That ain't too bad, though that average wholesale price of $124/MWh seems kinda high. Would have to do some poking around for comparison data later to see other regional pricing schemes.

Fwiw the consumer (not wholesale) price per kWh around here is $0.12-$0.13 which is roughly the same as the wholesale price you indicated for Mass. Quote a difference. We don't have many solar or wind inputs.

So how is this going to affect consumer electrical rates in Massachusetts? Anybody documenting this?

It goes both ways. People need to stop feeding corpo rats if they want less corpo rats.

And what message would that be? That the messages were basically correct, and that we are stupid for paying such exorbitant prices for tickets and parking/venue fees? In response, our only retort is to kill someone? I have an idea: stop going to venues controlled by Live Nation. Bankrupt them.

Nah, we didn't open Vietnam by bombing Hanoi or killing Ho Chi Minh. Totally different situations.

What fictional world do you live in? Iran has been openly threatening its neighbors for years, not to speak of Putin and Xi. The "peace dividend" is long since spent.

He said financial engineers.

By that logic, most if not all Presidents in the last 40+ years have been elected by a minority.

How do Trump voters constitute a minority?

If he produced and silly research then maybe, but he's not the productive type.

This is for the Ig nobel prize, not the Nobel prize.

Yes, many of the laid-off teams have been canned after successful launches. Even if some of them might be chaff, there's definitely wheat in there somewhere.

Funny you mentioned that. Part of the reason for the layoffs may be that lots of other people feel the same way you do about the battlepass and other microtransactions and aren't paying up.

There's been so many layoffs in the gaming industry over the last two years that you'd think co-ops could be a real option for the displaced. There's a lot of talent available. Just not a lot of big publisher money to back them up.

Okay, but at that point the builder is just going to charge based on the market rather than compete on price. There will be no cost reduction for the buyer, at least not until the next real estate bust cycle when everything goes on discount (see: 2008-2009).