At least with Prince I can't type the symbol so I kinda have to say the artist formerly known as. - That was kind of Prince's point. To make it so that references to him "technically" didn't violate the bizarre name-rights clauses in his Warner Bros contract.

Let's remember what day it is: The process happened to align to take effect today, nothing more.

Nowadays, young people also see the internet as a black-box full of truth - Everything you mentioned, old people are far more likely to have trouble with. It's old people, not young people, who fell for the "Ivermectin prevents (virus)" bullshit. Indian scammers target old people, not young people, because they know that old conservatives are dumb and gullible as fuck and therefore make easy marks.

They are explicit about the fact that their long term goal is to propagandize general populace to their ideological side. That's why they're starting to get pushback even in the West from people who would like to not have political extremist propaganda in their entertainment.

Your "waah they're propagandizing, this is alphabet propaganda" reminds me that trash like you called my family "uppity negroes" in the 60s for wanting voting rights too.

Why don't you shove your burning cross way up your inbred ass and then blow your head off with a shotgun for an encore, you fucking nazi trash.

Reagan's line was "I didn't leave the Democratic party, they left me"... because white-supremacist Ronny was angry that Johnson had signed the Civil Rights Acts. Reagan was part and parcel of the move of cross burning shitheads to becoming the core constituency of the modern Nazi Trash GOP.

Fascism is literally raising the idea of the nation as the highest ideal.

I've seen some dumb fucking screeds by neonazi fascist crap on this website, but THIS load of white-supremacist Klan Crap hooey from Nazi Shithead sfcat takes the cake.

If the government wasn't involved as it is now, we wouldn't have the cost. - after watching what happened to insulin prices under Pharma Bro, you actually believe this?

If I had one wish as a czar of the US, for one day, it would be a simple constitutional amendment: All taxes, property, income, gasoline, whatever... ALL TAXES should be consumption (sales) taxes. - Sales taxes are the most regressive form of taxation. But that fits perfectly with the republican "fuck the poor, worship the rich" mantra.

Thats it. Let them be as greedy as they want, someone else will do it for less. - We tried that already in the days of Standard Oil and abusive monopolies placing up barriers to entry once they corner a market. It didn't work for shit.

Everything in your bullshit screed contradicted by the facts is a reminder that republicans/conservatives are just lying trolls devoid of consciences.

A big part of spend money represents used energy - mining of resources, refining those resources, making whatever thing I am buying etc. And a lot of things we spend money (and energy) are not strictly necessary. However, there are probably some things that you approve of and consider to be OK, but not others.

Let's say I installed solar panels on my house and now have "free" power when the sun is shining. Am I allowed to use it however I want, say, by running an inefficient light bulb or some other device that does not have the best efficiency?
You could say that if I did not use the energy, then, assuming my solar power is connected to the grid, others could use it, but at the same time, if I was not planning on using it I would not have installed (as many) panels.

If I said that I have a good gaming PC that uses, say, 500W and use it to play games 4 hours per day (using 2kWh per day on games), would you approve of it? But what if I do not have a gaming PC and instead use the same 2kWh on incandescent lightbulbs or a vacuum tube radio? Would you disapprove now even if it is the same amount of energy used "for fun"?

Similar with a car? It uses however much fuel it uses, but should I have to submit a trip plan to the government for approval? After all, I may be just going for a drive or going to some place where I do not strictly need to. Should I be able to get an exception based on the low total amount of kilometers traveled and fuel burned?

Why is it a problem? I pay for the electricity. Then, either I use the roasted beans to make myself some coffee (in which case I just waste my own money, no different that any other way of wasting money) or I sell them. If I sell them then I will be asking for a lot of money for them. Other companies that use more efficient equipment will be able to sell the same roasted beans for much lower price and I'll go out of business or will have to get better equipment to be able to compete with them.

As long as that rule exists, people are going to behave this way. Also, I doubt that such rule is going away any time soon, simply because otherwise the government (or even large companies) would stop working.

I am not a lawyer, but, as I understand, the police needs a court order to be able to conduct a search of someones home etc. You cannot fault a police officer who does the search while having a court order that looks legitimate (the signature does not look obviously fake etc, since you cannot expect every cop to be a handwriting expert).

Any large organization (the government, the military, large companies) depends on dividing responsibilities, because it is not possible (or even right) to expect every employee to be responsible for the actions of every other employee and even to double or triple check what his superiors (or specialists) told him. If an engineer said to use bolt size x for the construction and it turns out that the bolt is too small and the building collapses, it's the fault of the engineer, not the builder who worked according to the specifications.

It's not about the intelligence (or lack of it) of the people involved. It's about responsibility.
"The Computer Said" - I am not responsible for this - whoever put in the wrong data into the computer or programmed it is responsible, I followed the prescribed procedure, so I cannot be held responsible.
"I verified what The Computer Said" - I am responsible for this, after all, I did not believe The Computer and double checked it, so now it's on me.

Bitcoin is mined on ASICs - chips that can do SHA256 really efficiently but nothing else.

where certain industry is required to be US owned and US operated to be permitted to operate within US.

This is how the Chinese government operates for EVERY business that wants to operate in China. It's also a large part (along with corporate espionage and constant cyberattacks on the rest of the world) of how the Chinese gov't constantly steals IP from other countries.