“Not actually measuring the costs didn’t keep them from rising” is accidentally one of the most spiritually useful lines in this entire piece.
Works for inflation, trauma, addiction, climate change, grief, and that mysterious kitchen smell everyone keeps pretending will resolve itself through denial and patriotism.
One thing I keep wondering about: Both the Trump and Biden Administrations have been saying consistently that we don't actually need mid-East oil, that we are pumping all the oil we need right here in the good ol' USA. It is always also said, since the Stupid War was a shot in our own foot because oil prices are global and price increases there REQUIRE that price increases must be suffered here, too. Why? Where is it written? Why can't we demand that our fucking oil companies, that are producing all the crude oil we need, can't engage in price gouging us to death for the gasoline they provide right fucking here? Until the morons who got us into this shithole are gone and the world gets back to "normal" the oil companies can only charge what they were charging before THEIR shit-for-brains got back in office. Just wondering, y'all.
Hereabouts was supposed to be the release date of Mother Love Bone's first studio album, Apple. They could have been bigger than Nirvana or Pearl Jam. Would have been. Should have been. Without Andrew Wood, who OD'd in March 1990, Cobain, Vedder, Cornell wouldn't have been huge.
I am so angry about the f'ing double standard applied to the left and right and also Labour's propensity to form a circular firing squad when the world is burning that I am avoiding UK news today lest I scream continuously into the void instead of working
Could MAYBE the parties vet these people *before* placing their names in? Like Reform ... didn't I just read that a newly elected Reform candidate has already been arrested?
Cons and reactionaries never do and get away with it. When anyone left of Orban tries to ignore a thing in the past though, it is all the press can talk about.
The entire AI excitement thing was always bonkers to me. ooo you can get a machine to do your thinking for you! How great! And if you are bored it will make porn of anyone you wish!
I'm still convinced the main draw for AI was being able to create video evidence out of whole cloth and make art without having to pay those commie artists.
The S&P 500 hinges on that small handful of tech stocks whose price is inflated by all the stupid money investing in "AI" ... the bubble may not POP, but it certainly will deflate as the "AI" costs rise and the return on investment doesn't show up on the balance sheets.
That is really stretching the meaning of gerrymandering. Because they'd need 2/3 of the Senate and 3/4 of the state legislatures to make that work, and they can't gerrymander the Senate. Also they don't have 3/4 of the state legislatures, and they're not getting them.
Edit: Oh, also also the gerrymandering they are doing is diluting strong Republican districts, so if we can get off our asses and convince enough other people to do so as well, they can lose a whole lot more of those districts than they planned.
Funny, I haven't seen that name mentioned until now for over a week.
And while I don't see the point in demonizing him, I also can't be bothered to spend too much time defending someone who make the laziest kind of shit on the internet.
so if we can get off our asses and convince enough other people to do so as well
There's the rub.
I see glimmers of hope in that with the specials and off years being very surprising. But Every time I do, there is usually some article about why we shouldn't do no kings because it is not pure enough or we should not vote for X because they are too radical, and I lose that hope again.
Ignore or push back against the people who claim to be on our side but are working (intentionally or not) to suppress the vote. It's all part of the fight right now. That includes people who claim we shouldn't protest a certain way, people who claim the vote is already too rigged and we've lost, people who want to spend our time speculating about who will run for president in 28, and more I'm probably forgetting right now.
Unfortunately, others do not. When it is an all hands on deck situation and say a quarter of the hands are too busy upfisting the guy claiming the fire is not that bad, it is gonna be that much harder to put out the fire.
'or push back' was there for a reason. How much time and energy you have for that is something you have to determine, but every little bit is important.
Residents can generally expect to use household electrical appliances without interruptions, according to the company. SPAN’s main strategy is to tap into excess power capacity in each home, with 200 amps of electrical service capacity representing the standard for most modern US homes built in the last 30 years.
“Virtually all homes with 200-amp utility services have 80 amps available at all times, so we set that as the maximum power consumption for a single XFRA node,” Lander said. He described how the XFRA nodes would “operate as always-on loads within verified residential capacity,” meaning they would run around the clock under normal circumstances.
Generally expect?
Virtually all?
I like how they will totally pay for the electric, really, and just charge you a "fee"
This will definitely not cause brownouts, like when households aren't even using their whole 200 amps each, but just want to run their air conditioners all at the same time. Nosirree.
