See my other post here on Mitsubishi. Battery heaters (outside of their stupidity) are generally part of the kit when sold in Western markets, and they automatically keep the battery warm enough.

It's news for the common person, who doesn't know anything about battery tech. And that's what happens when you sell products mainstream, as opposed to products for hobbyists.

The article references this being a problem for the 3rd world most of all. For cheap markets. And it is, but we've also seen this in the first world, from companies such as Mitsubishi cutting costs:

https://topclassactions.com/la...

The long story short of the above, if you dig, is that they simply removed the battery warmer. "Why would people in Canada need a battery warmer?", they presumably thought. Bad news for them, their marketing brochures, and website still said it came with a battery warmer. Further dealers and sales at dealers weren't told before the model came out, and most dealers didn't know until customers started getting stranded in -20C weather.

After all, who disassembles an entirely new vehicle's battery pack to see? Especially when Mitsubishi says it has one still.

They also kept this advertising it had a battery warmer for quite some time, despite complaints. I think it was a year+.

Couple that with the next move, they removed the lead acid 12V battery too. While a weight and cost saving measure which makes sense on the surface, with no battery heater, the PHEV couldn't start, as drawing power from a -18C (or some such temp) battery will destroy it. So the computer won't let you draw any power until the battery pack is warmer.

If there was a 12V acid battery, it could start the engine, which could then warm the battery pack via charging, and then you could draw power from it.

So:

- they removed the battery warmer, and lied about it
- they removed the 12V lead acid, without thinking of the consequences (or didn't care)
- people were constantly stranded

Literally not knowing that the battery heater was removed, as the car manual, the documentation on the website, the sales people all said it had one, people would discover this problem in horrible ways. Some would keep their car in a heated garage, then drive to the grocery store, and when coming out the car would be too cold to start. Yay!

I haven't heard of anyone in an emergency, but with zero power and the right conditions, you could literally be stranded on the side of the road. At -40C. With no heater, because no battery. Yes, this could happen with any car breakdown, however this wasn't a car breakdown... this was Mitsubishi being incredibly stupid, cheap, lying about it, pretending there wasn't a problem for more than a year, gaslighting people, the list goes on. And you, dear consume, get to suffer.

I hope Mitsubishi gets completely destroyed and leaves the Canadian market as a result, but we'll see I suppose. Point is, people even selling into Western markets will pull stupid junk like this, because even car manufacturers barely understand it.

King of One-Liners | Andy Huggins | Stand Up Comedy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

But what causes those people's lives to get worse?

Is it that, or something else? Is it offshoring, instead of attracting talent?

If you offshore, all tax revenue for all those employees goes to the offshored country. All local spending from those employees goes to the local economy.

If you import talent, taxes and spending are often local. Even if some money is being sent home, housing and local costs are still spent in the local community. Not to mention, working local improves the local skills of all involved in any economic concern.

So again... is the problem H1Bs, or is the problem offshoring? H1Bs could be improved, of course, but taking the top talent from the world, and using it domestically means the US becomes far more competitive. Imagine if China offered top tier salaries, strong civil rights, freedom to espouse any idea you wanted and to research it, no government injecting itself into your business model, you get the picture. This is one of the few advantages the US has over economic competitors.

To be fair, and we should aim to be fair... right?, that's every US government's policy for the last 50 years. And it's what makes the US an economic powerhouse.

This would be consistent with cameras on the anchor, and reeling it in to not be on the sea floor, but *close* to the sea floor.

Then when the desired cable appears, dropping to the sea bed.

Ah, excellent gtk3!

Look for a massive amount of whitespace for absolutely no reason, an almost incomprehensible task for end users to theme, and just general weirdness.

Yup, Mozilla has been caught more than once collecting information it should not, and up-post seems to confirm.

On top of that, while an excellent client and great to use before all development(and security updates) stopped, K-9 was never a 'privacy first' client.

FairEmail has many defaults specifically designed to keep your info private. And it also has no tracking/etc. It's FairEmail's "thing". I cannot imagine a Mozilla product with zero tracking. Even though I don't have to, I donate every new device. The author deserves the utmost in support.

"My experience has been that they came into work with unrealistic expectations, thought way too highly of themselves do to being trained for very high self esteem while not building it through accomplishments."

Which as also said about Millennials, and said about GenX, and I presume said about Boomers.
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There has been a shift in how we bring up our young, in the West.

Kids used to feel the sting of corporate punishment more. A swat to the back of the head, a spanking, a switch (piece of a tree branch) were employed when required. Kids were told they were acting like idiots quite frequently, and kids often do act like idiots. They're young, of course they do! And this is what learning is about.

I'm not 100% advocating such things, although I truly believe a kid should be handed corporate punishment if, for example, he's literally playing with a knife, or endangering people / other children. The *goal* of corporate punishment is that strong memory is linked to strong emotion, and corporate punishment really does help with that. Far better that a child feel the sting of a spanking, than lop a sibling's finger off or some such.

And of course, using corporate punishment when unwarranted == abuse.

