Not_mikey @ Not_mikey @slrpnk.net

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it's between North America and South America

You're thinking of the Caribbean sea, the gulf of Mexico is bounded by the united states to the north, Florida and Cuba to the east and Mexico to the south and west.

It being called the gulf of Mexico or gulf of America isn't really going to change anything

It will literally require changing every map and GIS database in the country. Think of all the work NOAA will have to do deal with this BS. Even besides the annoyance and cost of updating all of those it will cause confusion with the rest of the world who will still call it the gulf of Mexico.

Not all athletes have the same needs though. I don't doubt a marathon runner would need to drink a lot of water , though I doubt even they'd need 2.5 gallons, but does a professional golfer?

I'd argue a quarter back is more similar to the golfer. They aren't training for speed or stamina, they're training their fine motor skills and some strength to be able to throw far and throw accurately. If you look at the quarter back on the side line they usually aren't dripping with sweat like a lot of the other positions are.

Odds are he doesn't actually drink that much. At the time he was selling electrolytes and if he can convince people to drink more water then they'll buy more electrolytes to put in that water.

Idk, one of the articles references two high school football players who died from over hydration. Didn't say how much they drank but it does go to show that you can over hydrate even with a lot of exercise.

Also he's the quarter back, does he actually do that much strenuous exercise? Yeah he probably has to do some sprints to remain agile but he doesn't need to run that fast or for that long, he just needs to make quick decisions under pressure and throw well. He's not a marathon runner or anything like that.

More like the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

What? This isn't ancient history blaming Clinton or Carter for this. It's only been 6 months since Biden shit the bed on the debate stage and less than a year since he could've seen the many polls that said generic democrat was doing far better then him, dropped out and let the party have a primary.

Are you guys allergic to blaming anyone in the democratic establishment for the shit situation were in?

I mean it sort of is, if Biden had dropped out earlier / never entered the race we could've had a primary and gotten a decent candidate who could've campaigned for more than 3 months.

Never forget that it was biden's hubris and stubbornness that got us into this mess.

What, it's not e commerce , its massive amounts of data, and a massive amount of content. Most people i know who use tik tok never use the store, they use tik tok because it gives them a seemingly limitless amount of content that interests them. They're able to do this not because they have some secret sauce but because of the sheer volume of people using and posting to the app. The more people watch the more data they have for there algorithm to identify trends, interest groups, interest groups correlations etc. to allow them to identify and target content to an audience. The more people that post the more you can inundate that audience and keep the infinite scroll going.

If tik tok did get shut down and everyone switched to reels or YouTube they would benefit from the increased scale and it would be pretty much the same app within a couple months.

While I agree with the sentiment, I'd say this qualifies as news. Elons not buying shake shack, he's buying a social media platform with a very opaque algorithm that has the power to influence a large chunk of the American public. Even if he tanks it, twitter has shown that through network and data ownership combined with sheer inertia many people will remain on an app even after its been revealed to have its thumb on the scale for one side.

Wouldn't this just mean no one's a male or a female. I get that we develop female characteristics first in utero, then go to male if the y chromosome is there in most situations, but thats later on. At conception, the only cells you're producing are undifferentiated stem cells, not reproductive cells.

So trump just abolished gender?

Not so fun fact: early on Hitler was a zionist, or at least considered it a good "solution" to the "Jewish question" before he came up with the final solution.

170 million people

Where's that number coming from. Maybe you mean the 165 billion installs , but that's not active users and double counts people installing on multiple devices. Tik tok has 50 million dau Of those maybe 10% is actually "speaking" and creating content that the other 90% consume so around 5 million people.

And those 5 million people aren't silenced, they can still go on to one of multiple apps that provide the same service and allows them to get there message out. He'll they could come on to the fediverse and post blatant ccp propaganda and no one will do anything.

X is years of experience , y is a combined axis, technical knowledge for the green line and salary for the red line

Full protectionism does cause problems with inflation and degrading the competitiveness of firms, but full neoliberal globalism leads to a race to the bottom on wages and working conditions.

The answer is somewhere in the middle, we shouldn't be putting blanket tariffs on a country or the entire world. But we also shouldn't turn away from possibly helpful protectionist policies.

Tarriffs can help in new and developing industries to make sure they aren't strangled in the crib by foreign competition. A large reason for the success of the development of south Korean and Taiwanese economies was due to initial protectionist policies . The tariffs have to be understood to be temporary though but they can help in getting an industry off the ground.

I'd argue electric vehicles are an emerging industry that will be very important if the world shifts to a greener economy. Letting China take over that market and dominate it would be detrimental to the strength of our economy long term.

Has anyone been able to sign up for loops lately?

I tried registering but never got an email to confirm my account. Is there a waitlist?

One of the main supporters for this was the UAW. Real rich people don't care about this, if this hadn't passed they wouldve just sold there shares in American auto companies and invested in Chinese companies, or moved manufacturing to China for higher subsidies, lower labor costs and even bigger profits, or use that as a threat to lower wages here. Under globalism capital is free to move to wherever there is the most profit.

This isn't a rich vs poor situation, it's a worker vs consumer situation.

On one hand this will slow the ev transition.

On the other car manufacturing is one of the few industries left in America with some union density and decent wages and having to compete with subsidized Chinese evs that are made with a fraction of the labor costs would destroy that industry.

Globalism hurts workers and helps consumers. One of the triumphs of neoliberalism is to get people to identify as consumers first and workers second.

Implying that the Democrats are now "the party of big business" is arguably true (and very boring)

While true in some scenarios, in anti-trust Lina khan's ftc has done significantly more than trump ever did. Biden keeping her over the protest of countless business execs and daily articles in the wall street journal on how she's ruining America shows some commitment to prosecuting big tech.

Meanwhile, trump's anti-trust moves were mostly based off petty issues he had with the ceos or the platforms having a "liberal bias". Now that every big tech ceo has fallen in line and given him $1 million for his inauguration I doubt we'll see much movement on that front.

Well apparently believing in climate change is political over here, and I don't think it's wrong to point to this as evidence that we need to make some serious changes.

Usury (lending money for interest) is a sin.

Make Christianity socialist again!