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The US cities with the highest traffic fatalities. Daytona Beach, Florida, has 6.5 times the national rate of crash deaths per 100,000 residents in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

I grew up in Hesperia. Desert town, distinct lack of sidewalks.

Sovcit did.. whatever, this is. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So they took out a TSP loan and tried to get out of paying it back. TSP is the US federal government employee savings plan, sobthis person is or was a federal employee or member of the military. You can get a loan against for savings, but the money is taken out of your account and if you don’t pay it back on schedule, it gets treated as an early withdrawal and subjected to income tax and early withdrawal penalty of 10%.

Bronze idol of the god Bastet in the form of a cat, bronze, Egypt, 664-332 BCE in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (8 children)

How do they know it’s a god in cat form and not just a statue of a normal cat?

Nobody in c/[email protected]
Do you prefer sunrise or sunset? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was just thinking about this last night. I think most people would say sunset, because they see it more often, but then again, that makes seeing sunrise more special. Personally, I prefer twilight, either before sunrise or after sunset. I like the blue-grey color of the light.

Suspected Idaho shooter showed 'Nazi tendencies' in school, ex-classmates say in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

Except they aren’t targeting the one group they always said they would; masked thugs snatching people off the street.

Supreme Court upholds program providing internet access to rural Americans in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Never should have made it to the Supreme Court in the first place. Plaintiffs are literally arguing that Congress has to manage all programs itself. Massively stupid.

Lords Of Acid - Lover (KMFDM 'Cake Mix) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, I was at a record store in the San Diego area and saw a flyer for their show with part of KMFDM (Lucia). Wondered if I had stepped through a portal or something.

Mahmoud Khalil is free!! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Depends on who responds. Some will just nod and inform the caller that they are indeed federal law enforcement, but others (who absolutely despise ICE as cosplaying wannabes) may decide that taking the actors into custody, even if only for their own protection if a crowd is forming, is the best course of action. If it happens enough, it should force DHS to direct agents to properly identify themselves, and even if not, some actual consequences for these thugs may discourage some from participating. And as others have pointed out, friction between law enforcement agencies is in the population’s best interest.

Mahmoud Khalil is free!! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

and there are still masked ~~officers~~ people abducting people off the street

If they refuse to show law enforcement ID, they are just armed people impersonating law enforcement. Call 911!

sophomoric. intellectually sterile. ..."low" art. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don’t get it.

Dodgers turn federal agents away from stadium, team says. Crowd briefly protests outside in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Well, after last night I think it’s safe to say I will not be liking the Dodgers as a whole any time soon. Ohtani and Teo are cool, though. Impossible to dislike Mookie.

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I joined a community choice power provider with 100% renewable power, and my bill went down (sh.itjust.works)
 

I just got my first bill since going to a community choice power provider. Here in California, the investor owned utilities (commercial companies, not the publicly-owned utilities) act as retailers of energy. They buy power on the open market from generators, then sell it to their customers. They bill both for the cost to generate the power, and also for power delivery (which includes maintaining the grid). An option that recently became available is for a city government to join a community choice power provider, which then buys power from generators on our behalf. The utility still delivers it, so it’s not real competition, but partway there. The community choice provider then bills the utility, who passes that bill along to individual customers.

So, the generation cost went down by about 30% for power used during the day, and a few percent for power delivered at night (three different time-of-use categories). Our community choice provider has an option for 100% renewable power, which I chose, so this is a pretty tangible demonstration that renewable power really is cheaper than fossil fuels.

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Seems suspicious at SDG&E… (sh.itjust.works)
 

I noticed that my projected bill will be much cheaper than my last, even though I haven’t changed my habits, so I did some math. At this same point in last month’s billing cycle (71.4% through the cycle), I used a net of 550kWh. As of the end of the day yesterday, I have used 122.5kWh. As I said, I haven’t changed my habits and have even used my electric oven more since I have family visiting that likes to bake. SDG&E has long said that they don’t make money on the generation charge, just the delivery charge, but none of that would change how much power they say I am using. Even though they have a natural monopoly on power delivery with regulatory capture of CPUC guaranteeing them whatever increases they ask for, I wouldn’t put it past them and Sempra to fuck around with how much power they say we are using. I don’t think any of us would be surprised to wake up some day to headlines about SDG&E and Sempra under investigation for fraud.

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