who do you figure is going to ban it? Unless this results in a drastic drop in revenue, Delta's not gonna do it, and the secretary of transportation doesn't seem likely to stick his nose in...

The quote about "at the same time" is coming from Engadget. It may have originally come from Nintendo that way, or it may be that someone at Engadget misunderstood something.

The problem is not how the Earth handles high CO2 levels, it's the disruptions to modern civilization and how various nations react to them. Almost every war in history has been caused by some level of too much population for the resources in an area, and rapid changes to the availability of resources is not going to be good for political stability.

Unfortunately thermodynamics makes this really difficult - turning any other form of energy into heat is easy; turning heat into anything else is painfully inefficient at best and what you turn it into turns back into heat in the end anyway.

Or you have a backup plan that doesn't put internal combustion in the basement in a tsunami zone, and your pumps keep running fine.

polaric energy? From Star Trek?

I mean, I too expected that they would already have what flights I took. I didn't have any reason to expect them to know how I paid for it, though.

If your contract doesn't have a clause mentioning that a court order can override any provision in it, your lawyer should be fired.

Is the number of limbs part of the course material?

You are asserting that it is impossible to use a tool to help generate supporting material and still be "teaching". I disagree. Teaching is imparting knowledge to students. Your categories are all variations on how to do prep work for supporting materials. Assuming the teacher already has some idea of how they want to do their teaching, 1-3 can all be ways to get material that supports their approach. 4 is unlikely to support their approach. 5 and 6 are only useful for next year's class, and as you note have ethical implications.

You also appear to be ignoring the distinction between "using AI to generate material from scratch" and "using AI to proofread/massage existing written material".

That is an issue. It has not been shown (as far as I'm aware) that the factual content of the material was incorrect, which would be the "real problem"

Yes, but a qualified teacher who uses AI to polish their text is not.

A little more than 10 years. Like... thousands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You're right though that those societies didn't have a problem with it... until they got conquered and forced into a different mold.

Neither of which includes a kindle brought from home, unless the bill's definition of "cellphone" is pretty wild.

yes, because they don't have a US-government-protected monopoly on making toys and showerheads.