marine_mustang

joined 1 year ago
[–] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 72 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Property manager, maybe? You don’t get fired from being a landlord, you sell the property.

He says the situation has been "blown out of proportion" and is "so bogus."

Is this what happened to Bill S. Preston, Esq.?

EQ level on that boyfriend is off the charts.

Same, buddy. Same.

Prime mottheonion material.

[–] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

So let’s hypothetically say that the only signs for a candidate are homemade signs for some personality cult reason, definitely not posted by the campaign, and posted on public property. Wouldn’t be illegal to remove those, right?

[–] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Childhood’s End, by Arthur C. Clarke.

“Mr. Simpson, this is the most blatant case of false advertising since my suit against the film 'The Neverending Story'.”

[–] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ok so I had to Google half that sentence, so here I am a day later.

[–] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I’ve done something similar…
“What are you watching?”
“An old animated movie from my childhood. Just started, want to watch?”
“Sure, what’s it called?”
“The Secret of NIMH”

I still can’t get them to watch The Last Unicorn.

[–] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 week ago (6 children)
[–] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

More like that’s when the spirits are getting it on. Rebirth of the world, that kind of thing. Source: married into Diné.

 

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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