Existential threats have a way of crystallizing one’s priorities.

I believe that they’re deliberately provoking dissenters into the slightest bit of violent action so that they can do exactly that.

Not as far as the state is concerned.

The Democrats get penalized for not fixing it fast enough or good enough.

> That being said, electronics in our devices do tend to reduce the amount of water and power that appliances use. Dumb devices are extremely inefficient, even though there are fewer points of failure.

I fail to see how electronics in these (unpowered) devices in any way reduce the amount of power that they use.