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@hiiraginogotoku Your parents’ power company must be the most reliable in the known universe.

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@mosheh_aleph @JhonnyWhite69 I didn’t children know use X. 🤣

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@esaagar Curious where someone like him would place seniors on his best/worse death list.

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@herbertong You can trust Herbert to post a vertical video horizontally. And I still watched.

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@2gs_mr @cpsenergy @COSAGOV @VIA_Transit Commercial customers in the CPS service area are profitable (unlike residential customers), and actually slightly subsidize residential customers. So you could say that any data centers here actually benefit the rest of us.

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@TeslaBoomerMama I asked Grok this question on 6/13, and Grok played it cool saying there hadn’t been any announcements or confirmed reports. Glad to see the dots connecting!

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@mikegapinski Nah, I’m good. Those instructions look absolutely daunting—way more involved than any set of instructions I’ve seen in the service manual.

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@SawyerMerritt How restrictive! But at least it’s a start?

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@BreakingPointsx @jonstewart @krystalball @esaagar Never mind the bots or naysayers. I enjoy BP content even if Krystal’s chuckle grates on me.

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@dpoddolphinpro You mean water wings!

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CPS isn’t perfect, but people need to realize that publicly owned utilities (like CPS and Austin Energy) are non-profit AND they cost their customers significantly less than Retail Electric Providers in Texas. CPS customers pay around 13¢ per kWh and the REP average is around 15.75¢. Don’t let Greg Abbot pull the wool over your eyes to benefit his anti-consumer political agendas.

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@KENS5 You know it wasn’t a Tesla since it wasn’t mentioned in the headline.

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Why does this program only credit $0.10 per kWh instead of net billing/metering like normal rooftop solar? That means that right off the bat, community solar participants lose ~35% of their potential bill savings AND lose out longterm as electricity gets more expensive. Throwing that same money into a high hield savings account would yield 2x the savings. Seems like customers don’t win here.

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HEB of today is not the HEB we grew up with. Whether it’s the new CEO, Henry Butt the iii or some kind of post-covid corporate greed, they’re definitely milking their name and doing money grabs instead of keeping prices down and products honest.

For example, the HEB holiday pies in recent years. They push them so hard at the front of every store with dedicated salespeople and fancy booths. They’re sold as a premium baked item, but they’re consistently underbaked and taste like crap. Walmart pies are considerably less expensive and taste substantially better all around.

HEB prepared foods are another joke. Priced for convenience, but not at all realistic to feed a family. Like, $13 for a dozen skinny tamales? Robbery in my book. Again, all placed at the front of the store.

You’ll also find strange pricing gimmicks like a dozen pack of croissants is $0.12 more expensive than buying them piecemeal. Almost all other bakeries slap on a discount when buying quantities of 6 or 12.

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@cenkuygur Savage. I’m here for it! Definitely no tears shed here over.

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@FT 100% went to hell

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@RonBaronAnalyst @elonmusk @SpaceX

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@crsanchezx @grok what parts of this did elon say? While I’m sure he wouldn’t disagree with the spirit, I’m skeptical he said all of it.

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@MattWallaceTech *cries in 14.2*

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@ScottTArcher