CBS has an average of 5 million viewers each night (https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/network-news/). This is out of a US population of over 350 million. Like all conventional TV news, it has become a fringe influence. Walter Cronkite is long dead. For better or worst, most people get their news from TikTok or Instagram.

Signal is secure, but the devices on either end can be hacked.

The Palestinians were offered their own country in 1947, 1967 and 2000. They rejected these because the goal is the complete destruction of Israel. This goal is still in Hamas' charter.

Quantum encryption can. protect your data in transit, but the devices at either end can be, and will be, hacked

Don't connect your TV to the internet by logging it into your wifi.

I hope to never have a semicolon as the result of a colostomy

At least Biden was surrounded by competent advisors.

What happens if you cover up the TV's camera with a PostIt note. Will that work?

New means of communication lead to periods of war. The Gutenberg press led to two hundred years of religious wars. Mass communication by radio and the press led to 20th century wars. The internet/AI may well lead to another round of wars. Even if the next war is nuclear, it will not lead to the extinction of mankind. It may lead to a collapse of our civilization and a severe diminishment of our population. Some will survive. We are too clever to be wiped out.

When applying for an academic position, the applicant should be asked to submit their eight most important papers. That way quality, rather than quantity. Will be the deciding factor.

Almost every sighting of a UFO has taken place in an English-speaking country, especially in the US. Check out this chart. https://x.com/StephenPiment/st...

They have a lot of experience working with this this.

I urged my son to send my grandchildren to camps that have no computers or phones of any type. Future success is much more dependent on soft people skills than academic skills. Screens and phones take away from the time needed to develop people skills and will leave them missing these skills. We have a whole generation of over-anxious teens who live on their phones and have no idea how to work or play with others.

Nuclear power is good on paper. However, it is way overpriced and takes too damn long to build.

Because of the lack of good data due to the difficulty of running valid experiments, nutrition is fad driven. For the same reason, education is also fad driven.