marine_mustang

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Lords Of Acid - Lover (KMFDM 'Cake Mix) in c/[email protected]
[–] marine_mustang 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Yeah, I was at a record store in the San Diego area and saw a flyer for their show with part of KMFDM (Lucia). Wondered if I had stepped through a portal or something.

Mahmoud Khalil is free!! in c/[email protected]
[–] marine_mustang 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Depends on who responds. Some will just nod and inform the caller that they are indeed federal law enforcement, but others (who absolutely despise ICE as cosplaying wannabes) may decide that taking the actors into custody, even if only for their own protection if a crowd is forming, is the best course of action. If it happens enough, it should force DHS to direct agents to properly identify themselves, and even if not, some actual consequences for these thugs may discourage some from participating. And as others have pointed out, friction between law enforcement agencies is in the population’s best interest.

Mahmoud Khalil is free!! in c/[email protected]
[–] marine_mustang 9 points 5 days ago (5 children)

and there are still masked ~~officers~~ people abducting people off the street

If they refuse to show law enforcement ID, they are just armed people impersonating law enforcement. Call 911!

sophomoric. intellectually sterile. ..."low" art. in c/[email protected]
[–] marine_mustang 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I don’t get it.

Dodgers turn federal agents away from stadium, team says. Crowd briefly protests outside in c/[email protected]
[–] marine_mustang 1 points 1 week ago

Well, after last night I think it’s safe to say I will not be liking the Dodgers as a whole any time soon. Ohtani and Teo are cool, though. Impossible to dislike Mookie.

US military aircraft no longer visible at base in Qatar: satellite images in c/[email protected]
[–] marine_mustang 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I really hope Iran doesn’t start lobbing missiles at Al Udeid, that would be a catastrophic escalation. I don’t think they will, despite some people’s attempt to depict the Iranian regime as crazy, they are definitely rational and acting in a way they think is in their best interest. I think they realize that attacking the US directly would not be beneficial to their agenda. Anyway, this is the world’s first good look at war conducted via ballistic missile, aside from the brief exchange last year.

Dodgers turn federal agents away from stadium, team says. Crowd briefly protests outside in c/[email protected]
[–] marine_mustang 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Don’t make me like the Dodgers, please.

How soon is too soon to move jobs? in c/[email protected]
Recently learned NIST doesn't recommends password resets. in c/[email protected]
How to report a fake/phishing domain effectively? in c/[email protected]
What field or career I'm cybersecurity is the least stressful? in c/[email protected]
A 1960s photo of Black-Americans training to not react during a sit-in in c/[email protected]
[–] marine_mustang 1 points 1 week ago

Non-violent protest has an impressive success rate.

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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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