Betteridge to the rescue, here. Any question with "pinpoint" and "paleontology" can be confidently given a "no" answer.
Beyond vacuous answers, this isn't a good article:
We know the main reason why the age of the dinosaurs came to an end
No, not really. Dinosaurs stood a good chance of regaining primacy after the asteroid impact, due to generally having an "r" reproductive strategy. Dinosaurs had lived through other weird episodes, the Carnian pluvial episode, and the end-Triassic mass extinction. Close relatives of dinosaurs lived on: we still have crocodiles and alligators today. There's a lot of argument.
As a hobbyist cook, this article starts with a false (or at least misleading) premise:
maybe the recipe calls for 80 g of butter but you only have 57 g
The amount of fat is rarely critical, pie crusts and puff pastry the exceptions. Unless the situation is puff pastry, make the full recipe. There are also recipes, like Better Homes and Gardens cookbook "baked rice pudding", that you can fudge ingredients to an extent, but can't double. The heat transfer of a double sized batch of custard prevents the whole thing from cooking.
The point being that food is more and less than chemistry. It's more and less than thermodynamics or heat transfer. It's art.
PS
I own 2 slide rules. I don't use either one in the kitchen.
I believe US conservatives have done this since 1980s. I'm not sure it was deliberate at first: there's feedback. Loudly invoking "liberal bias" in 1975 most certainly got the press to reevaluate and attempt to mitigate any bias they might have shown. That was a reward for conservatives, which probably motivated more accusations of liberal bias, another round of press accomodations. It reinforced itself.
I thought it was a combination of Musk suing companies that stopped advertising on Twitter based on anti-trust law, and Musk being on the good side of Trump.
I'll buy it, but mainly because that's what modern society has been doing since the 1890s: standardizing spelling, lightbulbs, schooling, addresses, clothing sizes, heck, even house loan. We've made a single, life-long identity so as to be able to tie earnings, taxes, retirement and consequences to a person, rather than letting everyone segment risk as they see fit. Centralizing everything from RAM production to news gatekeeping to food production, monopolies of various sorts appear and grow. We've managed to unring the bell of technological process through legal threats (copyright, liability, torts) to such a degree that air travel hasn't progressed much since 1960, and we're still predominantly using a descendant of an operating system from the early-to-mid 1970s.
Tellers at my credit union firmly believe that PDFs are the data. That is, a PDF statement is the only form in which my credit union keeps data. Very bizarre having a conversation where the tellers absolutely did not understand that accounting data exists apart from its visual formatting.
The same credit union offered downloading your account data in CSV format very recently.
The writing style screams AI slop - whole chunks of prose repeating what's already appeared, but in slightly different words.
And it contains egregious errors: Brain was not the first virus, Elk Cloner appeared in 1982, 4 years before Brain. The whole idea was in the air in the early 1980s - Fred Cohen published an academic paper on computer viruses in 1984.
Why was the HN title editorialized? The actual blog post title is "La Civilisation comme Fruit Inévitable de la Puissance Organisée". The post itself is also in French.
blame Donald Trump (just like they did Biden before)
Respectfully disagree. Republican presidents get a lot more economic leeway than Dem presidents, especially from the media. This has puzzled me my entire adult life. Inflation will bother media and public, but not to the same extent it did 2021-22.
Big media works for the capital class, community newspapers and other forms of local news that are largely pro-public have been gutted. The remaining large-ish public media orgs (PBS, NPR) are currently under attack to consolidate corporate-friendly agenda-setting.
Case in point, you’d think by how things are reported that Trump brought down inflation. But inflation was down when Biden left office and Trump has done nothing to improve it.
Wow, this is great! It's frankly wonderful we have a president we trust with these decisions. Can you imagine the congressional hearings that a move like this from any of the other presidents we've had since 1988? Media would have freaked out, markets tumbled. There would have been impeachment rumors. But now? We get "just the facts" reporting, and it just happens. No hearings, no media frenzy, market soars.
Beyond vacuous answers, this isn't a good article:
We know the main reason why the age of the dinosaurs came to an end
No, not really. Dinosaurs stood a good chance of regaining primacy after the asteroid impact, due to generally having an "r" reproductive strategy. Dinosaurs had lived through other weird episodes, the Carnian pluvial episode, and the end-Triassic mass extinction. Close relatives of dinosaurs lived on: we still have crocodiles and alligators today. There's a lot of argument.
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