Maybe it's just because I live in the land of "unreliable grid" - but this was immediately what I was thinking of. No way "the company" doesnt use every bit of extra up
Buying houses and using them to grow marijuana was a thing in my area about 25-30 years ago. If they got busted, it was usually because the power company got suspicious with the usage rate. That and rarely seeing anyone there like you would were it a normal dwelling.
he gasoline inflation rate would have been 11.1 percent in plain old at-the-pump price increases, but for statistical purposes was adjusted to the lower 5.4 percent to reflect the normal cost shift for “summer blend” gasoline.
The fuck? They can just adjust because well, it always goes up in the summer so it says 5.4% instead of 11%?
2022 was because Putin invaded Ukraine and sent the markets into chaos. War profiteering by the oil companies abounded and Ol' Joe threatened them with investigations.
US hotel operators say promised boon from hosting World Cup hasn’t materialized yet
PHILIP MARCELO
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — The promised economic boon from the World Cup hasn’t matched expectations, at least not yet, for U.S. hotels.
Room bookings have been lighter than expected in most of the 11 U.S. cities hosting the world’s most watched sporting event, according to an April survey by the American Hotel & Lodging Association.
In several cities, including Kansas City, Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Seattle, a majority of hotel operators said bookings were actually running behind typical seasonal demand. In others, including New York City, Los Angeles, Dallas and Houston, demand was flat so far compared with a regular spring and summer, according to the association.
The hotel association blamed travel concerns from international fans, worries about wait times for a U.S. visa and the cost of attending the tournament — including high ticket prices and transit costs in some cities— as major factors in the softer-thanexpected demand.
“I think everyone had hoped the games would lead to an influx of bookings, but with all going on in the world and the USA’s involvement, events are playing out differently for everyone,” said Michael Black, general manager at the Cloud One hotel in Manhattan.
Concerns about softer-thanexpected bookings extend to Mexico, which is co-hosting the games with the U.S. and Canada. Hotels in Mexico City, which hosts the tournament’s opening match on June 11, are about 30% to 36% booked, according to the Asociación de Hoteles de Ciudad de México.
… mysteriously in my head when I woke up. Don’t think I’ve heard it in quite a while.
There was a slightly younger guy I worked with at a kinda not great high school summer job working for a kinda weird posh resort (it was pretty remote and I lived onsite for a while one summer—I suspect in retrospect it was the sort of place rich people went with their paramours) listened to all these kinda wistful boy wonder pop performer dudes who mostly seemed to do honestly pretty soppy love songs. Reminded me a bit of that stuff, but made in 2022. Wonder if he was trying deliberately to evoke that. Seemed to me decently done anyway.
(The guy from the job did like my music collection, which even then was pretty not that, and borrowed stuff regularly.)
“Not actually measuring the costs didn’t keep them from rising” is accidentally one of the most spiritually useful lines in this entire piece.
Works for inflation, trauma, addiction, climate change, grief, and that mysterious kitchen smell everyone keeps pretending will resolve itself through denial and patriotism.
One thing I keep wondering about: Both the Trump and Biden Administrations have been saying consistently that we don't actually need mid-East oil, that we are pumping all the oil we need right here in the good ol' USA. It is always also said, since the Stupid War was a shot in our own foot because oil prices are global and price increases there REQUIRE that price increases must be suffered here, too. Why? Where is it written? Why can't we demand that our fucking oil companies, that are producing all the crude oil we need, can't engage in price gouging us to death for the gasoline they provide right fucking here? Until the morons who got us into this shithole are gone and the world gets back to "normal" the oil companies can only charge what they were charging before THEIR shit-for-brains got back in office. Just wondering, y'all.
requires export taxes like other countries are doing.
I'm wondering why Trump hasn't tried strong-arming oil execs with that argument.
7:02AM WHAR TABS?
Patience, grasshopper.
magic
Hereabouts was supposed to be the release date of Mother Love Bone's first studio album, Apple. They could have been bigger than Nirvana or Pearl Jam. Would have been. Should have been. Without Andrew Wood, who OD'd in March 1990, Cobain, Vedder, Cornell wouldn't have been huge.
Listen to Stagazer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9n9gW1wCks
For a kid who was way too young to be hanging out in bars in West Seattle, Andrew Wood was a fucking revelation. Just an incredible performer.
As someone on Bluesky said....
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British political journos: "Starmer may have been fatally wounded by the Mandelson affair".
Also British political journos (breathlessly): "Young Mandelson protege Streeting might be the UK's next PM!"
https://bsky.app/profile/natacha.bsky.social/post/3mlpsyazqxs23
I am so angry about the f'ing double standard applied to the left and right and also Labour's propensity to form a circular firing squad when the world is burning that I am avoiding UK news today lest I scream continuously into the void instead of working
Could MAYBE the parties vet these people *before* placing their names in? Like Reform ... didn't I just read that a newly elected Reform candidate has already been arrested?
