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It has the added bonus on being exactly the thing Russia invaded Ukraine over.

Isn’t this Zelenskyy’s original plan that he pitched even before Trump got elected then?

The fourth point of the peace plan is economic: Zelenskyy calls on allied countries to implement “joint investment” plans to exploit Ukraine’s natural resources: “Ukraine has natural resources and critical metals worth trillions of dollars,” he notes. “These include uranium, titanium, lithium, graphite, and other strategic resources, which will either strengthen Russia or Ukraine and the democratic world.”

https://www.cfr.org/expert-brief/zelenskyys-victory-plan-ukraine-makes-sense-it-has-little-chance-being-implemented

As far as I’m concerned Canada should join the EU. I mean, we do already share a land border.

define narcissist

Trump might think he can strongarm Europe with tariffs, but we’re much too big of an economy for that to work.

Deflation has a good chance of forcing a stop to endless consumerism - and that will at least be good for the climate. It will cause havoc to the current economic system though, and that in turn could make things worse for investments into green tech.

So … yeah.

Maybe you’re talking about the previous models? The platform starting with ID.7 is amazing. Yes, I replaced my Tesla with an ID.7. Two of my friends waited a bit longer and grabbed the GTX ID.7 Tourer model instead - now voted best EV of 2024.

The price of my ID.7 was slightly more than the much smaller Model 3, and way cheaper than Polestar and KIA.

I don’t have kids

Yeah I think you should abstain from having opinions on what their generation is doing then. In the whole of human history no older generation has ever been correct regarding what the upcoming generation should or shouldn’t do.

The study you link says the exact same thing as Burnett does. It doesn’t support “social media is bad for kids”.

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In all, the available meta-analytic evidence suggests that SNS use is weakly associated with higher levels of ill-being [14,17, 18, 19, 20] but also with higher levels of well-being [17,19], a result that suggests that ill-being is not simply the flip-side of well-being and vice versa, and that both outcomes should be investigated in their own right [11,39]. Finally, all meta-analyses reported considerable variability in the reported associations. For example, in the meta-analysis by Ivie et al. [14], the reported associations of SMU with depressive symptoms ranged from r = −.10 to r = +.33.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X21001500

but we have to acknowledge the negative side, which in my opinion […]

I don’t do opinions. Burnett (a neuroscientist) has linked many sources - maybe you just need to read a bit more.

Additionally, your claims about what’s “smartphones” and what’s “social media” are strange - my kids use Snapchat to communicate. Do you think they use SMS?? How old are your kids?

“Probably”

This is your definition of scientific?

Thanks for proving my point.

great account to follow regarding the science on the subject: https://ohai.social/@Garwboy/113554246823274751

Lots of people believe things not supported by science.

News at 11.

Yeah. We’ve learnt a lot from how countries have acted when we’ve tried giving weapons and munitions to Ukraine the last few years.

The Swedish Gripen airplanes are still not in Ukraine. It’s not due to Sweden or Ukraine …

… which would cause Trump to cancel trade most certainly. I’m a citizen of a European Nato member and I don’t believe we can take that risk.

Without the agreement of the US a lot of the weapon systems NATO members have cannot be used. That’s the downside of using common components and platforms throughout the alliance.

I assume this is “the Trump plan” so he’ll say agree to it or he takes the US and goes home.

“Slight” difference in bandwidth between these cables and Starlink.

If you know better than Dr Mann perhaps you should publish a few papers?

It sounds more like you’re one of those doomists he describes.

Tell that to Michael Mann, perhaps one of the most distinguished climate scientists:

“Actually, the warming of the planet is very much in line with early climate model predictions. Some impacts, such as ice sheet melt and sea level rise, and the slowdown of the ocean ‘conveyor belt’ are exceeding those predictions.” Current policies alone likely keep warming below 3°C (5.4°F), nowhere near the “worst-case” scenarios.

https://www.aps.org/apsnews/2023/09/climate-doomism-disregards-science

It’s so sad considering they just now managed to bring out the best EV on the market (ID.7) - and will refresh the older range to the same standard.

Climate change is not a risk to human survival. Please study the WG2 parts for the possible risks we’re facing depending on when and how much action we take.

You’re correct in that large parts of Russia don’t have indoor toilets and proper sanitation. Not sure that’s a positive.