Nowhere did I blame renewables. I was replying to someone talking about the huge price spikes pointing out that they applied to people lucky enough to have power.

We were out 5 and a half days for the derecho. We were in a hotel out in Sealey.

We had a generator for Beryl, but hadn't had it wired into the house yet. We had a lot of extension cords.

Later, I got the inlet and subpanel wired in. We ended up powering the house on gasoline pretty regularly without any named storms until we moved away from Houston.

*** for customers who can still receive power.

During the freeze in 2021 or so, we had rolling blackouts. Myhouse was without power for 26 hours, 14 hours, 11 hours, 5 hours, 5 hours, 7 hours, 3 hours, 1.5 hours, 30 minutes, 45 minutes, and 12 minutes or so that week.

Also, wind turbines kill approximately zero humans per gigawatt-hour. That cannot be said of coal or natural gas plants.

âoeThis? This is Slashdot. This is what happens to people when they get too sexually frustrated.â

Are you suggesting that Alzheimerâ(TM)s is sexually transmitted?

Oh ho ho⦠you sweet summer child. Daaaaw, look at you with your little APIâ(TM)s, a few desktops, a server thinking this. Itâ(TM)s just so⦠so KYOOOOOT! You. Are. Adorbs.

Pro tip tho? Try working for a very big organization and understanding that delivered software such as this isnâ(TM)t going anywhere anytime soon, and is definitely not obsolete.

Vote with your dollars.
There is a lot of BS on slashdot these days so itâ(TM)s awfully nice to see a post like this every once in a while. Good on you both.

As a sidenote, I love strange new worlds as well. I donâ(TM)t understand anybody saying they didnâ(TM)t like it. Didnâ(TM)t give a cent to Paramount for any of it eitherâ¦

No, but the only reason they want to buy it is CNN. Is it isnâ(TM)t especially quality anymore, but itâ(TM)s the last even slightly liberal news Outlet in America and is trusted across the world.

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I used to visit countries in Asia that lacked stabled electricity. I used to think âoe why canâ(TM)t they just build more capacity and eliminate their corruption?â Now America is squarely in this position

We have always been at war with EastAsia.

This is how my mother consumes âoenewsâ now.
She told me everything is just so negative these daysâ¦
Ya think? I wonder why?

Voted republican her whole life.

He was fired from Y Combinator and the people at his start up, Loopt, ask the board to fire him because of his chaotic and deceptive behavior.

The guy is a disgusting, lying, cheating, sociopath who couldnâ(TM)t run a company if Reebok gave him all their shoes.

My partner is a price machine.
They can tell you exactly what the prices are for regularly purchased goods at every single store we frequent.
I can point to avocados and ask if thatâ(TM)s a good price or not, and they can tell me the prices of every other place they have been to.

It appears Walmart is beginning to mess with this. But if the prices go up and fluctuate then we will simply stop shopping there. We will, in fact, start going to the small discount grocery places which have sprung up in the area. The avocados might be going bad soon, but when they are half the price of the other stores in the area, itâ(TM)s absolutely worth it.

  Iâ(TM)m not saying most people will do this. Most people just want convenience. We think about the time and gas cost to procure specific goods, and do a quick optimization based on that. If Walmart starts messing with our ability to get a reasonable price, we simply wonâ(TM)t shop there anymore, and they will have lost a customer.
Other people can just blindly walk into this, and Iâ(TM)m sure they will. At this point in American economics other people can go get effed sideways⦠it means more opportunities for those who pay attention to whatâ(TM)s going on. Canâ(TM)t pay attention and have a little critical thinking? Well, I guess thatâ(TM)s your problem.