This is not a new agency.
Congress doesn't appropriate money for each single position one-by-one. DOJ gets money appropriated for salaries generally.
"As with every government position, once created it canâ(TM)t disappear anymor"
Yes, it will suck when nobody uses AI anymore and the position is still there.
They still do those things; Canva is the most recent company to build an empire on the same shit. The only difference is that Publisher prints it out and Canva spits it directly into the social media firehose. Well, I guess the other difference is that Publisher isnt a shitty web app. So long, Publisher, and thanks for all the brochures.
You'll pry my delicious iPhone fried rice out of my cold dead hands
The Switch has mediocre specs and probably wouldn't appeal to XBox users. PS5 though...
Where did I say it should be the priority? What I'm saying it would be profitable for more Sony and Nintendo games to come to XBox because the additional sales will go well beyond the cost of porting and any potential losses from people picking an XBox over a Switch or PS5 because of the availability of the title.
The newest XBox generation has sold more than 20 million units. That's a lot! PS5 has maybe twice as much, but increasing potential game sales by FIFTY PERCENT would be huge!
Because they can sell more games. It's not like they'd be making XBox-exclusive games.
Good thing that doesn't appear to be at all what happened here.
Correct; the metrics I have seen suggest only about 10% of plastic that is specifically put into the recycling stream ends up recycled. This of course has a lot to do with the simple fact that most plastics are either impossible or economically prohibitive to recyclable in the first place.
I personally think this will change in the near future as we get better at engineering enzymes, but this also means I that I think all efforts to do large-scale plastic recycling today are essentially just feel-good money sinks.
> To me it's a pity, because the 10 cent bags are good if you use and re-use them, and they are good enough to re-use.
Great news! You can buy 10 cent bags and reuse them all you want, you legend you.
> 9 out of 10 shoppers walking into a store with their own bags
I just wanted to reiterate that I mean every shopper, every store, every time. Not just the people who post on Slashdot and shop at Whole Foods. Put that nerd brain to some critical thinking tasks.
> Oddly enough, the Connecticut ban on non-reusable plastic bags has been somewhat successful.
You literally go on to describe the exact thing that is happening in CA and still think it's working? The extra few people bagging their groceries in old potato sacks has nothing on the fact that the rest of the people are still tossing plastic bags that now use 5x as much plastic as the old bags. By that metric, any "ban" must reduce bag usage by 80% before it can even be break-even with the prior situation. Unless you are seeing 9 out of 10 shoppers walking into a store with their own bags, the bag ban is not working in the slightest.
And this says nothing of the accumulation of "real bags" this causes -- I have so many of these fucking cheap "woven" poly bags that they are coming out my ears. I use them as packing material; planting ballast, dust covers, but mainly I just throw away heaps of them because they are literally designed to be garbage. They are made out of the exact same stuff as the old bags, so they degrade, but unlike the old bags that stood a chance of falling to bits in the landfill, the new bags just fall apart on the shelf after they've been sitting around a couple of years.
Memory fault - where am I?