In California when you install solar you are required to install battery storage for the excess power

this shows an abject misunderstanding of the legal system. There is no law against insurrection, to question or accuse someone of contributing to the act of the insurrection itself cannot be done in criminal court - you would need to arrest them in connection with a specific crime.

I have been through 3 of these and the only real difference is that it was zoom - in every instance of a layoff there was a company meeting where people were separated into 2 groups, one to be informed they are being laid off and the other informing that the other group was being laid off. once I was in the group being laid off and twice I was in the laid off group - both times I was laid off it was when I was a manager.

You don't seem to understand the difference between getting sick and having symptoms (the side effects), these are 2 very different things. It is like the difference between being sore from exercising and getting injured. One is just your body displaying the stress it is under during the process of natural repair and the other is your body actively fighting something that is going wrong in your body.

again not the same thing. it isn't providing tools, it is providing the worksite. Also you are not providing the tools, someone else is so you would be fired for something beyond your control. It would be akin to you being responsible for google going down if you used gmail because your employer did not supply an email. california state law says: The California Labor Code requires employers to cover "all necessary expenditures or losses" that workers incur while doing their jobs. Those costs can include the purchase of a desk, computer equipment and chair, as well as reimbursement for utilities, such as electricity, Internet or broadband, and phone service. meaning that officially they are responsible as the contractor of the service.

qualifications are absolutely different than requiring you to supply the conveyance of the work. Imagine if you worked in a factory and they required you to supply the plastics or in an office and required you to supply paper and toner for the copier - and then fired you because you used inferior materials.

this is kind of a ridiculous one, if the employer isn't paying for it and doesn't mandate a specific company then they have no reason to fire you for you having to go out to a third party on your own dime and get your own connection.

it makes me nauseous, if i have the option of artificial or no sweetener I much prefer no sweetener at all. I am ok with monk fruit sweetener but that is about it - all of the aspartame, saccharin, stevia just feels like I drank drain cleaner - I really don't want to try to get used to it, I would rather just have the sweetness reduced in the food.

on one hand this is smart and can make crime less attractive - on the other it means that samsung can just do things like disallow resales and brick tv's which is not cool

It does if you can convert energy sources to renewable sources, you will never convert petroleum based cars to a renewable source. Wind and solar only require the consumption for building and maintaining the infrastructure. Yet again this is all politics, where I live our power is over 85% from renewable sources - if you can get the majority of the US to convert the same way you can get a huge reduction in resource use. The next step is solar powered desalination as water scarcity is already starting to become a thing

actually a huge amount is wind as well "As of 2018, California had 80 GW of installed generation capacity encompassing more than 1,500 power plants; with 41 GW of natural gas, 26.5 GW of renewable (12 GW solar, 6 GW wind), 12 GW large hydroelectric, and 2.4 GW nuclear" in my particular area the distribution is ~ 80% solar and wind and 12% natural gas and 8% purchased on market (we use a municipal energy company so it is cheaper and more efficient than commercial), there are batteries as well when the sun goes down

This, There is no reason for your house to be smart, anything smart in a house is both frivolous and vulnerable. The only smart devices in my house are a few smart plugs that I use to automate and voice control a couple of lights so I can have them turn on when I am away for a weekend and so that I can voice control them so I don’t step on my cats in the dark. If someone decides to hack it well, I just pull the plug out.

my normal work week is somewhere between 55 and 70 hours depending on how busy we are, hell a 40 hour week would be an improvement.

selling cars isn't enough for car companies, once a car is bought, in order to get new profits they need to aggressively sell another vehicle to the consumer often a decade later. Creating a car where so many of the systems are bound to software lets the company continue to use crippleware and in app purchases to gain money from the consumer during the lifecycle of the car.

your numbers are bad - it isn't one in one hundred thousand, it is closer to 1 in 10 million that you get a blood clot from a vaccine, it is 39 in 1 million though that you get the same blood clot from covid itself.