Assassin’s Creed Shadows takes place in Japan circa 1579…300 years before the advent of the incandescent light bulb

These little jabs are great.

they should be paying proportionally to the damage they cause

Good news, electricity is already taxed. Driving larger EVs already costs more in taxes than driving smaller, more efficient EVs.

Electricity is already taxed.

We don’t need more government tracking of our every move.

Yeah, it’s incredibly important that resources like Wikipedia remain neutral. I’m glad more people are paying attention to this now.

Less about people being too stupid and more about people just not seeing the point. The average person touches the AC/Heat switch only a few times a year.

I personally love the days where it’s cool enough at night to open the windows and get the house temperature down. Means the AC the next day doesn’t have to do nearly as much (and thus my electric bill isn’t as high).

Now, the question will be, will they actually keep it around this time? This was a feature they introduced in Vista, and soon after killed.

Average citizens banding together into interest groups is a pretty common way to get things passed, and this chart agrees.

Your first link doesn’t separate correlation and causation. Is a high murder rate area more likely to cause people to buy a gun, or the inverse? I can tell you for sure people who are in a bad situation generally don’t just sit on their asses and do nothing.

When the intruder alarm goes off, police are minutes away, the intruder is only seconds from you. You are the only person who can reliably protect you. Buy a gun, learn how to use it, and keep it in an accessible place.

or if he’s just playing up the shock value like an edgelord

Nothing shocking about it, South Africa discriminates based on race.

Starlink, the satellite internet service operated by Musk’s SpaceX, has been unable to enter the South African market due to the country’s Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) regulations. These laws require that companies providing communication services be at least 30% owned by historically disadvantaged groups to receive an operating license.

We can also change a single variable and have him sell 30% of it.

And if he sells 30% of it to people of ‘the wrong race’, South Africa still won’t allow in the company. The critical variable is the race of the owner(s); South Africa is demonstrably discriminating based on race.

While that is shit, if I call a restaurant to make a reservation and they just tell me to go to their website, I’m probably going elsewhere anyway.

Why even have a phone number if it is useless?

Under current conditions Starlink cannot exist in South Africa. If we change a single variable, Musk’s race to black, then Starlink can exist in South Africa (it would be >30% owned by a black person).

South Africa is discriminating based on race.

https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/markets/starlink-is-not-allowed-to-operate-in-south-africa-because-im-not-black-elon-musk/wrz3chh?op=1

The article literally says South Africa bans Starlink due to the race of the owner. As his race does not meet South Africa’s Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) regulations:

Starlink, the satellite internet service operated by Musk’s SpaceX, has been unable to enter the South African market due to the country’s Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) regulations. These laws require that companies providing communication services be at least 30% owned by historically disadvantaged groups to receive an operating license.

Heavily suggests they have no spare capacity in the system. All the redundancies are gone, everything is now a single-point failure. Anytime something breaks or needs to go offline for maintenance, there will simply be an outage instead of rerouting through the backup system.

Pretty expected when they continue to attack merchant shipping.

You can buy an egg timer for a few bucks. They say the perfect number of words; zero.

Be the change you want to see in the world. Post some original content, comment on posts, add value.

Is it getting filtered into the spam folder by accident?

I don’t expect the invader to accept a proposal to stop their invasion. Hopefully Trump realizes this soon and surges support to Ukraine to force Russia to stop their invasion.

Trump immediately announced all previous restrictions on weapons aid and intel sharing to be lifted from Ukraine

Seems he is half-way there in doing what needs to be done to stop Russia’s invasion.