It’s a lot simpler than that: Texas has a HUGE oil and natural gas industry lobby that views wind and solar as existential threats.

Oil & gas is mostly consolidated and lobbies under just a few really powerful firms. Wind and solar don’t have a lobbying arm with that kind of power. It’s too dispersed with too many disperate entities that don’t view themselves as being on the same team.

It’s just another way that money in politics corrupts everything. Even though there’s more players in the solar and wind markets the oil & gas industry has a lot more money to throw around at lobbying.

Go with a Nintendo Switch controller that works with PC like:

https://a.co/d/6cxE7qn (~$20)

There’s dozens and dozens of them and I’ve never had a problem with any of them. They all seem to just “magically work”.

The most confusing thing is USB C since it can be both an input and an output simultaneously. For both data and power.

Example: You can have a USB C hub that accepts a USB C Power Delivery input (say, 120W) that also powers the device it’s plugged into and simultaneously acts as a Power Delivery device to any USB C PD-accepting devices plugged into the hub.

Each port will usually have a power limit. For example, one port (the one meant to plug into a PC/laptop) may be limited to provide 100W while the others can each supply 20W but only if they are not used to provide power to another port at the same time.

So you could have a 100W port and say, two 20W ports but if you plug in a 20W PD device into one of those 20W ports you won’t be able to use the other port for 20W.

…but that’s just the start of the complexity! Your USB C hub could also support various extensions to USB C like 4k Display support. But usually only one of the ports will support connecting a display. Furthermore, for that to work you need the PC-connecting port to be plugged into a USB C port on the PC that also supports that extension.

So you could buy a really fancy USB C hub but find out that because your PC’s USB C port doesn’t work with displays. Or that the hub only supplies PD power to the PC-connected port but not the other ports (which is fucking annoying… That happened to me).

…but wait, there’s more! Some USB hubs (not just C) support all kinds of things like serial ports, Ethernet, sound inputs/outputs, and stranger things. Some hubs on the market will ship with a power supply that doesn’t actually provide enough juice to power all those built-in peripherals at once! So even though the hardware supports it, you may still need to buy a 3rd party power supply that can supply say, 150W of power.

I’m waiting for the day when we get USB C hubs with Power-over-Ethernet support. That’s going to be the next level of crazy.

S-class communities are elite!

I’m sure it’s got sodium and nitrogen in it 🤷

“You know what this dish is missing? The taste of expired beer that was collected, dripping from a dumpster behind a seafood restaurant.”

This text reads like it was written by a high schooler doing a (lame) project. Better headline: “New project at Google tests whether or not humans can tell if a blog article was written by AI”

Aside: Stay-at-home parents have useful skills! They know how to deal with toddlers and tantrums so they’re perfect for handling most IT support activities 👍

Alternative headline: “DOGE finds Social Security administration is pumping trillions of dollars into the economy and has an error rate of less than 1%.”

DOGE’s shocking totally expected $8 billion mistake

FTFY

Yeah but it’s still in Texas. Cheap homes are available in 3rd world countries too. Countries that have cheaper healthcare (that grants women the human right of abortion) and stable electric grids.

The dogs have been doom strolling this entire time!

Mr Free Speech Absolutist declares, “absolutely no free speech.”

DOGE seems to be really good at generating government waste.

The entire basis for this is the assumption that goods are being transported using fossil fuels. If we transport the goods using electric trucks suddenly plastic starts to look much, much worse than paper or even glass.

Aluminum is much better all around so I’m not sure why it’s lumped into everything else. It’s basically infinitely recyclable and you don’t have to use natural gas or propane to heat it up to the melting point for forming/extrusion. There’s basically an infinite amount of ways to heat things up; even to really high temperatures.

“With your powers dispersed, I can go back to playing games on my NES!”

Not an artist but I have an idea!

An image of an old man being given a book by a doctor. The title of the book is clearly visible and reads, “Everything Hurts: A Guide to Aging” and the doctor is saying, “You can skip to chapter 10.”

Above the scene is a hospital sign that says “Hospice ➡️” and there’s a woman in a wheelchair being pushed in that direction.

There’s family members standing around talking about the old man like he’s not right there in front of them.

On the wall in the background is a sign describing the, “Silver Alert” system and how to notify the authorities if Grandpa goes missing.

As you wish: Wishmaster (1997).

“Do you wish to be beautiful forever?”

It’s from the alpha

“Take control of assets” will be the one and only court order I think they’d pay attention to.

Seize Tesla, SpaceX, and X. Tell Trump that, “they’re his now” and he might suddenly start letting the courts take everything from his cavalcade of billionaires!