It's a lot easier to pass social policies when you see your neighbor's as people like you that you want to help. We don't have that in the United States.

I don't think as many people have that mindset as you think. I see lots of people that look like me fucking over almost every facet of this country and I don't feel any connection with them. The problem is economic inequality - the people at the top are fucking over the people in the middle and the bottom. If people in the middle and bottom are too preoccupied fighting with each other based on inane nonsense, such as "why should I help that person because they don't look like me" then nothing is going to get better.

That situation reminds me a joke. Three guys just split a job and then sat down at a table. As they're seated, the manager comes over and pays them their wage: $100 in one dollar bills. The first guy immediately snatches 97 bills and gets up to walk off before the other guys can react. The second guy saw that and quickly grabbed two of the remaining three bills. The first guy saw the second guy take two bills and proceeded to lean over to the third guy and say "are you just gonna let that guy take that extra dollar?"

The idea that social policies don't work in the U.S. because we have different races and cultures is bullshit propagated by the rich to prevent the masses from voting for policies that can benefit them, because the only way the U.S. could pay for those policies is if we made the rich go back to paying their fair share of taxes. And they've spent decades having the tax laws rewritten and finding loopholes in the remaining laws to ensure that they never have to do that again.

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Actually, the "resistor" could be the heating element but PWM'd at a low duty cycle.

I think the British way would be to require a license to vape.

Its the British way!

No, probably neither of these approaches will work.

What's needed is a different battery chemistry, but as long as Lithium batteries are available at low cost, this problem isn't going away.

An ingenious approach would be to enable a resistor to slowly drain the battery along with undervoltage cutoff once a seal is broken and the device is about to be used.

At the end of the day I'll keep voting for fewer taxes

If you want lower taxes in America, you'll need to make a lot more than 70k. Dems won't reduce taxes because they know we can't afford it with our national debt and Republicans will only lower taxes with any significance if you're rich or a corporation.

I seriously doubt the Iranian government is working for at minimum, half the population. Ask the women.

I realize the history. Iran's sucked for long time. Did USA and the British stir the pot? Absolutely. It's almost like powerful countries shit on others when they are the big dog. The Persians did when they were the big dog. Of course, that was thousands of years ago. Then again, these religious nutjobs are still bickers over sky daddies made up thousands of years ago. So there you go.

Guess no one's all that good or maybe just for periods of time but no country seems to be able to hang onto it without eventually becoming shitty.

So maybe like the UK and all their cameras? We're just not caught up to China. Seems like the West, and not just USA, is in for some hard times.

I'm still confident we'll oscillate back the other direction because that's how our system works. I will say it does feel increasingly unstable over the past 12 years but we're been through worse as a country and come out the other side. Stuff gets messy, same as pretty much any other country in the world that was ever big enough to influence others.

The Rest is Science podcast did an episode recently on "Why Lithium Batteries SUCK" (Aug 2). It is an interesting listen, as it mentions alternatives to lithium and their current state.