"Less cognitively capable than previous generations" sounds like kids are getting dumber, but...
Gen Z is the first generation in modern history to score lower on standardized tests than the previous one.
... just does not mean that. Many factors influence test scores, like say, more people growing up in poverty.
This article reads like fortune magazine enjoying their own farts.
Of course, but sinophobia and yellow peril narratives having been going strong in Aus for over a century.
To be more unpopular than Xi with australians is a big deal.
Got the muchies for a california cheeseburger.
I lean toward that interpretation but am open to being wrong.
I work in mental health and was surprised by the amount of people in the field who believe marijuana is part of the problem, not just a symptom of it.
Cannabis use was more common among: ... Youth on Medicaid or living in more deprived neighborhoods
Regular reminder that correlation =/= causation. Living a more stressful life due to poverty makes both mental illness and adolescent cannabis use more common.
That said there is a credible biological pathway to cannabis use having a causal role:
THC acts on CB1 receptors, which are highly expressed in the adolescent brain and play a key role in emotional regulation, motivation, and cognitive development.
However we still don't have definitive evidence of causation:
Q: Does this study prove cannabis causes mental illness? A: While causation can’t be definitively established, cannabis use was associated with an increased risk of developing psychiatric conditions
From Merriam Webster
My favorite UFO explanation is that it was largely a ploy to waste the USSR's money. They'll have to expend more resources chasing down a red herring than it takes us to lie about it. No coincidence then, that as a near-peer competitor emerges again we get UAPs.
"I'll release some BS we made up" is incredibly appropriate as a desperate distraction.
This misunderstands the situation.
Most of the conservative majority on the court are active participants in the ongoing fascist coup, probably a few are just committed sympathizers.
This isn't the supreme court enforcing the law against the president, this is a disagreement between factions within the regime about the priorities and direction.
Shootie and the blow-fiend.
This should be in an Enough Newsom Spam community so we can block it.
There's only one pro-american program i'd like to see.
stay tuned for the seasonal finale of We Got The Guillotine, where someone very famous will shit himself on camera for the last time!
I worked in a phone room of a large drug company. By early 2021 we had AI agents making phone calls to insurance companies to confirm basic insurance coverage details. They only handled the "no surprises" kind of plans - so a limited set of expected answers. They would encounter something unexpected and pass off to a human maybe 10-15% of the time.
But within their limits, they did what a human did. It was recognizably AI to most listeners, but vocal tone, probing for clarity, getting all the info - the output was like listening to the output an experienced human agent.