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Someone Please Remind Me Not To Log On Tomorrow
[Answer: wildly improbable arxiv preprint - servers use only 0.2% of electricity increased to 3% by 2030 according to IEA but likely get more efficient - paper extrapolates impossibly to a million fold increase from 2015 to 2100 tripling every decade because it tripled from 2015 to 2025 - to post:] ◀ Limits to growth
I’ve been offline for a while but my anxiety is getting worse
Iran deal is now agreed - Strait of Hormuz open - and the official signing is on 19 June in Switzerland - also includes ceasefire in Lebanon
Russia warship fired warning shot on civilian yacht in UK waters
Doing better!
[Answer: No, Iran deal seems a good one - even Mark Carney says it's a good deal - liberal leader of Canada who often clashes with Trump - best could expect given we can't roll back the Iran war - Trump just deflecting criticism and will NOT do a second Iran war before mid terms - to post:] ◀ "Back to bombing" in 60 days?
[Answer: Not authoritarian - just the DoJ charging 15 Minnesotans for some alleged crime interfering with actions of ICE - Will be tried by a judge and jury - DoJ often loses cases - to post:] ◀ department of injustice
[Answer: no electrons and protons don't lose charge in magnets - just become more randomized - and if protons do decay it's so slow we haven't seen a single decay after watching thousands of tons for a decade - to post:] ◀ New Fear about electons and protorns losing their magnetic charge. And the universe's atoms falling apart.
[Answer: Nothing to be scared of - NO CHANGE in legal safety requirements for toys for kids - Just a requirement for automatic e-filing after July 8th for imported items valued below $800 - ex. kids themed adult clothing is and always was exempt from kid safety testing - to post:] ◀ Actually Going To Freak Out Now
Stay safe and hydrated!!
[Answer: Not government overreach - they see it as a crude but necessary emergency response - experts say to monitor effects - root cause: years of social media companies doing nothing about harms they knew their product caused - long term need to enable online kid socializing - and get social media companies to change - to post:] ◀ UK's Social Media Ban Fears
In Negotiations With Iran, Trump Risks Repeating the Mistakes of Afghanistan
[Answer: No the next step is work on a code of conduct for managing what happens when a game is no longer sold commercially - with the industry and consumer representatives - just means they found no EU level legal requirement - and already said no to adding new EU laws on the topic - to post:] ◀ Is Stop Killing Games death?
uk's under-16's social media ban; pros and cons (from a teenager's pov)
[Answer: Nothing to worry about - for UFC match and foiled by FBI days in advance - hare brained scheme to try to start an insurrection and send the US in a new direction - would never have worked - to post:] ◀ Fears
Any advice for being brave and talking about important subjects with friends/loved ones?
[Answer: Reuters presents it as a narrow judgement about whether a Czech porn firm has to comply with French age verification for minors - Reuters does NOT connect it with the DSA which protects social media - it would get more attention if it had any effect on DSA - to post:] ◀ CJEU Ruling
[Answer: Makes no change to earthquake preparation - no change to max possible of 8.3 - only a factor to consider of many for hazard risk calculations - may not change anything - to post:] ◀ This is really scaring me!!
[Answer: It's a nothingburger - MoU probably says something like "Stop hostilities" with minor violations expected in Lebanon - and leave to negotiations after for Iran's demand for Israel to leave Lebanon - to post:] ◀ Israel troops to remain in Lebanon, US 82nd Airborne Deployed

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