Agree with all your points.

It's possible I might have missed these, but they're also major considerations with COVID:

1. It causes scarring of tissue, especially heart tissue. That's why COVID sufferers often had severe blood clots in their bloodstream. Scarring of the heart increases risk of heart attacks, but there's obviously not much data on by how much, from COVID. Yet.

2. It causes brain damage in all who have been infected. Again, we have very little idea of how much, but from what I've read, there may be an increased risk of strokes in later life.

3. Viral load is known to cause fossil viruses in DNA to reactivate silenced portions. This can lead to cancer. Viral load has also been linked to multiple sclerosis and chronic fatigue, but it's possible COVID was the wrong sort of virus. These things can take decades to develop.

I would expect a drop in life expectancy, sometimes in the 2040-2050 timeframe, from life-shortening damage from COVID, but the probability depends on how much damage even mild sufferers sustained and what medicine can do to mitigate it by then. The first, as far as I know, has not been looked at nearly as much as long COVID has - which is fair. The second is obviously unknowable.

I'm hoping I'm being overly anxious, my worry is that I might not be anxious enough.

Because this report is almost telling use to just stop eating meat from cattle, pigs and even chickens, let alone seafood. It almost sounds like they want us to switch to an insect-based diet, which may or may not be a good thing given that we haven't really tried to harvest insects for food on an industrial scale. Besides, the phrase "everything in moderation" makes way more sense for a health perspective.

You will get a first class demonstration as to why libertarian small government utopia is but a fantasy.

Capitalism and markets don't just arise as humanity's natural state. They are created by strong government through the enforcement of contract law and by creating a level playing field. Public R&D serves as a multiplier generating far more wealth down the line then what has to be invested up front.

Anyhow, enjoy your age of austerity.

And in order to escape the terror of the pronouns the republic had to be burned down and the earth salted.

Great job snowflake!
 

If you don't monitor it the problem will surely go away,

Elon settled SpaceX with the disastrous decision to use stainless steel for the Starship. So it'll be interesting to see how much money he will have to throw at it.

He's probably Russian. That's how they've always done it.

Just wait until he gets to name Powell's replacement next year. I am sure it'll do wonders for the dollar and the bond market.

He considers this an artifact of setting too short a time window and he stresses that current trends are still very much in line with the forecasts of climate modeling.

To quote:

The truth is bad enough folks!

Let's not play the same games climate deniers were playing a decade ago with cherry-picked time periods and misleading trend lines.

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My latest vaccine shots had the 6G upgrade, to take advantage of the higher-speed web access when the networks upgrade, but if they're selling those frequencies to high-power carriers, then I won't be able to walk into any area that handles AT&T or Verizon. :P

Seriously, this will totally wreck the 6G/WiFi6 specification, utterly ruin the planned 7G/WiFi7 update, and cause no end of problems to those already using WiFi6 equipment - basically, people with working gear may well find their hardware simply no longer operates, which is really NOT what no vendor or customer wants to hear. Vendors with existing gear will need to do a recall, which won't be popular, and the replacement products simply aren't going to do even a fraction as well as the customers were promised - which, again, won't go down well. And it won't be the politicians who get the blame, despite it being the politicians who are at fault.

Those hybrid systems found on many Toyotas sold outside the USA aren't the sophisticated hybrid systems like we see on Prius or the current year Camry models. I do think we'll see much more advanced battery packs on the US market Toyotas with hybrid drive to improve fuel economy and/or offer even more range on inital battery power (maybe over 100 km or 62.1 miles) by 2028.

I expect that to drop dramatically because Toyota just recently opened a new battery plant for their hybrid models. And I wouldn't be surprised that Toyota will start sourcing battery packs from third parties for their burgeoning hybrid lineup.

Also, all these battery plants could be supplying hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles out there. Toyota is aggressively pushing hybrids, Honda is starting to do so, and I expect Nissan to go that way (if they survive).

The blame belongs with the ketamine addict.

Same reason Tesla can't get the self-driving right.

Elon overruled his engineers, stripped out LIDAR and insists it has to work on cameras only.

The made Jimmy Carter sell his peanut farm.