lol they already won that political chess. You still have to pay a connection fee and a transmission fee and a lawsuit settlement fee and an environmental remediation fee, even if you use 0 kW/h. Also with the NEM 3 plan if you have any excess solar generation you give it to them at about 1/10th the price that they will sell to you during the same time of day.

Edit: I exaggerated unfairly, it’s like 1/8th the price. Also for the people who adopted solar early and were promised a 25 year contract (called NEM 2) they can now magically alter the deal and change the way that credits are calculated despite the 25-year guarantee that was made.

Edit 2: did you know our governor is a large shareholder of stock in our utility company? The same one that has the power to appoint people to the board that is supposed to regulate the “private” utility? America is doing great.

They’ll just bust out the old tapes and get another round of use out of that old code.

My electrical utility (PG&E) advertises all the time. Like what am I gonna do, not buy electricity? It’s so obviously just a bribe to the media companies.

Schlorp schlorp schlorp

But they repeatedly promised while campaigning that they are the party of free speech! Surely they didn’t just lie to my face??

Things can go wrong unexpectedly during pregnancy. For example I just hosted a party on the weekend after Halloween and one of my friends was totally fine and having a good time, then suddenly in the middle of the night after the party she woke up in excruciating pain and bleeding heavily so went to the ER. It turns out she had an ectopic pregnancy, and was able to get the treatment she needed and is still alive instead of bleeding to death in the parking lot of the hospital.

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I can’t not read that in the little Asian kid’s voice from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

Also that was the only conspiracy he covered that was slightly grounded in reality. The atrazine poisoning was hermaphrodizing the frogs. Of course more regulation to stop pollution is not a solution that dumbfuck jones would support…:

You can bury your head in the sand all you want, but Republican fascism is now in full swing. You aren’t insulated from it just because you make smug internet comments.

They really, truly don’t. There are a few “pilot projects” so that the companies can tell investors that they have a “blockchain strategy” but the world runs off of normal databases.

At least we already indexed minimum wage to inflation a while ago so it will still go up, just not by as much.

It’s worth noting that California did abolish private prisons a while ago.

The bear in the flag was over-hunted and had its habitat destroyed so it’s no longer found in California. It’s a great metaphor.

Imagine if you suddenly couldn’t move between states.

This has already become reality for all the women I know that are pregnant or trying to become pregnant.

Incorrect. The transaction is not practically useful unless the currency has real value.

He literally promised camps on day one, less than a few days ago. Is he lying?

Search trends are not useful for population studies. For example, did you even bother comparing the search trends you presented to other election years?

We’re at the “round them up into camps” stage. Have you read a history book before?

A disagreement of ideas is something like “should we fund government services through the sale of bonds or require upfront funding from property taxes?”

Also, the way you are drunkenly taking this personally tells me that you have been recently ostracized by people you care about. Are you willing to share what relationships you have recently lost and how they went sour?

P.S.: Congratulations! I think you may actually be the first author of a comment to receive more than 100 downvotes on Lemmy!

No, it requires a lot more than two parties, because the resulting “funds” from the transaction still have to be valued by everyone else that provide goods and services. So it becomes a social issue if it is to be a currency, and then you just end up re-discovering all the lessons that lead to how currencies already work.