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kevinkevin 2 points ago +2 / -0

Electricity is bought and sold in most regions of the US at interchange hubs that work pretty much like other commodities markets. Power plants that are available to generate offer their kilowatt hours for sale and regions that need power bid on the generation that is available. If there isn't enough generation, the bids go higher as regions compete to outbid each other and the price goes up. Supply side factors can come into play as well. If the price of fuel goes up, the price that power plants are willing to sell their power for also goes up. Most power plants have long term fuel contracts to stabilize short term fluctuations.

So in short, when there is more demand than supply, the price goes up. When there is more supply than demand, the price goes down. If the cost to make power goes up, the price goes up and goes down in the opposite case.

Industrial power users will often have long term power contacts that fix the price to stabilize the price they pay and many regions have a governmental Public Utilities Commissions that approves and denies rate changes request by the utility companies. The PUC should have the individual rate payers interest in mind but some PUCs are good and some, not so much. There are also utilities that just pass the spot price for power directly onto their customers so if you have a contract with them and you have power during a crisis, you can end up with a monster bill.

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kevinkevin 1 point ago +1 / -0

That high visibility measuring tape is also awesome and I need one. Tired of squinting out the tape marks. I sincerely hope he saves his livestock but damn he has good tools.

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kevinkevin 4 points ago +4 / -0

"Welcome to the new AMC Game Centers. A new Call of Duty championship round begins in theater 1 in 20 minutes. Spots remain available so sign up now. In theater 2, a meeting of the Fallout Modding group is working on a new quest line and needs some voice actors to records lines, drop in and give it shot! In theater 3, a new VR wing will be launching a campaign in Elite Dangerous and will be Challenging the Theater 4 squadron. Why not enjoy a soft pretzel in the mean time or relax in our new Classic Arcade in Theater 5? Oh and in theater 6 there some new piece of shit Matt Damon and Will Smith romantic comedy or something playing."

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kevinkevin 12 points ago +12 / -0

I'm surprised Stacy Abrams posed for this.

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kevinkevin 6 points ago +7 / -1

The reminds me of the razor blade wars. Single blade razors were a thing forever, then someone came out with the 2 bladed razor, then three...four...I think there is a 7 bladed razor blade now.

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kevinkevin 1 point ago +1 / -0

Anyone see a simple protest arising where 80 million people print out ballots, mark them for Trump and send them to the white house, the leaders in congress and the HQ for FOX, CNN, MSNBC, etc.

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kevinkevin 2 points ago +2 / -0

I think you're right and this honestly made me laugh (I needed it, thank you)... the idea of Trump constantly correcting Pelosi on his proper title is just too awesome... he needs to do it....

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kevinkevin 6 points ago +6 / -0

Motor city madman is awesome. Having earned that nickname, how could he not be?

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kevinkevin 7 points ago +7 / -0

I for one would think it hilarious if Trump was a representative in the house simply so he could constantly mess with Pelosi. He could probably get them all to vote for term limits just so they could remove him.

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kevinkevin 1 point ago +1 / -0

really? Is this true? I honestly don't know.

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kevinkevin 4 points ago +4 / -0

For as long as they can (sadly) they will continue to blame Trump as their failures pile up. Once that wears thin (and it will) they will turn on each other. Our job is to push that turn as early as possible.

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kevinkevin 8 points ago +8 / -0

Orwell's 1984 has proven to be the most prophetic book of recent times and you are absolutely correct. Freedom didn't end today. Freedom has been under a viscous attack for a long time and what happened today was the beginning of new fight to regain the loss of freedom.

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kevinkevin 2 points ago +2 / -0

They don't get it and it's insulting. I expect the amount of fake patriotism on their network to go up in proportion to decrease in their ratings.

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kevinkevin 3 points ago +3 / -0

Agreed. I don't blame Hickock, though. If Tucker showed up at my house I'd be polite.

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kevinkevin 3 points ago +3 / -0

Hickock45 is a legend and I could watch him all day. The whole thing looks like the result of a group of suits at FOX saying "what can we do to get the deplorables back?" and the answer was "send Tucker to a popular YouTube gun site". Tucker will probably show up at Demolition Ranch next.

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