Human or not, I don’t like accounts that only post article after article without comment, often from mainstream or slightly dubious (lots of ad trackers) sources.

I can’t seem to find any direct links in the article to the sources it talks about?

Police recorded 161 suicide deaths among people aged 7 to 18 in 2025, up from 127 a year earlier, according to figures obtained by the mental health foundation GrowSPACE.

While not stated directly, it seems clear that the numbers for attempts come from GrowSPACE

Neither mom nor dad or brother makes sense here. The whole cartoon is a fail really. Posted by another of those less-than-1h-old accounts.

deleted by creator

Cheesus.

First reaction is “social media really isn’t safe for teenagers” - but then I think again: the worst stuff always comes from the USA, usually the platform formerly known as Twitter. We really should ban that shit.

Hope springs eternal!

…and obviously I can’t see any of it because their posts are gone, too?
Can you put some numbers on this?
Can anybody confirm?

It could be some sort of Streisand effect brought on by people complaining about “bot accounts” for days/weeks now.
People thinking something like “You scared of trolls? Lol, let’s troll you some more!”

Also, some of those accused seem like very normal people to me who also comment in other communities and do not, in fact, delete their account.

edit: somebody created an account 1h ago, only to downvote every single comment in this thread. No content.

Children of Time is the trilogy that awaits my attention.

I love Le Guin! I just started re-reading her opus; but since this is a (short) story I might have skipped it the first time. I also aded some Tschaikowski to my e-reader, if I like that I will try to remember this.

full-blown examinations of the concepts of utterly alien intelligence.

In this context I will always recommend Stanislaw Lem’s “Eden”, although it has little to do with differences in speed.

basically was at least in part what the BBC title was saying but not in so many words.

The only connection to the US tariffwar - afaics - is this: “This comes at a particularly trying geopolitical moment”

If it says anywhere in the article that a deal 2 decades in the making is even partly the result of “repercussion from the US tariff war”, please point it out to me.

I don’t see it in the rules either btw, but I found it confusing and worth pointing out.

Huh, TIL that Germany has such a big gold reserve - 75+% - and stores half of it abroad. Most of that half in the US 🤦

The Eurozone’s gold reserves are much larger btw.

meh

The title of this post is not reflected in the article; neither the term “repercussions” nor “tariff war” are found in it.

The article’s title is

India and EU set for ‘mother of all deals’ as Trump’s tariff uncertainty looms

Reminds me of the idea that intelligence might express itself in ways that we cannot perceive, because it’s so slow. Like Rock trolls taking a year to speak a sentence and a century to have this little conversation. Ents are a little faster I guess.

In the lead-up to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Moscow moved the National Wealth Fund into 60% yuan and 40% gold—a clear hedge against expected Western economic pressure.

So since before 2022. Very interesting detail I was not aware of yet.

This should be a fun little detail in a movie or something like that, but booting is just loading data, and doing that from analog media is nothing new.

edit: tbf, the author points that out, too. It’s just a little joke.

If this analysis is right, the chances of democratic political reform in China remain just as dim in the future as they were in the past.

Did anybody think otherwise?

But he already got it, that Venezuelan politician gave it to him! Totally voluntarily of course! (Don’t tell him it’s not the price itself but only the medal)

I listened to a primer about this board on the local news last night; apparently quite a few countries rejected it outright, and most of those that didn’t basically have it lying on their desks like a paper turd, not knowing what to do with it. AFAICS the majority says “not in its present form”, which would amount to a separate UN with a god king.

I’ve never heard any adult saying a dad is fun because they feed their kids fast food. Kids will love it of course (up to a certain point) but they’ll love it from mom, too.

There’d be more to open up here.