Disappontingly, that is not a specific federal regulation for radioactive wasps.

Digging into the actual measurement a bit more... The linked report claims 100,000 dpm/100 cm2 beta/gamma. If the wasp nest is about 10x10cm, that would be 100,000 disintegrations/minute = 45 nanocuries, or about the same as 100 bananas (~0.5 nanocuries/banana). Which is about what was on the shelf at my grocery store when I bought bananas yesterday.

If there were four radioactive wasp nests in my grocery store, the problem isn't the radiation. It's the wasps.

If we're going to need to scorch the sky, we'd better start planning now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Are calculators making you less able to do basic math in your head?

Do anti-lock brakes and lane assist make you less able to pay attention to the road?

Does religion or any other similar belief system (for example, those of the far-left or far-right) make it harder for people to think critically?

Well, yes. Or more precisely, they allow people who can't do those things well anyway to get by. The average American adult functions at a middle school level academically. (And I'm pretty sure socially, too.)

Take away all of that assistance, and we're not going to make everyone smarter. The wetware in our skulls evolved to solve the problems we had 10,000 years ago. We've done amazingly well with better education methods and better nutrition and better healthcare. But the average person today is simply not capable of handling the average problems of today.

The bigger question is whether we will use GPT as helpful assistance, to enable people to do more than they otherwise would be capable of? Or will we simply use it as this century's opiate of the masses.

Shouldn't a bit of additional aging be a good thing?

(Of course, not for our elected leaders. The average age of Congress is airline-pilots-would-be-forced-to-retire high...)

From Nature:

I assume that means they didn't find workers want to deliver the same productivity.

Yes. That is trew.

"Moa Money Moa Problems"

This is American, darn it! The answer is more explosives. What was the question again?

We could call it "sudo-fed".

I was able to bring out enough detail to read that I *had* misread the serial number. And my unit *is* affected.

Anker needs to recall their recall.

So, I have one of the power banks. And I'm not 100% sure I'm reading the serial number properly, because it's years old and the writing is rubbing off the power bank.

I would have expected the form to have 3 outputs:
- Yes
- No
- Invalid serial number

But the form is apparently only looking for exact matches, and saying ANYTHING else isn't effected. If you put in "NoSuchSerial", it'll say "not affected".

This gives me very little confidence my unit is not affected. And makes me very hesitant to buy anything Anker again.

Does anyone have a list of affected serial numbers?

Can't tell if sarcasm.

Step 1: Provide funding for free and interoperable social networks.
Step 2: Wait for those networks to become dependent on said funding.
Step 3: Attach strings to funding, or cut it off if they don't comply with government demands.

See "Corporation for Public Broadcasting" and "Harvard".

That's fine, as long as they get off my lawn.

Mr. Whipple can be replaced. We have the technology.

Half-lives:

U-235: 700 million years
Pu-239: 24 thousand years
Tritium: 12 years

But most modern fusion weapons use lithium deuteride instead of tritium, and Li-7 and H-2 are both stable.

The parts of modern weapons which degrade are the explosives and triggering mechanism. If the explosion isn't perfectly symmetrical, the weapon fizzles.

And the missiles the warheads launch on.

That's why DoE labs periodically removes the fissionable pit from a nuclear warhead, reassembles it with an inert pit, and blows up the explosives to see if they still work. And why we periodically launch missiles from subs or land for testing.

However, if Russian nukes are anything like their reactive armor as seen in Ukraine, some of those warheads and missiles are filled with bricks and sand. Of course, that just means they'll launch enough of them to guarantee some working ones make it to their targets.