Where was Admiral Ackbar to warn us all during the last election?

No, he's done and will continue to try to do plenty of other awful things. I would find it a relief if the only problem this administration posed for America was the discord caused by his social media habit.

Good news is some major polls just got published and even Republican support for him is tanking https://apnews.com/article/pol... which ups the odds of him losing congress a year from now which might actually get us to the point where his social habit is our only major problem. Of course a year is a long time in regard to such things.

"Microsoft cited macroeconomic changes for the increases. Console prices outside the US and controller and headset prices domestically remain unchanged."

Funny that these mysterious and unmentioned macroeconomic forces are only effected the US.

It's absolutely horrifying how so many of our country's companies and institutions are censoring what they're saying out of fear of our current administration. When has it ever been a rare thing for American companies to blame the government for things like this? It even happened in many instances when the government had no actual fault. Nowadays though everyone is afraid to do anything that might bring the wrath of Trump.

I wonder how much of a thing this will be though. While we do currently move some natural gas around by boat in liquefied form it's incredibly expensive relative to piped sources https://energynewsbeat.co/how-.... .

That's the only thing you got right.

AI is creating a massive surge in energy usage https://www.goldmansachs.com/i... . THAT's what's causing these higher prices, rapidly increasing demand https://www.pbs.org/newshour/s.... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/a...

We know green energy works and we know the "baseload problem" is a conservative myth https://www.nrdc.org/bio/kevin... .

How would that change the fact that California's energy rates are not being effected by this current problem?

So instead of paying higher prices for power they'll spend tons of money maintaining an incredibly inefficient system?

No, it is. Government just needs to tell power companies to charge on a sliding scale based on usage at the meter. It's incredibly simple.

You even say in your post that government sets the prices but somehow that cant be changed?

EVs would be residential, not wholesale, pricing.

Big AI Data Centers would be wholesale pricing.

I don't follow your reasoning at all. If a data center is using massive amounts of power why does it matter who owns it? Power companies just need to charge at the meter a scaling rate based on use. Some one has to pay that bill or the servers go off.

When you see conservatives blaming renewables and the like for it the obvious needs to be pointed out.

Oops, you were saying as such. Sorry I'm killing time waiting for something and am only kind of paying attention to my phone. Time to stop posting.

I just checked and it looks like they do carry plenty of blu ray, the article is just using bad language. I've seen this before (using the term DVD for any physically video media) which is why I thought to check.

No, the secret to their success is that they've maintained ever increasing standards of living for their people so their people are largely content despite having no real rights. It's not wise, benevolent governance that have kept Chinese citizens content, it's economic growth and the rising standard of living that came with it. China knows this and is very worried about it's slowing economy as it's no longer pushing up standards of living meanwhile it has zero intention of giving its people any real rights, hence piddly efforts that won't amount to much in regards to things changing like this.