I’ve never heard of Hydro power boiling water. Usually hydro power is natural or pumped storage.

You’re just taking water from an upper reservoir and dropping it to a downstream river. Either a naturally-filled reservoir/lake, or a pumped storage reservoir where you use other cheap power during low usage periods to pump that water to a higher reservoir to utilize later. The pump doesn’t heat the water, it just moves it uphill to utilize later, like the Taum Sauk Hydroelectric Power Station in Missouri.

They know people will massively overpay for storage. Their entire company history has been severely overcharging for memory and storage space.

Nearly all power generation comes down to boiling water to steam which spins a turbine.

I can only think of two common exceptions off the top of my head. Solar is an exception and Hydro power is an exception ironically, that usually uses the vertical difference and gravity to spin the turbine.

14 million isn’t something Harris could do on her own. They left because the Dem establishment gave no reason to show they cared about people. While the Republican were saying “it’s hard, we’ll fix it” the Dems kept insisting “it’s actually not that bad”.

Obviously the Reps “fix” will be worse, but the Dems just stuck their head in the sand and ignored everything the average American needs to get by on a daily basis. It’s why 14 million voters abandoned them. 1 million went to Trump, the other 13 million gave up.

It’s almost as anti-technology as about half of the Congress Critters. The ones older than email at least, seems to be the general benchmark for insisting on the old ways.

Not the OP, but I started reading it, and the first sentence is starting the bullshit already.

Conservatives backed Trump by bigger percentages than in 2020.

There were 1 million more votes for Trump than in 2020, while there were 14 million fewer votes for Harris compared to Biden. So while it’s technically true it’s ignoring the damned elephant in the room. 13 million people didn’t sit out this election or switch sides because of Liz Cheney.

If the very first sentence is already this disingenuous, the rest of the article isn’t even worth wasting my time.

I never claimed that email or patient portals weren’t allowed.

The Supreme Court already told them they can’t do that to get Trump on this ballot after he violated the 14th Amendment with his failed insurrection attempt last time. And they went with it. Why would they do this any differently?

The EU is made of individual, sovereign nations with each their own language and culture and political system and laws and regulations.

So are US States. The language is generally going to be the same, but culture, politics, laws and regulations all vary dramatically between US States. Most laws that people deal with in their daily lives are State laws, not Federal.

Most of these countries have very little in common except the fact that they happen to be on the same continent.

You could say the same about a lot of US States. Texas and California are dramatically different and likely wouldn’t be in the same grouping if things were being built today.

The only thing that keeps them from being at war with each other is trade. And that’s where the EU comes in.

Have you seen the divide between the various US States? Texas 100% would go to war with California if given the chance.

Don’t make excuses face reality or else you are as much to blame as them.

Get off your high horse. Attitudes like yours are part of the reason many of those people have decided to just go with the opposite viewpoint. There are a lot of Trump supporters that vote only out of spite, to “get back” at people expressing that type of attitude.

The Republicans just being obstructionists that do the exact opposite of whatever the Democrats plan didn’t come out of nowhere. It got them votes. A lot of them.

The “modern” fax machine using telephone was invented in 1964 by Xerox, but technically the fax machine goes back to 1843. Bain patented the electric printing telegraph, which used pendulums and electric signals to scan images and send them over telegraph wires.

See, you’re thinking 21st century, but this is both a healthcare management technology and a government regulation issue, so you’re 2 centuries too new. We need to go back to 1843 with the electric printing telegraph, which used pendulums and electric signals to scan images and send them over telegraph wires. That’s where healthcare technology regulations stopped.

No shit. This was obvious from day one. This was never AGI, and was never going to be AGI.

Institutional investors saw an opportunity to make a shit ton of money and pumped it up as if it was world changing. They’ll dump it like they always do, it will crash, and they’ll make billions in the process with absolutely no negative repercussions.

You assume people WANT to talk or even think about politics at all. Most people DON’T GIVE A SHIT. They actively try to AVOID politics. They don’t think it affects their daily lives. And to be honest, they’re right. 90% of government changes have no direct affect on their lives, nearly all effects are indirect. Unless the government is directly giving individual tax breaks, or stimulus payments, the effect of policy is hidden behind companies making changes in response.

They think various parts of the government have either a lot more, or a lot less power than they actually do. Many for whatever reason seem to think the President has ANY control on gas prices at all because that bullshit is repeated every time gas prices go up, a commodity with a price based almost exclusively on worldwide trading price. Very few Americans are able to see more than a year or so into the future because they’re too hyper-focused on getting through each week or month. It’s why Republican tax cuts work so well, they give a small tax cut to individuals that will expire in 3-4 years when might not be in power, and if they are, they just pass another. Meanwhile permanent cuts to those most able to afford it, are hidden behind that, and inflate the tax cut number so it looks like the tiny cut the average person sees is actually a lot larger.

And all of this is reinforced by a propaganda network through a nearly unregulated media landscape. The regulation is on old broadcast channels, regulated under the FCC, as little as that regulation is now. And even then, most of those shows now are opinion shows, not actual “news” segments, so the regulation is even lower. Cable channels, don’t have those regulations, and never have. Fox News for instance, not a broadcast network, it is a separate channel from Fox. Even then, Fox News only has “news” segments for an hour or two each day. Everything else is opinion shows, on a “news” channel. So it makes it seem like everything on the channel is news, which should theoretically not be an inherent lie. And every time they’re called out, they point to the actual hour or two of actual news as a cover. They try to hide any required apologies or corrections they couldn’t snake their way out of into a tiny sliver of time within in that hour with fewer viewers instead of the same show it happened.

There are the people you’re talking about, but they’re still a minority. Voter turnout in the US was only about 63.5% of the eligible population in 2024. Of that, Trump got about 50.2% of the votes. So that’s 31.8% of voting eligible Americans voting for Trump. That is a minority no matter how you cut it, regardless of reasons or individual issues. American politics is regularly decided by less than 1/3rd of the population because of how our election system operates.

It’s not about smart versus dumb, it’s even simpler than that. The majority of Americans don’t have the time to stay up to date on events and politics. They’re too busy working dead end jobs with stagnant wages living paycheck to paycheck worrying about everything else.

Then, the little bit of politics they see here and there comprises one party saying “things are bad, we’ll fix it” (never explaining what that means and never intending to follow through) while the other party saying “it’s not that bad actually” (which is technically true, in context).

So if you’re living paycheck to paycheck, maybe working multiple jobs to get by, with no visible career opportunities and maybe getting an annual raise just below inflation, being told “it’s not that bad” is a slap in the face, even if it really isn’t in comparison to where it could be.

Look at the actual number of votes, Trump didn’t actually get any more popular, 14 Million Dem voters just didn’t vote this time. All the Dem talked about was how bad Trump would be, and that it wasn’t that bad. They didn’t say they would try to make it better.

I’ve used FreeTaxUSA for years without any issue and free federally. Something like $16 to e-file with my state.

They just have a screen at the end prompting for more deluxe options if you want. You can also download the completed files and submit them yourself if you want.

And then you’re stuck constantly reminding every family member which app to use on which device when they come to you because they’re getting ads or something isn’t working right.

For a single power use that’s fine, for a family with kids, it’s nearly impossible without going crazy and killing them.

Just further proves what we already know the tariffs are about.

Besides, who’s bringing in British stuff? Even they know that’s junk.

K…I’m sure nobody cares.

Well you’re objectively wrong, since clearly the one guy complaining cared enough to actually complain about it.

Arizona has been pretty solidly red for Presidential elections for a while. It may be considered a swing state because of other aspects, but it’s been almost entirely red for Presidential elections since at least the 70s.