Your concerns are well-founded I think. But I think it's interesting to point out that most of those concerns are already playing out RIGHT NOW sans literal mind control. The difference between a cybernetic implant and carrying an internet-connected phone around all day is merely a difference in speed of access. It takes you a few seconds to pull out your phone and type in a query or respond to a notification, the implant would just do it faster.

And we are absolutely already seeing the issues you mention like tampering or interception of inputs and using massive data analysis to decide who sees which outputs, it's a mess. And the end result isn't exactly mind-control, but I think it's fair to say that human behavior has and almost certainly still is being shaped by our technology and algorithms for better or worse. The difference isn't one of kind, but one of scale.

So optimistically I hope you're right about the brain-to-brain interface being the end-goal, but realistically I really don't see that happening. There's too much to be "gained" by centralization, it's too enticing. It's like trying to get people to stick to walkie-talkies when they already know smartphones exist.

But imagine that, but at the speed of thought instead of the speed of fingers or eyes.

Arguably we already do have brain-to-computer interfaces they're just high latency and low bandwidth.

I don't think it's required, but it ought to be in my opinion. Often I'll be at the circle yielding to someone already in the intersection only for them to take the exit right before me with no signal and it feels extremely rude. I always signal out of a rotary, and people seem to appreciate it because it saves then a little bit of time or keeps them from having to stop

I wear those anti-glare computer glasses for work and mine have a slight amber tint on them meant to help with screen headaches but I wear then when I'm driving at night now too because they help so much with bright lights.

>similar to not using blinkers

Yes, anecdotally I've noticed the blinker issue happening a lot more as well. NO ONE signals out of roundabouts like they should, the usual failure to signal, and I've also seen a lot of false positives where people have a signal on but end up going straight. Like, what the hell is that? It's stressing me out.

Thank you for describing that thing I've noticed every time one of these guys is behind me and I keep thinking I'm getting pulled over.

Sadly I fear you're right, moreso every year. We've known about this for so long, and NOTHING has been done. Just hand-wringing and signing accords that no are too conservative and no one plans to adhere to anyways. We're likely already past the point of no return to avoid the worst of it, and still nothing gets done. We're out of time and we haven't even started making a rudimentary plan yet. No one is willing to have the tough conversations, no one is willing to talk about what we're going to have to give up to get this situation under control. If we don't do it voluntarily, it will be done to us involuntarily.

Yeah I predict our ski industry will almost completely collapse in our lifetimes.

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>TL;DR: Mainly the heat is from an increased metabolism in brown adipose tissue

Isn't that basically the conclusion that Wim Hof guy came to after being studied by doctors while he submerged himself in icy water? He has some breathing technique that supposedly activates his brown fat tissues and keeps him warm. Dude claims to have hiked Kilimanjaro wearing nothing but a pair of shorts. Not sure how real any of that actually is, but it's a pretty neat though. I wish I could activate my brown fat tissues on purpose sometimes.

>There's also diet drugs that do this, but they're incredibly dangerous because you can't plug the holes once they're made, you just have to wait for the proteins to break down.

I always wondered if that were a thing. It always seemed to me like an excellent way to burn calories. I grew up and currently live in Vermont where the winters get very very cold and it's well-known that you have to nearly double your caloric intake if you're going to be outdoors in cold temperatures for extended periods of time. Especially doing a vigorous activity like skiing or snowboarding on a blustery day, it's frankly INCREDIBLE the sheer amount of energy the human body can cough up when it's well-fed and the need arises. I tracked myself as burning like 7k calories in a single day once.

Likewise, just going on a short walk can sap an incredible amount of energy from your body if you're not dressed well in poor weather, and it can take several hours and several good meals to get your energy level back up so it's easy to imagine that a significant amount of your body's energy budget goes to keeping you warm.

I certainly hope you're right, but I've been around too long not to be at least a little skeptical of new revolutionary battery startups. I'll believe it when I see it, just like all the other largely theoretical grid level storage solutions. I don't want our strategy be naive trust that currently-intangible technologies will save us sometime in the indefinite future, I would rather see us invest in tried and true solutions like nuclear and offshore wind, and do it NOW.

YES

Is nuclear perfect? No one who knows anything is saying "yes" but that isn't the point. A fully renewable grid would be awesome, I think we can all agree. There are even some pretty compelling plans to make that happen, but they all rely on theoretical technologies that don't exist being implemented at crazy scales and I think that's an unwise bet.

Nuclear, in contrast, is a mature technology that we have TODAY. RIGHT NOW. We know how it works, we know it solves our short term crisis, and there nothing stopping us from building reactors except our own fear.

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What storage are your referring to? The vast majority of solar installations do not include any significant energy storage infrastructure as far as I'm aware. Batteries are very expensive and not very good for the job.

Yeah I feel like if you write an article titled "Back When Pigeons Wore Bras" and don't include a single image of a busty pigeon, you should get your writer license suspended for at least a year.

Poor pigeon's like "you gonna use your wings or what bro?"