Those investors were trying to get rich, nothing more. They were buying lotto tickets The Bagholders that missed the pump and got left with the bags tried to claim they were "investing for a change" but thats a lie, they just didn't sell soon enough .

Who are they? Because non of that happened unless you believe weird conspiracies

The x org people are the ones making wayland because keeping or developing X is too hard because its 40 years of hacks , extensions and spaghetti code . If you want to develop for it, go right ahead

Honestly I don't know why it took so long I always try to do this manually but it means I have to keep track of how much it charges then pull it off once it reaches 80% , or when I go to bed I might want to charge it over night but not to 100%

No one person shorted more GameStop shares that are in existence, if one person did that it would probably be manipulation . It was 1000s of people all shorting a bit .

Meh short selling has been happening for 1000s of years, they are a natural part of every market. Even 2500 years ago in ancient Greece people devised a way to profit if the price of wine or olive oil went down . Futures contracts are also an internal part of commodities markets and you are allowed to go short or sell commodes you do not have at a future date. Shorting a company is very similar so I do not see why it would be treated different

Except there are exceptions to every rule, I find it funny that the people most vocal about their hate for systemD also love X windows system.

Even without storage, the solar generation can offset extra demand caused by AC running during the day. Also wikipedia says 92% of electric is generated by oil or natural gas The more that is generated via solar means they can export more oil/nat gas as they do not need to burn it for domestic electrical consumption and I would think it being a desert with lots of sun and lots of empty open space (desert) it would make a good area for solar

Well good think X isn't going away , and if you want to add features its open source so you can maintain it

Tons of people just like the convenience of consul gaming gaming, cost is generally lower then a PC, you do not need to try to decide on hardware, you do not run the risk of your video card not working correctly with a certain game Since the games are released for the consul, in many cases they just work without having to downgrade/upgrade drivers or changing wierd settings in the game to make sure it works on your hardware configuration The consuls themselves are not that profitable , sometimes they sell for a loss or barely break even, they make it up in selling games or subscriptions they take a cut in.

I cannot find but years ago there was an article that had a heading like "How much does it cost to change a lightbulb" and it went over a normal thing that plagues nuclear engineers . Any changes must undergo extreme testing and certifications . The lightbulbs they used were old and out dated , for years they paid absurd prices to the vendor to keep making the same type of lightbulb like 10k per bulb. Finally the vendor said they could not longer get the parts to make them, they could not make the light bulb anymore and the plant would have to start using a different type. So it took years of testing just to approve or certify using a new type of lightbulb in the plant, he estimated the change cost well over 5 million dollars just to get the new light bulbs certified

I somewhat agree , but I can see the issue. In the USA most stores know most people may pay with credit and raise their prices accordingly to account for every sale some % goes to processing fees. If you have a nice rewards credit card this is somewhat offset at the cash back or rewards you get. It does sort of screw over poor people who may not have a credit card and pay with cash. They still pay the marked up price but get no rewards.

From my understanding is credit card companies in their contract basically say you cannot do this. If you want to accept VISA as a payment method you cannot charge people paying with a VISA card more. If you do and VISA finds out they might stop processing payments for you. There are other ways around this like giving a cash discount , if you pay with cash you can still offer an x% discount . However cash comes with its own fees

Well first a merchant is not forced to accept a specific credit card. A merchant could for example say they do not accept VISA or Mastercard if they do not like the processing fees Second as far as I know the merchant can still offer "discounts" for paying with cash or other methods that do not have high fees. Merchants can for example still give you a x% discount if you pay with cash or something However cash has its own "fees" as if you run a major store some % of cash seems to disappear , it could be just an employee making mistake and giving the wrong change back or just stealing money