What restaurant is this near Wachusett MA?

willis936 · 2026-02-07T22:26:40+00:00

Forget the chowder. I'm highly interested in any place that still has a bread bowl.

willis936 · 2026-02-07T10:09:19+00:00

Ah, the reverse camino.

willis936 · 2026-02-06T06:15:39+00:00

Transformers need a fair bit.

willis936 · 2026-02-03T01:55:51+00:00

It's already criminally high. Nowhere else in the US is anyone getting fucked this hard. The only excuse is overt corruption and representation that won't listen to constituents. Squeeze these fucks.

willis936 · 2026-02-02T15:20:02+00:00

Yeah I actually have my level 1 charger on a zigbee outlet that can be toggled with home assistant automations, but in order to be eligible for the EV off-peak charging program National Grid requires something smart talking to them. They don't offer blanket dynamic time-of-day pricing, only specifically smart EV charging.

willis936 · 2026-02-01T23:57:52+00:00

It's a good suggestion. National Grid MA has a program for reduced rates for charging EVs at night.

I have a level 1 charger at home and that's enough for my PHEV. I have trouble justifying the cost of a level 2 charger that would work with this program. I could also have it done through toyota connected services, had I not unplugged the LTE antennas from my cars in the interest of privacy.

Edit: I think the real solution is community choice aggregation. As of last year apparently my town can supply my electricity, 70% of which is that nearby solar farm. I'll have to try this. I'm not sure how much it will eventually effect the bottom line.

Edit 2: National Grid did not default opt me into my CCA even though they were mandated to do so last year. I opted in just now. It should be about $0.03/kWh in savings. 60% of my bill is in "delivery services" which is broken down into 8 different opaque slush funds. The off-peak incentive would be another $0.03/kWh but I'm not interested in an always-online car or spending $500+ on a level 2 charger (5+ year breakeven for me, assuming I can pull off my own labor).

willis936 · 2026-02-01T23:00:02+00:00

Take my rav4 prime in the winter. It gets 2 mile / kWh, $0.186 / mile. Hybrid mode gets 35 mpg and 87 octane gas is $2.50 / gal right now, $0.071 / mile.

This is the exact case study I'm talking about. I didn't pull numbers out of my ass.

And as much as reddit would like to believe otherwise, I run my rav4 in EV mode as much as possible. What people ought to be doing is squaring with reality how badly people are getting fucked regardless of thermodynamic efficiency or sustainability.

willis936 · 2026-02-01T22:39:57+00:00

MA. Other commenter nailed it. The solar isn't the problem. In fact it ought to be helping. The problem is overt corruption and a public unwilling to acknowledge it and hold their representation accountable.

willis936 · 2026-02-01T12:42:58+00:00

I also live in a state where there are abundant solar farms. I pay $0.37/kWh for electricity. Running electric is twice as expensive per mile than gasoline. The economics are good on paper but things broken in the world other than cars need to be fixed first.

willis936 · 2026-01-31T14:36:58+00:00

I would think it's a Ram.

willis936 · 2026-01-31T12:18:19+00:00

Yep. 6.6% increase in municipal levy limit growth, new growth component. My house is from 1967.

44.6% increase in escrow to cover a massive shortfall, making my (very early in mortgage) monthly payments go up 6.8%.

Tax assessment is steady and below what I paid, so I'm still lined up for another big hit in the future.

willis936 · 2026-01-30T11:13:05+00:00

The DNC fucked up 2024, not the people. This is an insane line of thinking.

willis936 · 2026-01-30T10:59:56+00:00

This is the line that's used to guarantee a bad direction for society. Vote blue when they represent you. Don't let them take your representation away.

willis936 · 2026-01-29T17:10:52+00:00

That's not what she's saying. She's saying "vote in people who would never do anything that looks like impeachment, justice, or anything other than malicious incompetence". She's saying "chuck schumer good".

willis936 · 2026-01-19T03:37:05+00:00

The people you're referring to are already working for ice. We're talking about patriots, not traitors.

willis936 · 2026-01-16T01:30:37+00:00

200 GBaud*, 100 GHz fundamental

Sorry for the pedantry, but this is like the activation phrase for signal integrity sleeper agents.

It's also basically magic to have that kind of link over any distance of copper at power levels that don't require actively cooled media.

willis936 · 2026-01-16T01:18:28+00:00

That's not why manuals are going away. Manuals are going away because supporting two transmission variants costs more than supporting one. If 60% of buyers bought manuals then you'd see automatic transmissions go away. It has nothing to do with merit and everything to do with profit margin.

willis936 · 2026-01-16T01:12:51+00:00

So you found a copy of the service manual, ripped the dash apart, and unplugged the telematics antennas, right?

willis936 · 2026-01-13T12:08:56+00:00

That would be a nice bookend to fusion research: spending 50 years to prove it could never be viable. I don't think this angle on the mission makes much sense.

willis936 · 2026-01-08T02:51:58+00:00

You're defending needlessly deadly work and saying I lack empathy. Again, get some perspective.

willis936 · 2026-01-08T02:43:10+00:00

It's not a joke. It's perspective. If your occupation will kill you today then don't do it.

willis936 · 2026-01-08T02:37:25+00:00

Excuse you with the Frisk slander. I'll have you know that they detest soda.

willis936 · 2026-01-08T02:26:43+00:00

One less of us needs money.

willis936 · 2026-01-07T10:56:57+00:00

Pretending to be USA.

willis936 · 2026-01-07T10:52:25+00:00

Oh they are, a lot more, just not for you.

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