“Fancy graphics” also doesn’t correlate well with how visually appealing a game is. I would take Ori graphics over CoD any day.

Which is to say that prices did increase every generation.

What could one legislator cost, Michael, 25,000 dollars?

Iowa pays its general assembly members a salary of $25k a yr. So $200k a yr in lobbying from a single company potentially buys a lot of influence.

Do new oil and gas leases qualify as weather modification? What about clear cutting forests and draining wetlands?

So does the acanthamoeba get stuck behind the contact and can’t get washed away by tears? Or do the contacts cause small abrasions that serve as an entry point? What role is the contact lens playing?

Did the contacts really make a difference here or is swimming in affected waters the main hazard?

I’m very confident that with carte blanche the electrical engineers already overseeing the grid could solve the problems it faces. We don’t need an ai miracle, we need to remove bureaucratic and funding obstacles for critical infrastructure.