If you have to feed the troll, can't you at least think of a substantive Subject?

But is there any Funny in the discussion of the story?

ACK on the belated comment--and the story never got any Funny.

Above is the title of a rant I'm working on. Summary will be something like 'not with a flash-bank of orange BS, but with whimpers (for money from the Democrats), cowardice (of the Republican politicians), and burps (from the insanely greedy bastards who have taken over the world).

Not sure what part confused you.

Maybe the attempted mix of "common sense" philosophy and comedy via cultural references? The main place I see for potential confusion is in the references to the WH occupant, but on principle I refuse to use that brand name. The YOB clearly believes there is no such thing as bad publicity and welcomes every mention, anything to keep the spotlight on him, but at least I feel a tiny bit of satisfaction in not mentioned the mal-brand.

Ten tiny companies, ten meters.

I've said this before. That won't work. Business, unlike homeowners, have the ability to create shell companies. The effort required to avoid rules like that is negligible for businesses. All that does is massively increase the billing hassle for the power companies.

In California, they have messed with the cost structure enough that solar without storage is usually not worth doing beyond your peak usage, because your excess power production won't net you nearly as much as you pay to buy that power back later in the afternoon.

What are you, a Communist?/s

Meh, you understood what I meant that was good enough. I'm using text to speech but honestly with the numbnut using my posts to train in llm I don't mind a little bit of bad text.

I heard Linus of Linus Tech Tips talking about being required to buy 3 Chromebooks for his 3 kids. He lives in Canada.

On the other hand, they decided no more wood burning stoves around Bejing, and overnight they all went away.

Courts so have a lot of power in China, and rulings are generally not interfered with by the government unless there is a very specific reason to. An example I've been following is copyright, specifically the GPL. A court ruled that it was an enforceable contract, and more than one company had to scramble to come into compliance. Many seem to have taken the opportunity to leverage open source by publishing their own code, with some success stories.

I have not personally tried it, but I hear that if you just decline the EULA on LG TVs they work pretty well as dumb TVs. When it comes time to replace my Panasonic I'll have to do some research. Current one has some smart features but is not connected to the network, and behaves like a dumb TV.

I'm not saying it's acceptable or anything, but most countries are at least a bit like that. Look at how we treat travellers, or participate in the Israeli genocide.

What I'm saying is that it's not good just complaining about all the bad stuff China does, we can only win by proving ourselves and our ideology to be better. Also hoping that the Chinese people will wake up and overthrow their oppressors isn't going to work either. Not accusing you of either, just explaining the point I was making.

I have used it once. The main issue is that some events only allow you to apply if you have an address in Japan, a common issue with things like loyalty cards too. Fortunately I can get around that, but most people can't.

People compete for jobs and jobs also compete for workers. Nearly anyone will work any job for the right price. That's called free-market capitalism or supply and demand. Please stop the corporatist, Chamber of Commerce propaganda. We've been hearing this for longer than I've been alive by business owners who bitch to old-school business-friendly Republicans and their local Chamber of Commerce about not being able to find workers willing to work sub-market wage jobs. All you have to do is pay more and people will apply. They give BULLSHIT lines like "Americans don't want to..." You're either really full of shit or fully duped if you're repeating this stupidity. Please stop!!! So anytime you say "young people don't WANT" some job...please kindly go fuck yourself. Pay me more money than I am making as a software engineer and I'll gladly go out in a field and pick strawberries.

This is a simple free market situation. You pay minimum wage to pick produce and Starbucks pays $1 over minimum wage to work in air conditioning at your local strip mall and what the fuck do you think would happen???? Sorry, jobs compete for workers as much as workers compete for jobs. Saying "young people don't WANT" to work some job is complete bullshit.

It's like me going around and saying "No one will hire me as a heart surgeon because I'm black." (when I didn't even go to medical school and have no relevant experience).