The evidence clearly shows Americans have maxed out their cards and are riding debt while buying only essentials. That’s not good. That’s ignorance of impending doom.

It’s also NOT good for anyone who hasn’t got a new job in the past couple years. If everything around you is 20% more expensive and you’ve received a 3% raise, things are very bad for you.

It is very good currently for those with 401ks and can leverage, use, or sell the gains they are getting.

Being ignorant of your surroundings and financial status does not mean everything is ok. This is literally the head in sand approach. A toddler should understand this.

Wait until you learn that’s how real countries work! A Parliament gives you proportional representation based on your vote versus the proportion of the populace.

Ranked voting, as you describe, still works better but it is still a winner takes all scenario. Some cities, like NYC, already use it for their local elections because yes it makes sense.

It’s a pretty old grift to take a word and weaponize it just because the word has power already. Most people are stupid and it plays right into what they want to hear. They have no idea what the definitions are, nor do they care.

The left have been calling them “low information voters”… Just call them what they are. Idiots that have the same voting power as everyone else. And no critical thinking skills to understand the world around them being shaped by their own actions.

An uneducated populace deserves a fallen empire and that’s exactly what they’re going to get.

It’s so stupid how everything just be growth. Flat is fine. 23%+ stock gains, more than fine. Laying off people before the holidays, evil.

Absolutely. I 100% prefer the Chinese to have all my data. I am a nothing person with no political power so if China wants to surveil me and train datasets with my data, cool. Because the alternative is the US and five eyes having that data and I absolutely do not want that.

Unfortunately it makes you look like the crazy uncle in the tinfoil hat if you try to bring it up. It’s so outlandishly crazy like a Hollywood movie people don’t believe it’s real.

For anyone that still doesn’t know, this is already a thing for all US made (owned) hardware. Has been for 15 years+. This is expanding it to everything that would be sold on the market. You know phones are hotspots too… That’s right.

You know why the US is so against Huawei? Because they CANT spy on every packet like they can with a Cisco, Juniper, Ruckus, etc switch. And when those start to be installed in scale, it’s a problem for the intelligence collection. This is just a small change to make what’s already there more palatable in stages. So that in another decade when things become declassified fully and more publisized, Americans don’t believe it is an issue.

Not at all. Get your head out of the American propaganda and you’ll see what a war hungry corrupt nation it is. Shithole country that needs to burn down and start again.

So now she’s not crooked? Just an ordinary vanilla politician? Because yes. She is a vanilla boring politician. She is not corrupt like a Trump. She is not idiotic like a Dubya. She’s not a criminal like the majority of the cabinet positions from the 2016-2020 era of dystopia.

But being a money hungry politician running for political office in an oligarchy. And since Citizens United, the US is one of the most corrupt oligarchies on the planet. It takes money to play and she knows what she has to do to get money to run and win a non-rigged election for even the highest office while giving some energy back to supporters way down the line that voted for her. This is American politics. And it’s disgusting.

Sounds ruff.

She’s been investigated for bullshit more times than anyone else. Ever. Either the Republikkkans are the stupidest people on earth and can’t find a shred of evidence for any supposed wrongdoing after three decades of fine tooth combing, or she’s one of the cleanest, boringest, little old white ladies in politics there is.

While I don’t doubt the stupidity of the modern republican, even Mr. Magoo would have found something after 30 years.

Murica smells those barrels of freedom sauce. The rest doesn’t matter.

For those that don’t know US oil interests, like Exxon, are already exploiting those fields for private profit. So now it’s the United States Territory of Guyana. Until the oil dries up. Then it’s back to “f-off poor Latin country”!

Yes that’s the talking point Americans like to use as to why their infrastructure is shit. Ok so why does it work in Europe, as a continent? Why does it work in China? Why does it work in Canada? I can be in the Arctic circle not having seen another vehicle for hours on the highway and have full reception. This is in the mountains in the Arctic in a country larger than the US in an area more remote than anywhere that exists in the US.

The reason it doesn’t work in the US is because corporate greed and a population that is ignorant to what it should be. Where’s the outcry over the billions of dollars that the ISPs lined their pockets with for the FTTH rollout and never even remotely got close to delivering, gave up, and walked away…

This is a US problem but Americans don’t travel enough to understand.

In the US I get shitty coverage and frequent tower handoffs to lower bandwidth signals. In a downtown capital city, I generally get 30Mbps to maybe 100Mbps outside on a clear day.

Contrast that with where I usually am, using actual good technology and true 5G, I get fibre-like pings with 1Gbps all the time, even inside buildings. If I’m outside near a tower like in the US, I get 2Gbps nearly symmetrically. Constant excellent signal, no disconnects, no dead zones.

It’s just sad how easily the American populace is duped. Even the article mentions how there were continuous lies and the actual rollout to 5G will take many many years. The rest of the world has already done it. Heck, even Korea has announced 6G consumer installations in the next 5 years. And if you’re by the Samsung Campus with a demo tech, you can use it now!

Nothing to do with being fat. Some people have zero idea how a shower works. You need to put the liner IN the tub area and the decorative curtain outside the tub. Many people push them both outside the tub. Now all the water that splashes around hits the liner and drains right onto the floor and not into the tub.

The amount of water splashing makes no difference if you’re big or small. Pressurized water hitting you is going to bounce all over. Since you’re taking a shower, that’s the goal.

If I had to guess, the curtain is wrong, he has no idea because nobody has ever told him and the bathroom is terribly non water tight so splashing will go down through the floor. Even tile is not waterproof nor is grout.

It’s why I always specify a waterproof membrane and floor drain but it’s not common in US/Canada yet.

Most of the features already exist in extended Qi 1.5 standards. These are not new features, they are a consolidation.

And just so we’re clear, I’ve designed in and designed for Qi specs. I’m very familiar with the landscape. It’s a marketing nothingburger to appease idiots that don’t understand what already exists. You aren’t going to get actual new tech in this release or the next (which is already almost finalized just not public).

Almost all the phones not destined for the boring American market. Most Xiaomi, Huawei, and Oppo phones as an example.

Xiaomi has demonstrated 200W wired charging (20V @ 10A) and 120W wireless charging which is really 134W wireless charging capable as dual 67W into a 2 cell battery charged independently.

It’s amazing and I can’t understand life with a 10W charger like apple people or “fast” 15W charging… I can plug in my big foldy phone after draining it on a long flight and get 50% added in 10 minutes. My smaller phone, 100% from dead in less than 15mins. And the batteries still last years. My MI 9 and 11 are still kicking. Those are 3 and 5 years old and abused daily with 100% charging at max wattage.

Lol, are you joking? I’ve been 50W wirelessly charging my phone for YEARS. One of my current phones does 67W wireless charging and 120W wired charging. The other does 50W wireless and 67W wired but that’s a limitation based on other design features, this is like the bottom spec acceptable now…

The only people excited for 10 year old technology are Apple fanbois that don’t understand the world has left them behind.

In America’s hat, common as well. We always set out a chilled glass and a Molson with some Christmas cookies for Santa.

I was genuinely confused when the Americans I later met said milk and cookies… Why milk? There’s no cows or goats in the North pole, Santa is home brewing.

Eating a dog is no different than eating a cow. Meat is meat. If the cow farmers in the US decided to unleash their herds in a populated place it would also be a bad time…