It is so revealing that instead of expressing sympathy towards the dead kids, you attack the opinion of someone who did express sympathy. Germany’s gun control failed.

It’s interesting to think of the desire to avoid Universal Basic Income in the context of Trump’s recent outburst about communism. Raimando was a democrat, not a republican. There are times when the parties sound too much the same.

Please take your personal insults elsewhere. Mine is an opinion, I am not the story.

RIP. I guess Germany’s vaunted firearm controls were insufficient?

Could be a motive to disallow the sale of cannabis seeds.

Not true, but it certainly is polarizing, I’ll grant you that. I often use AI to summarize verbal information, such as a video. Last night there were at least 8 upvotes to my post, so those are 8 other people that found it helpful. Thus your judgment of “No one” is incorrect.

Google Gemini Summary: The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has a documented history of recurring algae blooms since its opening in 1922 due to its shallow depth, warm temperatures, and high nutrient levels from waterfowl.

The recent $15 million renovation, which included painting the pool dark blue, worsened the issue; the dark color acts as a heat sink, creating a more favorable environment for algae growth.

The project was executed via two non-competitive, no-bid contracts, including one with a company whose primary experience was with golf course pool maintenance.

Authorities treated the algae with hydrogen peroxide before formally identifying the species, which risks killing the organism and releasing dangerous toxins if the bloom is actually cyanobacteria.

This chemical treatment likely caused the new pool liner paint to peel and detach, rather than the “vandalism” by the public that was claimed by officials.

The death of several birds in and near the water has raised concerns about toxic cyanobacterial blooms, though official investigations are ongoing.

Technologies like ultrasonic control and nanobubbler systems were deployed, but their effectiveness is severely limited by the pool’s unique, extremely shallow design (only 18 inches deep).

The government failed to follow professional management standards, such as conducting a proper diagnostic assessment, establishing a nutrient budget, or implementing real-time monitoring.

Because the pool lacks adequate flushing and circulation—design choices made to maintain its function as a “mirror”—the algae problem is physically unavoidable and cannot be “solved” by cosmetic renovations.

The expert concludes that the situation is a failure of management rather than a mystery, and suggests that an adaptive management plan is the only professional way to handle the site’s chronic ecological issues.

Too much Epstein discussion lately?

How many words do you require? I wrote, “There’s no climate change.” The Trump admin is well known for considering climate change a hoax. However, this story is what I had in mind when I wrote that sentence, I’m pretty sure it was a Lemmy.world link from the same day, although I do get text-based news elsewhere.

I also wrote, “Renewable energy plants are too expensive!” Note the exclamation point"!". I often use it instead of a smiley or a sarcasm mark. Sarcasm doesn’t really apply to a truthful observation, such as “I wish it was sarcasm,” and I’m often in a state of indecision in such cases. But perhaps my posting history would explain better? I’m not sure what 35 square miles of photovoltaics would cost, I seem to recall “billions” of dollars being mentioned. What is the cost of some natural gas turbines in comparison?

Do you suppose if and when Democrats take back power from Republicans, these natural-gas turbines can be legally shut down and renewable-energy plants mandated? Will they be allowed to continue operations instead? Do you suppose that the powers that be will just extract every last barrel of crude they can extract and turn it into CO2?

There’s no climate change. Renewable energy plants are too expensive!

… Israel has continued its near-daily attacks on Lebanon despite rebukes from US President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance.

The only US rebukes they will understand is cutting off the US military and financial teats.

Seems kinda like a pecking order. Target the young ones. And by prohibiting kids, you can ID everyone.

One of the big problems with pre-AI Overviews was the highly SEO optimized website that received an A+ in website ranking but barely a C- or D in website content. Lots of buzzwords, but no substance. There were lots of those kinds of sites, particularly after the approximate time period of 2010, give or take a few years. Countless times I’d find (maybe) what I was looking for on page 2 or 3 of search results. The newer AI Overviews, and the ability to engage with the AI, is invaluable to me. AI answers are definitely not right 100% of the time, but neither were folks and corporations writing their websites. Even highly peer-reviewed science is wrong some of the time.

What I think is happening here, besides any legal arguments of defamation, is that corporations are unhappy that their websites are not getting as much traffic as they used to get.

Are you like 14-18 years old?

I’d guess I’m probably 5 decades older than you.

Edit: For your future information, if you want to disagree with someone, that’s fine. But when you start out with a personal attack, then I know all I need to know about the quality of discussion or disagreement that can be had with the likes of your argumentative style. While I’d love to engage you on your other points, the personal attack you started with precludes it. My life is much better without you in it.

I’d hate to see the overviews and the AI summaries disappear. There’s no way I or any other human can read 100 websites in a few seconds the way the computer can.

Gonna need a basic income so that freed-up worker can focus.

My limited understanding of the history was that during the patent medicine era, medicines had proprietary formulas and varying compositions. For example, many formulas had cannabis extract, others contained opium. The initial regulations therefore were done for medical purposes of drug purity. Edited to add, it wouldn’t surprise me if the overuse of opium in the patent medicine era led directly to judging the medical usefulness of these drugs, although it’s just a guess.

While it’s just a guess, pharmaceutical lobbying is likely why. None of that happened before the FDA was created sometime in the early 1900s.

Right now we’re in the political stages of considering the regulating of internet access to minors, the addictiveness of social media is not regulated.

And if a pharmaceutical or drug has addictive properties with no medical uses, the government outlaws it by scheduling it as having abuse potential. Seems like a big double standard.

Russel Vought has embraced the label Christian Nationalist. It’s not a surprise they want veto power over anything that might go against doctrine.