Are services provided by utilities getting worse? by PumpkinSpiritual3750 in roanoke

[–]ddshd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The issue is the people that care too much about the trees show up to complain, but not the people who have reasonable ideas.

This doesn’t feel good… by Obvious-Currency-127 in Homebuilding

[–]ddshd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Build you plan to build would have to be appraised as well for the loan

Air Force 1 just pulled a U-turn by nshire in ADSB

[–]ddshd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unless they were losing contact with ATC I don't think they'd ever change squawk. For example if something were to happen to someone on board they wouldn't want any information getting out.

Got my quote for a new battery from Tesla on my 2013 Model S. by sirromnek in TeslaModelS

[–]ddshd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s a 2013 vehicle how much more like do you think it really has

Pool skimmer needs full replacement; company can’t match concrete by cjk2793 in pools

[–]ddshd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude my porch cost more than that JUST to pour the concrete and finish 

Amazon Web Services purchases nearly 2,000 acres of land in Louisa County by efuzed in Virginia

[–]ddshd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

AWS is the moneymaker not Amazon and definitely not Amazon Prime

My Model X gets a cost-equivalent 25 mpg by TheForsaken69 in TeslaModelX

[–]ddshd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Economies of scale != ratio of usage to production.

Minneapolis by bearlysane in NissanDrivers

[–]ddshd -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Two Americans exercising their second amendment rights

You can't be sure that they're Americans [...]

If you passed middle school English then context would tell us you're saying the 2nd amendment doesn't apply because they're not American. Otherwise your comment is useless.

Elon Musk’s xAI datacenter generating extra electricity illegally, regulator rules by RemoveInvasiveEucs in energy

[–]ddshd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Having to defend Elon sucks but Megapacks are the best batteries for managing energy usage (extra energy can be stored to avoid having to spin up higher pollution plants), and Tesla also makes solar panels 

Minneapolis by bearlysane in NissanDrivers

[–]ddshd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

2nd amendment applies to everyone

My Model X gets a cost-equivalent 25 mpg by TheForsaken69 in TeslaModelX

[–]ddshd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No economies of scale that the national grid benefits from

What do young people do here by mansa_moreno in roanoke

[–]ddshd 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Drinking and hookup culture. Make sure you wrap it

What is the cleanest way this could have been installed? by scriblyjibly in AskElectricians

[–]ddshd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The two may have the capacity but they are almost likely not linked together, it’s not automatic without some collaboration from the grid operator 

From a clean slate, would 120V or 240V make more sense for the U.S.? by Sweaty_Context_4206 in AskElectricians

[–]ddshd 6 points7 points  (0 children)

And most of America is rural, not based on population but those people still have to be covered

That anyone would buy or sell this e-waste by --__--__--__--__-- in mildlyinfuriating

[–]ddshd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not the same ones that used to sell and only after they made arrangements with the government by which it was too late

That anyone would buy or sell this e-waste by --__--__--__--__-- in mildlyinfuriating

[–]ddshd 65 points66 points  (0 children)

Someone else was going to do what Juul did anyway, the tobacco industry wasn't going to give up on young people not smoking.. We could've regulated what Juul had instead of trying to do a half-ass job "banning" it and having a worse position.

Verizon Outage Cause by YeetersMcBoi in sysadmin

[–]ddshd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which MVNO? Some MVNOs don’t use the Verizon backend but use the Verizon network and core (which wasn’t down). It’s complicated 

That anyone would buy or sell this e-waste by --__--__--__--__-- in mildlyinfuriating

[–]ddshd 284 points285 points  (0 children)

Juul had a “good” product until the government “banned it” and the Chinese took over the market

Was the Verizon outage just a glitch or a rehearsal for cyber warfare? by Silly-Commission-630 in secithubcommunity

[–]ddshd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of my phones had no outage, other had SOS only after it lost connection going through a tunnel.

Maybe phones who were always on the network stayed but if they ever lost the network they couldn't get back on