Lithium batteries must have some charge, otherwise they break down chemically. Typically, it’s around 40-50% charge, but varies with the exact chemistry of the battery.

And, yes, higher charge means more violent reaction to fire and being punctured for most lithium battery chemistries.

I’m not sure about other chemistries, like NiMH and sodium, that have been used in EVs. But lithium is the most popular.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/are-you-going-to-sleep

https://www.buzzfeed.com/maritsapatrinos/conversations-you-have-with-your-own-brain #4

Not sure about your situation specifically, but restaurants requiring a credit card during reservation is on the rise to combat reservation scalping and the no-shows that res scalping causes.

You can thank to phenylephrine’s placebo effect for your improvements:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19230461/

Note: Some people do feel better on placebos than on nothing. It’s a quark of the human brain. So, if it’s working for you, don’t switch. Or, maybe try pseudoephedrine and feel even better…

The recommendation changed from car lengths to seconds decades ago, but wasn’t well communicated fwict. I learned car lengths from my dad and then seconds when I got my motorcycle endorsement.

If everyone were leaving 2 seconds of space, it also reduces stop and go traffic that is caused, or at least exacerbated, by the traffic wave phenomenon. But that’s even less well socialized.

Yes. I’m not sure what you think makes you bad at writing bug reports, but here are tips I give to everyone (my day job involves working with bug reports).

Nominally, a decent bug report should have:

• the steps that got you the bug
• whether you can reproduce the bug
• what you expected to happen instead of the bug

Doing any of these things makes bug reports so much more actionable. You can do it. I believe in you!

Edit: Including a contact method so the software developer can have a conversation with you can also be helpful but not strictly required. Some bug reporting methods do this implicitly, like email bug reports and GitHub issues.

It’s exactly this. The policies put in place by “healthcare administrators” (MBAs and such with healthcare flavoring, not people that actually know how to care for people’s health like doctors and nurses) are designed to process the most patience in the least amount of face time possible, so that each doctor and nurse can see more patients per day, meaning more office visit fees, meaning higher profit. My dad calls it the “cattle shoot” and I feel that’s a pretty apt analogy. It’s the same general reason that fast food restaurants and pharmacies and department stores are perpetually understaffed: fewer staff members means lower “overhead” costs.

Linking outside of their website would reduce engagement, thus ad revenue. I’d put money on this is why so many news sites rarely link out anymore.

Source: https://www.catscafecomics.com/post/190403521540/slice-of-life

Correct. In the US, these practices are commonly not paid by employers.

The requirement should be that any time an employer makes a demand of an employee’s time, they pay.

FA waiting on your plane to arrive that’s 6 hours late? Pay up.

15 Apple store employees lined up and waiting to get searched by a single manager after a shift? Pay up.

Require an employee to respond to phone calls or issues after hours? That’s not “after hours”, that’s hours. Pay up.

Make an employee commute to an office for a job that can be accomplished from home? Believe it or not, pay the hell up.

Making demands of a person’s time for a job is part of the job. They should be compensated for it.