But regardless we've shifted entirely away from that, and even shifted away from harsh words. This may or may not be good, but I don't believe we've fully brought required negative feedback into play. Youth does need reliable feedback, so they know when to correct. So you need to replace corporate punishment with *something*, and instead it tends to be all roses and happy thoughts.

This is what the poster you are responding to means. And boomers we raised by people who had been thrust into WWII, where many parents had been involved in a war, so it's no surprise that they might be more militaristic in their training.

Outside of this, of course all teenagers are rebellious, and even all 20 year olds first spreading their wings. Yet this isn't about that. Most of the people we're discussing here have been through college, and are getting closer to 30 than 20.

Well.. there is something new though. I've seen interview processes with *five* interviews, along with a 4+ hour take home "assignment". Ridiculous. Some of these interviews are 1/2 day on their own. Essentially you're looking at half a week of work, and the 4+ hour take home is before shortlisting, along with at least one of the 4 hour interviews.

I've been on both sides of the equation, and there is an immense hiring problem. So many people are just non-factual about their experience, outright lies, and others are literally incapable of performing any task at all. This may seem like i'm exaggerating, but I've personally hired someone who has supposedly been a Linux expert, and with the flavour the org runs, and it took them *three days*, I kid you not, *three days* to do what takes me 30 minutes to do.

I have zero issue with learning on the job. Yet there is simply not way other than "this person has no idea how to use anything in front of them". No requests for help. When queried "I'm fine, just working on it". When the completed work was examined, simple things on a list such as "change /etc/hosts to this" were not even done.

(Why no ansible? puppet? auto-deploy? I want new admins to understand key aspects of the servers they manage, including installs. You don't learn much by looking at an install script, you learn more by interacting and configuring manually. It sticks into your mental model, and beyond this, it tests very specific things with new hires. Are they able to follow a list of things to do? Are they able to even understand Linux commands? Do they know what various config files do? How to use basic Linux command line tools? This is a post-hire test. And it took *three days* to hand a 30 minute task.)

My point in the above is that it is quite difficult to actually interview for computing tasks. I think people have gone the wrong way. Sure a 4 hour coding task will at least validate a coder has skills, but only if done in person or while someone is watching. That won't tell you work ethic, won't tell you if the person can do the job remote (or needs to be at a desk and watched to get work done), that won't tell you how proactive someone is, or whether they have poor work ethics, and on and on and on. Or, even what their true problem solving skills are.

So hiring is broken. I think, really, firing is broken. And referrals are broken. A 1/2 week of interviews aren't the answer, but I don't know what is.

*I think that's what the great resignation was all about.*

No such thing happened.

I know it was all over the place, but I recall in public school decades ago, discussion about what would happen when all the boomers retired. And guess what started to happen, coincidentally, during covid? Yes, the start of the boomer retirement. All those unfilled jobs, all those missing people? Almost all of it was boomers starting to retire.

Democratic societies are great for many, many things, but they do often fail at 25+ year planning strategies. And the above is why Canada has such a current issue with immigration:

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n...

"One of the measures implemented to address Canada’s changing demographics is permanent and temporary immigration, which reached record levels in 2022 and 2023. From July 1, 2022, to July 1, 2023, Canada welcomed 468,817 immigrants and 697,701 non-permanent residents. The increase in the number of non-permanent residents during this period is the largest since comparable data became available."

This was a "panic response" to boomers retiring. We knew it was going to happen for decades. We could have increased immigration a small amount over decades preceding, but did not. We could have even done it 10+ years prior, but no. Instead, all governments of all types waiting until the last moment.

I do not like many policies of our current Liberal government, but this one isn't entirely their fault. They were left holding the bag. Countries all over the place are experiencing the same thing. The US has issues, but has had a higher birth rate, so one of the biggest concerns is medicare costs. I've read several reports that highlight how costly it will be when all those boomers hit their 70s. Note: every country will experience this, but the US having mostly private health care means that this is an unusual spike for them, and has political ramifications.

Anyhow. Just wanted to stress that the "great resignation" had nothing to do with younger workers doing anything, except perhaps latching on to boomers retiring in massive numbers to try to make a political statement. It was all nonsense.

You will always always always get burned trustng anything Oracle.

So LinkedIn (a Microsoft owned company), finds Azure (a Microsoft company), has a more stable Linux?

This is just a weird ad. They're only switching because of corporate policy.

So the same company that makes the product, is citing how much it saved them? And the CEO, which has a primary duty of selling corporate product, is saying how incredible it is, and so forth?

No one should take this information, or data, as valid. No one should believe one word.

If there is any validity to this, then 3rd parties should be sought out for opinion. Never trust a vendor's promises or assertions about their product.

*Don't pretend that external circumstances have zero difference on behaviour.*

You missed the entire next sentence, which states that migratory methods may be employed as well. Your response, where you purposefully ignored that fact, shows you are debating without good faith.

And yes, you still need to have criminal acts dealt with. Are you next going to suggest that insider trading shouldn't be illegal, or punishable in criminal court, because "Those poor traders were raised wrong" or "The system encourages people to try to get rich!". The very concept is absurd beyond belief!

You MUST use criminal law on one side of the resolution, and it is most certainly OK to examine the other side to mitigate any issues encouraging such behaviour.