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10 minutes ago, texasdago said:
As much as I don't like him, I would hate to think of someone worse than him.
I don't think they could vote any worse than crenshaw was voting, so it kinda doesn't matter lol
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Hah apparently Colbert and the Late Show did a segment on the Lumon set with the actors
Pretty funny
Edit: reading prior posts is for suckers. Sorry for the repost lol
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18 minutes ago, Js1 said:
Huh, I was told by the GOP that the IRA is extremely unpopular and no one likes anything in it
lol if you ask @Humble Beast, the Inflation Reduction Act is basically just child sex trafficking. The mods deleted his post to hide his shame and idiocy, but he deserves to be mocked more for bringing that shit to the 6th St Journal board
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Heh. Fuck Crenshaw - he was a dogshit congressman and never replied to any of my calls or correspondence on legislation that was up for a vote. After redistricting he's not my rep anymore, but fuck em. I hope he gets eaten by the MAGAmob
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14 minutes ago, Brew said:
Reading through this thread, seems like utilities is the place where the government may actually be able to run things better than the private sector. Living under the TVA umbrella with all municipal utilities has been a bonus. Several utilities in KY tried to spin out of the TVA system and built their own power generation plants and they have been killed financially. They are sitting on massive debt that they can’t pay, the local cities (all fairly small) signed off on the bond issues and are on the hook, and it’s been one issue after another with them. We did some price consulting for them a few years back and it was clear then that there was a major problem coming.
Yes but what you aren't considering is all the individuals who were able to enrich themselves by creating a private entity, giving themselves fat paychecks and bonuses for their troubles, and then bouncing when shit goes underwater. They get to privatize the profits, and socialize the losses! What's not to love?
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7 hours ago, TKthunder2 said:
Private power and the State/ERCOT deserve the scorn they get on here, but Austin Energy shouldn’t be exempt just because of “my team” CR bullshit reasons. Fuck them all, fix this shit.
It's more of a "hey let's not focus on a single city that's doing its own thing being below standard when 99% of the rest of the state is also fucked up"
Deflection to a whatabout to eat up the oxygen in the conversation is a CLASSIC tactic of people who don't actually want to talk about the problem. It ain't the Austin energy thread, my power was out for 3 days in Houston during the freeze - AE ain't got shit to do with that.
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8 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:
More shit Russian can't manufacture as long as the sanctions hang around. Stealth submarines and aircraft carriers that have a huge fucking beam.
Lmao those units would fuckin SLAP in a Red Alert reboot! But the russian navy is a fucking joke, aside from their sub forces. The Kuz fucking sunk the last drydock it was in lol.
They couldn't build the carrier, sanctions or no. And they'd probably only be able to build a single stealth sub, but it doesn't really matter compared to Status 6, which is already a live weapons system
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Wow, sweet memes comparing legislation you don't like to child sex traffickers. Very cool stuff!
Give me a fucking break, GRUvibes.
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2 hours ago, Chopper said:Just to double down on this - it's crazy how much was able to be gleaned from a single still image. From a nice writeup on Reddit:
QuoteI work in software research for satellite systems and oh man, let me tell you what people learned from that one image he released.
Within hours of his tweet of the photo, amateur satellite trackers worked to identify when the photo was taken and which satellites could have taken it. Satellite orbit data is publicly available - even for classified satellites (it’s hard to hide a satellite orbiting earth). When classified satellites are built and launched, the public knows they exist but no one knows their purpose or capabilities (instruments, resolution, hardware, etc.). Amateurs estimated the time of the image to be between 1:30-2:30 in the afternoon and that narrowed it down to one specific satellite: USA-224, owned by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). This means that all foreign nations now know this particular satellite is used for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) and that it has an electro-optical camera onboard.
Likewise, satellite image researchers set out to ascertain the resolution of the image. Satellite image resolution is stated as the ground distance covered by one pixel. There are multiple commercial players in the satellite image space, but Planet and Maxar are two of the biggest ones. Maxar has the highest resolution products that natively produce 30cm resolution (each pixel represents 30cm on the ground). Native resolution refers to the resolution of the camera on the satellite. Further, they apply machine learning super resolution to the images and achieve _15cm resolution_, which is impressive!
Researchers estimate that the resolution of the image released by Trump is _at least 10cm._ That means USA-224 achieves _at least 3x greater native resolution_ than the leading commercial product! You have to remember that this satellite was launched back in 2011 too.
Obviously, this isn’t information you want your adversaries to know. Now, they know this satellite has electro-optical capabilities, at what resolution it takes images, and its orbit which can be propagated over time.
