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From a Texan: Welcome to the heat dome!

“What Orwell failed to predict is that we’d buy the cameras ourselves, and that our biggest fear would be that nobody was watching.”

camera that watches you drink the verification can

You’d have to try it to find out. I’d like to think they were smart enough to brick this thing if it doesn’t call home every so often or maybe it has a unique controller? Maybe you’re really badass and can make it happen. They could always try to come at you for…$550 I guess? I think that’s what their fine print says.

edit: correction

for the real processed stuff that comes individually wrapped, any place you need an instant melt cheese-turns-into-a-sauce sort of thing

Why? What should people know about Texas power grid upgrades?

Best I can see right now is ERCOT and others saying lots of upgrades have been made, but not specifics. I can see ERCOT and the legislature going back and forth on a “market overhaul” that no one can quite agree on yet and which favors more on-demand sources (natural gas and such). Can you point to where people should read about upgrades?

I think there is a bad title here, but that’s not the title at the link. I don’t know where this title came from. OP? The link is a pretty straight forward reporting of this recently released EIA report and doesn’t seem to contain much of the author’s opinion (apart from being on a renewable biased website).

The author of the article doesn’t say anything about “surplus generation”, that’s a quote from the report.

You don’t think the US Energy Information Administration knows what it’s talking about? Bold stance.

I wonder what a LLM trained on the increasingly…shifted content Twitter has recently would look like.

never cracked a screen but 90% of the time I take it out as I sit down

Cool comparison. I didn’t know it could be had so many ways.

I feel like a huge part of the arcade experience was the free spinning steering wheel controller. You just spun it hard and stopped it after your truck made it around the corner. No unwinding of the wheel or anything. As a kid that couldn’t drive, that was the right amount of realism (untealism?).

The inhibitors of the Revelation Space universe of books by Alastair Reynolds are a sort of unknowable, unescapale, and undefeatable force.

A secret force/organization that is seemingly undetectable and unbeatable bad guys that are always one step ahead of the good guys is one of the antagonists of the Pandora Star and Judas Unchained 2 book series from Peter F Hamilton.

I was looking for this take. It seems like there’s huge amounts of data to constantly be serving up for video compared to more transactions but of smaller chunks of info for majority of threadiverse stuff

They pay residuals to the creators per viewing so not giving anyone the option to stream it is the cheapest option. Netflix doesn’t ask you if you’re still watching because they’re trying to save you electricity or not run up your monthly data cap.

If I promise to switch to oat milk, can I keep the cheese?