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claire0 t1_j8wvreo wrote

‘Of particular relevance to Apple products, one of the changes meant that companies were free to offer “assemblies” of parts, rather than separate components. This could, for example, mean that Apple only has to offer fully-populated motherboards for sale, rather than access to individual components like SSDs. The effect would be to make some repairs uneconomic, as well as to block DIY upgrades.’

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ThePrince14 t1_j8wvcbb wrote

Did I say that anywhere in my posts? Please show me where I said that.

My only point was that Reddit likes to paint Texas with the broad brush that they’re this super conservative devil state against anything progressive, when in reality, if you look at the actual numbers, Texas has had massive amounts of investment in renewables and generates the most renewable energy in the country.

Just tired of the BS black and white hive mind on Reddit that lacks any sort of nuanced thinking. You can hate Abbott and the things he’s trying to do in the state while also stepping back to understand that Texas as a state is doing a great job of developing renewable energy infrastructure and should be supported in doing so.

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ThePrince14 t1_j8wurxu wrote

That’s because the original premise comes from the same old Reddit BS that the state of Texas is just a bunch of right wing nut jobs and is against anything progressive. The burden of proof is on OP to actually provide that evidence instead of parroting everything that gets said in every reddit thread. My rebuttal was actual data saying that there is actually a ton of renewable investment in Texas, and if Texas was as bad as Reddit wants to perpetuate, there wouldn’t be the massive amount of investment there is. If the most powerful people in the state are working so hard to discourage and ban renewables, then why does there continue to be a massive amount of investment in renewables in the state?

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/texas-clean-energy-bechtel-solar-hydrogen-construction/638739/

Reddit is so committed to the narrative that Texas is this terrible right wing devil that it refuses to look at actual data.

When it comes to fossil fuel “subsidies” that Reddit loves to bitch about, read up on what they actually are:

https://www.eesi.org/papers/view/fact-sheet-fossil-fuel-subsidies-a-closer-look-at-tax-breaks-and-societal-costs

Focusing on oil and gas, there’s two main direct subsidies received - intangible drilling credits and percentage depletion. These are “subsidies” or more accurately tax write offs similar to write offs any business in any industry would get. Intangible drilling credits just let the company write off part of their capital investment in drilling wells, which is the same as if an airline used capital to buy airplanes, that’s a write off against their profits.

The percentage depletion is also an accounting method that is used in many industries, like if a company built a factory producing goods, they depreciate that over a certain period of time, which is again a write off on taxes.

Then you have the indirect subsidies, which are again just the same accounting practices any company in the US would use.

So please use actual data to show my how my argument is actually shite instead of pulling a couple of clickbait articles and ignoring what Texas is actually doing in practice.

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Oldbayislove t1_j8wu3t5 wrote

i used in in my D&D campaign. I had a fey creature that spoke in rhymes so i just told it to write a rhyme about the party defeating a vampire. It wasnt high art by any means, but with a little editing (it liked to rhyme a word with itself) it was a lot faster than coming up with my own shitty rhyme.

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