Sources:
SpaceflightNow - [https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/08/30/surveillance-photos-reveal-apparent-explosion-on-iranian-launch-pad/](https://spaceflightnow.com/2019/08/30/surveillance-photos-reveal-apparent-explosion-on-iranian-launch-pad/)
Forbes - [https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanocallaghan/2019/09/01/trump-accidentally-revealed-the-amazing-resolution-of-u-s-spy-satellites/amp/](https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanocallaghan/2019/09/01/trump-accidentally-revealed-the-amazing-resolution-of-u-s-spy-satellites/amp/)
Maxar - [https://www.maxar.com/products/optical-imagery](https://www.maxar.com/products/optical-imagery)
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7 minutes ago, Grade of D as in David said:
I thought he posted as blacklab, but even Dilbert wouldn't be dumb enough to lose his website in a lawsuit.
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1 hour ago, statsman said:
I think raising taxes on the corporations that sell us our goods and services is a great way to fight inflation. They are honor-bound to not raise prices.
Well we all got so much benefit trickling down our collective faces when we gave them a huge tax break, right? If raising taxes on corps raises their prices, then dropping taxes MUST have reduced their prices! It would just be UNPOSSIBLE that a solely profit driven entity would take every opportunity it could to maximize their profits, right???
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2 hours ago, Hefeweizen said:
Except GEO which is prison stock. Very interesting.
slave labor - still profitable!
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2 hours ago, Samson's Wig said:
While we all bash the shortcomings of the free market system throughout TX, let's not forget about the "nationalized" system in Austin for electricity and water, which is even worse than what the rest of the state is dealing with. None of this shit is working like it should, and like with most things the solution likely falls somewhere in the middle.
I gotta disagree with your framing man - publicly owned utilities isn't "nationalized". It's the norm. Texas' privatized utility system has had nothing but negative effects on the downstream consumers who are subject to a state-sanctioned monopoly that is purely profit driven with no requirement to plan for severe events.
It shouldn't be on Joe Consumer to build his own durability into his home - the utility and grid operators are supposed to be covering that. They're shirking that responsibility down to the individual so that they can reap even larger profit margins with the reduced overhead costs.
You don't go to the gas pump with a fucking hydrometer to make sure you're getting quality fuel - you have an expectation of getting an immediately usable product. I really don't understand this reflexive need to cover for these greedy and maintenance-averse operators.
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1 minute ago, MC Fresh Breath said:
I don't understand why Scott Adams keeps getting posted in this thread. People haven't given a fuck about Dilbert in forever. This is the only place I see his dumb ass being discussed.
because people keep falling into the trap of repeating the lies and propaganda of bad faith actors, doing their work for them. It doesn't matter than you're making fun of em, just repeating the lie gives it oxygen
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3 minutes ago, bernorange said:
Is that because people are buying more, or because buying less shit costs more?
I'm inclined to think it's the latter - we know that wages for the walmart demographic aren't increasing at a rate that beats inflation, and Wally world is as eager as any corporation to exploit the inflationary headwinds to increase prices for better profit margins
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30 minutes ago, Humble Beast said:
We need an expanded IRS squeeze that extra 5% from somewhere. We’re squeezing the last dollars that we can out of everyone.
Maybe from all the corporations and ultra wealthy fucks that have received a trilly in tax cuts since 2017? Just a thought.
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Two accessories to Floyd's murder rejected their plea deals and are going to trial
Trial date set for Oct 24.
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15 minutes ago, Js1 said:
Hale I think said the outliers may survive a few months or a year but that’s it. Humanity is going extinct
Isn't there some threshold of number of people for the genetics to be diverse enough to continue in perpetuity? Like 11,000 or something like that? If there's only a handful of outliers that are alive still and the rest of the humans are murder-trons, humanity wouldn't last
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3 minutes ago, Humble Beast said:
I bet if they get more Bitcoin miners that'll fix their grid, right???
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Lmao ETH has been talking about moving to proof of stake for damn near a decade. I'll believe it when I see it.
And also, lmao if you think the US government isn't all up in BTC as much as it is ETH
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Lol incredulity citing an autogenerated article as an authoritative source is just a bit too silly.
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Yeah that sure was an episode of Westworld lol. I'm not sure if I know where or when we are anymore, but fuggit if we're going back west I'm in baby
ERCOT Urging For Energy Conservation
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Goddamn you're using a shitload of electricity if you're getting $400 monthly bills at $0.073 per KWhr