We had ZERO autism cases when there were pirates roaming the high seas.
This is what I think when I see a bunch of alarmingly rising graphs showing exposure to chemicals and childhood chronic diseases.
And if you plot child mortality and life expectancy over the same timeframes, the conclusion is clear: all those chemicals and ultra processed food make people live longer.
You may laugh, but the whole MAHA report is at this level of scientific insight.

Until AI learns to give kickbacks and funnel money through politicians' friends and relatives.

Or sent to a Signal chat. This is apparently an approved way of handling national secrets as well.

One thing he is not going to tax is tea imports from the UK. Even he knows how that went.

And it still can not pause on mouse or touchpad/touchscreen click. This is the single reason I am not using VLC for everyday video watching.

And ad that everybody is talking about and lots of people watched because of that. I'm making a mark here: huge success.

This made me think, which level AIs browse Slashdot at, and how far back? Is it going to be traumatized by the less wholesome comments?

I use 3-5 (or even 7) year old Chromebooks for amateur radio and other simple dedicated tasks. Of course, first I install a real OS on them. Device support in recent Linux kernels is good, although you still need to check compatibility before buying. There is plenty of them on eBay, and great deals can be had on Craigslist locally.
This is kind of a Raspberry Pi use case and price range . You don't get the GPIO header, but you get x86 compatibility and built in keyboard, display, and other peripherals.

How about noble metals used in catalytic converters? Not claiming to know if this has bigger cost/impact compared to copper in EV, just curious.

And quite possibly the last...

The problem is the alternatives are even worse.

Any significant investment in Russia (> few $M) inevitably attracts attention of many "powerful people", all asking for their cuts.
Thus, very few projects can be viable, forget about profitable. Basically, only those personally overseen by Putin (to fend off smaller "protectors").
In my opinion, this is the main reason high-tech in Russia is not possible, other than small software shops, which require little investment and can stay under the radar of siloviks until they become big. Then they are taken over and/or looted.

Not true. Sodium ions give flames bright yellow color. It is copper ions which make it green.

They are not sequestering it. Over a lifetime of a tree (including the decomposing phase), the net CO2 impact is close to zero.
The only way to affect CO2 in the atmosphere is to stop digging out the already sequestered carbon. All new sequestration efforts are several orders of magnitude away from the current extraction rate.

I am ok with it, as long as managers conduct meetings and shareholders enjoy their profits the same way.