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How Stellantis Destroyed Jeep in c/[email protected]

[–] marine_mustang 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Having owned several Chrysler and Fiat cars, Chrysler has always been pretty shit. They’ve had to be rescued from bankruptcy a couple times, and have a history of badly-performing mergers and buyouts (DaimlerChrysler, Diamond Star Motors, Cerberus, FCA, etc). Jeep people will defend Jeep, but that’s it.

CDC confirms first severe case of H5N1 bird flu in the United States - are you worried? in c/[email protected]

[–] marine_mustang 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, because there’s still no significant human-to-human spread. All human cases got it from exposure to birds or drinking raw milk from infected cows. I won’t worry about it until it mutates into something humans can spread easily to each other.

Is this... safe? in c/[email protected]

[–] marine_mustang 35 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

Also, the green glow isn’t from radioactive decay, it’s the uranium fluorescing under the UV light stationed just out of frame.

Nick Fuentes has been charged with battery for the confrontation a month ago outside his Illinois home in c/politics

[–] marine_mustang 14 points 3 weeks ago

Outside his mom’s house.

NYPD releases unmasked photo of smiling suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO killing in c/[email protected]

[–] marine_mustang 44 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

If anyone has information that could lead the the arrest of this suspect, then I have $10,001 that says no, they don’t.

Remember: in c/[email protected]

[–] marine_mustang 52 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It’s only Class War when we fight back.

As many as 1 in 5 people won't lose weight with GLP-1 drugs, experts say in c/[email protected]

[–] marine_mustang 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

“As many as” 20% so, less than 20%? So it’s more than 80% effective?

Seems a little excessive in c/[email protected]

[–] marine_mustang 4 points 1 month ago

Jesus. What a monster.

Russia says Ukraine attacked it using U.S. long-range missiles, signals it’s ready for nuclear response in c/[email protected]

[–] marine_mustang 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Kinda want to see them to try and fail. I think proof of Russian nuclear deterrence impotency would be game-changing.

‘Minimal progress’ made this year on curbing global heating, report finds | Analysis by Climate Action Tracker puts median temperature rise by 2100 at 2.7C if current policies continue in c/[email protected]

[–] marine_mustang 2 points 1 month ago

Time to go brush up on those 3C scenarios…

Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira sentenced to 15 years in prison for sharing military secrets online in c/[email protected]

[–] marine_mustang 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Discord? Huh, my first thought was WarThunder.

Will Trump Prosecute His Foes? Allies and Adversaries Expect a Wave of Revenge. in c/[email protected]

[–] marine_mustang 2 points 1 month ago

You’re right, completely glossed over his 3-day golf weekends.

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I joined a community choice power provider with 100% renewable power, and my bill went down (self.climate)

submitted 6 months ago by marine_mustang to c/[email protected]

9 comments fedilink

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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Seems suspicious at SDG&E… (self.sandiego)

submitted 9 months ago by marine_mustang to c/[email protected]

2 comments fedilink

I noticed that my projected bill will be much cheaper than my last, even though I haven’t changed my habits, so I did some math. At this same point in last month’s billing cycle (71.4% through the cycle), I used a net of 550kWh. As of the end of the day yesterday, I have used 122.5kWh. As I said, I haven’t changed my habits and have even used my electric oven more since I have family visiting that likes to bake. SDG&E has long said that they don’t make money on the generation charge, just the delivery charge, but none of that would change how much power they say I am using. Even though they have a natural monopoly on power delivery with regulatory capture of CPUC guaranteeing them whatever increases they ask for, I wouldn’t put it past them and Sempra to fuck around with how much power they say we are using. I don’t think any of us would be surprised to wake up some day to headlines about SDG&E and Sempra under investigation for fraud.