Because these people actively develop a parasocial relationship with their audiences.

I met a white guy who said this in relation to cutting his biracial son’s hair, despite knowing the boy’s mom was especially proud of his hair and explicitly said she did not want his hair cut.

Bear in mind, this guy left his wife to take care of their son for 2 years while he "went his own way" and justified it by saying he provided them with ample financial support (he did).

Anyway, long story short he waited until his wife went to see her mother and he shaved the kid’s hair. He told me as he was doing it and I successfully predicted the divorce that proceeded the haircut. Never talked to that guy again because it drove me nuts how he was married to a Black woman and was so absolutely clueless about things of cultural importance.

You realize loads of working class folks live in areas where public transit is massively underfunded, so they have no choice but to get a car to commute, right? And moving to an area where there’s better public transit isn’t example a simple process, especially if you’ve got kids in school.

Conservatives worldwide are just as slimy, especially these days.

What calculations are you even talking about? Your initial comment getting downvoted is a clear demonstration that people understand top marginal tax rate going down is a bad thing, yet you’re insisting that most people are too simple minded to understand this.

Is this some attempt at making yourself feel smarter than you are, or what? You still have yet to explain why calculating top marginal tax rate is necessary when data clearly showing the top marginal tax rate is before our very eyes.

You clearly don’t like the visualized data because you initially found it misleading. And now you’re desperately attempting to claim the data was presented in a poor manner when it really wasn’t, especially considering this is the comments section of Lemmy FFS.

What are you talking about? No calculations are necessary, just an understanding of what top marginal tax rate is and how it’s lowering correlates to Americans getting poorer.

What’s your deal? Lemmy is so exhausting with all the little wannabe Mean Girls weirdos like you being so snobby.

Champagne socialist, IMO. Comes from wealth and privilege and makes a stupid amount of Patreon subs, most of which probably have no clue what Natalie’s net worth is. Has good opinions sometimes but I don’t know, personally I just find it weird as hell when literal millionaires act like they’re for the people while simultaneously living that bougee lifestyle because they can’t fathom living like regular folks and perhaps using their wealth to help regular folks out.

It weirds me out that a millionaire leftist sees fit to ask her working class supporters for money while hiding her net worth and how much she pulls in from Patreon each month.

I’ve gotten tons of hate for this opinion in the past and I fully expect it now, because Contrapoints has reached Breadtube royalty status.

Bizarre seeing The Intercept labelled as a trash websisde with trash opinions. I don’t even agree with the articles main points but I’d hardly call the source or opinions trash.

Lemmy is weird sometimes, like just packed with weirdly snobby folks.

As long as a person knows what top marginal tax rate is, this isn’t particularly confusing and I think it’s pretty shitty of you to be so critical while doing to provide what you think is better formatted data.

I was told there’s no difference between Harris and Trump though

Even if you swallowed your toothpaste, you’d be fine because the amount of fluoride is so insignificant.

Anytime I hear a guy proudly say "better to ask for forgiveness than permission" I can’t help but think that statement gives off rapey vibes. For obvious reasons, I’m not at all surprised that this is essentially Trump’s mantra.

No problem! I love removable/rechargeable batteries.

OP did follow up with proof though, people who are too lazy to Google the quote are also too lazy to read OPs proof and instead act like they should be spoon fed everything.

Cracks me up that it took Lego several years to barely scratch the surface of your well-made point. This is what happens when you have a male dominated corporate world and and you know when they hire women, they’re either hiring women who will agree with them or they’re not actually listening to the women that disagree with them.

Google it. It’s on her Twitter account. She said it but she recently apologized and said she got it wrong.

Look up Woodruff’s Twitter account, her statement is on there. The conversation may very well have happened but Woodruff admits there’s no reliable source.

Are they weirded out that he didn’t beat her like a conservative man would if his wife did that? And are they going to pretend there aren’t countless women fed up with their manchildren conservative husbands?

Not sure why people are downvoting you. I searched your claim and am surprised to see that yes you are right-- Judy Woodruff apologized for her statement last night and essentially retracted it. When you’re right, you’re right.

For anyone doubting, search it up yourself. I’m on my garbage phone and it takes too long to link stuff nicely on here.

They don’t last as long and have less charge cycles, but IIRC they have a larger charge capacity. Eneloop white batteries have 4x more recharge cycles than the Eneloop black batteries. Hard to justify larger capacity (2550 mAh for black, 2100 for white) at 1/4 of the lifespan/charge cycles.

Some people use them for specific things like gamepad controllers (i.e. X-Box/Playstation controllers) because you’re less likely to have interruptions but personally, I just change batteries when I dip below 30%. I keep 4 spare AAs in a charging cradle (La Crosse Technology, apparently they don’t make chargers anymore which came as a huge surprise because they were THE battery charger back in the day 🤓). I use a program on my PC for keyboard macros that has an additional feature displaying gamepad battery percentage and I find it far more accurate than the native app or alternatives.

To me it’s like having a 16 gal gas tank and some guy tries to tell you he can swap it out for a 20 gal gas tank, but then you find out the "upgrade" has 1/4 of the lifespan because it’s far more likely to corrode. Not worth the tradeoff for the vast majority of drivers who can simply fill up a little more often.

It’s a gimmick to basically upsell people an additional battery type that in fairness to Panasonic is literally right on the packaging (2100 vs 500 charge cycles) but unless you’re actively comparing charge cycles between battery types, which the vast majority of people buying batteries aren’t paying attention to because they (reasonably, IMO) assume all AA batteries have a similar life cycle/capacity these days, it’s hard to notice the above differences that I pointed out. So a lot of people buy the white, then the black thinking "ooOoOO Pro edition = better", only to find out 2+ years later that their black batteries are dead while their white batteries keep chugging along.

I know that’s a super long winded explanation but I think it’s good to explain all this. I mostly recommend Eneloop whites because I’m not a big fan of waste, battery waste in particular, so I think that if someone has to use batteries then it makes sense for them to use the ones that are reasonably priced and will last far longer than any other battery. That said, the price of them definitely has gone up over the years, though that applies to most things.