I feel it's unfair to be blaming phones, social media, and multiplayer video games for being the way teens get some peer socialization in a world that is so deeply unfriendly to teens having independence.

danah boyd spent a bunch of time studying teen use of earlier social media, and then for personal reasons moved on to help run teen crisis text hotline.

Her thought for why US teens are struggling are the lack of non-parent trusted adults in their lives.

"Struggling with a Moral Panic Once Again" https://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2024/04/19/struggling-with-a-moral-panic-once-again.html

There's also some evidence that it's mostly teens on wealthy English speaking countries that are the most depressed.

"America’s Top Export May Be Anxiety: English-speaking teens are spreading their problems abroad." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/06/mental-health-crisis-anglosphere-depressed/678724/

I have long thought modern American kids have too little freedom to go places on their own.

"This article is more than 8 years old: The popsicle test: what makes a city good for children?" https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/21/city-good-children-popsicle-test-crime-property-play

Dark Sky is a group working to protect the visibility of the night sky. https://darksky.org/what-we-do/advancing-responsible-outdoor-lighting/

They've got suggestions on both limiting use of lighting and using lights that don't point upward, automatically dim, and don't generate a lot of glare

Pretty sure that's been going on for years.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/prison-labor-in-america/406177/

Most of the young adults in America currently can't afford kids, housing, or cars.

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/25/1225957874/housing-unaffordable-for-record-half-all-u-s-renters-study-finds

As an island nation with a scarcity of resources, you'd think Japan would be more interested in transportation solutions that don't involve regular delivery of fuel.

I have also inflated my car tires a few psi with a stand bike pump too. Bike tires are often have much higher PSI, than car tires, so the pump can easily fill the tire it just takes a while.... (Though to be fair I was mostly fixing a low pressure issue, so I was inflating the car tire from like 37 psi to 42 psi)

I'm curious why Chrome OS had such a big drop?

Librature has a list of DRM free individuals and small presses https://libreture.com/bookshops/

Oh I forgot also if you check the details on kobo, some of the books are sold DRM free. Mostly I think it was from Tor, but could be other publishers as well.

You're welcome, and good luck with your project

Unfortunate their renewable potential is so low.

Maybe they'll figure out space based power https://www.japan.go.jp/kizuna/2023/08/japans_long-planned_photovoltaics.html

I think some players have used a mithril chain shirt as a sleep shirt, which i think is technically legal.

Write MP3s to them and use them to play one song in a modern car.

(I saw a video of someone playing a clip of music using a USB floppy drive)

darktable used xmp, and that looks like an alternate metadata format, it looks like exiftools might be able to work with the xmp standard, and it looks like there's some face tagging features in xmp.

https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/106410/how-does-xmp-define-the-face-region

For someone doing solitaire and mahjong, maybe try iagno (reversi), tetravex (tile layout puzzle), or minesweeper.

They have some of the most heavily used rail stations in the world, but still a large chunk of the population has a car. 85 million cars registered in a population of about 124 million people.

This book cataloging tool has a very long list of DRM free book sources.

https://libreture.com/bookshops/

The consequence of that is if you do read it you effectively have superpowers over the non-readers.

I blame the young earth creationist christians who think that humans are incapable of destroying gods creation, and that the increasing planetary instability means that god will return and put them in charge any day now.

There's some reports that the interaction of soaps and shampoos influence how tasty a person smells, so it might be worth trying different products.

https://www.prevention.com/health/a43863971/different-soaps-may-make-you-more-attractive-to-mosquitoes/

Where you getting bloodcursed elven bullets?

( https://skyrim.fandom.com/wiki/Bloodcursed_Elven_Arrow )