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d_lock 14 points ago +14 / -0

If you don't believe in something, you'll believe anything.

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d_lock 4 points ago +4 / -0

I remember swine flu. The entire college dorm I was in got it and we all got placed under quarantine. People figured out who was cool and had windows which were easiest to escape through.

Good times.

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d_lock 1 point ago +1 / -0

Cool -- so they invest all of their earnings into infrastructure, then their shareholders fire the C-suite execs, drop ship, and they proceed go bankrupt. Why invest in an energy company that will return no value to you (And 10% return is already low for the industry), when you could invest in an energy company that would?

You've solved CA's energy problem! Now they don't have to worry about having any energy!

I strongly suggest you go read a few books. Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell, Why Nations Fail by Acemoglu and Robinson, and a few other randomly selected Econ/Finance textbooks. Make sure to cover fiduciary requirements of companies, so you don't make yourself look like a clueless pseudo-Marxist yokel next time.

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d_lock 1 point ago +1 / -0

Who said "they didn't have enough money?" They didn't spend their budget in the correct places.

Where's your profit number from? That doesn't line up with any of PGE's financial statements (FY 2017, 2018, or quarterlies from either year) so it seems completely made up.

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d_lock 2 points ago +2 / -0

It's probably the weather. Lots of lefties went on about how Trump was "sabotaging" USPS during the lockdowns, turns out running at holiday levels (2-3 shifts per day) for a whole year really grinds people down.

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d_lock 1 point ago +1 / -0

USPS basically shut down the line between east/west -- Indiana down through Texas. I'm waiting on packages from PA through GA, no updates. Most of the hubs along that line closed up due to snow, so no mail or packages will cross that boundary.

They should change their creed from "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night..." to "We're government employees, did you expect us to do a good job?"

Before you bitch at me dunking on USPS, know that I'm an ex-postal and ex-UPS worker.

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d_lock 1 point ago +1 / -0

So why did they have to get interim permission from the EPA and DOE to run different fuel types? You reference that yourself elsewhere, so you're now unaware.

On own power grid, yes, it is disconnected from neighboring states' grids. "Isn't regulated by the feds," completely 100% unabashedly wrong, with knowledge of facts to the contrary. Why you lying?

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d_lock 1 point ago +1 / -0

Clusterfuck is a very mild term for what's going on there, I agree. What I was referring to specifically, was gov't requirements to spend a certain percentage of utility income on green solutions (With the 2035 "all green" goal). It ends up being around 60% of their total budget. That was a direct cause of that horroble year for wildfires.

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d_lock 1 point ago +1 / -0

I'm not pretending that's not the case, only pointing out that gov't demanded money be spent a certain way, and it caused a huge amount of damage.

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d_lock 4 points ago +4 / -0

Even more ironic, the 2018 round of widlfires was kicked off by bad energy policy. CA pretty much required PGE to spend their money on renwables, and forgo maintenance in some areas.

Renewables stirke again!

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d_lock 3 points ago +3 / -0

It's complicated. Part of it is that .308 has a lower headspace tolerance, and thinner brass than the 7.62 NATO -- firing .308 in some 7.62 chambered rifles (not all -- it's a tolerance that overlaps .308) might cause the brass to expand enough to rupture. It's hard to compare pressure to pressure for the specs because they measure at different points of the case. Yay for different standards.

If you can't chamber a .308 field headspace gauge in your 7.62x51, you should be able to fire .308 out of it. Even then, I would prefer 7.62 to be safe.

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d_lock 1 point ago +1 / -0

I heard this may be an immune response from TX -- trying to deal with all the lefties moving in.

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d_lock 1 point ago +1 / -0

I thought he was back to learning colors again, "This color is red, this one blue, this one is white, this one is poor..."

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d_lock 1 point ago +1 / -0

Part of the issue is that it's harder to bring power up to too much demand, compared to adding additional power to a slightly overrun grid. This is the reverse of what happened in the NE back in 2003 -- enough power dropped that almost everything in the area was taken down. Once you hit a certain critical low point, it's just going to degenerate really quickly, and make it harder to come back up. The delay asking for that "mother may I" was probably enough to do the same in TX.

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d_lock 6 points ago +6 / -0

I wonder if doing the aforementioned wrap would help with that -- I'd guess having some sort of uv stable foam insulation would help save the PEX, and help with freezing a little bit.

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d_lock 2 points ago +2 / -0

TX will recover in a few weeks. Flint still can't drink their water.

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d_lock 1 point ago +1 / -0

CA all the time: rolling blackouts, power company bankrupt from starting fires due to government regulation.

TX only when there's a natural disaster: blackouts. No fires started by power companies.

LoOk At ThOsE pEoPlE aNd ThEiR bRoKeN gOvErNmEnT.

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d_lock 2 points ago +2 / -0

Crispr editing vaccines are still around. Crispr Therapeutics has a few in stage 2 trials, and there are a few others with them -- Intellia and Editas as examples. The problem is, that style of vaccine can be super dangerous, and they're much less effective in older people. The vaccines currently in trial are for pretty awful hereditary diseases, like sickle cell or amyloid polyneuropathy.

Using CRISPR for a virus was a stupid idea, and I'm fairly certain it didn't go far at all.

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d_lock 1 point ago +1 / -0

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d_lock 1 point ago +1 / -0

"We need more cages. You know back in my day we used to have double barrel cages when some kid would come up to touch my hairy legs you'd throw two cages into the air and catch them with a rusty chain, then my wife would leave them out in a rain barrel, oh wait that's my sister, you switched on me. Anyway the point is c'mon man, that's just a question you want to ask because all CNN listeners are Republicans listening to the phonograph to get their white kids smarter than poor kids." - Joe Biden on "What are you going to do about GME?"

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d_lock 1 point ago +1 / -0

Ironically, that improved performance in FMJ also comes at the expense of making HPs less consistent. I was surprised seeing that result, but I guess there isn't a single caliber that's the best at everything.

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d_lock 1 point ago +1 / -0

My mom had the same issue (Arthritis) and enjoys her EZ. 380 is a tad expensive, but still available at places I've gone to. There are some tricks to fix the slide lockback, sometimes the magazinesones aren't the most consistent for that.

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d_lock 1 point ago +1 / -0

How much do you want to bet the 95s all have sight blocks canted worse than century arms AK imports?

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d_lock 2 points ago +2 / -0

No, no, schedule the interview, then send a five year old to do it. If you waste their time, they can't interview someone else with that time.

That's how you deal with other kinds of scammers.

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