Pigeon Hole Principle

Thanks I never heard of that, but that seems to perfectly describe the principle.

Obligatory: Fuck Israel and their war crimes.

In my experience yes.

My ex was always rambling about how men were always unfaithful, “oops I slipped and my dick ended up inside her” she used to say, to describe how easily men are unfaithful. She made it absolutely clear she wanted a monogamous relationship.
I was never unfaithful to her, but of course it turned out she was herself unfaithful numerous times, and it was crazy how bad she was at hiding it, almost like she wanted me to break up. So I did, and good riddance!!!
Later when I was moving in with a new girlfriend, and I was collecting some of my things at my ex, she was all dressed up, and all over me, kissing me and trying to win me back. She tried to kiss me on my mouth but I turned my head so it was on the cheek.
My girlfriend was waiting in the car outside, and she saw the lipstick on my cheek when I came back, obviously not too happy about it. But I explained it was all my ex and not me.
Lucky for me she didn’t ditch me, and later my new girlfriend agreed to become my wife, and we’ve been together for 20 years now! 🥰

A friend of mine had just bought a very expensive apartment in Copenhagen together with his girlfriend. The papers were signed and the deal was closed. There are a few days where you can get out of the deal, and in that period my friend was told his girlfriend had been unfaithful. He didn’t believe it at first, but the day after the deadline for getting out of the purchase, his girlfriend broke up!

I’m not saying women are worse than men, but the idea that men are more unfaithful than women is bullshit. There are more men than women in the relevant age groups, so obviously on average women have more sex than men do. That’s simply a statistical necessity.

I never claimed it is evidence, but in fact that research isn’t either. It’s basically just an opinion poll. With very poor systematics behind it. And the claim is next to baseless.

people are productive for just about 3 hours anyway.

That is not at all my experience.
Of course 100% is impossible , but 3 hours is less than 50%!
Of course there are jobs where the workload varies, and you sometimes don’t have a lot to do.
But most jobs I’ve been in, I’d say it’s closer to twice that.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-economy-worse-shape-than-moscow-says-report-eu-shows-2025-05-13/

“Russia claims inflation is 9-10%. Why would they then have a policy rate of 21% at the central bank? Which regular central bank would have a policy rate that’s basically 11.50 percentage points higher than the inflation rate? If any of our central banks were doing something like that, they would be out of their job the next day,” Becker told reporters.

So all we know is that we can’t trust the official number, and the real rate is clearly higher.

The core inflation in Russia is ~10%

AFAIK the official inflation is 9-10% The real inflation is closer to 20%.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-economy-worse-shape-than-moscow-says-report-eu-shows-2025-05-13/

“Russia claims inflation is 9-10%. Why would they then have a policy rate of 21% at the central bank? Which regular central bank would have a policy rate that’s basically 11.50 percentage points higher than the inflation rate? If any of our central banks were doing something like that, they would be out of their job the next day,” Becker told reporters.

So all we know is that we can’t trust the official number, and the real rate is clearly higher.

It is way too much tension over way too short of a time span.

Except charging speed of a phone depends on the capability of the battery used for that phone, and new batteries that are made for it, can handle way faster charging than older batteries.

My phone adaptive charge gets to 80% and stays there without charging until 20 minutes before my alarm

Oh my god, that is the absolute worst. So the day you are extra busy and have to get up a little earlier than usual, and depend more on your phone than normal, it’s only charged to 80%! That’s exactly the kind of unintelligent solutions I hate. They always fuck up when it’s most inconvenient.

the battery stops charging at 100%, waits to drop to 95% then goes back again to full in a cycle.

So repeated charging from 95% to 100% which is clearly not good for the battery.

In 2025, military spending is likely to exceed oil and gas revenues

And the oil and gas is barely profitable now because of lower prices. I bet expenses have increased too.

not even a nominal growth.

That’s equivalent to a decline equal to inflation, which is about 20%!

Trickle charging does not harm batteries. On the contrary, the slower you charge a battery the safer it is.

Charging when the battery full or very close to it is absolutely harmful, and that’s what trickle charging does. It especially harmful if the charger isn’t 100% accurate, and especially for Lithium batteries.
Apparently some people also use the term for just slow charging in general, but this is obviously what I meant in this context.
Trickle charging compensates for self discharge and the idle power used, so even when accurate, to keep charging a little bit to maintain a 99%-100% charge is definitely harmful.
It’s way better to only charge to 80% for instance. Which is the reason all fast charging times for cars a measured up to 80%.

Trickle charging is damaging if for instance you charge your phone when you go to bed and don’t disconnect the charger until morning, that means many hours of trickle charging at near full capacity.

