Captainant

AMD has been eating into their client computing sales, Intel no longer is the go to option in the corporate laptop and workstation segment and AMD has them beat at a lower price and power consumption for most consumer uses. On the other hand, this goober just yolo'd a 700k inheritance onto INTC this morning so I'm sure it'll all work out lol

Their recent issues with 13th and 14th gen chips causing permanent damage to themselves ain't gonna help much either. Their datacenter sales have been getting eaten alive by ARM, it's gonna take more than a leadership change to correct their ship

They've already been raising rates to pay for other shit like generators they can't use, and have been finding many other avenues to increase the rates to Houston. So call me crazy, but that CEO's quote and your framing isn't entirely honest about a "decade of stagnant surcharges"

I figured it out - I guess my phone screen was on in my pocket or something and it pocket clicked on a profile and subscribed to that user's posts. And the "members" part of the followed content page is at the bottom under all the annual lists so I missed it at a glance ID-10T error.

They made more than a billion in profit last year (according to them), but they need to raise rates to pay off $1.5B over the next 15 years? Fuck their shareholders, they've already been paid. Centerpoint should be taking some money out of their rainy day fund to pay for the fucking rainy day. "The company is on negative outlook with the credit rating agencies," Wells said, according to Houston Public Media. "We take very seriously the affordability of our service, and we are proud that the (transmission and distribution) charges that customers experience today are the same as they were in 2014. but we do need as an industry the opportunity to recover just and reasonable expenses so that we can continue to make the significant investments in our infrastructure that help mitigate the risk of these natural disasters as we move forward." Wells, however, did admit that CenterPoint had earned more than $1 billion in profit over the previous year. The company said it would seek approval from the Public Utility Commission of Texas to issue bonds to recover $1.5 billion to $1.7 billion of its storm-related costs, Chief Financial Officer Christopher Foster told investors and analysts on an earnings call this week. Foster estimated residential customers could see a two-percent increase in their electricity bills for the next 15 years to pay down the debt, which carries interest.

What's wrong with Wichita Falls? It's the finest collection of trailer parks and casino workers south of the Red River!

Pinochet and the mujadeen/taliban spring to mind as two big ones

It's moreso that EBITDA gets used and abused by the executive class to present a misleading view of their firms finances. It's excessively short term focused and is a systemic contributor to our unsustainable business practices. If you want to enshittify a good business, you're gonna shift from reporting GAAP numbers to EBITDA. Otherwise people will get wise to the shell game

The CIA giving out guns in unstable regions rarely goes well for the US long-term

Elmo's FSD gets to tally another kill https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-was-full-self-driving-mode-when-it-hit-killed-seattle-motorcylist-police-2024-07-31/

My house was built and sold to its first owner right before Harvey and it was high and dry - you bet your ass we're gonna advertise that it's been resilient (so far) against the severe weather whenever it comes time to move and sell this place

Quite a concern troll attempt by chainsaw

I thought I might have pocket-clicked on a follow button, but in the "manage followed content" part of my profile it shows "There's nothing here yet" for both topics and forums

I keep getting random notifications about new posts on threads as if I'm following a thread, but I don't have any active follows or content that I'm subscribed to. Not a major problem, but the notification spam is annoying Edit: like I just got a notification for a San Dimas thread that just got created?

Sounds like it sucks there

Not really surprising info about the shooter: https://www.mediaite.com/news/fbi-deputy-director-trump-shooter-believed-to-be-author-of-anti-semitic-and-anti-immigration-posts-online/ While the investigation is not to determine motive, the investigative team continues to review information from legal returns, including online and social media accounts. Something just very recently uncovered that I want to share is a social media account, which is believed to be associated with the shooter in about the 2019-2020 timeframe. There were over 700 comments posted from this account. Some of these comments, if ultimately attributable to the shooter, appear to reflect anti-semitic and anti-immigration themes to espouse political violence and are described as extreme in nature. While the investigative team is still working to verify this account to determine if it did, in fact, belong to the shooter, we believe it important to share and noted today particularly given the general absence of other information to date from social media and other sources of information that reflect on the shooter’s potential motive and mind set.

Yeah I'm not gonna go with another zuck owned platform. Dude is a monster towards his users

"the children yearn for the warehouses" - Incredulity, probably

Except for when he was the NSA in his administration lol

What's so fuckin crazy is that they're starting to make goddamn videogames about doing this to orks https://store.steampowered.com/app/2300160/Death_From_Above/

I genuinely don't think an amendment is going to be fruitful, it's too easy to block and all the (R) states will simply out of spite

Aw poor baby did getting six negs make your feefees fall down go boom? Poor widdle victim

And that's fair.