I haven't seen a 240v in a garage in decades, and those were low income housing with a clothes dryer in the garage. Hell, last I saw one was 1999?

You have to take the age of the cars into account. And I'm pretty sure most ICE vehicle fires are electrical related (coming from a BMW driver who keeps getting recall notices for risks of electrical fires, plus being on enthusiast groups where peeps BMWs have caught fire under the dashboard...)

Quoting the link you gave:

"Molotov cocktails, or glass bottles filled with gasoline that ignite their fuse when broken"

Did they use an LLM to write that line? Because that's not what a Molotov cocktail is. Assuming the fuse is the rag, it's lit before the glass bottle is broken, not after.

Yeah.. I flew into Minneapolis for a 1 month contract job and got mugged by 4 people on my 6th day there. Was fun.

I know I read articles from them via links from outside sources. But I actually had to look up who they were to know that... wish them luck.

Yeah. It's not ascii. Also looks like a duck...

Where he mentioned that he'd never suspected it "wrapped around like that". I guess if you never looked at the mall map on the mall website you'd never suspect it...

Why can't a super intelligent AI just decide it wants to play chess against itself all day?

This is not always the case; there are some albums (albeit they are the exception, not the rule) where a modern day 'reissue' played side-by-side against an earlier release does in fact sound better.
As well, there are a number of companies out there re-mastering from original recordings (where available) specifically for vinyl.
Sites like Discogs have a large database of the quality of individual releases, and if you're looking for good quality sound, always check your issue against them before you buy.

Case in point, a few years ago I saw both an original pressing and a modern reissue (not re-mastered) of Red Hot Chili Pepper's 'Blood Sugar Sex Magick' in a record-store chain; the price difference was negligible, and both aligned fairly well to the 'market' value.
While in that situation I'd normally pick up the original pressing, in this case Discogs said the reissue was a better/cleaner sound, so I bought that one instead, and was not disappointed.

Your assertion is correct for most modern issuances, though, as unfortunate as that is.

He's dead, Jim

TFA states that Atlas Holdings bought the plant and converted it from coal to natural-gas to sell power back to a stressed grid at times of heavy load.

With renewable energy and batteries being cheaper now (and more cost-effective than natural-gas fired power plants), the plant was down to operating no more than 6h/day.

Now it's running 24h/day to mine BTC.

So no, it wasn't "still producing most of it's power", it was producing less than 25% of it's power, and shut down when the grid didn't need power.

Isn't that exactly why they designed and implemented M1; to rid themselves of the Core?

Because people who get something "all the time" are used to it.
Buildings are designed for the types of weather to be expected throughout their lifetime (with some variances built in for extremes); so too with utilities and infrastructure.

Buildings and infrastructure in California have a lot stricter codes as related to earthquakes than inland states or provinces. Buildings and infrastructure in Canada have to be rated to withstand -40C (even though most parts of Canada don't get that very often, if at all)
Even 30 years ago, Toronto Ontario did not have snow-removal as part of their normal budget, which caused the army to have to be brought in after what they considered a huge snowstorm (about 1-2 ft of snow), because there were not enough plows hired to move it, and nowhere to put it.
Policies have since changed, but that was a reaction after-the-fact.

Texas's climate isn't one where ice/snow/subzero temperatures are the rule; they're the exception (and a pretty big one at that, at least until recently)
Couple that with an old less-fault-tolerant grid (they didn't upgrade like the majority of the northeast coast of North America was forced to a decade ago) and a series of other issues, and they all compound into a state of emergency due to environmental factors they did not foresee ever having to deal with.

Except you are not free to offer your game or application (or store) to any iOS user except by the grace of Apple.
Epic is proposing that Apple has an unlawful monopoly in that they won't let Epic on the their platform (any off-the-shelf iOS device) without giving Apple a cut of their revenues.
This is not the case on a PC or Android phone;
The manufacturers (Dell, Samsung, etc) are not trying to stop users from installing EGS (or Steam, or GOG) on the PCs or phones they sell, or force EGS to give them a cut of the profits
The OS distributor (Google, Microsoft, etc) are not trying to stop users from installing EGS (or Steam, or GOG) on the PCs or phones they sell, or force EGS to give them a cut of the profits
Alternative app-stores providers (Microsoft, Steam, GOG) are not trying to stop users from installing EGS, or force EGS to give them a cut of the profits.

Not-so with Apple.
Neither the manufacturer (Apple), the OS distributor (Apple) nor the app-store provider (Apple) will allow a user to install EGS without EGS giving Apple 30% of each sale in perpetuity

That's just ludicrous...