Because my phone charges fast, it never trickle charges for long at near 100%.

Because the economy of a country with 140 million people is a massive system.
This is that state economy crashing, and the reason it’s taking time is that Russia had prepared for this, and had a giant war chest to sustain sanctions and the extra cost of war. Plus Russia has been very skillful in pulling all sorts of economic tricks to postpone the crash.
You could say the Russian economy already is collapsing, it just seems a bit like Wile E. Coyote running off a cliff and hanging midair for a moment.
But Russia has exhausted all their reserves on many levels, industries are closing, tax revenues are dropping like a rock, Banks, and the oil/gas industry is running at deficits, even the military complex is running at deficits because they are required to sell below cost to the government. Everything is worn down because Russia lacks the resources to maintain productivity, and repairs and maintenance of equipment and infrastructure is insufficient because of lack of resources.
It’s all crumbling slowly, except when one key part finally collapses for real, everything else goes with it very quickly.

Putin knows he is going down, and he has decided to take Russia down with him.

Russia’s economy is experiencing a sharp slowdown in growth, according to a report released by the governmental statistics agency Rosstat on May 16.

Sharp slowdown according to governmental statistics agency
And we know they sugarcoat the numbers in every way they can! Imagine how bad it really is!

Compared to last quarter, the economy has already contracted 0.4%

I’ve already estimated here that the real GDP excluding military has probably shrunk by about 10 maybe even 15% in 2024, and it’s still dropping! Rough times are here for Russia.

I’m curious what car charges at 1.3MW

BYD has the entire 1MW system ready in cars you can buy today, with charging stations for it being rolled out in China.
CATL has a battery capable of 1.3MW, but it is AFAIK not available in any cars yet.
Current high end Chinese cars on the market in EU are about 400 kW charging.

BYD Charges at 1MW, although they will probably not be available in America due to protectionism.
1.3 MW is the newest CATL Battery, which for American manufacturers were supposed to work with, but may be impossible now too due to protectionist tariffs.

https://insideevs.com/news/756144/byd-han-l-megawatt-charging/

BYD is launching two EVs that boast “Megawatt” charging capability, capable adding about 250 miles of range in just 5 minutes.

https://www.perplexity.ai/discover/top/catl-unveils-battery-charging-K2CWUCOTQuuj6G_DkbaTjw

peak charging rate approaching 12C with maximum charging power exceeding 1.3 megawatts

But even a pretty average 80-85kWh car today can charge 10-80% in about 20 minutes. More expensive cars do it in 15 minutes.

I’m pretty sure taking out the battery of a feature phone would turn it off instantly.

If they can charge a car in 5 minutes using 1.3 MW charging, why wouldn’t 120 Watt be fine for charging your phone in 20? Also the charging is protecting the battery by reducing speed as it approaches 100%. The lifespan seems fine, I’m not detecting any deterioration. By today’s standards it’s not even that fast. And it is very convenient to be able to top it off quickly. That way I also don’t have to leave it charging overnight, I can do it while I make coffee and eat my breakfast. That way I minimize trickle charging which can also harm the battery.

The battery has to be made for fast charging, and Samsung is apparently way behind on that.

that’s already faster than what I’m comfortable with.

Then why did you buy a Samsung?

I read somewhere about a phone that had 2 batteries, that way you could swap batteries with the phone remained turned on during the process!

Funny they are stuck at 45 Watt, when other phones have been charging at 120 Watt for years.
My 2 year old midrange Xiaomi charges at 120 Watt! And the charger was included too! 😋

You are absolutely right, there is so much USA could do to improve society.
But the only thing that really counts for half the population, is to ease taxes on the 1%.
IDK why, but that’s apparently a very popular thing for both average and poor people in USA?

I used to have hope for USA, thinking they always turn in the right direction eventually, but since George W Bush was elected for a 2nd term, that hope has been chipped away. Obama did provide a glimmer of hope, but followed by horrible to mediocre to horrible again, so shortly after Bush. That’s a very bad average, and the tendency has been tracking towards worse for a long time now. Hopefully USA is at the bottom right now, but my hopes for that are near zero.

Probably because total amount of CO2 is what matters

Although that’s true it’s still a BULLSHIT argument.
The a target is better measured as a global average per capita, and then the countries can be compared on how close they are to that average.
That would CLEARLY show that Americans are behaving like pigs regarding CO". While both EU and China are way ahead of USA.
The above graph is worthless and a very misleading representation of reality.

Yea tbh. I’m in agreement as someone from the US.

I’ve been arguing this point for more than 20 years now, but the world is apparently still not serious enough to draw the necessary consequences.