marine_mustang

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Supreme Court upholds program providing internet access to rural Americans in c/technology@lemmy.zip
[–] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day 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/gothindustrial@lemmy.world
[–] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days 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/world@lemmy.world
[–] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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/world@lemmy.world
[–] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week 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!

Dodgers turn federal agents away from stadium, team says. Crowd briefly protests outside in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week 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.

US military aircraft no longer visible at base in Qatar: satellite images in c/globalnews@lemmy.zip
[–] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I really hope Iran doesn’t start lobbing missiles at Al Udeid, that would be a catastrophic escalation. I don’t think they will, despite some people’s attempt to depict the Iranian regime as crazy, they are definitely rational and acting in a way they think is in their best interest. I think they realize that attacking the US directly would not be beneficial to their agenda. Anyway, this is the world’s first good look at war conducted via ballistic missile, aside from the brief exchange last year.

Dodgers turn federal agents away from stadium, team says. Crowd briefly protests outside in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Don’t make me like the Dodgers, please.

JD Vance sets up an account, lies about trans people, gets banned within 20 minutes, cries about it. in c/peoplebluesky@lemmy.world
[–] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

That’s exactly why it was doomed to failure the moment Elon was forced to complete his purchase of Twitter.

Guys, I think google wants me to use AI 😳 in c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
[–] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

https://www.androidauthority.com/how-to-turn-off-ai-overviews-google-3445771/

Basically, create a new search engine entry with a URL that defaults to Google’s “web” tab instead of “All”. As others have said, swearing in the search has the same effect.

Friends say Minnesota shooting suspect was deeply religious and conservative in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 34 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Trump fan and murderer? Doesn’t sound too Christian to me.

All eyes are on Newsom so I hope he continues roasting the right. He could definitely up the temp. in c/Mirror@50501.chat
[–] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Nothing prevents Gavin from mobilizing the CA National Guard to protect protestors, as far as I know.

Nine women accuse Jared Leto of sexual impropriety in new report in c/world@lemmy.world
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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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