Anything you can’t build and repair when it breaks is worthless for a long term situation. Unless long term means a week or so and then civilization returns, like after a bad storm. Hand, water, and gravity powered energy storage are not pretty or as much energy, but they’ll keep going long after panels break or wear out. Then there’s how to store the power, batteries are a lot more complicated if you want something that you can redo or make vs. scavenging. Again, it’s the line between even a bad outage with eventual resolution or complete loss.

There’s different levels. Are you looking for a filtering to avoid seeing anything potential, something on the video to indicate AI, how to tell at the start it might be AI? The first is probably the hardest to do, and if there is a way to do it you’ll either get a lot of false positives (so miss real content) or stuff will still get through. Easiest is to weed out channels as you find them. Don’t rely on YT’s little AI marker, like everything else it’s automated and will tag anything remotely suggestive of AI (but maybe isn’t).

I could think of a few subjects, but with such a short time to prepare I’d probably ramble on like a rabbit hole of connections to related stuff. It wouldn’t be a great TED talk overall.

Reduce early voting, try to block mail in voting, voter ID laws to reduce certain demographics, limiting voting stations and have MAGA demonstrations near the ones left.

“But if everyone is able to vote, we’ll lose!”

Indeed.

When the first image of black hole was due to be released, a few science channels had videos on what we should see (and did). And was also depicted as in the movie Interstellar.

had one of the first and supposedly the best and easiest to understand using visual aids.

The very simplest reason is because of the accretion disk, which is the only part we can actually see, and how the black hole’s gravity warps the back part of the disk around so we see many sides of it that we wouldn’t without the strong gravity bending the light. I.e., we don’t see the part of Saturn’s rings that are behind the planet.

The positive use has been covered by other comments. Aware of things.

The negative use is much like certain red hats. It helps show which people to avoid having discussions with, as they’ll beat you with their experience in idiocy. My usual response to them if any at all is “the opposite of woke is sleeping”.

“Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”

Then you’re wasting their time and yours, as well as the effort to change anything. That’s the funny thing about the “danger” of voter fraud, it rarely is a problem because of how little one vote alone has any power. Maybe a small local district that comes close to a tie. Not that your votes isn’t important, but it’s one drop in a bathtub of water. If no one votes, it’s empty.

But they want you to think that it’s the few people who may try this that’s the problem so they can put in ID laws for other purposes, and to deflect attention from the efforts of mass manipulation of results or the disenfranchising of large demographics in strategic areas. That isn’t done by the voters, but by those in control or who work for them.

You gotta get them once. I had one cat try to reach between the door of a closet. Didn’t see her, fortunately closed it slowly. She screamed bloody murder of course. Didn’t do damage, but you know what she hasn’t tried again since?

Never mind. I looked again and see it’s an orange. That’s a hopeless cause there.

Everything he touches…

As a kid exploring in the woods, I picked up one unknowingly by the back at the edge of a pond. As I lifted it up I saw the head start to come out, and yeeted it far into the water. Yay for reflexes. Feel bad for him, it was my fault, but I’m sure he was fine.

Again. This isn’t the first time corporations got “justice” or “help”, at our cost.

It’s Teddy Roosevelt, for those unfamiliar.

That answer is simple. They’re dumb. But the dumbest thing is that if he is alive, they could have avoided all this by just being upfront about his injury, give updates, etc., and be right where they are now except without the doubt. So either way, dumb.

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” - Donald Trump

Oh, wait, sorry… that quote is from a real President.

In an interview before his first term he commented that we had nukes, why not use them? The response from his supporters was that he was just kidding or talking metaphorically. The same people who voted for him because he says what he means.

“The code is more what you call guidelines than actual rules.”

I haven’t driven the newest vehicles, but you can have control over an automatic and where it shifts. And I’m not even talking about the shifting selector, but how you give it gas at certain points to trigger the shifting pattern. Do many people drive like that, probably not, but it’s not the machine that determines the driver.

Except people were all over this the minute it came out, and while plenty labeled it as AI generated, it’s damn good if it is, as things line up well. The text isn’t a given, as pixelation from a phone camera can mutilate words. All AI slop I’ve seen fail at text badly, not blurred but still possibly the words.

Much more likely some inpainting, as the various ones like in this post did. Don’t have to gamble on the AI getting the newspaper right, just have to get the face matched well enough. People have been doing that with Photoshop for decades now.

If you can find a higher resolution picture than what was given to the public and show the words clearly as gibberish, then you’d be right.

Then look at the also old but far more recent and science-based studies in the Limits to Growth work. And how reasonably close we are to finding those limits, even if that study lacked newer data and didn’t include climate change. Seems that the organizations listed in that quote aren’t factoring in any changes coming soon. Much like the IPCC and their “everything is fine, future tech will save us” stance.