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I have two accounts on pure lemmy servers. The one that doesn't federate with lemmy.ml doesn't display the thumbnail for this post, but coughs up the image if I click where the thumbnail is supposed to be. The one that does federate with lemmy.ml shows both the thumbnail and the image. Someone probably has to put a bit more thought into image propagation and storage for corner cases like this.

Because teenagers often exclude, harass, and verbally abuse others in the same age group for no real reason. If you're a teen who often ends up on the receiving end of that, then interacting with older people may be the only way you can have a normal conversation. Talking to adults is a last defense against missing a stage of social development and developing depression and social phobia.

That doesn't mean that you are personally required to talk to teens, but cutting them off from adult society completely is cruel.

And it is possible for a teen and an adult to share an interest—baseball, or sewing, or entomology, or whatever. Some people like talking to others who are enthusiastic about the same subject, even if that person is young and "still learning". Some adults even enjoy teaching.

"Not a child" doesn't mean "is an adult". We're talking about an intermediate stage where they need to be able to gradually take on more responsibility for themselves, but still need extra protection from things like sexual predators because their risk assessment abilities aren't yet fully developed.

And the beauty of the fediverse is that you can create your own server with a higher age requirement. (But you'll still get immature people aged 25+ inundating you with inane memes, because humans.)

"So, did we pack a smoke detector in there somewhere?"

Well, yes, less is better, but the point is, we're still going to need the holes in the ground. Just not as many or as large.

Posted article indicates that even if the experiment performs to expectations, there will still be waste to be disposed of. They hope to convert most of the nasty, longer-lived radionucleides into something useful, but most is not all. Plus, part of their selling point is conversion into medical radionucleide sources, and to be honest, the market there isn't all that big (like, "a single reactor in Canada supplied a high percentage of these sources for many years" not-that-big). It can probably absorb the output of this reactor, but ramp the idea up into a general solution for all nuclear waste everywhere, and we'll likely end up with more medical and industrial radionucleide sources than we know what to do with.

(There's also the question of what kinds of waste could be reprocessed. Only enriched waste from light-water reactors? What about waste from heavy-water reactors, which tends to be bulkier but considerably less radioactive?)

Completely separate discussion. Making accommodations to keep living humans safe is good and reasonable. (Keep in mind that in the pre-automobile era, there was no safe way to cross a busy street—you stepped out and hoped you didn't get run down by a horse.) But a robot is a tool, not a person, and changes that make traffic easier to navigate for robots may be even more unhelpful for human pedestrians than the current status quo.

Someone telling you what they think you want to hear doesn't help when what you need is a gently and delicately delivered reality check. This is true even if you're talking to a human.

To sum up: the article is about how tech companies suck at using the information they have about you for anything of value to you, which is nothing new. I'd take the author with a grain of salt, because instead of trying to get rid of advertising, they actually look at it and want it better-targeted.

Might be nice for a certain age group to make them evaluate multiple search engines as a class project. ("If it provided a summary, did it say what its sources were?" "When you checked the sources, did they actually say what the summary said they said?" "How many actual results did it return for these searches?" "How many of the results on the first page were useful?" etc.) Improved media literacy in general, and they all learn that more than one search engine exists.

Actually, "beg the question" is a linguistic fossil from a time when "beg" didn't mean quite the same thing it does today.