

Almost certainly the latter.

Likewise.

After all, they're awfully smart people to be making such a grand yet 'unimaginative' claim.

That depends on the seed. If the seed is truly random then a 'good' algorithm will output a truly random result.

I remember reading about a company that uses (a real time image of) Lava Lamps as their seeds. Feeding in the exact same parameters is impossible, which would seem like a counter to this class of objection...

I'm a little curious as to where you get this median age from, and rather more curious as to why you think the mean (average) is therefore lower.

A recent report suggests that "[o]n average, cars are 17 years old when they head to the scrap heap", while other online sources tend to quote a figure of around 14 years...

Gosh, there just isn't enough time available for me to watch everything I want to watch!

(which explains why my TiVo has ~300 hours of stuff recorded, and generally sits at 99% full).

./troll
#needstogetalife

I must admit, despite being a regular donor, this was pretty much my first thought on reading the headline.

On reading the summary, however, my take away is that they are more concerned about the future supply of contributors - i.e. who's going to write new articles, etc.

Not going to read the full article ofc, so take this knee-jerk with a pinch of salt.

That's not a bias, that's self preservation...

Ask Julia to get you some instead, if you haven't already...

I'll use this product as an (incredibly overpriced) example of a 'better' way of getting a quick caffeine fix.

Personal opinion, but when half a kilo costs ~£5 (at my local GrapeTree) it's hard to say "no"...

Indeed. It is one of those things he is, truly, the greatest at!

I sometimes wonder if a large part of his 'appeal' isn't akin to the fascination people have with accidents: I mean, his train of thought derails so often there's always plenty of opportunity for 'shock value'.

The polarisation of politics right now is just evolution experimenting with the correct response to a Trump in our time...

And her 'occasional' word-salads.

It seemed to me that she was so afraid of saying the 'wrong thing', she became functionally incapable of saying anything; well, anything of substance anyway.

So, partially, a consequence of self-censorship, do you think?

It's interesting that you jumped straight to him fucking dogs though, rather than him merely owning both dogs and a saxophone...

I had always presumed it was a play on words, rather than an admission of bestiality.