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Really? Seems like it's the first thing you should've thought about

Ugh Lemmy is becoming reddit

I imagine a lot of residents are leaving too. I figured it was mostly real estate inflation but knowing that about the PG kwh price.. that must also be a massive consideration

Holy crap buddy. Best wishes, that's brutal.

60c? You've gotta be talking about peak rates in like DTLA, surely?

You're telling me your base rate is 60c/kwh?

NV Energy charges me 10c/kwh

Where are you?? I live in an old crappy insulated 4bed house in VEGAS and in the summer I pay like 300-350 for AC that I set and forget at 72°

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Never. This country will become Idiocracy before people revolt

No, they just have way better milk than us

They actually seem to be quite educated on the topic. Unlike yourself who seems to think that you'd have authority to speak on this issue because you have a certain passport? It's really not that wild. I moved here as a first generation immigrant about 10 years ago & I pretty much concur what they are saying. Irish and American Italians in Boston and NJ respectively feel that they have more in common with their 'home' countrymen than fellow Americans, just one example. Personally I think there's also an aspect of "oh I'm not just white, I'm actually 1/8 Irish". Mind you that's not what I think at all, why would I have a bias against you if you are white? But it's almost like I'm asked to view them as more than "white American" when people tell me that stuff after I tell them where I'm from. You can imagine what their answers typically were when I asked about whether they often go back to visit family/home or foods they cook. It's just ancestry, they have no actual ties to those lands.

One thing I will say though is that whenever I'd talk about this kind of thing is that people get weirdly defensive about it. Overall I learned just to let them say what they want to say, it's not worth my energy trying to understand their mental gymnastics as to why they're actually as Irish as I am Egyptian. They're not ready or willing to have that conversation.