Do you lose windows too?

Solar panels that can take 3-inch hailstones ( certified under the UL 61730 or IEC 61730 standard) are pretty standard now, just by the tempered glass. The usual reason to take the solar panels off the roof after a storm is to repair the roof that wasn't protected by the solar panels. If you're annually getting heavier hail than that then:
1) Holy crap
2) Yeah, there's probably not a solution that doesn't push the financial payback time towards 20 years, which does start being a shit investment. There are hard shells, but that doesn't work in the rooftop situation, unless you can quickly and safely get out on your roof. Wire mesh solutions might work, but the will drop the efficiency of the panels, especially if they're heavy enough to take a beating like that.

Get your own solar panel, and they can't mess with it.

The good thing about aircon, is the need is greatest when your rooftop PV cells are generating the most.

Isn't that what this meta-analysis refutes?
Highly classed societies aren't, of themselves, contributing to poor wellbeing or mental health.
Only where the average income is lower.

Note that I couldn't get access to the paper, except for the abstract.

This is the unsurprising fact. It implies that it's the closeness to poverty that has a negative impact on well-being and mental health.

While inequality is a cause of that globally, there are plenty of parts of the first world that include the meaninglessly rich alongside the adequately resourced.

On the other hand with less inequality globally, there'd be less poverty.

On the other hand:

If this can be ramped up rapidly, it will be just as good as electric vehicles. Electricity in Europe is still about 30% fossil fuel generated.

No, that age verification doesn't destroy privacy. It was already destroyed.

The challenge is that frequent social media use is strongly associated with lower self-esteem, depressive symptoms, anxiety, and other mental health challenges in children. It's not quite analogous to playing a trick on someone.

You've misunderstood or not read the article, if you think that they're recommending stopping fossil fuels and unsustainable agricultural practices tonight and seeing how long we last. They're calling for a transformation of power generation and agricultural techniques.

“This is an urgent call to transform our human systems now before collapse becomes inevitable,” said Prof Edgar Gutiérrez-Espeleta, another co-chair and the former environment minister in Costa Rica.

“The science is good. The solutions are known. What is required is the courage to act at the scale and speed that history demands,” he said, adding that the window for action was “rapidly narrowing”.

- TFA.

My understanding is that the law was written by people cognisant of the reality that there would be many people who could get around it. The point is that a lot of people wouldn't, and that in turn means that if parents want to not have their kids on social media, they can do that without isolating them from their entire peer group.

Meta knows everything about you, and you don't have to prove your age. They know when you were born. They sold your private information to Cambridge Analytica to swing elections, and foment coups.

Are you guessing, or has there been a study showing that educating kids reduces their capacity to be manipulated by social media disinformation and bullying?

Musk alread did that.

I get that passenger cars doing negligible damage to a road compared to a heavy vehicle. "Lorries", as they're quaintly called in the UK.

But a three times the cost isn't negligible. Even though a 44 tonne lorry will be causing more than 12,000 times the per-mile cost that the heavier of those passenger cars is.

I bought one that they dumped in Australia recently.

They certainly make sure that their international trade is in surplus, by pegging the yuan at a low value to foreign currencies, and that makes foreign goods expensive in China, and China's exporters very competitive.

Electrifying global commuter transport is one of the better impacts.

The problem with wind and solar is that they're too woke.

[F]or the same volume of output we can afford to have fewer people.

Don't train it on data that encourages suicidal ideation, self harm or violence. There's a lot of data in a LLM, but it's not a black box. And if it is, it shouldn't be talking to the public, much less kids.

With this one tool of talking, many psychological problems can be resolved. Or created.

The difference is an MMO chatroom is a service provided by a company, and a psychological safe space should be a selling point. SMS is communication between one person, one other person, their mobile network providers, and the NSA.

There's lots of reasons people type suicide into google. I did it while formulating this response.

A LLM has way more information than that. Being the confidant of someone with suicidal ideation gives you a lot of data, and you could easily tell as the mind state of the person moves from ideation to having a plan, to being about to carry out that plan. As that progresses, encouraging suicide is not the correct response, internet connection or not.

They are also, increasingly, able to give informative and correct responses. Encouraging suicidal ideation is a more serious flaw than hallucinating case law or chess moves, but it's the same type of flaw: It's a incorrect response.

If your product is killing people, you are responsible. Just like every other product.

There are a set of adequate responses to someone confiding with a bot, or a person, that they're suicidal, that probably should be part of the model.

These things have a lot of training. They don't have to bounce.

Then their life would be in the hands of those people in the chat. In most cases, I'd imagine they'd get the response "KYS, Fag" more often than not. Perhaps there is a case for a psychology expert LLM moderating or attending those spaces too.

Agree. It should only apply to LLMs, and there should be a number of acceptable responses, with alerting the authorities only occurring when the when they're not just discussing ideation, but their plan of doing it.