Often huge barriers to employment are owning a phone with a consistent number, and appearance/hygiene. For someone with nothing these two things can massively help.

I can appreciate that some states are better than others, in a similar manner to being able to appreciate that some EU countries are better than others. I've visited the USA and so I've seen first hand the good and the bad.

It doesn't change the fact that globally, you are represented by your federal government and not your local state ones. As an Australian I might expect a foreigner to know our Prime Minister but never a state premier.

From overseas we just see a lot of the insane shit. Politically, the whole world is interested your federal elections because that is what has a chance to affect us. I don't care who the governor of a state is really because they aren't going to be able to declare some insane war or fuck over or save entire countries.

Even when we see state x legalizes y or outlaws z it just blurs together from out here. Much easier to see your own state doing good things when you're inside it.

And yeah, USA doesn't get enough credit for craft beer!

Some locations in Australia already had controls in place, such as requiring integrated water delivery systems and on tool dust extraction. PPE was a legal requirement on top of that. With all that it must have been decided it was still too dangerous, so I support the decision.

Centre stands need to be way more sturdy to hold it up. You can buy aftermarket VESA centre stands though if you can't wall mount it.

It actually looks a lot like spinal halo-gravity traction which is a modern treatment for childhood scoliosis.

It's actually 25, there was a typo in the article that they fixed.

Sounds like some dude came up with this 'second law of infodynamics' and then plucked out a bunch of examples that support his own law as if that somehow backed anything up at all. Didn't read the paper itself but the article doesn't do a very good job.

There's a lot out there for Arduino which is a great platform for learning. Arduino is a microcontroller you can use to read button inputs and control LEDs, all the way up to controlling robots and all sorts of things. It's pretty hands on compared to a lot of pure software stuff and is often sold in starter kits for kids learning. Worth looking into!

Yep, the manufacturers get massive tax breaks on this class of vehicle, which means they can make and sell them at the same or better price than a small, fuel efficient car. If a family with kids has to choose between a mid size crossover or an F150 at similar price points, why would you get the crossover? The USA needs to fix the way it taxes cars to disincentivise these fuel inefficient giant cars. No other country has these problems so it's not a selfish person problem, it's an entirely logical choice to make given the circumstances.

The battery was disconnected from the car, I wonder if that's some naive attempt to preserve battery life while on holiday. Would have meant that the BMS couldn't do it's job.

This is the most cursed headline I have read in some time. uncharted's Tom Holland? And using a picture from the lost frontier, ooft.

The value is implicit to the company, the shares don't create any new wealth. They convert equity in the company into cash. It's a way for the organisation to trade that equity for free cash. This is why companies with very high profits and thus cash flows buy back their shares.

When you buy shares you help move the market, driving the price of the shares up if there's demand. Obviously this makes it harder for the company to buy shares back which might be a bad thing if the company is truly a great, sustainable business, but it also means that whatever percentage of the company they do still control can be sold for more cash when it's needed.

There is a good reason to invest in sustainable companies. From a personally selfish perspective they typically perform very well, and from a more holistic perspective, as mentioned above trading shares raises their price and increases the value of the org.

From an organisations point of view, even entirely profit motivated companies that don't have a shred of humanity in their management are incentivised to behave sustainability and ethically in the current environment. The only companies that can really get away with being unsustainable are business to business companies and those whose products are incredibly inelastic, i.e. big oil. For everyone else, the loss of goodwill for behaving unethically and unsustainably can be too big. If you cut off a big enough chunk of your market your profits are going to be impacted. Plus all the other elements of sustainability, like treating your employees half well leads to improved employee and talent retention, more productivity, better community engagement, free advertising from all the goodwill etc.

Edit: there are also other risk factors for unsustainable management. Many more organisation are looking at their environment and their exposure to disasters. Fires are becoming a much bigger risk factor, and dangerous weather also poses a threat. For this reason some orgs now consider it prudent to go for net zero emissions for purely selfish reasons, not because it benefits everyone but because a better environment literally lowers their risk. Poor working conditions can also impact bottom line, especially if lawsuits line up. Overall, plenty of financial incentive for companies to behave sustainably these days.