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This is largely based on the myth that observation requires consciousness. Observation more just means interaction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect_(physics)

Trump liked to play on the "migrant crime" thing, and in many speeches during this campaign (and before) pretty much claimed every single migrant came from a prison or asylum. But the stats show migrants as a group commit fewer crimes than born Americans. (Various reasons.) So if he actually did follow through with mass deportations, I'd suspect crime rates will go up. (Slightly tongue in cheek of course, I just find it astounding Trump could make people think he'll make them "safe" and thus accept his fascist leanings. Meanwhile, kids will continue to be shot at school - and the the coming VP will just say that's a "fact of life".)

The per capita crime rate will go up.

If the GOP (as a whole) are not racist and sexist (regardless of more or less), why accept him as their figurehead?

gamer87 often had similar concerns, and also had this machine. Maybe they have advice for you? https://www.scienceforums.net/topic/124822-question-uv-plastic-and-rubber

This stuff is googleable: https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-are-tariffs#chapter-title-0-2

Tariffs are applied as a kind of tax on the goods, not as a separate bill to the Government of the source nation. (The fantasy is that the seller has to lower profits to keep the final cost the same *, making local industries competitive again. The reality is that prices go up and the consumers pay more.) ((* or maybe even leave the market altogether, which while it might leave local manufacturers standing, it decreases their competition and still raises costs for consumers.))

What is yours? ... and what's your definition of a prime number?

Are they all greengrocers too?

The current AIs are LLMs, large language models. Very summarised, they just soak up data such as text and mathematically record patterns that can be echoed back out. They know nothing about "truth" or "reality". Recent cases you could search-up: somebody asks how to keep the cheese on their pizza and are told by an AI to add glue to the sauce. Another asks if it's good to eat rocks and is told by AI that a small rock a day is good. The first was traced to a joke reddit post, the second to an article on The Onion; both on the internet and soaked up in the LLM training. What this means is any crank can put something out there, that an AI "reads" it and can repeat; it means nothing. (Edit: was typing this when Mordreds' post arrived, not meaning to detract from that post.)

Yep. Watched a Sabine Hossenfelder youtube last week where she claimed this is why AGI is not going to be near what some people say it will.

Turning off all Bitcoin related systems would have more effect than halting fusion research. ... and be much better for us all.

I just remembered a detergent-only method described in a Kurt Vonnegut book (for common house flies): You fill a bowl with soap bubbles. Raise the bowl up towards a fly sitting on the ceiling. The fly drops a little before trying to fly away - and falls into and is caught by the bubbles. (Amusing in the book, no idea if anyone ever tries that.)

I just did a quick google, and all the first hits suggest apple cider vinegar. Easily bought in any relevant shop. Maybe the "fruitiness" is what attracts the flies? Having said that, they are fruit flies, not common house flies. (I agree with iNow.)

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/28/us/crying-indian-ad-campaign-cec/index.html#:~:text=Born Espera Oscar de Corti,campaigns is pictured in 1986. I learned about this from an episode of "American Pickers" where they happened on an old tent of his. On the OP: birth rates in the "more developed" countries falls. Look at the population crisis in many places like Japan. It gets expensive to raise kids, you don't need them to (directly) look after you when you are old, and people simply have other things to do. Equal rights and opportunities for women helps. i.e. given the choice to have kids. The idea in the OP that women need to be lectured on birth control is a very colonial view. So the real trick, will be to develop all nations (so birth rates look after themselves) - but somehow without everyone consuming all resources and polluting like it's 19xx all over again.