Republicans Think the Woke Left Has Taken Over Your Xbox

[Jilly_in_VA]

Right wing leaders are big mad that Xbox is “going woke,” slamming an optional feature meant to reduce the console’s overall carbon footprint as an effort to “recruit kids into climate politics.”

On Tuesday’s episode of “Fox and Friends,” Fox News anchor Ainsley Earhardt and radio host Jimmy Failla fumbled through a short segment about Xbox’s latest effort to allow players to curb power consumption. It was as level-headed and chill as you might expect Fox to be when the topic of climate change comes up.

New Xbox consoles will incentivize players to opt in to the more environmentally friendly “Shutdown” mode by offering more of the same features that “Sleep” mode currently allows, including automatic background updates for games at strategic times throughout the day that would result in lower carbon emissions. Shutdown mode consumes less energy than Sleep mode, and for select players in Xbox’s Insider program, the Shutdown option will immediately become the new default. Neither of these modes is new, but only some players have had access to these features until now. It will become available to all Xbox users in the coming weeks.

But that didn’t stop Fox News from presenting this as some conspiratorial effort to make kids “woke.”

“It’s crazy what they’re doing, but we understand what this is,” Failla said. “It’s not that it’s actually going to offset emissions. The level of reduction is infinitesimal. But they’re trying to recruit your kids into climate politics at an earlier age. Make them climate conscious now.”

“You’re right, they’re going after the children,” Earhardt agreed.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/93apay/xbox-republicans-power-saving

https://www.vice.com/en/article/93apay/xbox-republicans-power-saving

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. This woke crap is getting silly

Link to tweet

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. "But they're trying to recruit your kids into climate politics at an earlier age."

Damn, I sure as hell hope so!! I was on the fence about which console to go with....not any more.

[mercuryblues]

3. It has never been said

that Ainsley airhead ever let common sense override a conspiracy theory, no matter how ludicrous.

[Initech]

4. I'm seriously convinced at this point if you told the MAGAs not to jump off the Grand Canyon...

Fox News would be on the air 24 hours a day telling them that it's their right to jump off the Grand Canyon because they don't want the government interfering with the right to jump. And guaranteed these idiots would be pushing and shoving to be first in line.

[Bettie]

14. We should test this theory...

not serious, but FFS, I'm so tired. So, tired of them all.

[Lovie777]

5. Republicans are afraid of their shadows.................................

[Marcuse]

6. It is woke to save $ by reducing energy use. Real Americans pay as much as possible.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

7. Thank GOD

The pukes are holding the line against energy-improved game boxes, radical librarians and insidious history teachers.

We can’t let fact and truth ruin our shithole Gilead.

[Mad_Machine76]

8. What age are these people living in?

All kind of appliances have had (optional) energy saving features for years (decades)

[lapfog_1]

9. boy will they all be pissed that almost every processor

made in the last 20 years has a "idle power" mode which is typically configured by default (yes you can disable it, but you sort of have to know what you are doing).

This mode reduces the power to the unit while there is little activity (for example, while I am typing this message, the number of instructions needed to transmit the packets, get replies, and paint the dialog box with what I am typing is actually quite small).

Reducing the power does 3 things, a) it reduces the cost of electricity needed to power the device, b) if the device is mobile, it preserves more battery power, and c) by reducing the power, it also reduces the heat produced... which can cause other expenses to move the heat from the processor to the room and then from the room to the outdoors, etc.

Since the max instruction cycle rate is not needed very often, this savings in cost (and longevity of the CPU) is passed on to the consumer. It also helps the environment.

how "woke"!!! They better all give up their laptops and cell phones... no need to post things to twitter as those computers are just too "woke"... we need diesel powered laptops...with exhaust pipes!

[texasfiddler]

10. GOP wants Xbox changed to Qbox. NT

[dembotoz]

11. game box is not shy about sucking power

perhaps in places where power is costing more decisions are made. maybe this will help keep it plugged in

https://powerstuffs.com/power-consumption-of-household-appliances/

[Jilly_in_VA]

12. Fox and Fiends

are completely off the rails. That is all.

[Torchlight]

13. Once they start with the "this won't change anything..." routine

I kinda tune 'em out, given to realize they're just looking to score points rather than engaging in good-faith discussions.

One plank is not a bridge but rather just one plank of that bridge. Pretending the plank is the equivalent of the bridge itself illustrates (to me) a deeply-rooted, orthodox thinking-pattern closed to everything except that which fits their own generalizations.

With for-profit rage as a business model, and pandering to their "tell me what my opinion about this is supposed to be" demographic, I can see why they so profitably continue to sell fear, uncertainty, and doubt: it's popular with the fearful and skeptic alike.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

15. Being cognizant of the needs

And experiences of other people WOULD seem radical and outlandish.

To a person with no soul who cares only about him/her self.

[IronLionZion]

16. I shut down my computers for security and performance reasons

not just for saving power costs. These machines boot up fast these days so it's not an issue like way back in the day.