Just combine them into Presipope.

Maybe he just hides it better than most?

And I am fucking here for it.

Lots of old lorries parked in movie theater parking lots where you live?

Most modern vehicles have fuel inlets that are specifically designed to prevent siphoning. If you want to steal gas, you’ll need to drill a hole in the (often plastic) gas tank underneath the car.

More knowledge is more power.

I genuinely can’t figure out if he’s doing this in support of Israel or against it. Either is plausible.

Can we still afford rocks?

Yeah … maybe the bachelor’s degree isn’t really necessary?

Or maybe they could just pay better.

Or maybe they could invest in a (very well tested and absolutely not vibe-coded) computerized system that takes some of the mental burden and stress out of the job.

But out of those 3 options, dropping the degree requirement is the only one that doesn’t cost a lot of money, so…

Been that way the whole time.

The US whining about not being able to get oil through the strait … while simultaneously blockading Cuba to prevent oil shipments there.

This is legit what things would look like if every world leader was as dumb as Trump.

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How much do you have to pay for the ability to have a backup, or are you lucky enough to be charged more or less nothing if the batteries don’t go out?

$10/mo service charge just for being connected. Might eventually replace it with a backup generator, but for now, $10/mo is a fair bit cheaper than buying, maintaining, and refueling a generator big enough to run the whole house.

What do you mean by not friendly towards grid tie? Do they charge you more for having solar (supposedly some places in California may have this)? Did they tell you you can’t sell solar power back?

A) You have to apply for permission to have a grid-tie system (with $100 application fee), and that application can be arbitrarily denied if they decide they don’t want any more grid-tie houses in this area. No way to tell if they’d approve it or not; either way, they’re keeping the fee.

B) Part of that application is permits and inspection, and there’s no way my house is passing an electrical system inspection. It was originally built in 1910 and has been added onto and modified many times by many owners since. Some circuits are completely dead, absolutely none of the breakers on my four service panels are labeled … it’s a nightmare. Getting all of it up to modern electrical code would probably involve just ripping out every inch of wiring in the house and redoing it from scratch.

C) They never let me ‘sell’ solar power back. They’ll never pay me cash for it under any circumstance. They give a 1:1 ‘energy credit’ which can be applied toward future power bills and that credit arbitrarily expires and resets to zero once a year, no matter how much you’ve built up. Not a great deal.

Simply setting up an off-grid solar system with inverter and batteries connected to the primary side of an automatic transfer switch. With the grid power connected to the ‘reserve’ side on that automatic switch. Whenever battery power is available, the whole house will run on that, when/if the batteries run out, it will automatically switch to grid power. And automatically switch back to battery power when it’s available again.

(My power company is not very friendly toward grid-tie solar systems. So fuck 'em. I’ll go mostly off-grid and only use them for backup power.)

That’s the whole purpose of religion – why it was invented in the first place.

Somebody should do something about that.

I’m going to a mostly off-grid solar system, with grid power only as an emergency backup.

His PR crew is saying that as spin control.

Often, sure, that’s the reason many people buy high-end products. And luxury cars are a prime example because nobody really needs a luxury car.

But instead, say, let’s look at mountain bikes. A midrange mountain bike will be much better than a Walmart special ‘mountain bike’. And a high-end mountain bike will be slightly better than the midrange one. And it’s true, a lot of the people buying high-end mountain bikes don’t really need that extra 10% of performance and maybe aren’t even really capable of using it. A lot of them are buying it just to flex on the poors, or because they have more money than they know what to do with and feel like they just have to have ‘the best’. But there are real enthusiast mountain bikers out there who actually do ‘need’ that extra 10% performance – expert riders taking on some of the worst terrain possible, people stretching the limits of what’s possible, and competitive athletes for whom a 10% performance difference means the difference between first place and last place.

Or, say, look at a tool like a power drill. A midrange drill will be significantly better than some Harbor Freight discount garbage. (Though, actually, HF’s midrange stuff is fairly decent.) And a high-end drill will be only slightly better than the midrange one. Here, there’s even less of a chance of people buying an expensive drill just as a flex. Because who cares what kind of drill you have? The only people buying it who don’t need it are those idiots with more money than sense who have to have the best of everything. But these high-end drills still get sold in fair numbers, because there are professionals out there using them every day. People who use the tool frequently for work can really benefit from one that’s just a little bit more reliable, a little bit faster and more powerful, etc. It allows them to get their work done a bit faster and more reliably, and for someone using it that much, the extra cost of a high-end tool can pay for itself over time by making them able to get more work done in less time and make more money.

At least some high-end products actually do have a purpose beyond just conspicuous consumption.

That regular people are paying for it is just annoying details.

That little annoying detail is likely to cost them the midterms.

Because, apparently, despite everything their base has put up with already, high gas prices are the one thing they will not tolerate. They’re either very confident in their ability to cheat in the midterms, or they’ve made a very grave mistake.