Poe’s law: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe’s_law

One thing that bothers me, and what everyone should know, is proper placement for defibrillator pads if you’re using an AED.

It’s not 2 pads on the chest, it’s one pad on the upper chest (almost shoulder) on one side, and the other pad goes lower on their side. You’re trying to have the current go through their heart (not skip over the top of their skin).

The AEDs found in public locations are all very easy to use and all have pictures for the proper placement. Just open it up and it will tell you everything you need to do. Have someone nearby look for one at the same time you’re asking someone else to call emergency services.

They should all have razors if you need to get a little hair off (in case the person is especially hairy for one of the pad placements).

Or you bought his car before you saw him for what he is. Tesla’s have been around for almost 2 decades now.

I actually saw the opposite last week. It was a Tesla but on the back was a sticker that looked like this:

What do you have against massages? I find them relaxing.

You get ads even if you pay for the more expensive ad-free subscription.

At least those seem to be rare, only at the beginning, and they let you skip, but it’s frustrating that you have to do that at all.

He’s following you, about 30 feet back.

They should just make it so that whatever they announce as their “earnings” to their stockholders should also be the amount that they are taxed for.

This is why you don’t take on odd jobs from people contacting you remotely.

If your only job is to forward packages/letters/money sent to your home address (or to pick up packages from nearby addresses) and you get a cut of the money, you’re probably a mule for money laundering.

If your only job is helping others from another country (they will like about where they’re actually from) get through interview/hiring processes, you’re probably working with countries like this.

If they want to use your name for a job application, you don’t have to do any work, and they will send you most of the paycheck, you’re probably working with countries like this.

For those wondering where he finally draws the line with Trump, it’s Trump’s statements about deporting citizens to El Salvador.

It’s not something unique to capitalism. In communism you can easily have tons of monopolies as well.

Regulation is definitely a good thing. Competition among companies is a good thing.

A friend from Italy told me that they keep the best cheese for themselves and export the rest.

While shadow banning is an option, it’s also a terrible idea because of how it will eventually get used.

Just look at how Reddit uses it today.

I cropped out the screenshot here:

What’s considered the “worst” vs “best” news source will always be an opinion for any individual user. You can’t expect everyone else to share your same values.

Some users may value their privacy more than others.

Some users value news sources based on how much information their journalists are able to provide.

Some users hate clickbait titles and so they avoid those.

Some users prefer smaller news sources that most others haven’t heard of.

For some users, the first thing that comes back in a search result is the best source.

Some users take the time to compare the information on the various sources through something like ground news and they try to pick the one that captures an interesting bit of information.

Well… I can tell you who didn’t do it.

To be fair, what we specifically have is a republic, although we do have democratic voting to elect our representatives.

Some of those representatives take the stance that they can choose whatever they want best, regardless of what their constituents want, because they were voted in.

Other representatives take the stance that they should vote for whatever the majority of their constituents want.

This reminded me of that video when the covid lockdown caused the air to be so much cleaner that a mountain range could be seen from ~200km away:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nazeeu3yZkg

This has got to be my biggest pet peeve among most news organizations. Most links on their articles just go back to an older page on their own website instead of pointing at the actual source.

China has enough air pollution that the smog from Los Angeles blows over from there

I think you meant to say:
“China has enough air pollution that the smog from there blows over to Los Angeles”