Economic health is irrelevant. The rich get relatively richer when regulations don't prevent it. End of story.

They all know that if they aren't taking more of the pie, then their mate down the road will do it. That's simple bottom feeding greed in action.

Where I live, El Nino is in the news every few years for at least the past 40+ years. For as long as I can remember.

In our local climate it produces strong westerly winds which creates a severe drying period because all the rain falls on the other (western) side of the mountains.

PS: I'm not saying blaming social media is wrong. That is the correct finger to point. Just that the reason is wrong. And that leads to incorrect remedies.

Banning minors from the platforms is not a solution when the flaw is with the platforms, not the children.

Because it is blaming the victim. It can very easily be spun into "the person is dumb" and "he/she deserved it."

Reality is, all this "addiction" bullshit started from what was just euphemistic associating of natural obsessive habits and behaviours, some good, some not so good, with what was an actual medical condition containing legal teeth.

We obsess to specialise. It provides shareable skills across the community.

Hehe, yeah, as per usual, the real reason isn't said. My guess is, since streaming is the only thing needing those speeds, therefore the expected profits from streaming haven't materialised. So the string pullers have changed course.

There was speculation but not actual eating until about one year ago. And it takes a shit lot longer than one year to build anything the size and complexity of a fab.

High demand on Flash memory hit two years back, but not DRAM.

My current gaming GPU is an ex-miner fire sale item. They got sold on multiple consumer secondhand markets after proof-of-stake transition.

Buying new gaming GPUs then was already horribly expensive so getting one secondhand was a big relief. I can see the games console price attraction.

They're not going to let up until the bubble bursts. There is no end to expansion in their eyes.

It'll be solved once the bubble bursts.

Of course it wasn't their warnings. Quite the opposite, it was the much earlier bellicose nature of it'll take all our jobs and cost US$5 trillion per year. And it'll drive cars easy-peasy and it'll cure every ill and even now, we'll no longer need to learn a thing. Over the top predictions that everyone knows is bullshit.

They gotta sell the lie for as long as possible. Once the bubble bursts they can run off with all that loot.

And PTSD falls into which category?

It's always puzzled me why there is no clear reporting distinction between concussive brain damage, does this even have a label?, and PTSD. The two seem to be lumped together in media reporting.

That would be impressively poor communication about events then. Either by the cruise ship captain or the coast guard, depending on how the media verified the story. A refusal is obviously a reply in layman's words.

The excuse doesn't at all line up with the "repeatedly refused to assist" either. Which seems to indicate there was clear communication of refusal.