I did this for years. I even got into the HOA board just to keep them off my back. It was so freeing to not have to mow.

Unless we want more users.

Surely. But let’s be realistic. If you’re poor and sick, you’re broke and have no free time.

You’ve gone to a malicious website. Now you’ve died.

See, the risks of surfing the web incorrectly are slightly different than the risks of creating medicine incorrectly.

It’s not obvious to realize this, but the luxury of thinking words are neutral is a privilege.

Think of it this way. If 5% of the time, when a person said “howdy”, they punched you in the face. You would be very wary of anyone saying howdy. Just in case. Now imagine having to live on edge like that 24/7. It wears you down. It’s exhausting.

Well, it costs me nothing to choose a different word besides howdy. And for that cost of $0 I can make someone else’s life less anxious. I know how much anxiety sucks because I’m basically made out of it. So I’m going to do what I can to put other people at ease.

Now obviously black people know that the IT term master and slave are not about them. But they are also conditioned by society that, some small % of the time when those words come up, things go very poorly for them. So yeah, I would be twitchy about it too. Even if my rational mind knew it was silly.

I say it with a hard R

I’d like it to be changed because I don’t like saying "is the slave working? Did you check? To my black employees.

Of course. The pork industry in NC is exactly the same. Tobacco as well.

NC has a strong Republican majority in the government with a fairly weak Democrat governor. They make bad decisions. I’m not sad I left.

230 miles on 98 kWh capacity = 0.4260 kWh per mile

Vs

300 miles on 131 kWh capacity = 0.4366 kWh per mile

Is that significant? Eh… But at the same time I wouldn’t throw 500 lb weights in the back and drive around claiming it didn’t impact performance.

206 up, 20 down.

The nerds have spoken.

I agree with you though.

If it were any other company I would be thrilled. With Samsung, this is going to be internet enabled, you’ll need an app to turn your car on and off, and it’ll probably play ads at high volumes constantly while driving.

If they’re swiping failed QA chips, it’s easy to swipe a couple boxes at the same time.

Decisions should be made by whomever or whatever is most effective. That’s not even a debate. If the tarot cards were right more often than the judge, fire the judge and get me a deck. Because the judge is clearly ineffective.

You can’t privilege an approach just because it sounds more reasonable. It also has to BE more reasonable. It’s crazy to say “I’m happy being wrong because I’m more comfortable with the process”

The trick of course is to find fair ways to measure effectiveness accurately and make sure it’s repeatable. That’s a rabbit hole of challenges.

That’s the spirit! Anyone excited about voting, and not treating it as a horrible civic duty that we must endure, is psychotic.

Any real change will come from voting for local candidates that support ranked choice voting. Then we can push for real change.

We have a first past the post voting system. You never vote FOR anyone. You vote AGAINST who you hate most. A vote for a third party, or not voting, is literally identical to voting for who you hate most.

You can rage against that all you like, but that’s the reality of our current system. So even choosing to do nothing is a positive action on your part.

Now, you can say you hate them equally. But that just means you care ZERO about things like DEI, women, abortion rights, etc. Can you honestly say you care zero about those things?

It’s when appointed officials side with the people, and the people are educated and thoughtful.

Or so I’m told. I’ve never actually seen one. It’s like a unicorn.

Honest answer? Kids toys ads. The kids love the ads more than the show sometimes.

It sucks for parents though. Gets expensive.

I hope this concept comes to the US at some point.

getting sued for their employer-imposed vaccine mandates

The only case I’ve seen succeed is for a company that ignored legitimate religious exceptions. Have you seen any successful cases that support your use case?

Namecheap is reputable and WAY cheaper than that. Been using them for years.