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Have you seen how cold it is outside? FFS, sir this is Texas.

Houston Metro down to 7k people without power: CenterPoint Energy Outage Tracker We have one busted pipe, outside on the main cutoff to the house (its a copper pipe on an outside wall of course exposed to the north wind, insulated except for the fittings, one of which go pop!). Hopefully...

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath My favorite of the HP Lovecraft stories: “Stars swelled to dawns, and dawns burst into fountains of gold, carmine, and purple, and still the dreamer fell. Cries rent the aether as ribbons of light beat back the fiends from outside.”

See, here may be part of what you are missing. Texas electrical pricing is nodal, which means there isn't a price for the state or for the region but there are hundred(s)? a hundred plus prices for electricity in the state. These are what spiked super high. You can see what these prices are...

I don't know what kind of utility where they could choose to not provide their service and decide to pay fines because it was too expensive, and regulators would allow it. Nothing about that makes sense to me at all.

This is why every Trading company hedges; at least every Power trading company that is still in business. But the Traders aren't the Generators aren't the Distributors aren't the Retail power companies aren't the ISOs.

Perhaps you know tons. All I can tell you from what I know is that distributors, not retail power companies, that would choose to not transit power to their customers because the spot prices are expensive and pay fines will be destroyed by regulators. It's incredibly highly regulated and...

Well, no one expected there to be a power outage from generation, hence my trimming to the trees but mea maxima culpa on that one. I didn't really even have anything to grill like I do in the summer. Just sandwich stuff which I mostly let my kids eat. Every other winter storm (2018, which was...

Really? Is that how it works? You may want to talk to someone who is in the business rather than reading about it on Lefty websites. Spoken as someone who has never had to deal with a NERC/FERC audit. If companies tried to just "pay the fines" and not energize customers they would be ran of...

Well, here's the thing, big shot. I wouldn't give a good GD if it worked. But it doesn't. It just doesn't. If it did, you wouldn't have everywhere that implements this horseshit have these issues. You wouldn't have to have government subsidize the hell out of it to make it competitive to...

I could not be more angry right now, at almost everyone. Just spent a night with very little food in a 40 degree house after spending hundreds to have trees trimmed to prevent transmission issues that were within my control only to be subject to the weather as a result of stupid human policies...

I could have sworn I saw this explained in the show itself, and I haven't watched S2 at all.

It's telling you that contrary to what Grace Randolph is saying, Gina wasn't "planning her own exit"; Disney hasn't said anything to her, nothing about her other SM posts, and in fact didn't even ask her to promote The Mandalorian. She only found out she wasn't working for them any more when...

This is what Comic pros want to make because they are Woke SJW Propagandists. It's also why print comics are almost completely dead. No one buys this shit. If they make more recent comics into movies, no one will watch those, either. Superhero movies will end if they run out of classic comics...

When it's half price or less I may get it for my kids and I. It looked like it had so much potential.

Wow, I just got done reading all of the above webcomic, which is Kill Six Billion Demons described as "a fantasy/new weird webcomic," in Wikipedia, going since 2013. Start at the beginning. I love the art, deep mythos, got some grrl power going on but easy enough to overlook. I recommend it...

We are so attenuated to now to looking for False Positives. Nothing like living in a low trust society. Isn't she super tall? Some of that height invariably involves increased prominence of features we associate with masculinity.

See, I am the exact opposite. All of my gaming friends are well past the MMO age now, and my grouping is situational. I got so burned out on guilds, etc by thousands of hours in EQ and I have a demanding work schedule. I want to do things at my own pace or push myself and group up with people...

Just canceled my D+, not that it means much because I got three years in advance as part of some D23 deal. From Nov 2022, I stab at thee! Still, let me choose other and RIP them a new one about catering to Social Media Cancel Culture Mobs, and the Gina was part of the resurgence of Star Wars...

Eric July is a friend? Damn dude is BIG time.

Since I haven't seen it posted here yet, this is what Gina posted on her Instagram. Someone talking about how the Nazi's so completely othered the Jews that their own neighbors, not political apparatchiks tormented them long before the soldiers came, before the Holocaust proper had began...

That is exactly my point. Firstly, they grew nothing organically, which may have been a valid theory given where they thought we were in the Superhero cycle; i.e. if you think its going to have another 5-8 year run, you can't wait to pay it in 10 years afterwards, so you start out mid-cycle of...

In 2016 while we were watching Civil War in theaters, Marvel had PreVis completed on Avengers: Endgame; The final fight, Avengers Assemble, the whole thing, something like 90% of the movie. WB DC just isn't as committed to anything, ANYTHING, as Kevin Feige is to the Marvel way and it shows up...

Everything I read these days about D&D seems to mention this shit and they just ripped off Moorcock? I loved those books. Those were great reads as a teen; I don't what they would be like today.

This is the best thread. Thanks for the entertaining read guys. I was pulling for Tampa Bay, not because I dislike Mahomes but because he's the Anointed One and holy moly the NFL as an organization sucks. I haven't watched a game all year but gave in and watched this one. It felt like...

I will never forget coming out of Phantom Menace and watching my friends mouth the things they thought they should say about it and me unleashing full throated disappointment hell on the crowd of people we had come to see the movie with. I held out hope young Anakin and Jar Jar were going to...

LOL, I was going to write a bit talking about the difference between people who saw themselves as the character versus the externalization of third person POV. If at any point you feel like sucking a dick, It had nothing to do with the character you chose. The gay call was coming from inside...

Yeah, while I was sick my wife watched this in the room with me. I woke up to Mad king George and the Black Queen and couldn't figure out why many British nobles were black. Even explained, I still didn't get the seeming large numbers in the mix. When I saw the Shondaland production card...

48CXs don't go on sale, sadly, or at least they never have: Not even once. The 55s have been 300+ cheaper on occasion and the 48CXs never budge.