nymwit

From a Texan: Welcome to the heat dome!

“What Orwell failed to predict is that we’d buy the cameras ourselves, and that our biggest fear would be that nobody was watching.”

camera that watches you drink the verification can

You'd have to try it to find out. I'd like to think they were smart enough to brick this thing if it doesn't call home every so often or maybe it has a unique controller? Maybe you're really badass and can make it happen. They could always try to come at you for...$550 I guess? I think that's what their fine print says.

edit: correction

for the real processed stuff that comes individually wrapped, any place you need an instant melt cheese-turns-into-a-sauce sort of thing

returneth primate, from whenceforth you came

"He captured this feeling of people who are tired of being lied to, tired of being lied to by politicians and officeholders of both political parties," Lotter said. "And they were sick and tired of another poll-tested Washington creation politician. ... I think he taps into that, and he has been able to keep that going."

I've got to be more careful. I've just woken up after facepalming so hard I lost consciousness. So they want to be lied to by a mass media created and tested politician instead?

I'm a little worried about the state level elector shenanigans that have played out since 2020. Is it possible we'll see a state ignore it's own voters?

Why? What should people know about Texas power grid upgrades?

Best I can see right now is ERCOT and others saying lots of upgrades have been made, but not specifics. I can see ERCOT and the legislature going back and forth on a "market overhaul" that no one can quite agree on yet and which favors more on-demand sources (natural gas and such). Can you point to where people should read about upgrades?

I think there is a bad title here, but that's not the title at the link. I don't know where this title came from. OP? The link is a pretty straight forward reporting of this recently released EIA report and doesn't seem to contain much of the author's opinion (apart from being on a renewable biased website).

The author of the article doesn't say anything about "surplus generation", that's a quote from the report.

You don't think the US Energy Information Administration knows what it's talking about? Bold stance.

Thanks! I'm really impressed all the embedded links (at least the nyt ones) to other related articles are also archive links.

note that (if you didn't read the article) this is only "wiping out" debt for

Student loan borrowers on income-driven repayment plans who have made 20 or 25 years of payments will get their remaining balances wiped out in coming weeks, the Education Department said. Eligible borrowers will be notified starting Friday. A total of $39 billion will be forgiven as part of a one-time adjustment to loan repayment plans the Biden administration announced last year.

Directors already made their deal. Could they still go on strike?