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You are unlike most people. Most people just want to come home and watch TV. Historically it used to be cable, now it's YouTube or similar. What do you think is the quickest way to watch YouTube?

Parent had a sarcastic reaction to Texas burning fossil fuels - which they have a lot of. They also have sunshine. Sweden seems to have neither but has hydro.

Point is each geographic entity is maximizing their resources. And they have every right to without outside interference.

Chat GPT output; do take with a grain of salt.

TX generated 4x the absolute solar electricity as Sweden and 5x per person in the last 12 months.

For the same reason people buy shiny new cars, bikes, keyboards....you name it. The novelty and sometimes bragging rights in the circles they inhabit.

The opposite of what's being alleged. From TFA:

Broadly, the interlocking restraints set and maintained by the defendants have forced merchants that accept any Visa and Mastercard credit card to accept all such cards, regardless of cost, thereby eliminating any incentive for issuing banks to compete by lowering their fees, the suit says. The lawsuit claims the challenged restraints have also prevented merchants from being able to steer customers to lower-cost payment options—for instance, by surcharging based on a customer’s use of a particular card. These and other restraints have prevented competition among issuing banks and other credit card networks, allowing the financial giants to raise their fees every year “without consequence,” the case alleges.

It's how things were always done. The content from broadcasters has/had audio watermarks...frequencies which humans can't hear.

To be fair - no one is suggesting the gunslinger shouldn't go to jail or worse. It's using that crime as an excuse to take other people's guns away.

In this example, the equivalent would be everyone gets their AI models banned vs. putting the perpetrator of this fraud in jail.

Good thing that Chevron is no longer the law of the land right? So courts can review the law without regard to what the EPA says.

For enough income, maxing out 401K is the one way to reduce taxes and keep your money.

A symptom of the larger problem to want to divest and outsource everything not considered a "core competence". Hence the outsourcing of everything from housekeeping to IT

Also, get off my lawn.

ToS missteps notwithstanding, it's a bit more than your data surfaced back to you. You share your data and in return you get to share in other people's data. Fairly common community data.

Whether it's what HubSpot customers want, opt in/opt out are valid criticisms.

In fairness, all of these firings are at public universities. The 1A applies at a much higher bar than a corporation.

The shoe was on the other foot when conservative professors were being fired or disciplined for expressing - say "anti trans" viewpoints publicly. The outcomes were largely the same.

The biggest issue is that enforcement and litigation is limited to the VA AG. You and I as wronged citizens can't go sue.

That's corny capitalism. A sibling post that talked about 1750 ft or whatever is just noise.