Cons and reactionaries never do and get away with it. When anyone left of Orban tries to ignore a thing in the past though, it is all the press can talk about.
Weird how that happens!
So. Much. Winning.
𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗺𝗶𝘅𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝗔𝗜 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗮𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗮𝗿 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁
https://apnews.com/article/stock-market-trump-ai-oil-war-3005fd174ae0aa30091936fef632d0d2
The entire AI excitement thing was always bonkers to me. ooo you can get a machine to do your thinking for you! How great! And if you are bored it will make porn of anyone you wish!
ok, now the AI excitement makes more sense.
I'm still convinced the main draw for AI was being able to create video evidence out of whole cloth and make art without having to pay those commie artists.
The S&P 500 hinges on that small handful of tech stocks whose price is inflated by all the stupid money investing in "AI" ... the bubble may not POP, but it certainly will deflate as the "AI" costs rise and the return on investment doesn't show up on the balance sheets.
When they start making the Trump dollar coin, they should make it from aluminum so it's recyclable.
The Japanese 1 yen used to be made from gold, then silver. When they stopped making it, it was aluminum.
For that matter, why aren't we making pennies from aluminum? They were steel during WW2.
They needed aluminum for planes?
Nickle and zinc lobby were more powerful than the aluminum lobby?
We also have a whole lot of other uses for aluminum.
Grampa Assmouth: “I don't think about Americans’ financial situation. Not even a little bit.”
MAGA core cultist: “He cares about the common people like me; he really does!”
The GOP is planning to get rid of the 14th and 15 th amendments in Congress by gerrymandering a two thirds majority.
https://youtu.be/k4i9bxK9qnk?si=FCEpGnfQkUeH3pKR
That is really stretching the meaning of gerrymandering. Because they'd need 2/3 of the Senate and 3/4 of the state legislatures to make that work, and they can't gerrymander the Senate. Also they don't have 3/4 of the state legislatures, and they're not getting them.
Edit: Oh, also also the gerrymandering they are doing is diluting strong Republican districts, so if we can get off our asses and convince enough other people to do so as well, they can lose a whole lot more of those districts than they planned.
Good point. Thanks for the explanation.
We're too busy fighting over Hasan Piker right now.
Funny, I haven't seen that name mentioned until now for over a week.
And while I don't see the point in demonizing him, I also can't be bothered to spend too much time defending someone who make the laziest kind of shit on the internet.
People have opinions. Piker isn't in the House or Senate. Move along.
We just have to stay focused and vote.
so if we can get off our asses and convince enough other people to do so as well
There's the rub.
I see glimmers of hope in that with the specials and off years being very surprising. But Every time I do, there is usually some article about why we shouldn't do no kings because it is not pure enough or we should not vote for X because they are too radical, and I lose that hope again.
Ignore or push back against the people who claim to be on our side but are working (intentionally or not) to suppress the vote. It's all part of the fight right now. That includes people who claim we shouldn't protest a certain way, people who claim the vote is already too rigged and we've lost, people who want to spend our time speculating about who will run for president in 28, and more I'm probably forgetting right now.
oh, I do ignore em!
Unfortunately, others do not. When it is an all hands on deck situation and say a quarter of the hands are too busy upfisting the guy claiming the fire is not that bad, it is gonna be that much harder to put out the fire.
'or push back' was there for a reason. How much time and energy you have for that is something you have to determine, but every little bit is important.
True that. We gots to keep on fightin'. The alternative is to curl up and cry and honestly, there's only so much of that I can do in a given day
CBS: Phone data reveals 42% drop in Canadian visits to U.S. last year [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/canada-us-tourism-travel-decline/]
ETTD
Let's not forget SUMO!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhc25eAqJA0
Just, wow.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝗜 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗺 𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗵: 𝗛𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗮 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲
The plan aims to speed up AI compute deployment while compensating residents.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/the-newest-ai-boom-pitch-host-a-mini-data-center-at-your-home/
Wait wait wait wait
Residents can generally expect to use household electrical appliances without interruptions, according to the company. SPAN’s main strategy is to tap into excess power capacity in each home, with 200 amps of electrical service capacity representing the standard for most modern US homes built in the last 30 years.
“Virtually all homes with 200-amp utility services have 80 amps available at all times, so we set that as the maximum power consumption for a single XFRA node,” Lander said. He described how the XFRA nodes would “operate as always-on loads within verified residential capacity,” meaning they would run around the clock under normal circumstances.
