The article reads more like an advertisement then it does an actual news article. Six 245 watt panels is 1.47 kW, a tiny fraction of what a normal house gets, I use to sell nothing less than 5.4 kW when I sold solar because any less and I would get complaints that the panels weren't doing enough and their electricity bill was still way too high. So this might be enough to keep a few phones charged or power a wifi router and hotspot, and that 24v battery might keep everything running overnight, but you're not going to run a microwave or AC with that, you're still better off with a 8kW $1,000 gas generator when you need to microwave something or run a A/C even if it does use about a gallon of fuel a hour.

... this is to accomplish two things: justification of their real estate holdings and committing wage theft. That's it.

Empty offices and their equipment cannot be counted in expenses, and therefore worked into how they underpay taxes, unless they are being credibly used.

If you are physically there, they can strong-arm you into staying longer than the eight hours you've contracted with them to work. Please cast all of your salary-justifies-wage-theft commentary to the ocean.

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You'll need to make it a Big Deal but the NSA can be directed to release them. The NSA can say "no" and then Biden can say, "LOL release the tapes dickwads."

They still work for the public. Call your reps and have them remind them. Unless of course you are in a Confederate state then best to simply shoot your reps.

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that might be true, but eating a perfectly balanced diet every day is more difficult and more expensive than just taking a multivitamin. I wasn't a believer, but I started taking 2 multivitamins twice a day and I have never felt better so I really don't care if I'm pissing money away if it makes me feel good.

Apple should buy Valve, and offer optimized updates for games and "verified" status on Apple devices like Valve currently does for Steamdeck. Valve is worth 8 billion. Apple is worth 3 trillion. I'm shocked Apple or Microsoft hasn't done it already considering Valve is so cheap.

Honestly, I predict Valve will take over the console market, because they've proven with the steam deck that PC gamers are willing to ditch a keyboard and mouse if provided with a proper controller and the steam deck has been able to run a surprisingly large number of AAA titles on $350 handheld device. Imagine what they could do with a plug-in console device not bound by limited batteries and storage? No screen, no batteries, two m.2 2280 slots, price it at $299 with controller and xbox and playstation wouldn't know what hit them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?... shows what ABBA looks like. Some of it just looks like a large screen, and this is an edited video put out by ABBA themselves so ymmv on how it looks in real life. They do not allow any cameras or filming which is concerning, but then maybe it looks better in person and they don't want customers scared away with a shaky tiktok video zoomed in on the screens? It's hard to say, maybe from 50 feet away it would look very real, but a cameraphone's video would not give a honest view of what someone in person would see? I don't know for sure, but the no filming rule means I'm going to pass, if I'm spending that kind of money I want to take videos and pictures to remember the experience, and if the technology can't handle a video that's their problem, not mine.

Correct. He was a middle school principal for 10 years but claims he doesn't know what pulling a fire alarm does. It would be comical if it wasn't so infuriating.

Because he took a oath to 'preserve, protect and defend' the Constitution, not support it, is what Trump's legal team said. And all of this is because democrats are trying to not allow voters to vote for Trump in some states. Which just seems crazy that democrats are trying to tell Americans they can't vote for a former president.

Were the characters gay in the books or original stories? Having LGBTQ characters in an adult focused movie isn't woke if they were always LGBTQ.

Woke: The political weaponization of social, racial or ethnic identity by subversive Marxists for the purpose of stirring controversy, creating division, or causing conflict where there previously wasn't any.

So having a cartoon movie like Disney's Strange World that focuses on a gay teenage relationship would be woke, but two adults in a star wars movie isn't. Make sense? Lightyear's cartoon lesbian kissing scene and Elemental's cartoon non-binary characters are all example of woke movies that flopped at the box office. Little Mermaid's woke race swapping also failed, the least profitable live action Disney movie since covid's Mulan.

More examples of how not woke Barbie is: Mattel released a gay Ken doll in.... wait for it.... 1993, exactly 30 years ago. What perfect timing!! Have him run all around the movie, re-release the doll, sell millions to LGBTQ! Make accessories, maybe a cartoon or spin-off movie! Right? Wrong: no big gay famous scene in the movie. How about "Ken's buddy" Allen played by Michael Cera? Surely Ken's "buddy" would have some homoerotic woke gay tension, right? Nope, not a second. Barbie had so little LGBTQ content that some were disappointed that a movie about a child's toy wasn't the LGBTQ woke movie they expected.

Barbie isn't woke though, not even a little. The movie is a satire about modern American society, using a plastic doll as a vehicle to create tension between flawed, idealized versions of what societies “should” look like. Yes, you might think it's woke because there are LGBTQ actors in the movie, but none of the characters they play are LGBTQ, and there are no LGBTQ scenes in the movie. The movie mocks the patriarchy and anyone that believes it's real. I'm sorry you didn't understand the humor, maybe watch it again and you'll get it? For example, Ken believes in patriarchy, so he goes around trying to find a job. He's turned down everywhere, even as a lifeguard, because patriarchy does not get you a job in the real world.

Do you have any examples of actual woke movies that did well?

Barbie wasn't woke though. The movie is a satire about modern American society, using a plastic doll as a vehicle to create tension between flawed, idealized versions of what societies “should” look like. The movie had no LGBTQ characters and had no LGBTQ scenes like many other "woke" movies have had recently. Yes, there were actors that are LGBTQ in real life, but none of that was in the movie. And yes, Barbie is diverse, but so are the toys, which the movie explained at the beginning. The movie following the toys does not make it "woke", it's just following what the toys already do.

Do you have any actual woke movies that did well?

Disney World Resort are losing customers too, at least 20%

"broke" is relative. "They" are not going to be living in cardboard boxes under freeways anytime soon, but when you're use to making billions and are reduced to "only" making hundreds of millions, that's "broke" to them.

right to "clean and healthful environment" is incredibly vague, case should have been thrown out immediately just like all the other cases have failed.