marine_mustang

joined 1 year ago
[–] marine_mustang 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] marine_mustang 2 points 1 week ago

Time to go brush up on those 3C scenarios…

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

Discord? Huh, my first thought was WarThunder.

[–] marine_mustang 2 points 1 week ago

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

[–] marine_mustang 17 points 1 week ago (4 children)

On June 26, 2014, in a 9–0 ruling, the United States Supreme Court validated this practice of using pro forma sessions to block the president from using the recess appointment authority

Can’t do recess appointments if the senate is never in recess. When was the last recess appointment made? 2012, and it was ruled invalid.

This makes no sense anyway. The Senate will be Republican-controlled by four votes before he takes office. So he’s worried about Republicans blocking his nominees? Or is he asking for an ally that’ll put the Senate into recess immediately so he can recess appoint hundreds of people? I doubt even his staunchest allies will be willing to publicly neuter themselves so much.

[–] marine_mustang 30 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I expect he’ll do what he spent his last term doing; spend half the day watching Fox News and rage-tweeting, go downstairs for some photo-ops and sign whatever his staff puts in front of him, get whatever it was challenged and (sometimes) blocked in court, and then, if he’s feeling insufficient attention, make a bunch of pronouncements that’ll catch everyone by surprise and then never follow up on it.

[–] marine_mustang 9 points 1 week ago

You mean the sham of a conference hosted by and chaired by petrostate sponsors? The conference specifically designed to facilitate fossil fuel expansion deals? That conference?

[–] marine_mustang 8 points 1 week ago

That’s my field. Yeah, it can be hard to get your foot in the door, but once you’re in, you’re in. The nice thing is that all the info and experience you need is freely available. Want to show off malware analysis skills? Download a sample, tear it apart, write up your thoughts, and post it in a blog. Link to it in your resume. I’m a hiring manager, and I read those. Is network analysis more your thing? Malware-traffic-analysis.net. Know what we need? People who know what the three major cloud providers’ security logs look like and know when something actually bad is happening, because the default alerts are pretty useless. Same for O365 logs. Sometimes, I feel like our userbase wants to get their accounts compromised.

[–] marine_mustang 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Perception isn’t reality, but it’s just as important. You have to do great things for the working class, and then tell them, with examples, both how you helped and how the Republicans would have screwed them. Repeatedly. No room for kid gloves.

[–] marine_mustang 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Seriously, corporations, it’s a free pass! “Sorry, we can’t release any customer information without a court order due to the legal liability if we were to release the information to a an unknown party acting fraudulently.”

Although, I have to ask (although I’m pretty sure of the answer); are some companies just giving up whatever information is requested to anyone with a .gov address? What if its spoofed, or typosquatted?

[–] marine_mustang 62 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Yep, they see the writing on the wall. I wonder if they’ll wait until after inauguration to start allowing Israeli settlers to build towns and beachfront property, or just do it now?

[–] marine_mustang 10 points 2 weeks ago

Also does not include amounts. It’s easy to cause a spike in results when there aren’t many to begin with.

 

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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