No it doesn't.

https://www.neowin.net/guides/...

Apple has already done you one better: The zero-mouse mouse!

With the Apple Vision Pro, you just wave your fingers around in the air!

(Ok, so the thing is actually kind of cool and I kind of want one, but there's no way I'm paying anywhere close to $3500 for it.)

While I absolutely want those shut down too, this won't do inherently do anything about it.

Those turbines are owned by the feds.

I absolutely WILL laugh if Biden decides to use this as a reason to order TVA to start building more solar and wind, because that will actually be good, and I know that's the exact opposite of what the loonies who voted for this want.

The sooner those get shut down, the better.

TVA is mostly hydro and nuclear these days anyway. More fossil gas than there should be, and not nearly enough wind or solar, but the last TVA coal plant will be shut down by 2035, there are only 4 left now. One got shut down last year, the next one is scheduled for 2027.

You're forgetting one important thing here: Bill Lee is a fucking idiot. If something is stupid, he will sign it.

"Firefox is to browsers as Joe Biden is to presidential candidates."

A perfect way to put it. Not what we really want, but far better than the alternative.

Check the date.

Further research was done. It's not useful for treating COVID-19.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/...

No, because all the idiots taking it were depleting the supply that was needed for parasites.

And there's already a problem with ivermectin-resistant head lice. Overuse is not helping that.

Narrator: It in fact does not help with covid.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/...

All of the currently available vaccines and Paxlovid have now gone through the full authorization process.

EUA-labeled Paxlovid is no longer approved as of 3/9/24.

Uh huh. So, a tiny study in 2020 in Bangladesh. You do know what PubMed is, right? It collects EVERYTHING. Not every article in it is peer reviewed, not everything in it is high quality. https://support.nlm.nih.gov/kn...

IVERMECTIN DOES NOT WORK FOR COVID-19. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/...

"There were no significant effects of ivermectin use on secondary outcomes or adverse events."

That's from the actually high quality New England Journal of Medicine. It's a MUCH larger study, 3515 patients vs 72.

The vaccines work. Paxlovid works. Ivermectin works for parasites, it's not been found useful for viral infections, and is not useful for COVID-19. Stop spreading misinformation.

Even if the history of Russian 'import substitution' weren't littered with farces where someone gets a gold star for domestically producing tractors...from imported Polish kits with the serial numbers filed off...or the like; "game console" seems like a strikingly hard target, especially relative to its value.

It's a consumer product, rather than the state or state owned or heavily influenced companies being the customer, so there's a lot less leverage in terms of just making 'domestically produced' patriotic and mandatory; and it's a toy that only some people are even interested in, so it's even more difficult to distinguish between people who don't buy Super Motherland 3 because they just don't play video games and ones who don't buy it because they are playing Genshin Impact on something imported from China or a cracked copy of CoD on the wintel they say they use for work. Obviously possible, if you wanted to divert even more statesec guys from keeping an eye on planned terrorist attacks in order to do traffic analysis to look for game pirates; but not obviously worth the trouble.

It's also a pretty demanding category: customers tend to be pretty cost-sensitive and tend to expect frankly remarkable levels of hardware and software punch that are deliverable only thanks to mass production at all levels(whether you are talking ICs, game engines, asset packs, or very large numbers of sales of the final product). This isn't some military thing where you'd like more; but it's workable, and arguably worth it, to be able to reliably deliver domestic clones of some 20-year-old TI DSP even at twice the market price. Unless you are running a crackdown on the alternatives that would make North Korea blink that's not going to work on the gaming side: expectations are high and prices are low; and 'good enough' is defined in large part relative to what other people have, rather than to specific requirements.

Well, that's a take. An incredibly stupid take, but a take nonetheless.

Businesses ARE collusion. We're not talking about a single employee negotiating with a single person employing them. We're talking about MASSIVE corporations, a single employee has no chance having a meaningful negotiation with that. Unions are the only thing that puts humans on a remotely close to even playing field.

Ahh, that Romney bullshit again.

100% of working Americans pay federal income tax. There's a 15.3% federal income tax that starts at the first earned dollar, they hide half of it from you by taxing it before you ever get the check. Then there's the 10% tax bracket that starts after the $13,850 standard deduction, most Americans make more than that.

The only people who pay no federal income tax are the wealthy, because they can hide their income, and when they are taxed on it, it's usually capital gains that are only taxed at 20%.

US taxes are a mess. We really need to bring back the 90% tax bracket and tax capital gains the same as any other income.

Oh, and with the prevalence of 'gig' work now, LOTS of Americans are filing a schedule C.