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A difficult time, but so worth it because after the reign of terror they had a... millitary coup which installed and emperor/first-consul who... invaded dozens of European and middle eastern countries. Oh

The "no bad tactics, only bad targets" mentality on display is always gross to see.

There are many reasons to dislike clavicular, but focus on the harms he causes rather than taking lazy shots about his looks, especially if there are trans people down range.

Every so often leave positive reviews about customer service staff interactions, either serving staff in brick and mortar stores or phone support. Since I know how demotivating jobs are where you have to interact with members of the public who are often inpatient/rude/abusive.

I don't know how many of these feed back to either the staff themselves or factor into raise/promotion/retention decisions, but I hope some of it helps.

Given that it's not uncommon for kids to injure themselves jumping from high places using a sheet as a parachute, I don't think we need to be assuming malice here.

I hate this so much,

Someone is mentioned on Lemmy and there is always a drive by comment saying don't support X or X is a bad person with no context whatsoever. No mention of what specifically they are accused of doing/saying, no way to figure out if that clashes with your values or not, no documentation etc.

And subjectively it feels like half the time I research why this might be true it's debatable at best, I assume because if there was compelling evidence the person doing the drive by would have linked it.

Report spam on everything they send you.

The more people do this the harder it is for them to send out emails.

Except Kraft (who emigrated to the US from Canada) patented sodium citrate stabilised cheese in 1916. This was done for logistical reasons since it didn't need refrigerated storage rather than being explicitly designed as a burger condiment. Kraft was a cheese wholesaler before he was a cheese maker.

American cheese took off in part because was used in rations for ww1 being energy dense and shelf stable.

It was also used as rations in ww2 which was due to a quirk of history before operation paperclip, which was predominantly done out of cold war paranoia.

I get that it's fun to dunk on America, but it should be possible to do so without resorting to a purely fictitious history.

But what if I enjoy feeling morally superior to people who are trying their best?

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-and-partners-unite-to-sanction-ministers-inciting-west-bank-violence

I'm not convinced it does, corporation tax is charged on gross profit, usually if a corporation makes a charitable donation this reduces their profit and therefore their tax liability (but not more than the cost of the donation)

If you round up 20c then the cooperation makes 20c revenue and loses 20c when they donate leaving their profit unaffected and therefore their cooperation tax is unaffected.

There might be some financial magic I am missing but nothing I have seen in this thread explains exactly how this is could be advantageous tax wise.

Surely the revenue the report from your donation counteracts the loss they get from their donation to charity?

Unless there is some accounting magic I am missing?

Internal combustion engines are very picky about how fast they spin, since they get their power from burning fuel the rate at which fuel enters the cylinders to burn correlates strongly to the power they have available. And since each cycle of a cylinder burns about the same amount of fuel the faster the engine spins the more power it generates.

This is why internal combustion engine vehicles have gearboxes (transmission in the US?) to ensure that you can spin the engine fast even while the wheels are slow) or stopped) so you have enough power to start the car.

Electric motors by contrast generate power through the strength of their electromagnetic fields, which is just how much current gets pushed through the electromagnets. How fast the motor spins just changes how fast the electronics have to "move" the generated field without changing the strength, so you get similar power even at slow speeds.

So electric motors have enough torque at low speed that you can start your car without needing a gearbox.

Note: this post is a gross simplification and probably mis-uses some terminology but it should give a general understanding of why the transmissions are different.