The trend is that when the economy is bad for the average person, it hurts the incumbent.
I don’t think the people whose votes swung the election in Trump’s favor know how tariffs work or what policies Musk has in mind. They don’t even know why eggs are expensive (bird flu); they just know things were cheaper last time Trump was president.
Of course that’s assuming there’s a free and fair election next time around.
Everyone with a reason or responsibility to inform the public about the economy has not been effective enough.
Every antivaxer knows the Science shows vaccines work
Having debated a couple who are quite intelligent otherwise, I’m going to have to dispute that.
Sure, they know broadly that exposing the immune system to something that looks like a pathogen primes it to respond to that pathogen in the future, but they tend to be way off on the implications. I’ve heard it suggested that too many vaccines cause people to run out of immune memory. I’ve heard that all antibodies cause inflammation. I’ve heard that previous attempts to produce coronavirus vaccines killed the majority of test subjects years later.
None of those claims are true, and the only way they could be true is if everyone in the field of immunology is lying all the time.
I’d really like to know how many people didn’t hear Trump call Brad Raffensperger and try to get him to throw the election. I’m shocked anyone could listen to that and think it’s OK to give him power again regardless of their position on any of the issues.
Florida is a solidly red state in which Trump is winning by a 13 point margin with most of the votes counted. The amendment has 57% to Trump’s 56.2% at the time of this comment.
Some states require a simple majority, but Florida’s ballot measures require 60%.
“We” only condemn countries that are geopolitical opponents of the USA, while Israel is the strongest regional ally of the USA in a potential war with Iran.
It’s probably more fair to call its claim of being decentralized fake or disingenuous. There doesn’t seem to be any way to participate in the ecosystem without going through the Bluesky relay, a central point of failure with strong incentives to eventually do something shitty.
No doubt it is for many. They’re probably going to vote Democrat even if they find the candidate’s stance on immigration unreasonably harsh because [insert long rant about plurality voting and the two-party system].
I have the impression quite a few Democratic voters are a bit anti-immigrant too.
easiest way to fix this would be to stop making voting a state by state thing
Maybe that’s easy from a certain perspective, but passing the required constitutional amendment would be anything but.
He’s already a convicted felon, and yet he remains free.
If you’re referring to the Logan act, nobody has ever been convicted under it in more than two centuries, and it’s probably unconstitutional. Is it bad that Trump chats with Putin? Absolutely. It is a crime? Unlikely.
Even if you did (don’t eat batteries), the voltage range is much lower and you probably wouldn’t feel anything.
Now if it was added to rechargeable batteries, it would be pretty useful
I think the reason we haven’t seen that is that NiMH rechargeables have fairly stable voltage during discharge while alkalines don’t.
There are better ways to assess the legitimacy of a media outlet than critiquing its web design. The Wikipedia page might be a good start.
I don’t like the loginwall, but it doesn’t require payment.
The biggest reason is most likely that the cases had different judges.
My initial reading of the reporting on this ruling suggests it won’t do that. App developers can opt out of most of the provisions, but Google may not pressure them to do so.
Why would someone own 8 vehicles?
Car collectors exist, and I have the impression quite a few of them are among the Cybertruck’s early adopters.
I remember getting a boarding pass from an airline that was only offered in their app or printed at the airport, no email/download image/PDF option. I didn’t have to install their app, but I would have had to waste time at the airport otherwise. I removed it when I was done and left it a negative review.
The number I remember seeing was that on average, app users are seven times more profitable than web users. Sorry, no citation.
I suspect there’s some selection bias in that regular/loyal users of a particular product or service are more likely to install the app, but it also affords the company greater access to send notifications and collect data. On the rare occasion that I install some random company’s app for a specific benefit, I remove it when I’m done.
A bit of that, a bit of ordinary inflation, and a bit of Putin’s war. I find it unlikely the current president had reasonable options to prevent any of that.