direct attempt to undermine the credibility and ability of the current government to execute policy.

I suspect Porsche was trying to stop thieves who would disconnect the satellite link in order to keep the car from receiving a kill-switch signal.

Disable the car when it loses the satellite link, and that plan is foiled. That'll teach 'em! Oh wait...

Let’s say climate change is real, fine, but some of these papers are drifting into doomsday fanfic territory with a few equations stapled on. Are we meant to treat every climate-catastrophe model like holy writ now? The idea that humans in 2100 will politely sit on their hands while the planet burns is genuinely adorable.

Humans invent things. AI is already chewing through research faster than half the committees publishing these forecasts. We’re developing materials, energy systems, geo-tech and carbon-capture methods that simply didn’t exist when the early models were written. Pretending society won’t respond, won’t adapt and won’t innovate is probably the most unrealistic assumption in the whole exercise.

At this point, someone should write a paper on whether these legacy models are even relevant given today’s technological progress, instead of recycling the same apocalyptic spreadsheets for the usual doom-merchants. Climate change is real enough, but cry wolf once and people listen. Cry wolf a few more times and it all just becomes background noise.

It could just be that parents, like us, who worked hard to keep our kids off social media until they were in high school, are just higher achieving, and passed those same traits on to our kids. They didn't randomly assign kids to this trial. Still, that doesn't mean there's no causation here. Social media is terrible, and I deleting my social media accounts over a decade ago and haven't looked back.

And the actual problem is that overworked parents who don't get to spend a lot of time raising their kids combined with underfunded schools that can't pick up the slack from those overworked parents is the problem.

I'm not surprised it's worse. We have been cutting funding to schools for ages in order to move that money into very expensive private schools and subsidies for the rich assholes that send their kids to them. AKA School vouchers.

So a lot of the programs that were around when I was a kid that would pick up some of the slack are long gone. Those were the first to go because you could argue that it wasn't core curriculum.

But it's a lot easier to blame the kids and those dastardly screens than it is to actually do anything. Feels better too.

I imagine shitty parents are the reason, it just happens that that overlaps with allowing your child to be perpetually online.

It's probably correct. Anecdotally, I feel much stoopidder after spending any time on social media. Yes, including Slashdot.

But, I am wondering if this doesn't tie into an earlier story about screen use and academic performance. That is to say; is the issue social media or is it screen use in general?

Gramps always called TV the boob(moron) tube and the idiot box. Perhaps science is closing in on the confirmation.

I'd like to see a good line of evidence eliminating the possibility that better diagnosis technology --finding cancers that previously wouldn't have been discovered-- isn't the cause.

Vaping is certainly a proven problem. Also, so many young people die from drugs that it is probably skewing other statistics.

If a Dem gets into office, he should immediately fire all Republicans in every agency, jail the supreme court members, after a trial of course - and then designate the Republican party as a terroirist organization.

It's far worse than that. The news today said his administration is currently drafting new laws to allow him to declare and wage a global war on narco-terrorists. In other words, people anywhere including USA citizens in the USA can be snatched, imprisoned, and/or killed on a whim for anything the executive branch claims is drug related. This is a massive expansion of his current assassination campaign near Venezuela. The law is based on the 9/11 laws, so the people who complained about that slippery slope can finally feel vindicated. I bet we're going to hear something more about ICE being used for drug busts.

Isn't it great the states gave him lists of everyone registered against his party?

Generally speaking, if a large tech company warns "Don't do $THING... it'll stifle innovation" it means that $THING is a very good thing that should be done to protect consumers' interests.

Such as when Apple opposed government requests to have backdoors into locked devices? How is having those backdoors good for users?