Why are they called Astronomer if they don't look at the stars? Too bad really, because if they were actually doing astronomy at scale, there wouldn't have been an available telescoping lens to zoom into their CEO.

Provably false. At least one person found my claim Insightful. Second, I searched my comment for the words "product" and "safety" and I didn't get any hits. I also searched the article for things you claim "we are talking here" .. the words chainsaws, brakes, and appliances .. no hits. Are you some sort of hallucinating AI?

We can't have any nice things because of people like you.

Instead of product safety you end up disabling the whole thing. A person can cut themselves with a knife, therefore you ban all knives. There are a lot of legitimate reasons someone may want to look up pagan rituals. How far do you take product safety ? Ban all airplanes because one pilot went crazy?

It can be misused. Humans never should have been allowed to make fire. Where's that Prometheus motherfucker?

Journals should have (at least) two forms of retraction. One type should be a notice stating it was retracted due to consensus indicating the conclusions are baloney. And another for retraction due to consensus indicating deliberate falsification of results.

with arsenic.

In India they can, out of their 1.2 billion people. There's a percentage of parents there who obsess over kids rote academic competitive stuff (spelling bee, etc). If it's achievable by "hey study these books" .. they'll do it. Didn't they get a 5 year old MCSE some years back?

Why don't they go harder on autonomous driving? Tesla is whipping their ass.

The feature will inevitably get cheaper. Every technology Benz has introduced eventually finds its way to the low cost cars. There's probably nothing about the tech that makes it actually expensive other than the cost of lithium. Worst case you'd have to wait until the patent expires, which is presumably 20 years from now?

I'll keep a reserve supply in my fusion powered flying car.

I haven't been recently, no. But what I know is that previously, like decades ago .. the narrative was "omg, we're sinking" .. now it's "omg the ocean is rising". Aaand 5 seconds of googling finds a scientific peer reviewed article proving my hunch correct.

https://link.springer.com/arti...

" The significant increase in sea level observed at Tuvalu’s current tide gauge is attributed more to multidecadal oscillations, significantly affecting short-term records, and the subsidence of the tide gauge, rather than the global thermosteric contribution. "

And here's another, that shows that erosion and sedimentation rates play a big role .. it turns out the overall land area of Tuvalu has increased: https://www.nature.com/article...

"Results highlight a net increase in land area in Tuvalu of 73.5ha (2.9%), despite sea-level rise, and land area increase in eight of nine atolls."

"Existing paradigms are based on flawed assumptions that islands are static landforms, which will simply drown as the sea level rises4,23. There is growing evidence that islands are geologically dynamic features that will adjust to changing sea level and climatic conditions24,25,26,27"

I believe climate change is 100% real, but it sounds like BS that their two coral islands disappeared due to climate change. Why? Because the sea levels have only risen 4 inches since 1993. In the 1990s I spent a lot of time on various islands. Those coral islands are subject to subsidence, that is a well known phenomena and faster than climate change. Back then the paranoia was subsidence, now it's shifted to the more lucrative climate change angle.

I acknowledge climate change but we should be truthful about it being a combination of factors or it will be more fodder for right-wing BS.

Europe heat stroke deaths were around 50,000 in 2023. Reference: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/envi... , with a number as high as 175,000 when you include heat-related deaths (reference: https://news.un.org/en/story/2... ).

50,000 is way more that US traffic accident deaths.

50,000 is well over DOUBLE the number of murders in the USA annually.

In the US the number of heat stroke deaths is between below 2500 (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/27/climate/heat-deaths.html ). Europe lost that amount in just 10 days: https://www.aljazeera.com/news...

Europe doesn't have AC?

Well they could have expanded 10x instead of laying off.

Science, Schmience! I rather have a talk show guy cherry-pick sources, void all context, and give me medical advice.