Interesting because I googled it and multiple sources say a few hundred a month is typical. Sources vary but I don't see anything remotely close to $1800/month. Anecdotally, I live in a similar sized house as you and also in the great lakes, a 120-year old house with spotty insulation and we broke a window frame this winter which I have yet to fully repair. Still it didn't cost us $1800 for the whole winter let alone a month.

Where did you get this number?

Zuck should rename his company from "Meta" to "Slop." The ticker is available.

I don't know about saving the planet, but Tesla currently has more than half of US EV market share, so no, it would be more like if Tesla took a bunch of EV seed money and spent it on gas SUVs.

Anyway trials aren't generally about whether the defendant is a better person than the plaintiff or witnesses.

Yes, and then the situation repeats outside with the friendly neighborhood transformer. I'm looking at the pole right now and it says 75kVA. That's effectively what, about 500 A of capacity at 120V? There are a bunch of houses attached to it. If everybody turns everything on at once there's going to be free fireworks.

Of course they know this. Yet they're marketing to investors with the pitch "the average American home only uses about 40 percent of its electrical capacity." Feels scammy to me.

The scam victim said he had the "overhelming feeling" of talking to a higher power during conversations with the fortune teller, and said it was hard not to hand over bank account numbers to "a genuine friend."

Were they? Maybe they think that, I don't know. I don't see anywhere on this thread where PCM2 points out anything like that. Maybe you mean ArchieBunker? How many accounts do people have around here?

It's a sweeping statement. Zero tolerance, throughout the entirety of the western media, really? The kind of statement that would require evidence to be taken seriously. The use of "war in" instead of "war with" isn't good evidence. It has a mundane explanation, which is all I pointed out.

There are few businesses whose development relies specifically on advances in bookkeeping. You still have to do it, but the less spent on it the better. The state of the art of bookkeeping is generally not a limit to the capacity of business development.

For some companies, this is true of software as well, but obviously there are many companies whose business development relies significantly on advances in technology. I'm afraid your example just doesn't apply to GP's point.

I don't know about a hundred people at random but examples abound. I'm sure the folks at SpaceX are pleased that they are not running the exact same software they were a decade ago. You seriously underestimate how pervasive software is in the world and how much development goes into it.

I have personally seen bay area jobs with salaries advertised near $200K go to H1B workers at a salary of $100K or even less. Cheap is relative. Saving $100K per headcount is an incentive, even if you think $100K is not "cheap" in your world.

Am I satisfied? I wasn't expressing a need or an opinion. I was just pointing out that if a journalist says "war in Iran" they might also not be expressing an opinion.

That's not necessarily a political statement, it's journalistic standards. War hasn't been declared. Kind of like they call this week's DC shooter the "alleged" or "suspected" shooter. It's not because they think the feds swapped perps in some sort of conspiracy. It's because he hasn't been tried, so that's what you do.

There are some mindless haters anywhere but a lot of people are thoughtful. And a lot of those thoughtful people really can't stand Trump. I mean the guy lies soooo much, even for a politician. Thoughtful people tend not to like that. Especially when it translates to action that is seen as harmful to so many people.

And when I say he lies, I mean that as an objective statement of fact. I'm not expressing my opinion. There are people who literally sit around all day and fact check him, and provide documented verifiable evidence of the lies. Some info on that here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

But you must surely be aware of this?

There's that "might have" again. No information here. Yeah, someone might have.

Again, I'm looking for any credible information that the official was forced to resign after 4 days for a legitimate reason. No, I don't know what any vice presidents or any universities have to do with the resignation.

Since you've only gone from noise to name-calling, I'm tuning out.

Oh, I read it all, just didn't see the need to quote it all. It's this repeating theme...

Got it. More than zero chance that they had some sort of justification and that in the future, someone might be able to say what that is.

But then later

There's the jump. How does this slim but nonzero chance of justification get to "in other words someone knew something." That sounds pretty confident. Who might this someone be? What might be your source?

Post some links. Any kind of real information. Even if it's speculation as long as it's informed e.g. from someone who was there. Anything at all that's credible. Otherwise you're just making stuff up, and just because the made-up stuff is not technically impossible doesn't make the speculation useful.

Yeah, that'd be perfect. If you could just post some sort of actual indication that this happened, rather than just imagining out loud that it's not impossible. Then we could have an interesting conversation around which university affiliations you and the White House believe should be purged wholesale from government rolls.

Making stuff up just adds noise to an already noisy internet.

True it does not, but it's rather on you to rule it "in". RTFA. Then if you've got some credible information to supplement or counter, post a link. Otherwise it's just noise.