Even though LemmyNSFW is outside of the UK the admins of any instance will be responsible for verification of UK users because of this law. This is why .zip (Lemmy and PieFed) have geoblocked the UK. It’s a lot of work and responsibility to take on.

Here’s the post from Demigodrick explaining this situation better than I can.

Important News - Geoblocking of the UK

I’m bummed too. This was about to be one of my favorite animals. Pangolins are still cool though. :)

There’s also this article from TechCrunch.

Grok 4 seems to consult Elon Musk to answer controversial questions

They tried it out themselves and have reports from other users as well.

Just skimming through the article it states the brain accounts for 2% of the body’s weight and 20% of its resting metabolism. During problem solving or “effortful, goal directed tasks” it requires just 5% more over the base 20%.

I’ve found myself physically drained from overthinking at times and now I can start to see how real that can get.