Spot prices still go negative in TX, less now with around 13GWh of storage. But if Enron wants into the retail game, different I think. TX allows most areas to have 3rd parties use the lines and a customer can choose different retail plans. They have lots of competition already. The money I suspect is the guys with the wires, who are the "house" and get a cut of every KWh. Generation is more iffy, spot prices are pretty volatile. Negative-zero-ish to 8 bucks/KWh.

The symptoms of pneumonic plague are coughing, sneezing, a fever, and sometimes chest pain, followed by often quite rapid death. Since it's pretty communicable and the pre-death symptoms are pretty typical for lots of things that do not bring people to the hospital, particularly when they don't have health insurance, containment (proper contaiment anyway) involves more than just treating walk-in cases.

You're right, but you picked a bad example. The tetanus vaccine targets the toxin, not the bacterium.

Bernie's not the president. I don't think much of Bernie, a nut just like trump, just a different side of the coin. But as I said, Bernie is NOT the president and is NOT the guy throwing tariff's on in a way that at least in my view is unconstitutional because it is NOT an emergency situation. Couple that with him now throwing tariffs on Brazil (a net importer of US) because the clown doesn't like how his fellow dictator wanna be is being treated and you have full on crazy. Well, no full on crazy is him now saying that Rosie should be stripped of her US citizenship. You know someone born in the US to US parents. Truly, the house is remiss in not filing impeachment for him shitting all over the constitution.

Oddly, I don't do any financials on my phone. Really I don't do almost anything except maps, and I recognize the data is being sold. Oh and calls/text, cause its a phone!

Wait until they start screaming "Where's the beef?" Prices are going up again, and with the trade tariffs, likely to go up even more. Brazil, Mex, and Canada all supply decent amounts. And from what I've read cattle stocks are down in the US. Could get ugly. Ground beef is now 6/lb I think. I remember when steak wasn't 6/lb and it wasn't that long ago.

From the trump supporter crazy file, TMZ, a bad vice of mine reports. https://www.tmz.com/2025/07/10...

Then anyone who uses fintech is stupid. The T&C for any financial institution says if you give away your credentials to anyone, its on you. What possible thing could I want a 3rd party to do that would have access to my account. I'm not happy that 3rd parties have the ability to do a "pull" on my account with only my routing number and account number. I'd like to see where the bank has a "pull ok" list on my account with a max pull amount on each name on the list. I recall when I linked my brokerage to my bank they did 2 pushes and 1 pull where the 2 pushes added up to the one pull and all were less than a dollar. To complete the linking I had to tell the brokerage what the amounts were of all 3 transactions. That while inconvenient and took a week or so to setup was reassuring.

I read the 2nd link, the open banking one. Who does this. From the open banking link, "Screen-scraping is how many digital banking experiences were made possible in the last 25+ years. It is a method of data collection where a consumer shares their banking credentials with a third-party provider, who then uses these credentials to log in on behalf of the customer (typically using bots)."

Who in their right mind provides your login details of ANY financial institution? I don't share passwords/logins with anyone for even something like /. But my bank. Ef no.

Well apparently they are falling all over each other to put one in now. https://www.houstonchronicle.c...

"In an interview with Fox News on Monday afternoon, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said the county should have had siren warning systems along the river and that “the state needs to step up and pay.” He added that “we need to have these in place by the next summer,” though local officials had ultimately decided against adding sirens to their proposed flood warning system."

Now in a month they may forget all about it, but for now they are all over it.

Or, you might wake up, check to see whats going on, and do the correct thing. Did no one notice the basis of everyone turning off the warnings on their phones was too many false alarms. Well, a siren would wake you up. And I'd hope that just like you, who was in an area prone to tornadoes first thought was a tornado, that the counselors who are in a river bed which is prone to flooding might think crap, rain, we need to check to see if there could be a flood. But if it was a tornado, after checking again, they'd do the right thing and seek a sturdy shelter.

70s rock bands.

This explains the age old question, how the fuck is Mick Jagger still alive?

Why? Retirement ages might have to go up, but that's only a bad thing if you've somehow spent your life doing something you hate and are counting the days until you can sit on a couch for ten or fifteen years waiting to die.

The most sensible solution to both problems would seem to be ditching the gamification of maximizing career progression from ages 18 to 65. Do something you enjoy. Take a break after the first ten years if you want to have some kids. Go back and do something you enjoy afterward. Maybe switch it up again in your forties or fifties. Lots of time left.

Seems the opposite of brutal.

Plumbing doesn't have universal standards either. You said it: "Adapters between copper and PEX piping exist."

My grandparents' place had aluminum wiring. You have to be a bit careful combining that with regular copper. Adapters exist.

There's some wifi smart home stuff, and there's some old 310/433 MHz X10 stuff, but the vast majority, including zigbee and thread, are based on IEEE 802.15.4, which, if you're familiar with computer stuff, you might strongly suspect is a standard. It's not a new one either, it was written in 2003; it's older than the wifi standard you're probably using right now. That's why Ikea can just move from zigbee to thread and keep backwards compatibility: it's a software change on the network and higher layers. Anyway, there are adapters between pretty much all the systems, even the oddballs.

I'm not really sure what offends some segment of Slashdot so much about lighbulbs you can turn on and off without getting up. You guys had TV remotes didn't you? Conveniently located thermostats? Hot and cold water on tap?

Its generic and applies to any event which money may have made a difference, but we were too cheap.