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Comment People aren't getting paid enough. (Score 1) 215

It's kind of ridiculous that people get involved in these astro-turf campaigns to like be against kittens or solar power or salt substitute or whatever, not because it doesn't make sense, but because basically only the Micheal Bloomberg presidential campaign really paid enough money to justify the fake enthusiasm. I think hucksters deserve better. You're worth more than the pleasure of just pissing off liberals.

Comment Re:Fire them all (Score 2) 51

ultimately employers are in a tough spot economically because the cost of living crisis has erased their leverage, otherwise that strategy would work just fine, the way it did the past 30 years.

you can threaten to fire someone, but if you aren't offering a wage at rent-replacement levels that's not actually going to be sufficient leverage to change behavior.

Comment What about Nevada? (Score 5, Interesting) 41

The article says at full capacity they will produce around 20GWh annually. Currently Nevada's producing over 43 GWh annually. They also go on to say that they will eventually provide enough for 200,000 vehicles, a number that's slightly over half of what Tesla's producing quarterly.

A headline like "Michigan is Becoming the Center of US Battery Manufacturing" seems pretty overly optimistic. Maybe "Michigan is Becoming a player in US Battery Manufacturing" wouldn't get as many clicks.

Comment Re:If it works, I don't even mind (Score 1) 28

Sure, they could. And if I knew they were recording I would immediately close the call. When someone tries to take my picture in public do you think I just shrug my shoulders and say "Well, there are probably other creeps trying to take my picture without me knowing it." ? Of course not.

Anyhow, I don't have too many reasons to suspect people I don't know to record me though, since I am also unknown to them. Comparatively, Riot already has a large amount of information about every player, and actually has the infrastructure to keep everyone's calls for a significant period of time.

Comment They're already available through this simple hack (Score 2) 25

Long-form tweets are already available through this simple hack:
1) Type a post in a notepad app up to 1,000 characters
2) Screencap the note & paste it into a tweet as an image
3) copy/paste the actual text as the ALT-text for the image
4) add up to 240 characters in tweet body ...
6) PROFIT!

Comment Why remove the human-readable date? (Score 2) 224

There are a LOT of milk choices, I already have to decide between Cow, Oat, Soy, Coconut, Cashew, Flax, Hemp, and Blends/Pea Protein - also unsweetened, original, chocolate, and vanilla for the plant-based options - and skim, 1%, 2%, whole, and A2 for Cow.. If I need to then scan multiple cartons with my phone (and USE MY DATA) to finalize my decision I'd be pretty annoyed.

If you have to individualize the Qcode, the cost to continue to include a human-readable date is trivial so why not both? But if you do remove the human-readable date, at least have a scanner right by the fridge so I don't have to use my own phone and data.

I do like the idea of automatic price reductions for milk nearer expiration, we go through four cartons a week here, so milk with four days to go would usually be fine.

Comment Just fix the damn transcoding nightmare (Score 1) 108

PLEX is losing track of why they even have paying customers in the first place. My Smart TV does the multi-platforms content search quite well ,thank you very much. I no longer care for other platforms' content when I open PLEX; I want to browse and then stream my local content FAST and with no excuses for transcoding especially on LAN.

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