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RamRabbit

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  • New packaging can warn you when meat has spoiled

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  • Yeah, the date on the package means even less if you freeze it. Frozen meat is good for years.

    (Freeze your ground beef, freeze your bread. Throwing away food is expensive!)

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  • Yep, France has cheaper energy than Germany. France went nuclear, Germany went solar/wind (and even had to re-online some coal plants due to shortages).

    The pushback on nuclear from anti-fossil advocates never ceases to amaze me.

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  • Batteries plus solar is still cheaper than all other power systems.

    Several of my friends live in states with energy provider choice. Buying from the 100% green power providers is more expensive. Natural gas is extremely cheap after all.

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  • Yep, the unreliability is exactly why buying from 100% green energy providers is more expensive than buying from natural gas providers. Batteries are extremely expensive, natural gas is cheap.

    Source: Several of my friends live in states with energy provider choice; the green providers cost more.

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  • They required the choice between two different administrators.

    Most US states have this. They mandate you can choose your energy provider.

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  • Are you getting their specific electrons? No. (Electrons in AC systems don’t actually travel very far, you get the same ones jiggling back and forth!) But they make that much more power and your previous provider makes that much less power. The end result is you buy power from that provider, just as promised.

    As you said, the grid must be balanced. Your old provider cannot generate the power, and your new provider must generate the amount if power you now buy. If either of those are not the case, the grid is not balanced.

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  • In the US, a big part of it is that natural gas is a waste product of oil fracking. If you want the oil, you will get a giant gob of natural gas to go with it. The stuff is really, really fucking cheap because of this.

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  • Yep. Meanwhile the US has some of the cheapest and is mainly Natural Gas.

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  • Lots of US states have legislation that lets you choose your energy provider. People buy from the 100% green energy providers if they wish to pay more, not if they wish to save money.

    Source: Several of my friends live in these states; they pay more to buy from 100% green energy providers.

  • Mamdani Threatens 9.5% Property Tax Increase if Wealth Tax Is Not Passed

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  • it must be short term as a response to market shocks

    NYC has had rent control for decades. If we are talking about short-term rent control working, we are necessarily talking about removing rent control from NYC.

    Talking about adding more rent control in NYC is doubling down on failure, doubling down on fucking over NYC renters.

  • Mamdani Threatens 9.5% Property Tax Increase if Wealth Tax Is Not Passed

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  • Economists of all stripes agree rent control doesn't work. A mere 2% think it has positive effects, according to a 2012 survey by the IGM Forum.

    The analysis of rent control is among the best-understood issues in all of economics, and – among economists anyway – one of the least controversial. In 1992, a poll of the American Economic Association found 93 percent of its members agreeing that 'a ceiling on rents reduces the quality and quantity of housing.

    NYC renters have suffered enough. Why would you subject them to failed policies like rent control?

  • I have fuel from three weeks ago in 5-gallon containers - too late to add stabilizer or pour into a vehicle?

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  • Three-week-old fuel is brand new. I don't even fill up my car that often.

    No issue here.

  • Lawyers increasingly have to convince clients that AI chatbots give bad advice

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  • and promised to try better in future

    This part in particular really pisses me off. It isn't learning, it isn't 'going to do better', it's just saying what it thinks you want to hear.

    I fucking hate sycophants.

  • Mamdani Threatens 9.5% Property Tax Increase if Wealth Tax Is Not Passed

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  • Mamdani Threatens 9.5% Property Tax Increase if Wealth Tax Is Not Passed

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  • Mamdani Threatens 9.5% Property Tax Increase if Wealth Tax Is Not Passed

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  • When a cost goes up for all owners at once, this leads to everyone raising rent prices at the same time. There is no opportunity for a renter to jump ship to a cheaper property, they all went up. The maximum changed.

    Yes, this will price out many people from being able to afford housing.

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  • Better pass a rent freeze first

    Renters are already fucked in NYC. Stop making their lives worse with proven failures like rent control.

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  • the middle class disproportionately rents. It is the wealthy who own.

    Just like every other cost related to owning and maintaining a rental: property taxes get passed down to renters.

    This tax hike disproportionately affects middle and lower class individuals.

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  • Just like every other cost related to owning and maintaining a rental: property taxes get passed down to renters.