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Comment Re:Who is financially sponsoring this bill? (Score 3, Informative) 453

20% of Wyomings power is from wind. 75% is from coal.

And 90% is from right-wing bullshit that the faux "cowboys" eat up because they think it makes them look manly, when it fact, they're some of the biggest welfare queens in the country. Their government ranks #5 in the states most dependent on Federal money, then they brag about not having a state income tax.

https://wallethub.com/edu/stat...

Comment Re:Make that PUBMTATMTBAOITS (Score 1) 53

That's why they changed it from "Unidentified Flying Object" to "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena". The one I saw a half century ago was certainly not a space ship, unless Douglas Adams was right about scale, because it was smaller than a basketball. It was bright and fuzzy, rode next to my car for a couple of miles until I crossed a stream, when it zigged at 45 MPH at a right angle and followed the stream.

I wondered what it was for years before I learned about ball lightning, which is what it had to have been. My guess is ball lightning is a lot more common up there where the fighter jets play.

Comment Re:Are they also.. (Score 1) 75

Are they also going to investigate why the owner of FTX was the second largest democratic party donor, next to Soros?

Will they also investigate why the CEO of FTX gave $24 million to Republicans?

https://www.politico.com/news/...

"Bankman-Fried was among the most significant donors to Democrats during the cycle, distributing more than $40 million through direct contributions and super PACs. Salame gave roughly $24 million to Republicans."

Comment Re:Well I guess that's it (Score 1) 104

Without prominent podcasters, could you make a case for Spotify over say Amazon Music or even iTunes?

There are a lot of Spotify users who do not use the service to listen to podcasts. Making it a pure music platform and investing that podcast money into better recommendation algorithms and paying artists could appeal to those people. Me, I get tired of seeing podcasts getting pushed on me every time I start Spotify.

There are better platforms for listening to podcasts anyway, and one of the big draws of podcasts in the first place has always been to find voices that were not "prominent".

Comment Re:Wireless charging? (Score 4, Insightful) 314

It isn't about evil. It's about overreach. Did anyone in an EU nation imagine, when the EU was formed, that the EU would dictate to all its members what sort of chargers or adapters they could use for electrical devices?

The US has had standard plugs for electrical devices for decades. What was the last time you bought a microwave, or television, or toaster and it had a non-standard plug to go into the wall?

If the government can standardize the plugs on the wall side of the power cable, why shouldn't they standardize the plug on the device side of the cable? There may well be a good reason, so I'm asking sincerely.

Comment Re:Does this mean Apple products will cost more? (Score 4, Insightful) 260

Since "His main role was to negotiate with suppliers to keep the price Apple pays for computer parts down" and he's no longer there, does this mean Apple will pay more for parts and pass on those costs to the consumer?

It's funny that you think the price Apple pays for computer parts has anything to do with the price you pay for their products.

Comment "Wokeism" (Score 1) 20

My goodness. You know for sure that when you see some right-wing thought leader use the word "wokeism" you're in for a joy ride of reactionary hysteria, exaggeration, and flabby bad faith arguments. The review of the book by David M. Jones and M. L.R. Smith and the manifesto from (among others) Victor Orban fan and prissy whiner Rod Dreher, N.S. Lyons, and R.R. Reno do not disappoint in this regard.

And boy, those effete semi-fascists sure do love using lots of initials, don't they? One wonders what their baristas at Starbucks write on the cup of their soy lattes.

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