marine_mustang

joined 2 years ago
[–] marine_mustang 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Just decided a batch of homemade ginger ale is ready to transfer into a keg for carbonation; suggestions?

[–] marine_mustang 7 points 5 days ago

Do we have to keep rehashing the Jedi/Sith duopoly? I was sorely disappointed with the missed opportunity to have Ben and Rey travel the galaxy preaching a new dogma; “the Force belongs to everyone”.

[–] marine_mustang 4 points 1 week ago

Most played is Satisfactory, most surprising is the Marathon trilogy because I was surprised it was available at all, playable on the deck, fully supported, and free.

My top Deck games match my overall Steam list because my Deck is my only gaming PC.

[–] marine_mustang 19 points 1 week ago

Show us the Before and After but not the explosion? That’s the best part1

[–] marine_mustang 17 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Trump isn’t President until next week.

[–] marine_mustang 7 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

Still unfathomable to me. I hope those that stayed home think of their choice when Trump fully and vocally supports Israeli settlements across north Gaza.

Then again: “Grim noted some caveats, pointing out that "even if October 7 and the resulting genocide had never happened, it's fair to assume some number of those non-voters still would not have voted, and would have cited a different top reason for not voting.” Yeah, Harris was just never going to get some of those votes. But enough to swing the election? I guess we’ll never know.

[–] marine_mustang 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Hm, Climate Disclosure Project has some slightly different figures (% of total global GHG emissions):
| 1 | China (Coal) | 14.32% |
| 2 | Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco) | 4.50% |
| 3 | Gazprom OAO | 3.91% |
| 4 | National Iranian Oil Co | 2.28% |
| 5 | ExxonMobil Corp | 1.98% |
| 6 | Coal India | 1.87% |
| 7 | Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) | 1.87% |
| 8 | Russia (Coal) | 1.86% |
| 9 | Royal Dutch Shell PLC | 1.67% |
| 10 | China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) | 1.56% |
| 11 | BP PLC | 1.53% |
| 12 | Chevron Corp | 1.31% |
| 13 | Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) | 1.23% |
| 14 | Abu Dhabi National Oil Co | 1.20% |
| 15 | Poland Coal | 1.16% |
| 16 | Peabody Energy Corp | 1.15% |
| 17 | Sonatrach SPA | 1.00% |
| 18 | Kuwait Petroleum Corp | 1.00% |
| 19 | Total SA | 0.95% |
| 20 | BHP Billiton Ltd | 0.91% |

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10/100-fossil-fuel-companies-investors-responsible-71-global-emissions-cdp-study-climate-change

[–] marine_mustang 9 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Oh, new movie coming out this year! Not a remake, but closer to the book.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Running_Man_(2025_film)

[–] marine_mustang 39 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Remember when we decided Dan Quayle shouldn’t be a politician anymore because he misspelled potato?

[–] marine_mustang 5 points 3 weeks ago

Hey, I’ve been there! DSRV at Morro Bay. Part of the Maritime Museum there.

[–] marine_mustang 7 points 3 weeks ago

See this on the roads around Fallbrook, California, but even when it’s 5 for $1 they are usually still pretty small and days away from ripening. Putting them in a paper bag with a cut up apple helps to speed that up.

[–] marine_mustang 107 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

To be immediately revived the next time a Democrat wins.

 

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.

 

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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