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5 days agoThe change was spotted by users on Lemmy, an open-source aggregation platform and forum.
Way to go everyone! We got noticed! And for something good this time!
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Fuck Musk and all, but “collapsed” seems a bit overstated. Their loyalty rate is no longer remarkably high but is still above-average according to the article.
Tesla’s customer loyalty peaked in June 2024, when 73% of Tesla-owning households in the market for a new car bought another Tesla,
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The rate bottomed out at 49.9% last March, just below the industry average,
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Tesla’s U.S. loyalty rate has since ticked back up to 57.4% in May, the most recent month the S&P data is available, putting it back above the industry average and about the same as Toyota (7203.T), but behind Chevrolet (GM.N), and Ford (F.N).
4·7 days agoVery, very rough numbers:
A recreational cyclist might average 150 Watts for 20-30 minutes.
A world tour pro cyclist would average 300-400 Watts over a few hours.And then account for the inefficiency of the generator they are spinning.
Your average person could power a laptop, but not for very long. The battery in the laptop would help manage the inevitable spikes and dips in power output, since people are not consistent engines.
Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin told WMTW-TV that use of E-Verify “does not absolve employers of their legal duty” to verify legal employment status.
“The Old Orchard Beach Police Department’s reckless reliance on E-Verify to justify arming an illegal alien, Jon Luke Evans, violates federal law, and does not absolve them of their failure to conduct basic background checks to verify legal status,” McLaughlin told the station.
So E-Verify is less than worthless. It provides no assurances, and running an individual through the tool could presumably bring them to ICE’s attention.
And speaking of Friday, it’s time for the weekly reminder! (CW: swearing)
assumed that anyone I dated would flop over like a dead fish in bed,
Those women do exist. I have dated them. They were raised as you describe yourself being raised, and thought sexual relationships were entirely the man’s job. Sex was something that happened to them, not something they would actively pursue or direct.
Fortunately, the world has all types. You can absolutely find someone who wants the save dynamic you are looking for. Dating is trial-and-error so you’ll have to deal with some duds along the way, but you’ll get there.
It’s referencing the move Poltergeist.
Oh, how could I miss Louisiana? It’s the place with the highest incarceration rate in the world.
There is no universal, objective answer. It depends who you are, your financial situation, your political views, etc.
That said, the states that suck the most for the most people are conservative places with lots of rural poverty. Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Oklahoma, …
It would be spun as a win for small government/libertarian ideals. Get government control out of private lives and all that jazz.
271·27 days agoThat is likely a new swarm looking for a home. When an established hive gets too crowded, they will create a new queen who will then fly away with a subset of the workers to establish a new hive.
If you want to make your local beekeeper’s club very happy, call them and tell them where this swarm is! They will come and collect it.
The Catholic press has picked it up, too:
https://www.ncronline.org/news/california-bishops-scramble-tend-catholics-feeling-hunted-ice-agents
There are hints that the current government’s actions are widening a cultural rift in the church. Considering how large the Catholic church is, I’m really interested to see how this plays out.
There is a significant group of conservative Catholics who view any change as a departure from the One True Faith™. You can still find churches that do not follow the modernizations from the Second Vatican Council, which happened back in the 1950s. Pope Francis was seen as a radical by many of these people.
Good point. I will add that to the long list of reforms we need in the US criminal system.
Mandatory minimums are a problem. Judges lose discretion to tailor the punishment to the specifics of the case. Minimums may be pushed unreasonably high so politicians can claim to be “tough on crime.” (This happened big time in the US, starting with the War on Drugs in the 1970s and continuing through the 1990s.) Both of those lead to more people in prison longer than they should be.
Also, at least in the US, not all crimes carry mandatory minimum sentences. This gives prosecutors a new source of leverage:
The use of mandatory minimums effectively vests prosecutors with powerful sentencing discretion. The prosecutor controls the decision to charge a person with a mandatory-eligible crime and, in some states, the decision to apply the mandatory minimum to an eligible charge. Rather than eliminate discretion in sentencing, mandatory minimums therefore moved this power from judges to prosecutors. The threat of mandatory minimums also encourages defendants to plead to a different crime to avoid a stiff, mandatory sentence.
Mandatory minimums can also lead to significant racial disparities. The linked article cites an example of very different minimum sentences for different drug offenses, leading to a sharp rise in incarceration rates for blacks but much less so for whites.
8·1 month agoWhatever the issue was, it was short-lived. It’s now back to normal and only a few minutes behind.
Do you mean in the very short term, or over the last few days or weeks?
At the moment It looks like programming.dev is suddenly falling behind reddthat.com. It’s currently ~40 minutes behind and getting worse. @[email protected] @[email protected], FYI.
I’m not savvy enough to know what causes this, but it has happened before between instances. @[email protected] might have some insight.
lemme.ee is shutting down at the end of this month.
The admin team is understaffed and suffering from burnout.
You still have a few days to gracefully transition your account to another Lemmy instance.
If you have not yet come to the conclusion that Pete Hegseth is a dangerous and disgusting pile of dung, go listen to the recent Behind the Bastards podcast episode about him.