XBox used to be a good console, but now that you can play all XBox games on your PC or laptop, the console is meaningless.
Only if there is a PC version. While many Xbox games are on PC, not all Xbox games are on PC.
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.
Green energy has less impact, not zero. The main impact is the lack of green house gases as byproduct.
which is questionable with wind, solar, and battery due to the sunk carbon cost of building them and mining the requirement materials.
As opposed to fossil fuel energy production which has zero carbon cost of building and mining . .
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.
So what you are saying is Texas is all about capitalism and profit. Providing energy is a necessary resource for their residents is not part of their goal. To that I would agree.
ut 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).
Ethanol was never a silver bullet. Ethanol reduces pollution when added to gasoline as it produces less green house gases. Using ethanol in no way reduces the amount of gasoline vehicles that exist on the road.
The same factors that affect Texas affect Blue states, like Oregon, Massachusetts, Minnesota, et al. Why aren't they experiencing a boom in renewables? It's not like Texas is exempting anybody from Federal tariffs
The lie is that they are not.All states have experienced a boom. All states.
if you ask a random sampling of people in a store, or literally anywhere, "gaming console" will be the predominate answer to the order of 99.9% of answers.
Again, MS says otherwise. According to MS, "Xbox" means whatever it says today. That might change tomorrow.
this is a stupid premise that a retard decided they could run an article on. honestly probably just AI slop. and a pro tip - if a headline starts has something like "NOBODY" in it, then you know its just rage bait.
No. In October 2025, Asus launched the ROG Xbox Ally and ROG Xbox Ally X handhelds. They do not play Xbox games. They play PC games. The naming was blessed by MS. This was no hallucination or AI slop. This happened.
Available land is not a primary concern for California, despite your list of land ownership.
In what world is available land not a primary concern? I can't build my new shed on my neighbor's yard any more than California can build wind and solar farms on federal land.
Regulation is a major inhibitor.
Because it must be in your world. The fact that as a matter of practicality CA cannot build plants on land that isn't there seems have no place in your thinking.
This article addresses both. https://www.ucs.org/resources/... [ucs.org]
It does not. That is a lie. The article says CA needs more energy and must overcome all the obstacles to do so. Zero part of it addresses the fact that building solar and wind installations requires securing rights to the land where these installations occupy. Zero.
Perhaps the "orange one" sees the inherit danger of becoming completely dependent upon other nations for necessities.....and weakening oneself by becoming less and less self sufficient.
Perhaps some people know that almost no country is independent of every other country. Completely self-sufficiency is a dream for some but for others a delusion.
an Xbox is a gaming console - next question.
If you read the summary, that's the problem. To MS, Xbox is also phones, smart TVs, PCs, and handhelds. It no longer means the console; it is whatever MS decides it is on any given time period.
Xbox has been around a while, and has its marketshare. It is also available on PCs, and anyone w/ a Microsoft account can access it. And it's not like Microsoft has a marginal presence in the overall computer market
Did you read the summary or even the article? The problem is not nobody knows the brand "Xbox". The problem is MS marketing has been shifting the branding to include PCs, phones, smart TVs, etc creating lots of confusion. In October 2025, Asus launched the ROG Xbox Ally; it cannot play Xbox games but PC games. Anyone buying it would have to read the fine print that it cannot play their Xbox games they may have previously purchased.
Land is not a constraint for California, it's bigger than Montana, there is plenty of space for wind farms.
Well that's very shortsighted thinking. A state having more land area within its borders is not the same as a state having available land to install wind or solar energy. A major factor is land ownership. 45% of California land is owned by the federal government compared to 29% in Montana and 1.9% in Texas. CA owns roughly 7% with private ownership accounting for 48%. Montana owns about 10% with 62% being private. The state of California cannot install wind farms on federal or private land just because they want.
That also does not account for whether the land is suitable for installation. Alaska by area is the largest state; no one is urging large solar installations there for obvious reasons. When it comes to wind energy, the middle of the country produces the most wind power as there is simply more wind there.
Personally, I believe it comes down to regulation.
The problem is your personal belief does not coincide with reality or data. Just because you have a hammer does not mean everything must be a nail.
While true, this raises the question: Why haven't these same economic terms resulted in a renewable explosion in blue states?
Because that's a lie and it has. Over the last 10 years, solar and wind generation growth:
In solar and wind, it is not a blue vs red. All states have seen large growth.
As a California native, I've seen rolling blackouts, wild fires taking out power lines, wind storms knocking down lines, snow storms knocking down lines, tornadoes knocking down lines, etc
What you are describing is natural disasters causing power problems. With Texas, they have been the champions of both deregulation and laissez-faire economics. This has extended to the point where their grid is largely disconnected from the rest of the US to avoid regulations.
That was the cause of the 2021 disaster where nearly the entire state was without power for an extended period of time during harsh winter conditions. The ultimate cause was the primarily private power companies did not winterize their plants. After a 2011 winter storm nearly crippled the state grid, ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas), the state’s main regulatory body recommended all power companies winterize their plants. Since this is Texas, ERCOT can only recommend; the state makes sure it had no power to enforce it as regulation. Ten years after warning that a major winter storm could cripple the state's grid, a major winter storm crippled the state’s grid.
Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries, knows nothing about grapes. -- Philippus Paracelsus
