The preponderance of the evidence gets ever more preponderant: here's a meta-analysis of longitudinal studies, in JAMA.
Important finding for setting 16 as the age minimum:
@duolingo why on earth are you so stingy to reward gems. Who cares about XP. Every lesson completed should fetch gems. It is so demotivating to go to the next lesson when the reward is a stupid 2x XP for next 15 mins. Who cares!
This week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in a high-stakes trial accusing his company and YouTube of harming children's mental health. Are social media platforms addictive? I talked to social psychologist @JonHaidt:
🚨 My Tesla literally saved my life yesterday. What started as a normal drive turned terrifying fast.
I unintentionally fasted for 17 hours, took some medicine, and had a severe allergic reaction. My body shut down—I passed out while driving on the freeway, mid-conversation with my wife on the phone.
Thank God my Tesla had Full Self-Driving engaged. It detected I lost consciousness (thanks to the driver monitoring system), immediately slowed, activated hazards, and safely pulled over to the shoulder. No crash. No danger to anyone else on the road.
My wife heard me go silent and knew something was wrong. She used @Life360 to alert emergency services—they located me within 5 minutes.
They attended to me enough for me to tell them, 'I don't want to abandon my truck here on the freeway.' So the Tesla autonomously drove me the rest of the way to the ER. I walked in, got admitted, and they stabilized me overnight.
I'm being discharged today—levels back to normal, feeling grateful and alive.
Huge thanks to my incredible wife for staying calm and acting fast, and to @elonmusk@Tesla@tesla for engineering cars that literally protect lives when the driver can't. This isn't just convenience—it's life-saving tech. 🙏⚡❤️
@duolingo Your recent update has broken the family plan. All the family members have gotten booted from the family and any attempts to invite them back are not working with errors that say "Something went wrong". What is going on?