You’re acting like that’s a common scenario…

There’s a few small slices of area in a minority of states where you might be legally allowed to pick, but that is not a guarantee there’s more than one option.

To my knowledge most of them are artificial monopolies anyways.

Like, in Perfectville your choice between any available provider is legally protected. However company A and company B made a handshake deal to draw a line down the area and not provide service on one side of the line.

https://competitiveenergy.org/consumer-tools/state-by-state-links/

Very few of those green states are for electricity

And if you just meant:

Non profit = good

Then I’m going to have to explain an entirely different thing…

And I’m not optimistic about our chances to be honest

Bullshit.

You really think companies in America with monoplies would lower prices just because their costs went down?

I wish I lived in an America like that…

People thought they’d hang onto CDs and DVDs too…

Good luck…

Even when the bubble bursts, they’re going to have an insane amount of computing power just sitting there, it will get sold off in bankruptcy proceedings, and some company will gobble it up and operate at a loss while continuing to secure future supply contracts.

There’s a very real chance that we’re witnessing the slow death of home computing.

The way things shake out it might end up being prohibitively expensive compared to cloud computing, and once that’s the norm they price gouge like Walmart did to destroy small businesses.

Instead of dropping a couple grand for a PC every couple years, we’ll have steady contracts paying for month at a time indefinitely.

they still have Respawn making Star Wars games.

I mean, that’s an exclusivity thing again…

From 2013 to 2023 only EA could work on Star Wars games. It was supposed to be a bunch of high quality epic games…

We got a couple that were decent because there’s no alternatives. And most of the time was wasted on battlefront and it’s terrible micro transactions.

Like…

"The intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different heroes.

Literally came from the beginning of that exclusivity deal…

EA:

We can go lower

Like, everyone knows that EA is a terrible company, but it’s insane how they continually lower the bar. It’s honestly impressive how EA keeps innovating new ways to piss off consumers.

If they ever lose their sports exclusivity contracts, they’re cooked.

Madden and FIFA is why they’ll never stop being profitable

Damn, that shits crazy:

The jury was then subsequently kept for three days without “meat, drink, fire and tobacco” to force it to bring in a guilty verdict. When it failed to do so, the judge ended the trial. As punishment, the judge ordered the jurors imprisoned until they paid a fine to the court.[35]

Four jurors refused to pay the fine, and after several months, Bushell sought a writ of habeas corpus. Chief Justice Vaughan, sitting on the Court of Common Pleas, discharged the writ, released them, called the power to punish a jury “absurd” and forbade judges from punishing jurors for returning a verdict the judge disagreed with

No wonder that dude founded Pennsylvania

I tried googling if you all have jury nullification, but just got AI slop and stuff about America…

The most I know about the UK legal system is the cool wigs, and what I learned from Sherlock and Misfits.

But I’d assume a jury can do whatever they want. As long as you’re not self snitching, you don’t have to explain anything. And we’re talking about government support of an ongoing genocide, it’s hard to expect jurours to solely follow the letter of the law.

Like I said tho, I’m completely ignorant of your justice system. Was Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret accurate by any chance?

International law guarantees an unequivocal right of resistance, including armed resistance, to people under illegal occupation. Legal experts say that UK terrorism legislation breaches international law by blocking this right.

“We are birthing superintelligence. We are creating the mind of God, infinite, destined to solve every problem we’ve ever faced and usher in an age without death.”

What brain rotted CEO grifter is that quote even from?

Prebuilts have become about the only way to get a deal for a while now.

Wasn’t the studios fault

They fought to change the name since the beginning because they knew it would be impossible to deliver a real sequel and while this name might get initial sales it would cause blowback killing the game almost immediately…

Which is exactly what happened.

Like, they’d have loved to make Masquerade 2, but they weren’t given the time or funds to make it.

Teach a man to fish…

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/324466-tutorial-how-to-upscale-star-trek-deep-space-nine

Starting with 480p tho, you’re gonna have to be realistic with what you can end up with. What you’ve found and what you’re complaining about might be the best possible image quality already.

Don’t count out device level upscaling either. Having that on top of the AInl upscaler might help, or it might make your problems worse.

I’ve got a 4k TV that does a really good job of upscaling, so for me the Goldilocks zone is upscaling to 1080, then letting the TV upscale. Rather than trying to upscale to 4k and play that natively.

Why do people feel the need to do that to themselves?

None of us are in her orbit, she does not interact with an average person.

All the women in her circles look like that, and we all (to varying extents) want to look like the people around us. You don’t even realize it, but it’s a thing.

Now, what makes high level cosmetic surgery so bad, is that it is insanely expensive and done by world class surgeons. So rich women started out doing things that made them conventionally more attractive in subtle ways.

Poor people want to be like wealthy people. So they got the same surgeries done at a lower quality.

But older wealthy people want to look like current younger people they see. And for Hollywood that means young women who couldn’t afford good cosmetic surgery but felt they had to get it and didn’t want for their faces to finish growing first.

What were flaws then become intentional, and since it’s easier and still being done by the literal world’s best, the result comes out almost identical regardless of the face that went in.

We’ve went thru that cycle a couple times. But there’s no signs it’s stopping, shits gonna be real weird in a nother couple decades.

You start with the result you want and work backwards:

C. Everything Biden did should be undone.

B. Biden did something frequently

A. Say any use of innocuous thing is invalidated

You see it a lot online, when people say X is true because of Y. But if they admit Y is flawed, that doesn’t change their mind about X. They’ll just invent a new reason.

You say Cloaca and it’s one of those words everyone’s heard but don’t really understand…

Combination but vagina

Really gets the point across

Weird…

Could have sworn she had tiger blood coursing through her veins

Reminder that her daughter’s dad is Charlie Sheen, meaning that at the height of his crazy, Kate was shacking up with him

She always seemed intelligent, but I think it’s just because she has an English accent

Like, she doesn’t even know chickens have a combination but vagina, and we’re supposed to take her word on this?

There’s a non-zero chance her daughter and the boyfriend are fucking with her too. Even if I saw an egg come out of someone’s but, I’m gonna take the logical explanation that he or someone else put it up there. Especially since it was apparently hard boiled.

As a result there’s a capacity crunch on memory production, shooting the prices for RAM sky high, over 100 percent in the last few months alone

They said “market price”… What market are you shopping at?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KXrQYWbbIs

I’m watching the press conference now, and I think a big part is Mamdani talks with his hands and has a bunch of giant flashy gold rings on.

trump just zones out like a baby watching someone jingle keys, and then says “I love this guy!” Probably without even realizing why.

I had to go back and look at old pics, he always wears them, but they’re insanely shiny in this video. I think he got them polished and trump has “jewelry store lights” that accentuate gold to make his spray painted home Depot shit look real.

So you come in with freshly polished real gold and it’s mesmerizing in comparison