So "Dark Matter" is just black holes? Didn't we already KNOW that?

Children's immune systems - and most allergies are immune disorders - aren't fully developed at birth. For the first year or so, the immune system "grows with" the child, learning what substances are common in the environment. If they never get exposed to peanuts - or tropical flower pollen, my son's big problem - then after 18 months or so, the child will "develop" allergies to new and unexpected substances.

He was born in central California, and lived there until he was over 2. Then I was transferred to the Philippines, and while there, he developed serious allergies, and ear infections. He was pretty miserable until we came back to California, when his "allergies" faded away.

The vast majority of published "studies" are entirely bogus, even when they aren't actually fraudulent. The "study" is unreproducible, often the result of a "meta-analysis" of incompatible data, looking for ANYTHING above the level of statistical noise.

I was in high school from 1964-1968. The only keyboards in the school were in the typing class, or in the office. My generation INVENTED computers, we didn't grow up with them.

Without having actual data on what conditions are required for "Life As We DON'T Know It", any statistical tricks are merely guesses. Here on Earth, life exists in a wide variety of environments, from sandy beaches to deep-sea fumaroles to icy mountaintops - and everywhere in between. We do not know, and CANNOT GUESS, what conditions might exist on other planets, or on moons like Titan, Ganymede or Europa, and have almost ZERO information about conditions that might exist on planets about which we know next-to-nothing.

However, nuclear power plants will CONTINUE to PRODUCE power, while batteries only STORE power produced by some other means - like, Nuclear.

And nuclear powerplants hardly EVER spontaneously burst into flames, consuming the building they're in.

CO2 is PLANT FOOD. Plants take CO2 out of the atmosphere and produce oxygen. We have barely ENOUGH CO2 in the atmosphere to keep the plants alive, and far BELOW long-term historical levels of CO2.

"Climate change" is a CYCLE, a thousand years long. Like winters and summers, the planet gets warmer and cools off in cycles that no human lifespan can encompass. This cycle is about at its peak, and it will begin to cool off "soon" - probably by 2050 or so. Doing some sort of IRREVERSABLE geo-engineering action would exacerbate the depths of the cooling cycle, and probably cause incalculable misery.

At the peak of the last cycle, Vikings grew barley and had dairy farms on Greenland. At the peak of the previous cycle, Romans grew wine grapes near London. It's been warm before. And it has been cool before; in the 1700's, Londoners built villages on the ice of the frozen Thames River and held "frost faires".

So after trying to engineer the next population-reducing pandemic and trying to eliminate agriculture, Bill Gates is _ALSO_ trying to turn every PC into government spyware. I'm especially glad now that we never "upgraded" to Windoze 11.

And now that I've stopped playing World of Warcraft, there is no longer anything holding me to Microsoft, so I can switch to Linux. Perhaps not "with ease", but it'll be possible.

Imprison drunk drivers for LONG periods of time. The "good old boy network" has tolerated that evil for far too long.

If Ford really wants to increase the number of EVs on the road, Ford should GIVE THEM AWAY, because with the savings on marketing expenses, they wouldn't lose all THAT much more money than they're already losing.

Yeah, I want to live in Theory, because everything always works there.

Android has LONG had a "Find my device" feature, in the Google Play store as "PlanB".

Wind is unreliable, and solar is expensive and fragile. Last week here in Texas, a HUGE solar farm was mostly destroyed by hail; and hail here in Texas is a COMMON occurrence.

The Arctic Ocean Could Be 'Ice-Free' Within the Decade? Didn't they say that 10 years ago? It wasn't true then, and it still isn't true. In fact, based on the pattern of sunspots over the last 50 years, we can expect a COOLING trend over the next 40-50 years.

Climate change is real, and it's happening, but it's a CYCLE 1000+ years long. It's been this hot, and hotter, before; at the peak of the last cycle, the Vikings had dairy farms on Greenland - which was, at the time, a green land, which was why Leif Erickson named the place as he did. And 500 years later, we had a "little ice age", with "Frost Faires" each winter, when buildings would be erected on the frozen Thames, which would last for a month or so. And the Hans Christian Andersen stories of skating on the frozen canals? That really happened. In 1777, George Washington's troops dragged cannon across the FROZEN SOLID Hudson River. But neither the Hudson nor the Thames have frozen in a century.