Do... you not understand the conversation? The reason I listed the wired charger is to show that a USB C PD Charger is relatively expensive by itself. So, when you’re looking at an $80 stand that contains a $30 charger and a $10 cable, there’s half your cost. Google could have left those out and it would have cost…

I didn’t see a “license fee” in there, did you? All that means is it’s going through Google’s certification process. But why let facts get in the way of rabble rousing?

You’re only disappointed because you don’t understand any of this.

It’s not NFC, it’s a signal within the wireless charging current that triggers the dock.

Google locked ALL other chargers (other than the ones that pay them a licensing fee) to 5w.

That was my thought. “Massive” might be a bit of an overstatement, representing about 0.00004%.

Because there’s a 3rd party app that already does it (actually, there’s a few of them), so... problem solved.

Except, you know, when you’re right next to them and your $400 noise cancelling headphones still don’t cancel the screams of a child nor do they block juice flying everywhere.

But if this is an honest airing of your opinions, they are more important than you.

Don’t be a narcissist? You mean like the people who bring small children on long flights in an enclosed tube 30,000 feet in the air? You mean like those narcissists?

It’s almost like these idiots that rail against the government constantly have no idea what the Constitution actually says about governmental vs. private conduct.

I don’t know, are you telling me Ron Burgundy isn’t a big deal? I think he’d disagree.

It is indirectly subsidizing the business by directly subsidizing the worker. As stated, if the worker could not accept a job for $500 per month because their absolute, bare minimum expenses were $1,000, by subsidizing the worker $500, the government is indirectly subsidizing businesses by letting them intentionally…

I, much to my wife’s shagrin, have to make the bed every day (and also expect her to) because I hate having it look messy and there’s something about getting into a made bed that is just much better than getting into a messy bed.

So... one state bucks the trend and suddenly the exception is now the rule?

Well... taking the free market approach of the taker states, do away with the farm subsidies 100%. If you go out of business, tough. That’s the free market for you. Adapt or die. And if you think “under the control of the FDA” means anything beyond fear mongering, you’re wrong. Pretty sure Canada and the EU’s…

I don’t see any cognitive dissonance. I have my personal beliefs, but because I’m a functional adult, my personal beliefs do not inform my professional duties. In fact, it’s the polar opposite. My professional duties inform my personal beliefs.

So, are you saying that if you’re guilty of a crime, you don’t deserve a lawyer?

Oh definitely. If you look at tax policy since the ‘60s, it’s been geared to help Boomers as the largest voting demographic. Follow them through their lives, the tax policy has changed every time there’s been a demographic shift in their income. As they approached middle age and business ownership, you saw massive…

Honestly, I think people think of the “1%” as a group that could, if everyone worked really hard, contain 100% of the income earners. People look at it as a group, not a mathematical concept.