The people writing the AI agents are being paid by the insurance companies.

Comets is where many astronomers have long thought the ocean came from. Comets are literal drops in our ocean. LOTS of comets. The atmosphere and the Earth at large would have been very different, and being bombarded by many giant space snowballs (along with asteroids) would have contributed materials. The missing part is, um, missing. We still do not know. However, these samples contained building blocks, not actual self-replicating RNA. That might seem like nothing, but before this discovery, we thought they only contained one ingredient.

One thing that is beginning to be appreciated is, if you have building blocks, under the right conditions, you also have self replicating RNA.

https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002...

That is not about the replication or self-replication of RNA.

The article is about a mechanism that may produce random nucleic acid molecules, i.e. molecules that do not replicate any template.

Reactions of this kind, producing random nucleic acids, must have existed long before the appearance of the first self-replicating RNA, thus before the appearance of any nucleic acid that could be inherited by the descendants of a living being and that could provide any useful feature for that living being.

Once you have one RNA it can serve as a template for others.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7496532/

Meteorites

I think the fact that most Americans call it "Charlie Brown" when the name of it is actually "Peanuts" proves you wrong.

The cartoon is Peanuts, the movies and TV specials all have Charlie Brown in the name. The name "Snoopy" is also common, but probably only among older people? Snoopy doesn't seem to feature much in any of the stuff I saw as a kid.

I think that doesn't actually prove anything beyond the name of the character being more memorable.

Baby Yoda show vs Mandelorian, sure.

Even at the height of popularity, it was never the "Bart" show, it was always the Simpsons.

The specials are largely how people are introduced to Peanuts today, are from shows that are named:

* A Charlie Brown Christmas

* It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

I think the takeaway is that the character name is more memorable because Charlie Brown is more recognizable due to being better marketed, today.

But I have 90s t-shirts that are just now dying after all these years of being dried only in an electric dryer, and other t-shirts just a few years old that are disintegrating. There's definitely been a quality change in the average shirt.

Inflation halved the value of money since the 90s. If you haven't been paying double for your shirts then the quality hasn't changed but your price expectations subtly did.

We see this everywhere. Manufacturers moving to more disposable products to keep the average prices within consumer expectations. Shirts and Cars certainly ain't "what they used to be."

Along these lines, watch these two videos from Bernadette Banner to learn how to identify fabric types and learn how to identify quality features in clothing:

https://youtu.be/qtJ5ukWundY?si=xzOyiwrrt8oTgpii

https://youtu.be/fuVU64m1sbw?si=5reXwGwVu2j5pTL1

Supima Cotton t-shirts from Lands End are great. Or, "100% Pima Cotton" from anyone else.

Well, the author in the article is in the US, posting about behavior they experience in the US, so it really isn't that surprising.

ah, .co.uk, the TLD long favored by lawyers blogging in the US, indeed.

But, OP was not in a public space.

The the author of the article wasn't in a public area, but in a private area at a private event, perhaps model release forms are a really good idea for participants.

It isn't you. None of those answers are correct. Sociology studies societies and cultures; collective behaviors at different scales within different niches, etc. It's an LLM hallucinating again.