[-] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 74 points 1 week 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 62 points 1 week ago

EQ level on that boyfriend is off the charts.

Prime mottheonion material.

[-] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago

Childhood’s End, by Arthur C. Clarke.

[-] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 weeks ago

More like that’s when the spirits are getting it on. Rebirth of the world, that kind of thing. Source: married into Diné.

[-] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago

You can wishlist it on Steam! The developer says he has been playtesting it on the Deck, too.

[-] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 weeks ago

I don’t know about apps, but they ultimately all get it from the National Weather Service. Since it’s a government service, the website is totally free of ads and other garbage. Just use that. Weather.gov. You can search for your home, and since it uses absolute URLs, you can then bookmark the results page and just go straight to that every time.

[-] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 112 points 3 weeks 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 5 points 1 month ago

This isn’t…c’mon, that can’t be real. Can it?

[-] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 74 points 1 month ago

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

[-] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 86 points 1 month 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.

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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.

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