Closing down multiple coal fired water plants, nuclear plants has A LOT to do with it. Trying to rely on wind/solar WILL NOT WORK.

Can you imagine these vehicles getting safety tested in the United States?

You'd have to be an ldiot to think Samsung never thought of this when they released the "smart" fridge!

Ask anyone who lives where it is COLD in the winter, and they try to start their car what happens. ldiots...

This is retarded.

1. It isn't for profit healthcare that is the problem, it's THIRD PARTY PAY.
2. I don't use third party pay, ever, for healthcare. I've been insured nonstop for over 30 years, and NEVER ONCE has my insurer paid my doctor.
3. Even when I've had emergencies, I still called around, negotiated a fair cash up front rate, paid cash up front, and billed it to my insurer. My cash up front rate was sometimes below any co-pay negotiated with my insurer, lol.

I just recently had some elective surgery that would have cost me about $2000 on my annual deductible, but I was able to cash pay a negotiated rate of $400 including a follow-up "free". I submitted the $400 to my insurer and they reimbursed me.

Third party insurance exists because YOU VOTERS demanded the HMO Act of the 1970s, which tied health care to employment, and then employers outsourced it to third parties.

Health care is remarkably cheap in the US (cash pay, negotiated) and I don't have to wait months to see a doctor when I call and say I am cash pay. They bump me up fast.

> OpenAI doesn't share parameter information. OpenAI doesn't share parameter information.

I am glad the summary accidentally wrote this twice. OpenAI was founded as a non-profit with a goal of being OPEN and has since become neither open nor non-profit. I refuse to use anything OpenAI for this reason and I wish others would reject them as well. Integrity matters. Demand Open.

Let's see...I've read stories about how we were headed to a new ice age in the 70's, the Earth was going burn up in the 90's and on and on and on. Someone needs to prescribe you some prozac or something!

I've used it for YEARS. First thing I would do after setting up a new android phone was to install Nova Launcher Prime. Kind of figured it would go away since they were bought out. And, the app on the play store hasn't been updated since May 2024. Right now I'm trying the MS Launcher which is kind of close to Nova. I'm HOPING it gets released as open source and someone else picks it up.

Cutting cable and OTA is not "Roku". This reads like an ad trying to redefine "streaming" as their product name.

How many slashdot folks use Roku vs :
Amazon Fire
Google TV/Chromecast
Apple TV
Nvidia Shield
Tivo
Google TV 4k Pro

And those are just similar products and ignores smart TVs like Samsung, LG, Sony, as well as other streaming services like Hulu, Netflix, Paramount, Apple, Amazon, YoutubeTV, etc.

I personally have 2 Nividia shields, 2 Chromecast, as well as two Apple TV boxes.

Get your neighbors together and pool together some money and buy a few spike stripes. LOL

Americans, I just don't get it...yeah, who wants to pay top dollar for something. But you are enabling the CCP when you buy garbage from sites like Temu and what not.

If I were a tourist, thinking about visiting a "major U.S. city tourist area" I don't think I would either. Crime is UP in a lot of cities. Why bother? Most countries have beautiful areas to vacation and visit anyway. Same for America. Lots of places to visit. Why spend the $$$$ to go to another country when there are beautiful areas here you can see and visit, not to mention keeping your money at home.

More nuclear power, less "non reliable" solar/wind power. I have no problem with solar/wind, but nuclear is much better and, unlike wind/solar, when you need to generate MORE power you can crank up the generator to create more power.

On my 9 Pro XL, just go into battery health and disable it.

I was born in the 50's. I remember everyone in the early-mid 70's saying we were entering another ice age and we were all doomed! Then in the 90's Algore came along with the global warming nonsense. Around 2008/9 the warming came down and they had to rename it "climate change". To make it even more dramatic to the UNeducated, they renamed it climate emergency. It's all hogwash and always has been. They start with kids, drumming it into their heads that man is going to destroy the climate. By the time they are adults, they are born & bread to believe it. Old Vlad Lenin was correct in what he said: “Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.” Yeah, transform it into non thinking minions!