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To disable it (for now):

1. at the top left tap the 3 horizontal lines,
2. near the bottom tap "Settings",
3. tap your account,
4. scroll to the middle and unselect "Smart features".
5. Consider moving over to a non-psychotic, non-fascist-supporting email provider, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuta_(email)

Anyone know how to get rid of the Gemini icons?

Scientists didn't become pickier - they just later found that Pluto was in a belt of thousands of massive object (called the Kuiper belt), like the asteroid belt but much bigger.

When Ceres was discovered in 1801, it was thought to be a comet, later a planet, but after discovering it was one of many asteroids in the asteroid belt (which it wasn't big enough to clear), they realized it wasn't a planet.

When Pluto was first discovered in 1930, it was in a similar situation as Ceres and thought of as a planet, but when other Kuiper belt objects started to be discovered by 1992, they realized Pluto also wasn't a planet.

Am I having a stroke, or are the photos of the people in that article something you'd expect from a broken AI clickbait site, rather than an article by a public service broadcaster?

Factory farming for the vast majority of chickens, is life-long enslavement in torturous conditions.

Hundreds of billions of non-aquatic animals are enslaved by factory farmers every year.

Trillions of fish are enslaved in factory farms every single year.

Only Yesterday is my favorite by far. If Grave of the Fireflies didn't have the supernatural/Deus-ex-machina/genre whiplash scenes at the end, it would've been my favorite, but that ending ruins the movie for me.

What religion are they? The opposite-of-what-Jesus-taught religion?

"One of the most effective ways to avoid consumption in the first place, Dr. Rees said, is to have a smaller family."

Yip, human overpopulation is the biggest cause of anthropogenic climate change (compare it to other causes), and the root cause of it. It's also the root cause of the anthropocene extinction event and of that becoming a mass extinction event, and of factory farming, and of industrial fishing, and of habitat degradation and destruction, and of unsustainable pollution, ...

If I remember correctly I had the same start: tested Knoppix, tried Mandrake for a short time, then Ubuntu which I used for several years until Gnome 3 when I switched to Xubuntu for several years, but when snap happened I tried Debian, then Mint for a while, but I'm now trying MX.

What do you think their lives will be like after the climate change cascade?

According to Sayidina:

66.2% of these were high school students (349), 
30.9% middle school students (163), 
02.8% elementary school students (15).

Causes cited (multiple causes means these total to more than 100%):

349 Academic struggles, concerns about future paths.
284 Mental health issues, e.g. depression, 
148 family-related problems. e.g. conflicts with parents.

This is from a non-paywalled older article from 2025-01 which gives the total of school-aged children's suicides in Japan in 2024 at an all-time high of 527 (the 2 more in the newer article probably corrects cases incorrectly classified before).

"A notable increase was observed among female middle and high school students"

"In 2024, the number of suicides [for all ages] in Japan totaled 20,268, marking a decrease of 1,569 from the previous year and reaching the second-lowest level since records began in 1978."

In South Africa, the law determines that if something's labeled "Product of South Africa" it can't have any imported ingredients (tho the packaging can be imported).

"Produced in South Africa" can have imported ingredients - and I've been boycotting almost all of that because of the omnicidal carbon footprint of importing things. It's easier in this country to live ethically tho because we can grow almost everything we need: from food to textiles; tho our energy production is some of the most unethical in the world.