I knew it sounded familiar. It even has a name and a wikipedia article https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck’s_principle

If you want to really dig into the theme, you could use Know Your Meme

For this kind of query, consult the Urban Dictionary.

If I had a cafe or bar, I’d put a sign out “If you’re the first customer, then it’s always happy hour”

Glad you already learned this is probably nonsense. The wrong reasoning is very similar to much thought about overpopulation. The amount of people that makes for a place to be overpopulated is a function of how societies work and the technologies they have at hand. One extra issue there is that improvements in technology usually lead to population growth, so much progress gets cancelled out.

Are you just talking about the US? In the EU, the sale of fully electric cars has actually gone down (as a % of market share), mostly to the gain of hybrids. See for example https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2024/0829/1467243-european-car-sales/

Isn’t it as much about showing up to vote than about changing minds who to vote for?

Do as the other poster said. The Benelux is also a place where you could probably work with just English. Bonus points if you manage to get a job where you’re allowed to work from, say Portugal (for the weather and the low living costs) Good luck on the job hunt!

Have you looked into the European job market? From what little I know, I have the impression here that kind of profile can pick among any number of jobs.

Someone should invent a game, that while playing demonstrates how much monopolies suck for everyone involved (except the monopolist)

If you use median, removing or not of 1000 people from a pool of millions indeed has zero impact. My guess is that they worded it like that because they assume people don’t knownwhat a median is, so they describe the practical effect

They are not excluded, it’s just the the number of people is used, not the amount of money

For Harris, yes. For Biden: just “not anymore”. Which can happen when you have geriatric folks doing this kind of job.

I’m pretty sure they’ll do increasingly farcical votes for some time after.

And here I am with 35 days, which we’re expected to take.

And we are still increasing the rate at which we are making it worse…