It is quite inexpensive to rent one. And not sure if Rack gives you freebie throw away addresses. Easy to do if you run your own server either by using aliases or if you want to separate the mails as the come in, multiple users. I use both methods depending on who I give it to.

Somewhat surprising to me. I'd have expected threads to first take web, then mobile. X is so engrained in government messaging and I'd expect that to be consumed more on mobile. Once "official" sources, and I'm mainly looking at you democratic states/cities who should know better, stop using X is their primary medium, X is done amongst mainstream. R gov's I give a break to. They are supporting their own. Much like Fox news.

I think I pay 10/mo for a small server. On it I run email and web.

Most articles I see say the opposite. Positive correlation with the stock market. https://www.sciencedirect.com/... So when stocks fall, the BTC's are going to as well. And to add to that, so let's say there is a recession and states need to tap their BTC. Note the word states. So many are selling. To maintain price, someone needs to buy the BTC the states want to sell. And these would be large sellers. Basic economics says price of btc will drop because supply will be up and demand down. Just when the states need the money the most. States would be far better off buying treasuries which pay interest. Especially at the moment when 30 year TBills are paying almost 5%. Back when they were paying 0. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/gr...

It has been a very long time since I graduated. I had very good grades and was near the top of the ee class. I had several offers at graduation. I saw friends though with middle of the road grades with no offers at graduation with ee degrees from a major probably top 10 ranked school. The early 80's were gruesome. We are headed back. I sympathize with them. When you start school, you kind of don't know what the market will be in 4 years. I wanted to be an engineer, so it wasn't a question for me. Others pick more based on the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Has to be tough when the pot vanishes when you get to the end of the rainbow.

I imagine true, not a fast food guy though. A burger has to have gone up significantly. A lb of ground beef is over 6 bucks now. I think I saw an ad for a dominos medium for 9.99. It seems like just a few years ago they were 6.99. Almost 50% more. Other big ticket items I'm seeing are things like home/auto insurance. I'm seeing near 50% more in just a few years and don't see them done raising rates yet. Standard of living for middle/lower class is dropping.

Wow, that is a cheap lawyer. I just had a case where the paralegal was 200, lawyer was 500. And I know from a trial that was a big deal in the early 2000's, a top tier guy made 600/hr back then. I've seen numbers between 1000-1500/hr for top tier today. Conversely, I also had a water heater installed a couple years ago and the pair of plumbers were here maybe 2 hours (x2=4) price was 3500 and I doubt materials were more than 1K based on what I see at HD. Or 625/hr. I'm sure some private equity firm got a nice cut since they own the plumbers these days. With that in mind, I asked the plumber if he ever would be interested in moonlighting and he had zero interest. He said he was doing great as a sub to this plumbing co. AC guys do well too. I use a co that I know is private, not PE. They installed a 4ton and I think it was 13,500. Materials I think run around 5K for that. so 8500 for 2 guys 4 hours 2 guys 8 hrs. 350/hr.

The big freeze was a clusterfuck on all levels. Wind froze. Gas lines to nat gas gens froze. The inlet to the nuke in Houston froze. Everything was broken. It was a massive failure of TX government regulation. The entirety of the state legislature and governor for the ten years prior to the freeze should be damned to 2 weeks without heat/power during early february (usually the coldest time in TX) every year of their life until they die. Every fucking one of them.

As to trump not doing stuff out of spite, who u kiddin. The man is drunk with power at this point. Greenland, need I say more. If Biden did that, the Dems in congress would be the first to impeach/convict him. He may very well start WWIII with this shit.

Or make it only given in years the committee really feels someone deserves it. Skip some years to make it more precious when they do give it.

Yes, also stupid. I never said trump had a lock on stupid. But I don't think the motives were the same. Biden had a belief that they could end up an environmental disaster. Its not like pipelines have never broken open and caused a mess. Trump on the other hand, it was all about revenge. It is really stupid. Like really stupid, the energy is needed badly, and next week may demonstrate just how badly if the PJM grid collapses under the cold wave. They have already issued alerts. I used to think no big deal growing up in a time when power co's almost always had the capacity. The first 40 years of my life in various regions of the country never had a blackout due to capacity. Earthquakes sure, wind sure, ice sure, raw capacity, nope. After being in the big freeze in TX and out for a week, I've changed my thinking.

Trump/McConnell demonstrated just how fragile democracy is. The R's still don't seem to care. Even Warren, fell for the trap of a small carrot for supporting him. And the woman from VZ, my god, what was she thinking giving don the nobel. She simply cannot believe that is going to earn his support. If she really believed that, how did she get a nobel?

And yet that party's voters don't seem to get that. They were all for state's rights when it was their baby (abortion), and religion in schools, but now they have trump, they want a dicktatorship.

I think you missed the point it was a German guy who was dissatisfied with the Porsche, saw/test drove the SU7, loved it and sold the Porsche. More embarrassing for Porsche is the SU7 is now faster round the ring. Which is part of that status thing of a Porsche. Who's the fastest round the ring. That ring thing was part of Tesla's problem amongst that crowd. Initially it couldn't make it round the ring without dying. A ford fiesta was faster. Since then they have tweaked the S to make it round.

As you say nameplate is pretty meaningless. At the moment TX wind is running at around 50% of nameplate (17GW, nameplate 35). And there are moderate winds. Today looks a bit unusual with winds sustaining thru the day. A more typical day has winds drop to maybe 20% of nameplate thru the day. I don't think I've ever seen it hit nameplate, maybe 90% of it. I've no idea how they convert nameplate to homes. And really does it matter these days. It ought to be nameplate to data centers. The new consumer, especially in VA.

I thought Empire was restarting immediately. It is supposed to be completed this year and I thought was already 60% done. I thought the Dominion one was already in progress as well, so would expect immediate restart. Anyone looking at the facts knows it was just trump revenge that motivated the decision. Only a deranged idiot would stop projects this far along. Oh wait.