Yep, and that's exactly what happened the last time we stopped DST. The most notable instance was in 1974 during the energy crisis, when Congress enacted year-round DST. However, the change was highly unpopular due to dark, dangerous early morning commutes, prompting Congress to repeal it less than a year later in the fall of 1974. Some of us are old enough to remember that, and how much it sucked in the winter. So it very much has been tried before.

No need to be terrified, this is how it's supposed to work. Different States trying different things as the incubators of Democracy. Competing for resources like citizens and businesses. If NYC's mayor pulls it off they will attract more resources. If he doesn't well then those resources will move to other States and NYC will have a bad time. I've read history, and considering how horribly things like price controls have worked in the past, instead of terrified, I'm mostly thankful to NYC and CA for sending those huge piles of 'other people's money' to my State's tax base, I'll be even more thankful if all those refuges from blue States stop voting blue after they move to a red state. Cause I have a LOT of new retired neighbors that fled a blue state as they couldn't afford to retire there, getting 5 to 10 calls a week for people making cash offers on my house which isn't for sale because they have driven up demand so much.

Likely just bad writting by CNN. Checked multiple other sources and they state "result in the production of at least 15 billion chips".

Yes it's horrible, they are treating your computer the same way Google, Apple, Samsung, etc treat your phone or tablet. Where they make it easy to replace the hardware while having all your important settings/apps automatically brought over and configured, plus if you keep your data in cloud storage of choice, the hardware becomes very easy to replace without interrupting your life or job. Damn them all, we want it to be hard, where we have to clone hard drives, manually copy data, track down softwarwe installs, and remember how we had everything configured. Oddly enough the average person that's not a nerd, finds that very user friendly and might actually appreciate it, as do those of us they call to replace their hardware.

Agree, the bigger issue is we are past the point we need a good way to verify who you are on the Internet. As it's not like in physical world we don't have all kinds of products that are age limited and/or require ID to get access to them. Try doing almost anything important other than vote without an ID, like check into a hotel, rent a car, open a bank account, get a job, rent an apartment, buy alcohol, enter a federal building, board a plane, etc. Nothing wrong with anonymous for some stuff, but it would actually be useful to have a good secure way to verify to my bank for example that I'm actually the person accessing my banking account.

Pretty sure Jason Momoa solidy coverd the 'buff dude' required part, to go with the attrative woman. Could just be that we just thought it was a weak script with bad effects. Much like even Halle Berry couldn't save that mess that was Catwomen. Same thing here. Now you might have had a point on the new Snow White, where yep, the lead actress's very public and outspoken 'woke' agenda sank a timeless classic, driving home 'Go woke, go broke', as adopting a stance that alienates half your perspective audience is a horrible business decision. Doesn't matter really what the stance is, any stance that runs off half your potential customers is good for nothing but loosing you money.

And at the same time a much larger than either, France, hit 70% green power via nuclear in the 80's, and has reached 95% today with a combination of nuclear and renewable energy. So yes, so you can in fact do the majority of your power with nuclear if you decide to spend the money and do it. Adding solar/wind is a good add, as nuclear is great for base power, not so good for the variable part, which is where wind/solar/batteries fit in very well.

Aye my favorite is when they want proof I'm over 16. And somehow the fact that I've had an active account with them for over 20 years doesn't automatically cover that.

It's actually the exact opposite of greed. When someone builds a company and new product, they are creating wealth. The companies he owns are the net worth. Those companies employee a lot of people (22K just for SpaceX alone), putting a lot of money into the economy and tax base, which benefits everyone. It's not like he has most of that money, it's tied up in the theorectical value of his companies, most of which is potential for future value not actual value if you tried to liquidate them all today.

France is a better example. They hit 75% green energy back in the 80's, and are over 95% today. A large portion of the world has had the technology to go 100% green electrical power generation since 1954, just lacked the will to do it. China already got their wake up call, with all the pollution problems they have pushed onto the world stage when they hosted the olympics. The air in many of their cities was rated as toxic, pushing nuclear winter levels of smog. Embarraed their leadership on the world stage, so they took action. They are making great progress, but still have a ways to go. Much like the US did back in the 60's when they started passing all the clean air rules, for the same reason, the smog in cities. And sure, they are cheap goods. Easier to do that when you use forced labor - Uyghurs, ie slaves.

You missed an obvious option. They do not in fact have to create water, it already gets delivered in the form of rain/snow. They only have to stop more of it from flowing off into the ocean, for example by building a cooling pond. Same thing we have been doing for hundreds of years, building lakes to make more fresh water available in an area. The white paper makes it clear that they are making more usable water availabe in the watershed area that their datacenter pulls from. Something we have been doing for hundreds of years by building lakes, and adding generators to power things starting with simple paddle wheels to run a grain mill all the way up to something like the Hover Dam producing electricity. So if you do it right, you can get not only more available water, but renewable power generation as a bonus.

Considering how much the people 'learned' from the OPEC oil embargo in the 70's, when they had to sit in lines for hours to maybe get a ration of gas, that's not a safe bet. As soon as the prices come back down where it is not in the front of their minds every time the fill up the car, they will quickly forget again, just like they did before. As evidence of that forgettfulness, fuel is still cheaper than it was in 2022 under Biden for 6 months topping $5 a gallon on average at it's highest, that's only 4 years ago, yet you seem to have already forgetten that.

That and annoying people is why I stopped going. Seeing/hearing people's phones is during the movie is annoying. I have a nice home theater setup at home, my recliner is way more comfortable, and I can pause the movie anytime I want to if I need to use the bathroom, grab a snack, dinner, or a beer, that I don't have pay 10 times more than it's worth.

And if they go that route add surge pricing if they want to start their day at 0800 and end it at 1700, with incentives or discounts if they stagger the opening and closing times as that would do wonders for scalling back rush hour. They have known for decades you just can't afford to build enough roads to handle every single person having to be to work at exactly the same time.

That's mostly because CA and TX both want green energy, but they mean different things. CA wants 'green' energy that has no impact on the environment, which is questionable with wind, solar, and battery due to the sunk carbon cost of building them and mining the requirement materials. TX want's 'green' energy, as in it generates piles of 'green' money. And they figured out how to make money on wind, solar, and batteries (cause they are great for load balancing your electrical grid and making it more profitable), so they built them, and are making money, plus getting some good press for going 'green' as a bonus. But they all know under the covers that after you pay for all the concrete, installation, do all the mining (with highly questionalble labor contracts involving outright slavery in places), that while it makes cash, it is no more the silver bullet to going green than ethonol turned out to be (though that also generated a lot of 'green' cash for corn farmers).