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Comment The real problem with oil/gas prices (Score 1) 219

The US produces enough of its own oil to meet its own need. The real reason prices are up is commodities traders trying to get every penny out of buying and selling things they will never even see. We could lower gas prices overnight by splitting the market for US oil from the rest of the world, then the price of Russian oil - and any other geopolitical issue - would not matter.

Comment Important Missing Information (Score 5, Informative) 419

It is pretty clear that this individual had other serious problems leading up to this:

First, in September 2020, he was injured and charged with reckless endangerment for allegedly working on bomb-making - https://abc7ny.com/suspicious-...

Then, in October 2020, he posted on Twitter that he needed donations because his apartment "had a fire" - https://web.archive.org/web/20...

Finally, in November 2020, he posted a now-deleted request for "sponsorship" from big companies - https://web.archive.org/web/20...

Comment Too complicated and expensive (Score 4, Insightful) 87

If it was a plain old phone, I would really consider getting one, but I don't see why anyone would want it at this price and with Bluetooth and a battery. Would you really use it? Keep it charged? I could see bringing a wired version of it instead of a lineman's handset when I go to some of my customers.

Comment Poorly researched letter (Score 4, Interesting) 69

This letter loses all credibility when in the first paragraph they refer to Marketplace as an NPR program. Marketplace is played on many NPR affiliated radio stations, but is actually produced and distributed by American Public Media (not to be confused with the TV program Marketplace from the Canadian Broadcasting Company). If the lawyers can't get simple things like that right, why would the reader be confident that they got complicated legal precedent right.

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