The phrase is in the original link you provided and sources information from the link I provided as a source. Looking at the data, if you average 25 over two years you are considered the most polluted cities in Europe, but if you look at the plume map I showed you whole regions the size of small European countries are blanket with up to 250+ temporarily. It’s pretty clear wildfire smoke, if you are downwind, far outstrips man made pollution by a factor of at least 10+ although much of it can be attributed to global warming and climate pattern shifts which really makes it man made and not natural.

Also, according to your link, half of the PM2.5 comes from natural sources (just as harmful, it’s the particles not the source that’s the problem)

“ Around half of the concentrations of PM that people in the UK are exposed to come from either naturally occurring sources, such as pollen and sea spray, or are transported to the UK from international shipping and other countries.”

Minnesota. You probably aren’t located near vast forests, whereas in Ontario and Manitoba you can fit in entire European countries in areas that at most have a few hundred year around residents and the rest is forest. Here you can see the plumes of PM2.5 particulate from the fires.

Wildfires provide the vast majority of PM2.5 and other sized particulates to my entire state. The skies turn brown and visibility can drop to 100 yards making travel at highway speeds dangerous, one day this year it was so bad my city became the most polluted PM2.5 city on the planet despite having very low other sources. Canada isn’t going to run out of forests to burn anytime soon, and the weather is only getting warmer while precipitation is more sporadic.

I can vibe code a manned moon landing mission. We’re gonna need some astronauts and rockets and stuff, now DO IT!

No, it’s the fun of hitting one mole over the head with a hammer, only to have another pop up complete with the entertaining ambiance it provides. If you don’t mobile game you won’t get it.

No, they cannot be fabricated today and probably not ever be fabricated with typical processes either. This is a what if we were able to make any arrangement physically possible kind of study. Similar types of meta materials have been actually made and studied physically and are fairly well understood so it probably stands to reason if it’s built it would function similarly to the simulation. It’s really cool from a miniature sensor perspective, but camera performance is based on many things including aperture size and miniature lenses will never be better overall, just better for some compact and light weight applications.

The H1B $100k fee has exemptions for national security and other reasons on a case by case basis. Expect a few million dollar personal donation to make any number of H1B exemptions no matter what you do.

I’ve legit been told: “Look, we may not have any work for you to do at the moment but we have VIPs on this floor and it’s important to keep people at their desks looking busy.” In of sight, out of mind.

The heat and sporadic watering is just going to make forest fires worse until we run out of forests. Its pretty bad here with quite a few days this year browning the skies and limiting visibility.

Slight correction, they guarantee a safe tee. You know, golf is one of the few things that comes ahead of ruling a nation with an iron thumb.

I’ve had multiple people tell me ridiculous things they heard from a LLM and when shown that that is wrong fly off the handle, double and tripling down because the AI is “super intelligent”. The world is legitimately in danger of weaponized confidentiality incorrect idiots.

The librarian just needs to put the request into a LLM prompt and generate the book, problem solved!

Oh god, the world is screwed.

The real question is how good is your insurance when your child suffers third degree burns over 70% of their body and is the final cost worth it?

This is why tariffs on solar panels brought by both parties over the last two decades make no sense. If you actually want to preserve the environment, because it’s in national security interests as well as fucking common sense, then solar panels should be so cheap homeless people use perfectly good ones to sleep under because cardboard is too valuable. Domestic production was less than 1% at the time and now it’s about 1.8% with no possibility of actually competing because the vastly higher costs of domestic production make adoption financially unviable, meanwhile China is on goal to actually be renewable with almost twice the solar installed in may as the entire US last year because it’s cheap power. Instead of adding taxes to stop adoption, a trade war with no price floor would have been amazing and exactly what the world needed flooding the world with nearly free panels. China provided this and the money to keep domestic production afloat would have been trivial compared to the value of all that free power generation capacity, but the American people were taxed into not being able to take advantage so it’s the reverse of what you claim. The financial path was there but the American people were screwed out of cheaper energy by established interests looking to profit at the expense of everyone else.