marine_mustang

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Musk DOGE associate fired after interview where he said "The government works. It's not as inefficient as I was expecting, to be honest" in c/[email protected]
[–] marine_mustang 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

WTF is Gumroad? A me-too rehash of a million other shitty e-commerce sites?

Musk DOGE associate fired after interview where he said "The government works. It's not as inefficient as I was expecting, to be honest" in c/[email protected]
[–] marine_mustang 15 points 4 days ago

How much does everyone else have to suffer while these children rediscover government?

"Never know what those damn POINDEXTERS are thinkin'..." in c/[email protected]
[–] marine_mustang 16 points 5 days ago

Relevant.

Why do Americans want to know the month first and the day second? in c/[email protected]
[–] marine_mustang 14 points 5 days ago

There is an American subculture teaching and using ISO 8601; the US military. They don’t call it that, but I learned later that’s what it is. They enforce YYYY-MM-DD on all documents.

Let's cute up our day. in c/[email protected]
[–] marine_mustang 35 points 1 week ago

Say hello to Ferrari! a black cat in the sun

Windows 95 chime composer Brian Eno denounces Microsoft for its ties to Israeli government in c/[email protected]
[–] marine_mustang 8 points 2 weeks ago

“Ambient 1: Music for Airports” basically invented the genre of specifically-designed ambient music. Before that, it was all background noise and Muzak.

Microsoft employee disrupts Satya Nadella’s keynote with ‘Free Palestine’ protest in c/[email protected]
[–] marine_mustang 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I was about to ask, “again”?

So like public transportation with extra steps? in c/[email protected]
[–] marine_mustang 6 points 2 weeks ago

Pesero is another.

They put A.I. in my truck. It warns me of everything I do wrong verbally. It reports everything to HQ. It is from a company called Solera. I take offense to this. Am I wrong? What can I do? Anything? in c/[email protected]
[–] marine_mustang 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is becoming more common in a variety of jobs. I work in tech, and have heard from colleagues about their experiences with nanny software. Without a union, your best bet is malicious compliance. I would start looking for hacker communities and posting there, because there can be simple but non-obvious ways to circumvent controls while still seeming to comply, which protects your job.

Florida becomes 2nd state to ban fluoride from public drinking water in c/[email protected]
[–] marine_mustang 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I recently found out my municipality does not add flouride to most of our water, because it’s naturally flouridated enough already to meet the recommended amount.

Just the Wolf's Tip (OC) in c/[email protected]
[–] marine_mustang 1 points 2 weeks ago

Goddamn it.

Just the Wolf's Tip (OC) in c/[email protected]
[–] marine_mustang 8 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

I’m playing spot the difference on Grond…can I get a hand?

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

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)
 

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.

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