Yeah, last time I did the math on it, batteries totally killed the ROI of a PV system. Going fully grid-tied with net metering is the only way it makes sense financially, if the goal is to save money rather than being done out of necessity (such as for an off-grid cabin) or for environmental principles.

I can totally picture New York asking for Publix receipts as proof that you really spend most of your time in Florida.

Florida isn't a "low-tax" state - it is a no income tax state. The downside of course, is that you have to live in Florida.

To be clear, what they're actually doing is banning marginalized youths from free (as in beer) access to certain books. As I said the last time the topic came up, if you're one of those wealthy LGBTQ+ adolescents driving around in the Tesla that your folks bought you, you just drive yourself to the local bookstore and there's no bans stopping you from getting that copy of Gender Queer.

At its core, it's really just the same old song and dance of conservatives making things suck worse for poor people. That being said, I'm sure conservatives dream about banning those sort of books even for people with the money to purchase them, but as long as there's still a 1A, best of luck to them with that.

It's still not really all that cheap to get married if you actually want to have a ceremony.

In the USA, it basically is separate. You can get married at a church if you want the religious sort of marriage, or just go down to your local clerk of the court and sign some paperwork if you want a secular marriage. The arguments against same-sex marriage are because some people actually aren't too big on the concept of a separation between church and state, and anything that reminds them that it's still mostly a thing, gets under their skin.

I think you'll find that people who don't get married in the first place have the lowest divorce rates.

It's like how just the other day I thought about quitting smoking, but then it dawned on me that I'd never started in the first place!

I'm assuming your router doesn't charge you anything to enable the feature. The problem here is ISPs could conceivably fuck up your gaming latency on purpose, and then charge an extra monthly fee for a special feature that unfucks it. Kind of like what mobile providers do with streaming videos, except that most people don't really notice the downscaled resolution on a 6" screen. You will, however, notice when you're trying to play Soldier's Call of Bullets 2050 and you keep getting constantly teabagged.

You've conveniently omitted the facts that self-signing apps with a free developer account is limited to a maximum of 10 concurrent apps per account, and the apps have to be re-signed every 7 days.

Google and Apple both share the blame of muscling out all the competition in the smartphone OS market. Ideally, there should be more competition so (to re-use your car analogy) consumer choices aren't limited to choosing between either a dump truck or a sports car.

There's some vetting requirements a developer has to meet before they're allowed to even participate, and if they did sign malware (or just something Apple doesn't like - read the T&Cs), Apple can revoke the developer's signature.

Go here and click "Show Notarization Review Guidelines Only". There's still quite a bit Apple doesn't allow, such as apps that allow user-submitted DUI checkpoint locations (yes, seriously).

Nope. Apple still requires ALL apps to be reviewed and notarized.

I'm not sure why people keep having this misconception that Apple has opened anything up. Apple still has final say on approving an app, which means that this is nothing like how it works on Android.

Ticketmaster absolutely is scummy and their fees are ridiculous.

That being said, Taylor Swift's fanbase is off the rails when it comes to what some of them are willing to spend on anything related to her music. Case in point.

There were actually fans tailgating Taylor's last show, because they couldn't get tickets. Demand far outstripped the number of seats available at the venues and unless your grudge is against capitalism itself, that's just how it works.

Yes, it sucks that people with more money get to go to a concert, while you're stuck listening from the parking lot. If they hate that, just wait until these kids discover how the housing market works.

The irony being that most smartphone apps are free anyway, so 30% of $0.00 is still $0.00. Even if Apple did take a smaller cut, it's not as if freemium app developers are gonna knock that same percentage off the price of your in-app purchase of Smurfberries, or your monthly subscription to their app-as-a-service - they're just going to pocket their extra profit. So, from an end-user perspective, nothing changes.