The Charms bar... Damn you for bringing back such a painful memory!!!

Id released DOOM the Dark Ages in 2025 on the PS5. It looks like Starfield has a pending Playstation release this year. Elder Scrolls 6 does look like a PC/Microsoft XBOX exclusive. Is there a document that confirms your claims of xbox/pc only for those companies? They claimed the opposite about exclusives, but it would not be the first time M$ lied.

Some of these people have no internet or laptop and getting a smartphone is their critical devices for email, job hunting, etc. I don't think people should get things they can't afford, but to some this is a critical device that serves a lot of purpose and a dumb phone isn't capable of much for many people.

Apple was providing their own commentary, scores/graphics, and deciding which camera angle the viewer would see as if it was a regular broadcast. Which it is not. Instead of feeling like a floor level seat it is another TV broadcast forcing your perspective. This adds expense and reduces the being there live experience he wanted. To my understanding this is a specialized broadcast not a TV show being viewed through the headset.

the ACA made the insurance world somewhat regulatable in that it became mandatory. Credit cards and banking are not forced on us by law.

I am pretty sure a company cannot have their profit margin mandated in the United States. That is unconstitutional. Usury laws have precedent from 1545 with Henry the VIII's usury act which was 10%. Prior secular concerns kept people from charging this interest at the religious level.

Some banks issuing the credit make up to 50% of their revenue on this interest (43-56%). JP Morgan is afraid of losing this revenue stream, as are all banks. But the media manipulates people into thinking this predatory practice is a necessity helping those financially troubled masses. The glass-steagall act should never have been repealed. Not that it directly dealt with interest rates on credit cards. Banks need to be regulated. They caused the Arm A loan meltdown by the repeal, they caused the great depression and so much more.

Yes, People were fine when other politicians on both sides of the aisle proposed this.

By your logic, there should be no privacy because encryption uses power. Who deserves privacy in your opinion? I do agree we are wasting power on AI.

If a doctor states they are practicing medicine, it is an indication that they are professionally engaged in the business/performance of that pursuit. Did I need to say this or did I miss the sarcasm?

Many of the power facilities will need to expand to meet the power needs of these AI data centers. Paying for power and passing the cost of growth along to tax payers are two different things.

I didn't solicit whataboutisms. Stop trying to change the point that your anger for this legislation is that it might come from someone other than Bernie or Josh Hawley or AOC... The message isn't the issue; it is who gets credit for it.

Bernie Sanders and AOC proposed the same cap. What was their goal in proposing the same thing?

Why is this different than when AOC proposed the same legislation? The US 'usury' rate caps have nearly doubled since the 1980's. The current rates would be immediately illegal and have been getting pushed higher by these companies operating at 50 percent profits.

There is a significant difference between the O-1B visa and the EB-1 visa Melania came to the US with. O-1B is non-immigrant and temporary and requires a sponsor, EB-1 is permanent/immigrant and is a much higher level of skill to achieve. This is not to say she met that level of importance but the two visa's are not the same.