marine_mustang

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Just me, but when I tried catharsis I always finished angrier than when I started. Doesn’t work for me. Better to put a lid on it and stuff it down deep.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I was introduced to ISO 8601 in the US military. Yay standardization!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The way Luthen organizes his cells is a great class on how to organize a resistance.

I saw ICE trucks rolling down the street in my town for the first time today.

[–] [email protected] 112 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Goddamn it media, stop calling it deportation! Kidnapping, rendition, disappearing, gulaging, take your pick.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I have that exact same oven mitt.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

“An interceptor was launched toward the missile, and the missile was most likely successfully intercepted,” the Israeli military said.

Are they…not sure?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

Gotta be concave for the conclave!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

These are excellent! “You have been fined .0092 credits for a sotto voce violation of the Verbal Moralities statute.”

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Flamethrowers are organic, right?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Stragglers + strangers = stranglers?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

I doubt that the threat of suing the government would make him change; after all, it won’t be paid out of his pocket. But if the families were being inundated by offers of attorneys to represent them in a civil suit against RFK Jr himself…

 

I just got my first bill since going to a community choice power provider. Here in California, the investor owned utilities (commercial companies, not the publicly-owned utilities) act as retailers of energy. They buy power on the open market from generators, then sell it to their customers. They bill both for the cost to generate the power, and also for power delivery (which includes maintaining the grid). An option that recently became available is for a city government to join a community choice power provider, which then buys power from generators on our behalf. The utility still delivers it, so it’s not real competition, but partway there. The community choice provider then bills the utility, who passes that bill along to individual customers.

So, the generation cost went down by about 30% for power used during the day, and a few percent for power delivered at night (three different time-of-use categories). Our community choice provider has an option for 100% renewable power, which I chose, so this is a pretty tangible demonstration that renewable power really is cheaper than fossil fuels.

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