Generally expect?
Virtually all?
I like how they will totally pay for the electric, really, and just charge you a "fee"
But maybe they won't!
This will definitely not cause brownouts, like when households aren't even using their whole 200 amps each, but just want to run their air conditioners all at the same time. Nosirree.
Maybe it's just because I live in the land of "unreliable grid" - but this was immediately what I was thinking of. No way "the company" doesnt use every bit of extra up
I can run it off my nuclear powered automobile!
i knew Ford named it Fusion for a reason.
One way to pretend data centers are not hoovering all the juice and shooting prices up.
What data centers? It is just a house!
Buying houses and using them to grow marijuana was a thing in my area about 25-30 years ago. If they got busted, it was usually because the power company got suspicious with the usage rate. That and rarely seeing anyone there like you would were it a normal dwelling.
"Give us all your electricity and drinking water, and we can give you a cartoon of Donald Trump getting rogered anally by Xi Jinping!"
"Oh Pooh, what have you gotten yourself into this time?"
"Quiet Piglet."
he gasoline inflation rate would have been 11.1 percent in plain old at-the-pump price increases, but for statistical purposes was adjusted to the lower 5.4 percent to reflect the normal cost shift for “summer blend” gasoline.
The fuck? They can just adjust because well, it always goes up in the summer so it says 5.4% instead of 11%?
Weird, ain't it?
A fucking lie.
Gas is therefore 11% more expensive
11% to date.
Lie, damn lies, and statistics.
Besides which, it did not really go up much last summer. Certainly not enough to account for 6% averaging.
See for yourself.
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=emm_epm0_pte_nus_dpg&f=m
So it did not go up last summer XD AND only rose a little the previous two summers. 22 got nailed though
Just lowering the percentage to look better it seems
22 got nailed because during 2021's lockdown people weren't driving
and gas was $1@ gal
2022 was because Putin invaded Ukraine and sent the markets into chaos. War profiteering by the oil companies abounded and Ol' Joe threatened them with investigations.
US hotel operators say promised boon from hosting World Cup hasn’t materialized yet
PHILIP MARCELO
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — The promised economic boon from the World Cup hasn’t matched expectations, at least not yet, for U.S. hotels.
Room bookings have been lighter than expected in most of the 11 U.S. cities hosting the world’s most watched sporting event, according to an April survey by the American Hotel & Lodging Association.
In several cities, including Kansas City, Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Seattle, a majority of hotel operators said bookings were actually running behind typical seasonal demand. In others, including New York City, Los Angeles, Dallas and Houston, demand was flat so far compared with a regular spring and summer, according to the association.
The hotel association blamed travel concerns from international fans, worries about wait times for a U.S. visa and the cost of attending the tournament — including high ticket prices and transit costs in some cities— as major factors in the softer-thanexpected demand.
“I think everyone had hoped the games would lead to an influx of bookings, but with all going on in the world and the USA’s involvement, events are playing out differently for everyone,” said Michael Black, general manager at the Cloud One hotel in Manhattan.
Concerns about softer-thanexpected bookings extend to Mexico, which is co-hosting the games with the U.S. and Canada. Hotels in Mexico City, which hosts the tournament’s opening match on June 11, are about 30% to 36% booked, according to the Asociación de Hoteles de Ciudad de México.
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Who knew? People don't want to get swept up and sent to concentration camps while they're on vacation following their favorite team.
Gee whillikers.
The prices of gas and airfare killed *normal* summer travel and ICE killed the World Cup. How does it feel to live in an authoritarian country?
Smells like ... victory. NO WAIT! It smells like bullshit and Axe.
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Morning, Diane!
Briston Maroney—It’s Still Cool If You Don’t
https://youtu.be/aSXlHYeoGdU
And so let’s figure this out
… mysteriously in my head when I woke up. Don’t think I’ve heard it in quite a while.
There was a slightly younger guy I worked with at a kinda not great high school summer job working for a kinda weird posh resort (it was pretty remote and I lived onsite for a while one summer—I suspect in retrospect it was the sort of place rich people went with their paramours) listened to all these kinda wistful boy wonder pop performer dudes who mostly seemed to do honestly pretty soppy love songs. Reminded me a bit of that stuff, but made in 2022. Wonder if he was trying deliberately to evoke that. Seemed to me decently done anyway.
(The guy from the job did like my music collection, which even then was pretty not that, and borrowed stuff regularly.)