I have 3 cordless drills and 1 corded. Every time I need to use one, the cordless ones are out of batteries despite charging them before putting them away. The battery pack is stored for a couple of months between projects. These are the second set of batteries and they weren’t cheap.

Oh, and I’m cursed for batteries. I’ve had two instances of a brand new car battery failing after a few months due to fused plates. The mechanic says that it never happens.

I’d love to get an electric car, but feel that that would be tempting fate.

Who downvotes this without an explanation? Even if you think that racism is good, it’s somebody else’s resolution, so…?

I used to care but as it became a political tool, it became too much effort to care.

As far as i know, the only exposure is in Minnesota, but that can’t be the only place that these federal dollars were being misused. It smells funny.

The journalist you’re probably referencing is a YouTuber/influencer and has no journalistic credentials that I can find. It feels like an opportunistic popularity grab. Strike 2.

I read that the guy making the video was invited to produce a piece by a possible candidate for governor, opposing Gov. Walz. This tells me that it’s now a political advertisement and has lost any credibility and I don’t care enough to fact check everything,so I’ve stopped paying attention.

The whole thing bothers me. I don’t like it when people don’t follow the rules. Right now, it’s too hard to know the truth, so I’m closing my eyes. There’s enough other stuff to be upset about in life.

I have gas and would fight anyone who tries to tell me otherwise. I rented a place with an induction range and now I want one so bad.

I’m self hosting to learn. I’ve been hacked before and I lost stuff and then I refined my technique and started over again. Nothing I do is “mission critical”, so I now have the mindset that it will fail, I will lose data and time and I will get hacked. Honestly, it’s helped me to be better at home and at my workplace to have this mindset. Always plan for failure (and keep backups).

I often wonder how much of the toll is used to fund the road maintenance itself vs funding the structures to collect tolls like the toll booths, the collections, technology, billing, and all the employees.

Being Christian or going to church doesn’t make you a good person any more than a speed limit sign prevents people from speeding.

You’re spot on with accountability. Why not just legally allow people harmed by following the advice to be ableto sue the influencers and allow those with proper credentials to become certified in the topic and certification protects from lawsuits?

Or maybe not the second part. Anybody giving bad advice should be sued.

“This isn’t medical advice, but drinking battery acid will allow you to live forever.” Would never hold up in court.

Freedom of speech seems to be the most misunderstood right.

The US is not in a recession as of this posting date. I read something recently from Fidelity Investments that suggests that the US is heading toward a recession.

Your exact question was found on the Q&A page

Supporting evidence Key takeaways

• The US economy continues to grow, although it is sending some mixed signals.
  

• Corporate earnings remain strong even as consumer expectations sag.
  

• US tariff policy remains uncertain, and much of the impact from tariff hikes is still ahead.
  

Additionally, you may find this page interesting. It charts the business cycle across countries and quarters. If you play with the selections, you’ll see that countries’ economies do not always progress forward, nor are the rates of change consistent, so the page is not a predictor of what’s to come.

FWIW, a financial advisor that I know said that his company is recommending that their investors shift to a portfolio with more foreign investments.

Not 75%, just 3.5% is needed (probably).

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You have a lot of good points and I may have missed the intent of the article, but a knee jerk reaction of “lower traffic = AI is bad” is not helpful either. My point is that I frequently find myself hitting a page just to check a reference, quote or remember something. AI search results can be useful here. It’s no different than how DuckDugkGo has a sidebar if the results are from StackOverflow. It’s nice to get quick answers. I would like to see a fair solution to the content creators being able to stay in business.

This will be unpopular, but hear me out. Maybe the decline in visitors is only a decline in the folks who are simply looking for a specific word or name and the forgot. Like, that one guy who believed in the survival of the fittest. Um. Let me try to remember. I think he had an epic beard. Ah! Darwin! I just needed a reminder, I didn’t want to read the entire article on him because I did that years ago.

Look at your own behaviors on lemmy. How often do you click/tap through to the complete article? What if it’s just a headline? What if it’s the whole article pasted into the body of the post? Click bait headlines are almost universally hated, but it’s a desperate attempt to drive traffic to the site. Sometimes all you need is the article synopsis. Soccer team A beats team B in overtime. Great, that’s all I need to know…unless I have a fantasy team.

You’re reading this the wrong way. Why is the defense department censoring the media? What are they doing or planning that they don’t want the media, and therefore the people, to know about? If this was a practice run for limiting news, it’d be happening in some other department first.

Electric heaters are wasteful. How about spending that energy wisely while also generating heat?

https://fedia.io/m/nottheonion@lemmy.world/t/2828343

(Sorry for the full link, I can’t figure out how to reference an article on another instance on the mobile app.)

This is probably the best answer based on the stuff that I’ve heard.

During the first term, a local talk radio show had a woman on who grew up in a cult. She was born into it. She described her own story about how she learned what was happening and eventually got out. IIRC, her parents cut all ties with her, as that was the way of the cult. Anyhow, she described the process of “deprogramming” someone and it is basically along the same lines of what you describe.

Sadly, it’s easy to “mass convert” people to cults, but deprogramming is a one on one conversation over a long period of time.

You just described most tech stocks.

As Cory Doctrow explains:

the fundamental duty of every CEO of every high-growth tech company: explaining how his company will continue to grow. These growth stories are key, because growth stocks trade at a huge premium relative to the stocks of “mature” companies.

I came here to say just this. I used to belong to a hobbyist group that would reserve track time for races. They were timed trials for safety and had tow trucks and medics on standby. The best was when they watered the track in the winter and let it freeze overnight. Those were the slowest races I’ve ever seen. In addition to being safe fun, they taught how to handle your car in extreme situations.

Here’s an example race: https://www.onelapofamerica.com/#!HOME

I’m imagining every strenuous lift resulting in a toot!

I think you’re on to something. This could accelerate the movement of tech jobs to India & other countries vs just importing cheap labor.

In the past, when tech jobs were outsourced, it was just the coders. Lately, ilve noticed entire teams being outsourced, manager, project/product managers, coders, agilists, designers and others. Big companies are letting all technology be performed offshore and only the business units remain. This administration policy move could accelerate this trend, which could have far reaching implications.

I scrolled way too far to find this.