[-] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 81 points 8 months ago

The Onion is having a day.

[-] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 267 points 8 months ago

“If your husband is mad at this ad, then this ad was made for you.”

[-] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 74 points 8 months ago

Property manager, maybe? You don’t get fired from being a landlord, you sell the property.

He says the situation has been "blown out of proportion" and is "so bogus."

Is this what happened to Bill S. Preston, Esq.?

[-] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 112 points 9 months ago

Project 2025 wants to disband NOAA and give its functions to Accuweather instead, directing taxpayer funding to a private company while also locking all weather data behind a paywall, so they get paid twice to provide the same info NOAA currently provides with a single payment (taxpayer funding). The Accuweather founder, Joel Myers, and his brother, Billy Lee Myers (unsuccessfully nominated by Trump to be the head of NOAA), are major Republican donors, but I’m sure that is completely coincidental.

[-] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 74 points 9 months ago

I guess it really got under Steve Hoffman’s skin.

[-] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 86 points 9 months ago

Ok, hear me out. The hull number is for the USS Enterprise (CVN-65), which was deactivated in 2012. After that, instead of decommissioning, Elon Musk decides he needs a private military and hires Erik Prince to set it up. He buys the still-intact Enterprise, gets it modified the way he wants it, and sends it to Brazil to force X/Twitter back into service there. Full of Blackwater/Xe mercenaries, meth and coke are distributed to all personnel as daily rations. Fueled by the success of their first mission (and lots of drugs and alcohol), the bastard craft took to the high seas. It resembled a mobile party now, but a heavily-armed party. They looted, they raided, they held whole cities to ransom for fresh supplies of cheese, crackers, guacamole, spare ribs and wine and spirits that now get piped aboard from floating tankers.

[-] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 256 points 10 months ago

This is how we know that he thinks he lost.

[-] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 83 points 11 months ago

Laugh if you want, but remember every single one of these people is absolutely voting in November (except maybe a felon or two).

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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.

[-] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 96 points 2 years ago

Just my own experience and maybe due to frequency bias, but holy shit everyone seemed to lose their goddamn minds behind the wheel after Covid.

[-] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 129 points 2 years ago

Take it even farther, not all species get hammered on the same chemicals. “Barkeep, a glass of your finest room-temperature-aged milk, please!”

[-] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 96 points 2 years ago

#wirelessaccesspoint

[-] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 68 points 2 years ago

And nothing of value was lost.

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