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Captainant

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  1. 51 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Not for a minute do I ascribe that as the only source of inflation.

    It's not that price gouging was THE SINGULAR SOURCE of inflation - there absolutely were demand spikes and a lack of capacity to satisfy that spike. But gouging is a completely optional piece, that has been a pretty significant portion of inflation. 

     

    However, incredulity is not someone capable of holding that thought in his head, and he calls anyone a communist who disagrees with him.

  2. 1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    Agree except for the greed part- if the demand signal is telling them that prices are below what the market will support, what choice do they have? Fundamentally I think the problem here is the problem with the economy for most people- the slosh of stimulus injected liquidity disconnecting buying power from income, following four decades of labor not sharing in productivity gains.

     

    1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Do you think that explains the entirety of record corporate profits in a time period where the average American is taking it in the shorts?

     

    32 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    Oh absolutely.  Broadly speaking, that was a major target of stimulus. Before that the target was support for asset prices, especially real estate. And not for nothing, I don’t recall you complaining about record home prices while the average American was taking it in the shorts. 

    Wait Bozo, so it's your view that the one-off stimulus payments to individuals are the main contributing factor to the long-term sustained inflation that we observed post-COVID? I'm not sure I can see how giving American citizens an extra 3% of the median pay ($1400 stimmie) in a single payment is meaningful leg of support for long-term >50% cost increases.

  3. 1 hour ago, Buzzrock said:

    Some sort of WWII YouTube video. 
     

     

    huh, the Corridor Digital crew are generally decent dudes - I think it's just aggy being tonedeaf and not thinking about how it looks to be gleeful in a waffen SS uniform. 

    I'd bet that CD video is gonna be a banger though, they've made a ton of great stuff over the decade plus they've been going

  4. 1 hour ago, C-Man said:

    Contrast the glacial speed of Trump's cases with that of Senator Menendez, who was charged, tried and convicted in roughly the amount of time it takes Trump to send a rage tweet from his shitter.

    (D) vs (R)

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  5. Just now, Bozo_Casanova said:

    I don’t follow this point. What does a state sanctioned private monopoly have to do with market pricing or capitalism?

    Because they're still part of the overall energy market through resellers wether I like it or not. The state converted a public utility into a private asset then sanctioned the monopoly and justified it with the lie of it being moderated by free market forces. Straight outta post soviet Russia, with the same outcomes for shareholders of goosed profits and shittier customer experience that doesn't matter because of monopoly power

  6. 1 hour ago, 52-80 said:

    Then why do you have such trouble understanding it?

    We appoint you emperor of earth.  You are the global moral arbiter and its sole legislature.  How much profit are fast food companies permitted to earn?  What is the law you would write to regulate against its "gouging" (probably involves defining objectively what gouging is).  Go.  We're listening.

    Well using centerpoint as an example... They took in $6.5B in profit last year, but spent evidently nothing on infrastructure hardening or disaster prep. But they raised our rates nonetheless and goosed their profits to all time highs

    A state sanctioned monopoly gouging customers and then leaving them in the dark, while raking in beaucoup bucks is a decent starting point of example

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  7. 35 minutes ago, immamac said:

    We are saying the same thing. I think the votes are there regardless of trump. The American People are so filled with evil and greed they can't help themselves. 

    Its gonna get real messy and shitty abroad and we're gonna be the ones responsible for letting fascists gain control. 

    We saw the fucking attack on January 6th and did NOTHING AT FUCKING ALL. Because if anything was done, we would be just as bad as trump. And so now, we get trump. 

    Watch some band of brothers to see how that goes for the fascists and the citizens of that fascist country - willing participants or no

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  8. 5 hours ago, RabidM said:

    There's no way that dismissal stands up on immediate appeal.  One would think this would be enough to get Cannon removed from the case.  I could see SCOTUS upholding the ruling eventually, but what can you do with that corrupt shithole? 

    It's been appealed 

    https://www.rawstory.com/smith-trump-documents-case-appeal/

    Wow what a completely unforeseeable turn of events (if you're a lawyer) that aileen would do this for her benefactor 

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  9. 7 hours ago, Parliament said:

    Stabil is good but it’ll still go bad in time.  I’m told aviation gas is better.  Buy it in a sealed drum, keep it sealed until the apocalypse.

    Avgas is still gasoline and it breaks down over time. There's a reason the military uses turboprops over piston planes in the modern era - they burn jet fuel (sparkling diesel) rather than avgas

  10. 1 hour ago, Okie State said:

    They will run off of ethanol gas just fine. It has less energy in it than pure gasoline though. E10 gets you worse mpg than E0 so I would assume that's why it gets less generation time as well.

    IMO propane or natgas generators are the way to go. Gasoline breaks down after 6 to 9 months and you have to keep cycling it. Propane can sit in a cylinder for years with no problems. Plus it flows cleaner through the generators fuel system and makes it less prone to gumming up

  11. 4 minutes ago, Okie State said:

    From what I've gathered, the manual transfer switch requires you to preselect which circuits will be energized when you flip over to generator power. An interlock is also manual, but energizes the entire breaker box once you isolate from the grid and you manage the load by selecting which breakers remain on. I could see advantages to each.

    Their cutover panel physically flips the other breakers open and you slot the ones you want to stay energized all in a certain spot in your breaker box. They still have room for moving two more 20A circuits onto their transfer switch too. 

    When it's normal operation, you can keep all your circuits closed. Seems pretty straightforward and you can still choose a subset of circuits if you want to or have power budget concerns

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  12. 17 minutes ago, Okie State said:

    Any preferences on a manual transfer switch vs. an interlock? Seems like both have pros and cons, but either should work.

    My in laws have a manual transfer switch with a manual 15kw generator that runs off their big ass propane tank. It was a ton cheaper than the auto set up and there's less of a concern with thrashing when power is intermittent 

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