They had plenty of time. It's not like they only called up the White House on this 15 minutes before airtime.

If they wanted to respond, they would have. This White House Press Secretary is no stranger to blowing hot air and lies.

By spiking the story until the White House comments, she has given the White House a "pocket veto" on any future story if that is to be the standard. That instantly makes CBS News - respected worldwide - completely untrustworthy.

She's either incompetent or in the bag for the administration. I'm leaning towards incompetent because now that the piece leaked anyway, the story was still told and CBS News gets both the wrath of the administration as well as the self-own on the hit to the reputation. That's damn fine leadership, I must say; I mean who would ever think that a newsroom full of reporters might leak something in order to report the news...

Maybe you should be thrown into a 3rd world torture hellhole without any form of due process to figure out who you are, what you did or didn't do, and if you should even be there.

Then maybe you'll understand, because you are obviously a short-sighted dipshit who wants to blame anyone and everyone else for your misfortunes rather than accepting clearly observed reality for what it is.

Here's the thing that people forget: the political spectrum is a spectrum, not a di-pole.

Yes, the MAGA dbags won't watch it, and if they do they'll be cheering for the human rights abuses being described. Those people are not convince-able, because they've been indoctrinated into a cult.

Similarly, the rabid left will all watch it, and then repost it, and then call all their friends and annoy them with it for the exact same reasons - they're similarly indoctrinated.

Unfortunately for both of those polar positions, there's a broad spectrum in the middle, made up of the 40 to 50% of voters that are not indoctrinated. And the more of them that see this kind of shit, the more they'll reject this administration's bullshit. And that's why we're seeing a slow creep of down-trending polls on every single topic and overall approval rating - individual data points can be argued and refuted, but the overall trend is easily recognizable, and clear as crystal.

He's hit the floor for where he's able to get support in the middle, and might start punching through and losing MAGA base if he keeps up his shit with the Epstein files coverup and gross incompetence.

It's also posted to Twitter, which means it's going to be re-posted until the end of time. They can go ahead and try to C&D it, but it's just going to Streisand Effect the longer they fight.

Yes, because nobody ever had fragmented tools as the result of a corporate merger before cloud.

No, sorry, that happens with literally every single merger, and has going back to the days of filing cabinets and steno pools.

I didn't say it was right or just. I merely said what this is.

When did I claim otherwise?

Why would that make a liar out of me?

What, specifically, does that job growth statistic do to argue against what I said?

Why are you a moron just throwing out random bullshit?

And I doubt that share will increase, because the government has enacted this policy which makes it a non-starter for any business.

See the problem? We could be alleviating the worker shortage in health care through H1B because there clearly isn't enough talent here already. But now we can't, so heath care prices are only going to increase, and availability will only decrease.

May as well have just said that Microsoft tools undercut efficiency - it would be just as accurate.

It would seem that no actual performance upgrade will ever be useless, as software engineers continue to push the envelope on writing shitty, bloated, non-performant code out of sheer laziness and apathy.

See: Windows

Just going to apply a bit of Occam's Razor to this here.

You are inventing a conspiracy in your mind because you still haven't figured out that this guy is the biggest hypocrite and liar in the known universe. I assure you he has no actual objection to using the autopen himself, as literally thousands of pieces of paper that require executive signature go through the White House every week. It's already been proven that he used it on pardons.

If there isn't an automated way to affix the President's signature on things, the entire building would drown in paper waiting for him to get around to scrawling his name on things with a Sharpie.

That fee matters a great deal if you're trying to get health care workers like nurses that we are in short supply of.

Why the hell would you pay $100k to the government to get an employee you are going to pay $70k a year? You won't. And everyone's health care will suffer for it.

Also, if you're a doctor who is looking for work abroad and you have a choice between having to deal with the US government bullshit and this fee, or Canada with no bullshit or fee; which are you going to choose?

Well this should be fun:

The upfront investment can be substantial—a single 3.5 MW commercial turbine costs over £3.13 million to build. However, those turbines can generate between £2.79 million and £7.1 million per year in revenue. Source

Strike One.

Here's an article on the US DOE's own web site about advances in recycling turbine blades and composites.

Strike Two.

I've heard of farmed salmon, but I don't think that's what you are referring to. These are OFFSHORE wind farms. No farmers, no fences, no trucks. Please stay on topic.

Jumpin Jesus! Holy cow!

How many gallons of oil does a coal plant use for lubrication and all the diesel equipment to move coal around, and move the waste ash around? How many gallons of oil does a diesel generator use over it's lifetime, and how many kW of energy does it create with substantially more oil used?

THE TURBINE DOESN'T BURN THE OIL TO MAKE ENERGY. You apparently know this, since you hinted that it's used for cooling. It's not used in evaporative cooling, so that same 300 ga. of oil will be there until the decommissioning of the turbine.

Strike Three.

You then go on to make a bunch of baseless assumptions that are loosely correlated to the above, which I've already shown to be monumentally stupid.

Now only if there was some way they could mount something besides radar on the turbines themselves to use for confirmation if you're getting signal of something that shouldn't be there. Like some cameras that use light instead of sound to detect things.

The sitting President is a know-nothing idiot who's primary motivation for basically anything is revenge and retribution.

He hates wind power because Scotland had the audacity to grant permission for a few windmills within site of his precious golf course. That's the "classified" reason he hates wind energy, and he's too fucking stupid to realize that offshore wind won't be seen by anyone that isn't in a boat, miles away from land.