This is just like a rice cooker. Since the toaster and microwave, there have been few kitchen gadgets that actually make life easier, but they are my rice cooker, my coffee pods, and my air fryer. All of them turn a common food process you need to pay attention to, to simply press a button and walk away.

And before people talk about junk and processed foods …. My air fryer is great with chicken breasts and tofu. I’ve used it to cook more actual chicken than processed chicken-like food product. An air fryer is just a tool/gadget: it’s entirely your choice what you use it for

Same here but also I don’t want a truck nor something with that low range. Aside from being not what I’m interested in , the “blank slate” concept is compelling enough to be very interesting. I’m definitely going to follow this.

For everyone reflexively hating on this “Bezos Mobile”, I’m well aware of the reputation Amazon built for itself. However they are promising something people could own. For a reasonable price. And even customize. Instead of jumping right to negativity, this warrants some optimism

Keep an eye on Slate. Hope they do well

Colored streets is all it takes huh? Then we’re truly at risk of a birth-pocalypse.

I’d go even further: public money is perfectly justified in painting it exactly one color, the color chosen for visibility. Beautifying the street, Adding color, character, interest to the neighborhood was privately funded and that should continue to be encouraged

You must have missed the post the other day, where some idiot texting ran over a girl in a crosswalk, then got out of his car to yell at her

I always assumed these cases were somewhat proactive. Here’s someone who said something about peace and is in a position to make it happen. Let’s try to shame them into it

Probably

No surprise that they are going to power this beast at all costs

I mean, they could use their fascist power grab to drive through the infrastructure work to expand power transmission lines needed to support a modern economy, renewables, and yes more datacenters

Additional coal is just the easiest way since we already have century old power lines bringing that power where it’s needed

Yes, in this case, coal might be easiest, cheapest, fastest because we can continue to neglect infrastructure. It’ll fall apart on someone else’s administration

But they have gotten significantly worse over time. I did buy a Fire Stick knowing i was getting ads, but it was so much better the Apps on my smart tv and cheap that it was well worth it. Now it’s gotten bad enough that I no longer use it but suffer through the TV’s apps

I do plan on trying Apple TV in case it stays useable but at this point I’m not buying consumer tech from three years ago

Similarly with the Fire tablet. I knew I was getting ads when I bought them way back when, but tablets were expensive. Fire tablets were much cheaper and quite usable so the tradeoff was worth it. That long since stopped being true, and this experience is e partly why I don’t have an echo show.

I do want some dory of home dashboard, but echo show had never been under consideration. If the Apple rumors are real I might try that but otherwise I guess I’ll see when I have the motivation to build my own

Edit: rereading the post, this is even on devices where people paid extra to be ad free

Here’s a place you could look

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States

Or if you want something specific to that money, the search ai says

Tariff money collected in the U.S. goes to the U.S. Treasury’s general fund, where it can be used for various government programs, but it is not earmarked for specific purposes. Congress must authorize any spending from this fund, similar to how income tax dollars are handled.

Charron recommends starting with small steps like unplugging chargers for phones and other devices

This is completely useless advice leftover from two decades ago. All of these chargers have been active power supplies for a long time, and use almost no power when not in use

Meanwhile my coffee maker’s power button is on a touch screen? Who the eff designed that? How about yelling at corps to stop doing shit like this?

Why the fuck would congress give up the only remaining power

While I’ve asked that same question many times, they keep doing it.

However in this case it looks like Congress doing its job requires passing some sort of budget to reopen the government. If they let Trump usurp their power to fund WIC, that takes off some of the pressure and they don’t have to cave to Democrats

Bullshit. We’ve gone through that months ago and your link states

Federal courts have ruled that the tariffs imposed under the IEEPA are illegal

And that has nothing to do with the President claiming he can allocate that money as he sees fit

• it’s great for natives to get ownership over the natural resources being exploited from their land
• its great to see coal leases going for essentially nothing - dead dinosaur corps can’t stop renewable!
• this company seems to have a renewable energy portfolio

But this company does operate mines. I don’t see anything about their intentions for this lease so we have to assume that is the price where they could profitably exploit those resources

Yeah, my youngest just headed off to college so I was hoping to at least get a break in food prices but nope. My grocery bill for only me is essentially the same as when I also had a starving teenager to fill up

But who’s the self getting owned? In this case it’s the us

• with a mythology as the bastion of freedom, nation of immigrants, melting pot, etc leaning fascist hard enough to drive people toward a known fascist country
• with pride in science and innovation, leaning fascist hard enough to drive away the best and the brightest, the future of our science and innovation

Sure we all make our own assumptions based on our experiences. Here that’s not an expensive house and you’re not going to find many that cheap with four bedrooms. In a lot of places the price is the land and the cost of the house on it is just a small part of what you’d need to pay.

Owls are librulz, they only want to escape the us, not return