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IIRC heat is the bigger issue for lithium batteries.

They’re temporarily less effective in cold weather but excessive heat is the battery killer.

There’s also the “other” factor. “Our county”, “our state” etc surely does it right but what about the other counties and states?

The fear of the other is one of the worst impulses humans have

People typically aren’t stuck on minimum wage because the powers that be won’t let them have a decent wage. Most adults are not on minimum wage ( in the US, less than 2% as of 2022; in the UK, low pay accounts for less than 4% as of 2024 ).

There’s something to be said for the rich taking advantage of folks, but … bothering worrying about abstract rich guy metrics like making the GDP go up is not going to help anyone get out of their situation.

Sure, focus on other aspects of politics like making education affordable, strengthening unions, etc things that will help you achieve your goals or help you once you’ve achieved your goals. However, there’s a lot one can directly do to address their situation that’s a lot less abstract than “vote for a representative, to write a bill, to potentially help you, to possibly get passed by your legislature, and possibly get passed by your executive branch (or your equivalent process).”

… and even then that latter concept has little to do with “why someone on minimum wage should pay attention to the GDP.”

So… Regardless of county, I would say minimum wage workers should not worry about the economy. Instead put that energy into finding a career path of some sort.

That’s not me bashing minimum wage workers, it’s just … the best thing a minimum wage worker can do to improve their circumstance.

Worrying about the GDP or stocks or anything else isn’t particularly helpful, especially if you’re living paycheck to paycheck (which at least in the US where I live, most minimum wage workers are).

Even for middle and upper middle class, worrying about GDP growth and how the stock market is doing day to day (unless you’re on the verge of retirement and trying to time cashing out stocks) is not a particularly helpful exercise.

Maybe it has some abstract effect on what social services you get or whether your employer survives another year… but you can probably find better indicators of that (e.g. in the days where computers were reducing paper usage, it should’ve been increasingly obvious that working at the paper mill probably wasn’t going to be a great long term plan).

I think you should pick up a civics book and/or lookup what a monarch is.

No, we’re really not…

https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-misinformation-military-use-of-force-a553b95097556580dba3b16bcf84480b

tldr more bull shit from Kennedy trying to prop up Trump and presumably make Trump’s threats against his opponents more “… well both sides” nonsense.

https://www.esd.whs.mil/portals/54/documents/dd/issuances/dodd/524001p.pdf

Yeah, this reminds me of a core conclusion in this article I read earlier today: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/hurricane-milton-conspiracies-misinformation/680221/?gift=LfMDGClsXPxuFi6NzzlsSmMf2SO62OLofWrLa23Hg1Y&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Basically all of this isn’t about convincing people of anything new. It’s just information to reaffirm existing beliefs and prevent people from coming to terms with the fact they’ve gone down a rabbit hole of crazy.

Deist is IIRC some number of gods probably existed and set the world into motion but do not play a role in day to day life.

Yeah this is either projection because they didn’t see the mainstream media doing it or an attempt to drive a wedge and create controversy where there shouldn’t be any.

I didn’t feel particularly safer in Europe… About the same… Watch your wallet, don’t go down dark alleys alone, etc.

Some things definitely felt more grandiose, but on average things felt like they could be in an American city if not for their vintage.

Public transportation was definitely the biggest difference I observed, trains in Germany were an all but fantastic experience.

I was surprised how heavy German food was and how much smoking folks in Germany, the Czech Republic, and Bulgaria do. It seemed elevated compared to the average US city.

Basically TikTok has been proven to serve the Chinese Communist Party (via influence over what users see and data collection). Additionally, the Atlantic article goes on to explain how the United States has a long history of protecting its citizens from foreign influence campaigns going back to the early radio days (and trying to ban TikTok is not a divergence from the status quo or an attack of free speech, rather the continuing of policies that have largely worked and served the public good).

Here’s the big difference. Automated assembly lines do a job better than the average human can. LLMs do the job consistently worse than the average human would.

EILIF: TikTok is like that “friend” that says they’re your buddy, but you have a lot of reasons to doubt they actually have your best interest at heart.

From my notes:

• https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/28/tiktok-data-collection-inquiry-australia-privacy-watchdog-marketing-pixels
• https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/briefing/tiktok-ban-bill-congress.html
• https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/A-Tik-Tok-ing-Timebomb_12.21.23.pdf
• https://www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-israel-gaza-hamas-war-a5dfa0ee
• https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/tiktok-bill-foreign-influence/677806/
• https://protonvpn.com/blog/is-tiktok-safe/
• https://www.engadget.com/doj-says-tiktok-collected-users-views-on-issues-like-abortion-gun-control-and-religion-201617503.html

It’s not a new problem; I remember back in 2016 looking up one MAGA supporter on Twitter that seemed EXTREMELY enthusiastic via reverse image search.

I ended up finding a girl in Brazil that had presumably never set foot in “Nebraska” where this MAGA supporter was allegedly “born and raised.”

You’re definitely catching some down votes for the title (which on its surface is pretty disrespectful of moderators).

However, a side wide ban for the one irritated retort… Does seem a bit much.

I suppose the Reddit site admin assumed the entire interaction was an effort to troll and upset the moderators of Wild_Politics.

It also tends to skew older from what I’ve seen. Might be great for OP, not so great for someone in their twenties or early thirties.

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