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  • Definite agree with the core of what you're saying, though for US and EU (and to a lesser degree "High income countries"), the numbers are quite close, as clean grid energy is significantly outpacing electric vehicle adoption (and EVs rely on a clean grid to be clean).

  • Recycle Harder

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  • Effective systemic change requires changing the systems, not individual people or companies. If we want less virgin plastic or gasoline burning, it needs to be less profitable to extract oil, process it, and sell it to people who want it, otherwise somebody is going to do that.

  • Every presidential election is important, and it never makes sense to make a "protest vote". That's just not how voting works.

    I'm sure somebody has cried wolf at every election, but McCain and Romney never aimed to become dictators. Republicans currently have a published plan to institute fascism. It's pretty obvious that these elections actually are exceptional.

  • This article is an abuse of the source data. "Working class" here is closer to manual laborer and excludes teachers, farm workers, military, emergency services, nurses, law enforcement, and others. The data is also fairly noisy, with typos and 2% of values being empty affecting the calculation.

    To conclude that anyone not "working class" by this definition is "upper-class" is absurd. I guess for some it is hard to imagine the lofty former assistant manager at Burger King (D-AR) understanding the struggles of the common man.

    There are certainly interesting discussions to be had about the disruptive influence of wealth on elections and about balancing representation with competence -- and folks are having that discussion -- but this article contributes less than nothing to those conversations.

  • Oh man, don’t stop

    You got it! Here's some other consumer protections the administration has introduced recently:

    • Direct filing with the IRS
    • Price limits on asthma inhalers and insulin for seniors
    • Requiring ISPs to provide consistent up-front information and pricing
    • Restrictions on college junk fees and disallowing witholding of transcripts

    Hungry for more? Check this out:

    White House Statement on Junk Fees

    That's from October, so some of it overlaps, but among other stuff there's still a "Click to Cancel" rule working its way through the FTC.

    Sadly Biden has been spending a bunch of time on lame crap like climate change, human rights, health care, infrastructure, election integrity, etc., so it might take a bit longer for him to single-handedly usher in consumer utopia.

  • This seems entirely opposite to my observation. I'd say Biden and his administration are unusually focused on unfair or annoying business practices. In just the past two weeks the Biden administration:

    • Set clear rules requiring cash refunds for flight delays
    • Banned non-compete clauses
    • Set new rules on "junk fees" for credit cards
    • Increased the minimum salary for overtime exemption
    • Expanded fiduciary duty to retirement "advisors"
    • Announced a lawsuit against Live Nation (TicketMaster)
    • Re-instated net neutrality
  • The complete rules are here: https://www.transportation.gov/airconsumer/refundsfinalruleapril2024

    The meat of it is the table on pages 9-14 and mostly comprehensible.

    Worth noting:

    • A change to your flight number is always a "cancellation" and you may choose to accept a refund
      • The expectation is most people would not, for the same reason most don't cancel their refundable tickets - they want to go on the flight
    • There are no carve outs for weather, etc.
      • I am really glad to see this because airlines could claim "weather" for connecting flights, so any weather anywhere meant they could delay your flight
  • I doubt such information would be public, but given that Trump publically invited Russia to interfere in the campaign, I'd certainly consider it plausible he also did so in private. Seems like a heck of stretch to go from that to "liar" and "corrupt".