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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

"Romex" is a brand name for a type of non-metallic (NM) insulated wire. It's pretty much the standard for 95% of the wire that's run in a typical house in North America, and kind of looks like a big flat extension cable. There's an external plastic sheath that holds all the wires together (that's the non-metallic part, as opposed to say, running it in metal conduit), and then each wire inside is also insulated, aside from the ground conductor. When you see something like 12/2 or 10/3, that's the wire gauge (12 or 10 gauge) and then the number of current carrying conductors on the inside (2 or 3, plus a ground).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

This honestly fits the prompt almost perfectly

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago

Would you prefer the FTC just forces them to cut prices, and then give both the corporations reason to sue them, as well as more right-wing talking points about "big government stealing money from Ma and Pa grocer"? The unfortunate reality is that if the FTC don't do this investigation and come back with hard proof, no matter how blatantly obvious what the large grocers are doing actually is, they will play the victim and make it even harder to take any hard action against them.

The other reality is that, even if it's not actually the case, if it turned out that it was just "inflation" and all those companies did have to raise prices to stay afloat (again, not saying this is the case at all, just simply playing devil's advocate), the FTC would face an absolute shitstorm if they took action and it did actually do serious harm to grocers/the broader food supply chain. Again, not a "Oh no, profits were only up 20% YoY instead of 35% because of the FTC action" but a "We will literally be selling all our products at a severe loss and will be bankrupt in weeks". They have to understand exactly how much they're fucking people over to take action, because historically there have been plenty of times where a well-intentioned "Stop fucking people over" rule, has caused much greater consequences down the line.

It sucks and is disgusting that in such a wealthy nation that we have people going hungry at all, but at least they're attempting to finally do something about this specific issue, and hopefully will at least discourage shit like this in the future.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think it's mostly the association/"logic" being literally incomprehensible to someone with even the slightest capacity for reason. Classifying an entire group of people as "pornographic" is just so insanely nonsensical, it's difficult to look at and think of it as anything other than some insane word salad.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I have coworkers who worked with him in the past, and I can say with 100% certainty that he's always been like this. He's just more open about it now/his PR team isn't keeping it from the public.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Depending on water temperature (so you're not burning energy to maintain body temp), salt vs fresh (you're more buoyant in saltier water), and body fat composition (fat adds to your natural buoyancy), I can definitely see someone who's in decent shape managing 10 hours. I think the record is over 100 hours, so 40 is definitely going to be well above "normal" but not necessarily superhuman.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

And? It still means that the push for EVs wound up creating those factories, and therefore jobs at those factories.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Which is ridiculous because most manufacturers are building multiple new factories for batteries and EVs. It's a pretty shitty pander all things considered.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Given the other graphs, you can probably assume per 100,000, but it would be nice if they were consistent.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Directly? No. Heavily? Absolutely.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

Or, the Rebels hire him and he simply fires a blaster at the exhaust port from a distant planet.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

"Phony Stark" is my personal favorite

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