also known as an olla pot!

I think it's different for mini owners. I upgraded my battery in march of this year and its already at 89%, I blame ios26 frankly.

Oof! Mine is still the original one, and it’s incidentally also at 89% after maybe 3.5 years of being my daily driver.

pedantic but who DOESNT remember 2004's Troy? Brad Pitt, Orlando bloom, Brian Cox, Eric Bana, my lord.

I thought the same thing. I loved that movie, and I have in no way forgotten it.

per capita seems the wrong metric given the difference in population sizes and America's wealth. They have roughly 4x the people and have added 10x new power capacity in the last 10 years, not to mention lapping us in renewable and long distance transmission lines added.

Medicaid and medicare make up 50% of the "abuse" (primarily overpayment), which again points towards companies milking the system, not individuals https://washingtonstand.com/article/gao-finds-15-major-feder...

I decided to read the report this is article is referring to. The report is estimating improper payments which is basically just missing paperwork and other types of payment errors. The report says explicitly that it is not measuring fraud rates.

So I dug a little deeper: roughly 94% of Medicare/Medicaid dollars and 89% of SNAP dollars passed audit reviews in 2025, but I can't find any national percentages for beneficiary fraud rates overall (which is sort of what we are talking about).

Provider fraud does appear to be the main driver of healthcare losses if we look at the enforcement evidence, but that does not mean every improper payment is abuse. It does seem the programs are audited quite extensively (unlike what some other comments in this thread are claiming).

I'm curious, what have firsthand experience have you seen of solutions implemented by The Ocean Cleanup?

There will always be misallocation of resources in the private and public sector, I think the main point of this article is "trusting the experts in complex situations", which in my opinion is valid and needs to be said more emphatically in the current political climate.

“There was this spirit at the time that a few well-meaning young people with a lot of passion would find solutions, but for complex problems like this one, the teenage geniuses and their billionaire backers aren’t going to save us, and they’re going to take us on a wild and expensive ride along the way,” Helm says.

yeah agree "will you have spent more of your life procrastinating using screens than quiet reflection in a sacred space"

similar monkey paw in TW3 sidequest: https://witcher.fandom.com/wiki/Goodness,_Gracious,_Great_Ba...!

Disagree, and in a way it feels like we are dealing with inverse issues: the security "skill" is well defined and will be also engaged with by an agent. Communication companies are further incentivized as any failure is at best reputational harm. Meanwhile SaaS companies are not strictly required to have good UX for their human end users, largely because those users will likely work around the issue. also network effect vs low costs of switching for for comms

imo: sub-conscious messaging to get you used to looking at a loading screen for a large portion of your workday