AlternatePersonMan

Hammerhead shark?

Well that's terrifying... I might watch the show if it ever comes out

I finally asked my wife to find someone to discuss it with. Scheduling appointments is so difficult for me, let alone finding who I'm supposed to see, whether that's a vet, a doctor, or a mechanic. I imagine you can Google (or duckduckgo) "Adhd doctor near me" or something

Anyway, I only take meds on the days that I need to be productive, but same story. On those days it feels like I snuck a cheat sheet into a test. The same kind of "this is just how most people live? You can just get shit done?"

It needs to be law that all public officials release their tax records...Also no stock holdings.

No one needs Plex pass. I don't even recall what it does. You just send an invitation to their email. It will try to get them to subscribe, but they don't need to. They just need to accept from you and setup a plain account. Maybe even just login from a Google account.

You may need to walk them through setup/installation on whatever device they use, because Plex tries to put a bunch of things that aren't your content on the home screen.

Strangely, Plex (remotely) performs differently depending on the device. I've never had any issue with a computer or phone (you do have to make a one time $5 payment for the phone app). My horribly slow TV runs Plex surprisingly well. It runs like garbage on my PS4, and sometimes struggles on my Xbox series X.

If the streaming runs choppy for remote users, there are some settings you can adjust. But that's another story.

Not sure what changes, but it's scary how much Google controls. Even if we just broke off YouTube from them, that would be a big deal.

Ideally we would split their search engine, YouTube, and chrome each into two competing companies. (Google A, Google B, Chrome A, Chrome B, YouTube A, YouTube B)

Because Google has so much power they can make changes that will break search results, websites, and browsers if you don't accept changes that are beneficial to them.

The crazy thing is that you don't need to cherry pick quotes or take them out of context to make him look like an idiot.

Listen to pretty much any interview or speech and he says something that is clearly idiotic, evil, or a blatant lie. Most likely all three... Repeatedly.

I get that Fox News is a hell of a drug, but just hearing this dipshit speak should shatter the illusion. The unwavering support is mind boggling.

I see your point, but Forbes methodology for verification isn't flawless.

If the 4.8 billion dollar value is based on truth social, that number is crashing. If it's based on his other assets, I don't have much faith in that value either.

To say Trump exaggerates about the value of his assets would be an understatement. He makes up huge numbers that are nowhere close to reality. The big numbers are used to his advantage when it suits him, and much smaller numbers are reported to the IRS.

A quick search on golf courses came up with this story, though there are many more.

The point is, his actual net worth is a bit of a mystery. If the truth came out, I very much doubt it would be anywhere close to 4.8 billion.

The 2020 incident? Texas failed because they didn't properly winterize their infrastructure. Not because they were using green energy. It was almost entirely gas that failed.

Also there are a number of ways to store and transfer energy.

The real issue in Texas was unregulated capitalism. Energy prices skyrocketed like 6000% at the time, because they could get away with it.

I live in Minnesota and those idiots are charging me for their lack of preparation.

Wow, just looked that up, and people are spending ~11% of their income on groceries. I was just saying that groceries have gone from a part of my budget that I don't really think about, to the #2 expense, behind my mortgage.

Outside of not allowing mergers for large companies, I would like stronger restrictions on deceptive packaging/marketing. Off the top of my head, shrinkflation items should be required to have a big ugly warning on the label.

... Plus all those people that died in their knowingly faulty planes

It's easy to blame consumers. We have too much junk and get a little endorphin boost when we buy more. But the reality is, evil companies are far, far worse than we know. Here's a few reasons why:

• They often lobby to have our choices removed so we need to use their product. Coal energy hasn't made financial sense in a long time, yet we still use it.

• Evil companies will do anything to save even pennies. Paper companies dumped pcbs directly into rivers for decades. At the consumer level, we didn't know this was happening. They have lobbied to push back against EPA regulations like CAFE

• The recycling logo gets put all plastics... Even though most of it isn't actually recyclable. Again, a mirage from evil companies.

• Mergers have shrunk our choices further. Almost everything in the grocery store down to just 10 companies.

I could go on, but the point is that at the consumer level we often don't have a choice. Or there's too much smoke behind the scenes for us to make an informed choice. Companies are polluting because it makes them more money, not because it saves us any.