Howdy, fellow Texan. Yeah, even we have realized fossil fuels are kinda a stupid way to power things. It doesn’t help that ERCOT is a shitshow.

I’m already homeless and unemployed. How would throwing $900 at the U.S. Treasury solve anything?

I’d already been coding in other languages since elementary school in the '80s. Being told to start from scratch was insulting.

Well, if it isn’t the consequences of my own decisions …

I paid ~$800 for 1.2kW of solar panels on my van in 2023. The 600Ah of LFP was an additional $1,700. I’ve not paid a power bill in 2.5 years. How anyone could choose to not go solar baffles me. I was paying $3/kWh through the city-owned utility. Nominally, it was somewhere around 15 cents, but after all the fees that Austin charges, despite using only 20kWh/month, my bill was $60 at minimum.

The city has now raised rates five times since I went off-grid, so a straight $60 times 30 months undersells the ROI. It would now be $75-80, and $80 times 30 months means I’ll have broken even by May.

Less than three years, and when the power goes out in town, I’m unaware of it unless I run into a complaint on Reddit.

OK, you know what? Fuck you.

(hoping both you and the community at large understand I feel I can give you shit)

Talarico is a possibility, but I can’t vote. One needs a fixed address in Texas. I’m working on that. But it’s fucking infuriating that the people who run our state from our own city hate us and wish us to die.

Is this a banana reference from @The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org?

Look, I think all the shit being ascribed to LLMs is absurd. As I’ve already said “shit.” “bullshit” feels redundant.

Going completely off the reservation, real people can harm you far more then LLMs. Admitting you fell for that is basically like saying you thought a stripper loved you.

Realistically, what we are dealing with is the rejection of The Enlightenment.

Who could have guessed bombing another country would have knock-on effects?

That’s not what any tax prep software I’ve used over the years said. It was always a binary “do you have dependents? If no, you do not qualify for the EITC.”

My income has always been low enough to qualify for the EITC (journalism, amirite?) … the problem is, I never participated in making another good wage slave, so I’m excluded from that credit.

Per the St. Louis Fed, we’re already at 126.8% of GDP in terms of the federal debt.

Oh, the junta is champing at the bit to be able to invoke the Insurrection Act. Sort of ironic, given they led the only insurrection in modern U.S. history.

That looks like a tasty TACO.

I run the hed connected with the link when posting.

No, it was about one of the dead pilots being a French speaker and a tone-deaf response. I’ve lived in Canada, and this knee-jerk “Quebec is at it again” reaction to equal treatment feels unjustified. “Let them speak French,” essentially, while the rest of us don’t. The flight originated in Montreal, which already tells you English is the wrong language to apologise in.

Is she an African or European swallow?

I fail to see how someone essentially apologizing in the wrong language is the fault of the Quebecois.