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Colbert elegantly rips Fox News’ claims that Xbox is ‘grooming’ kids over energy-saving mode [1]
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Date: 2023-01-26
Stephen Colbert slams Fox News rants about Xbox.
Stephen Colbert went on the attack Wednesday over the latest manufactured scandal by Fox News over a new Xbox feature. In a recent software update, Microsoft, the gaming system’s owner, has designed older models to go into an energy-saving mode when not in use. This is an effort by the company to cut down on carbon emissions—and because it negatively affects no one at all, Fox News hosts lost their collective minds.
Fox & Friends host Ainsley Earhard claimed the company must be “going woke, too, because of climate change.” As if climate change is some made-up thing, and the temperature on land and sea hasn’t gone up at a rate of 0.14 degrees per decade since 1880 and up 0.32 degrees per decade since 1981, according to Climate.gov.
On the company’s website, it explains that “instead of your Xbox waking up during the nightly maintenance window at a random time between 2:00 a.m. – 6:00 a.m., your console will wake up at a time when it can use the most renewable energy in your local energy grid … this decreases fossil fuel dependency and CO2 emissions, and could potentially save you money.”
“They want us to turn off our Xbox?” Colbert said sarcastically. “What’s next? They’re gonna tell me to turn off my car engine when I pull into the garage? How am I supposed to fall asleep now?”
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