I’ve got no interest in watching even 2.5 minute YouTube videos when I can read the text of the same content in 45 seconds. Instructional videos can be great and valuable, but that’s not what we’re talking about here. There are a wealth of crap pop science videos on YouTube that misrepresent studies.

The study is interesting, but it’s a feasibility study data utilizing a theoretical models - there are a lot of assumptions here. If they or other researchers go on to perform trials using their proposed flight adjustments to the autopilot software and validate it works, great! Until then, it’s very far from settled science. Here is another recent study that proposes the main problem is incompletely-burned fuel which causes soot particles that sustain the contrails in the atmosphere for much longer than contrails from low-soot contrails, which quickly diaperse. This is an emerging field of study with few published studies and varying ideas on how to resolve issues.

Maybe if people want to share emerging scientific information that’s important to them on a written forum they should put in the time to look to more valuable text sources, instead of dropping YouTube links with overconfident assertions that will put off people from watching them, eg, “contrails are completely avoidable”.

Contrails are mostly water vapour that’s condensed due to the hot exhaust of airplane engines.

They are certainly not completely avoidable, they are likely inescapable without sacrificing significant fuel efficiencies (eg: all methods stealth fighters use to suppress or mask their exhaust heat signature)… which would negate any benefits to global warming.

P. s. I’m not going to watch a YouTube video that could be a few paragraphs of textual explanation, because it’ll no doubt be eight times longer than it needs to be for the benefit of more ad money or promotion in the almighty algorithm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You’ll_own_nothing_and_be_happy

Appreciate the sourcing very much, thanks.

I mean it’s not outside the realm of possibility, but I think it’s far more likely he just abused her.

“You remind me of my daughter,” Mr Trump told her in the hotel room, according to Ms Daniels.

Imagine saying that to a porn star in your hotel room that you have paid to have sex with.

There is no vomit emoji strong enough.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/stormy-testimony-trump-trial-ivanka-b2541079.html

I have daughters and would never ask (or force? coerce?) them to sit for candid photos like this, let alone for professional photo shoots like three of these four images are from. It would make all of us uncomfortable.

And yet, I have family members who are not even from the US that support this guy, and used to make comments about doctored photos of ‘creepy old Biden’.

The cognitive dissonance is insane.

Nice. Don’t sweat it, the ads are intentionally hard to see so they can trick us into sharing them, I still liked the meme.

Its been replaced with a different image now. Original had an ad for a Delorian rental company subtlety marked in the middle (grey splodge on my edit).

This is viral marketing dressed up as a meme…

(Edit) guys I worked very hard and fixed it.

Yeah, possibly I have read too much into a shower thought that became a Twitter tweet… or whatever the fuck they’re called now.

I was really thinking of not just this guy, but the Boeing whistleblower and Virginia Giuffre, who also seemed to think a small text post or mentions to friends that they’re not suicidal would save them.

Wild to me that these people think this will save them. They need to learn that a text social media post, or a letter, or a signed affidavit (or whatever) is near useless to protect via dissuasion.

Make a goddamn video post. Professionally shot, get your/a psych to be in it with you, get close family and friends in it. Make the videos creative commons so that news agencies have full rights to use them, post to multiple services, and make many versions of the video.

Any group considering your murder knows about blowback and they surely weigh the risks. If you have a crappy 48 word post on Twitter as your only protection they know the death will be easily framed as a suicide by legions of happy-to-oblige media services that’ll repeat the official findings read on video by the coronor/investogator/official, or audio played on podcast, and easily sell the false narrative. But if there are a bunch of high-quality widely available (and free to news networks) counter videos - its going to weigh a much higher risk for them.

I’m in agreement that the privacy grab-bag of age verification services is a big concern, but in my mind the remedy to that is strong privacy laws and protections like GDPR - with harsh punitive penalties for any companies that break them.

Companies already process and control huge amounts of private data so the best approach to increased potential for them gaining more access is strong privacy protections.

I’ll add that the laws that have been implemented in various US states to mandate porn sites validate ID are the ones that have generated this new industry of digital checks and privacy concerns, not the under-16 laws. There are 25 states with these laws now, going back to 2022.

Ironic. The article does not frame the outcome as the fault of Gen Z. It in fact goes to great lengths to point out that the fault almost certainly lies with how they were educated, and the parenting environment they were raised in.

I’ll highlight the framed factors for you and where the blame gets pointed.

Horvath took the same message to Capitol Hill during a 2026 Senate hearing on screen time and children. His framing skipped the generational dunking and focused on exposure. “More than half of the time a teenager is awake, half of it is spent staring at a screen,” he told lawmakers. Human learning, he argued, depends on sustained attention and interaction with other people. Endless feeds and condensed content don’t offer either.

Schools leaned hard into technology during the same window. Educational software replaced textbooks, long readings, and extended problem-solving. After class, students returned to phones, tablets, and laptops, bouncing between social feeds and bite-sized explanations of material they never sat with for very long.

“I’m not anti-tech. I’m pro-rigor,” Horvath told the Post. Rigor, in his view, comes from friction. Reading full texts. Working through confusion. Spending time with material that doesn’t immediately reward you. Take that friction away, and cognitive skills dull. Brains adapt to the environment they’re given, and this one prizes speed over staying power.

The same decline appears outside the United States. Horvath told senators that across roughly 80 countries, academic performance drops after digital technology becomes widely embedded in classrooms. The timing alone raises serious questions about how learning environments affect cognitive development.

This conversation feels uncomfortable because it doesn’t offer villains or easy fixes. Horvath summed it up bluntly during his testimony. “A sad fact our generation has to face is this: Our kids are less cognitively capable than we were at their age.” His recommendation focused on restraint, dialing back screens in schools, and restoring depth before the next generation is doomed.

Most frustrating for me is not just that many people read this article and take away an emotive framing that is completely counter to the text of the article, but that many people on Lemmy that read this article will just memory-hole it and continue to complain about phone bans in school, and the under-16 social media bans going on around the world that are very likely to have significant positive benefits for children’s learning and go some ways to resolving the problem.

They’re measuring lower across all the classical tests designed to measure intelligence. The skills they test for are all very much still needed in modern life.

That song is based on a real lady, and she didn’t just sell sea shells - they were fossils that were hundreds of millions of years old.

She and her family made a living off it, and she’s now known worldwide for the incredibly rare fossils she carefully extracted and sold to museums.

Not the worst idea, all told.

Yes.

Did this all last term to no consequences

Put out racist/inflammatory/severe mental error/obvious lie comments, then his team would go into damage control and claim it was a technical error / intern / junior staff, then someone would ask him about the mistake/lie and and his ego would cause him to pipe up that he did it on purpose and it was a good statement, throwing his own team under the bus as liars again, and again.

His cult member voters don’t care, its the post-truth era.

This would be absolutely cringe if a high school kid was doing it as a petty insult to their rivals… But it’s the president of the USA.

I know its a melting pot of factors that has caused it, but it still blows my mind that “normal” for the USA has fallen so fucking far, so fast since Trump came on the scene. 10 years ago a fucking tan suit was ‘weird’ for a president…

Get ready for mid-life joint pain and RSI if you spend that much time doing just one thing in one posture.

Wish it wasn’t how things go but it do be.

Thanks for the reminder to watch Bab5. It’s been on the backlog for ages. Might be time.