Define ‘hold a charge well’. There is a lot of conflicting information about NiMH v Li-ion regarding self discharge rates and not much in the way of hard facts. Probably depends a lot on brand/construction of the cell. But even a good one will be (almost) flat if not charged for a few years, and possibly dead (as in cannot be charged anymore). Single use lithium cells last longer (10 years or more) but are expensive and not rechargeable.

Is ‘could’ the new spelling of ‘will’?

Mastodon needs a lot of work before it becomes a mainstream option. They missed a big opportunity when twitter became toxic, and now they can’t compete against bluesky. Hope i’m wrong but i think they are doomed.

An election in four years … I like your optimism and I hope you are right.

99% of stats are wrong.

Old news. Already seen half a dozen posts about this yesterday

Off to check if ‘civil war in the USA’ is on my bingo card.

About as close as we are to nuclear fusion. AI generation of shit will always be one step ahead of AI detection

Unfortunately not on ios, but thank you

Paywalled link

Thanks for the non-paywalled article. It produces absolutely no evidence though. or even an explanation or theory. One mention of benzene, which is a well known dangerous substance, but also highly flammable. So unlikely to be produced by burning any gas, and no link to a source. So that sounds like scaremongering to me. If anyone knows how to make benzene out of methane, let me know and we’ll patent the process. The one link to ‘research’ is one that just shows correlation, not causation.

Go touch a cow. How hard is it to check a dozen fraudulent votes and work out who these votes were for. I’m willing to bet they are not for ‘both sides’

You should read up on non verbal communication. As an older boomer, I am perfectly happy with working from home and a catch up on zoom/teams/slack with my team 99% of the time, and very much against return to office. But sometimes I do need face to face communication with team members I’m concerned about, or with customers.

Not a word on what it is or how it works. Marketing hype most likely.

You are mother? U r not making yourself very clear here

After fighting for russia, they reincarnate as sunflowers

Thanks. Just edited my post to include a link, then found your contribution.

If true, they deserve a consumer boycott. But it’s almost impossible to stop buying Unilever products, the list is endless. List of brands

Something should be done about it, and as I mentioned elsewhere, the French supermarket chain putting stickers on shelves to warn consumers is one thing that can be done, as is mandatory unit prices (common where I live). And those things would be newsworthy. An ‘attempt to get to the bottom of it’ is just hot air

It’s awful, but it has been going on for decades.