tacopie posted:

UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:

Same

tacopie posted:

http://imgur.com/a/OsivY5s

boop the snoot posted:

That pup is way more cut out for Lt Gov of Pennsylvania.

Nick Soapdish posted:

https://twitter.com/DefenseBaron/status/1363127341791199233?s=19

Good news story

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

Godholio posted:

Luca does have Newsmax's most desired trait.

Oxygenpoisoning posted:

A lack of morals, ethics, and empathy for the suffering of others?

Midjack posted:

I think it’s “being extremely white.”

mlmp08 posted:

This sucks and doesn’t even make much sense.

https://twitter.com/nsagov/status/1362075668809449472?s=21

That Works posted:

found Jesus

facialimpediment posted:

plane engine go boom

https://twitter.com/petemuntean/status/1363234750626955265?s=19

https://twitter.com/chrisvanderveen/status/1363232875232063493?s=19

https://twitter.com/AirlineFlyer/status/1363231231333306370?s=19

Midjack posted:

lol boeing

facialimpediment posted:

this appears not good

https://twitter.com/michaelagiulia/status/1363241125495136267

Stultus Maximus posted:

The flight was supposed to go to Hawaii. Imagine if this happened over open ocean.

boop the snoot posted:

MA-Horus posted:

GE 90 turbines on the 777 200

That’s one helluva failure.

hobbesmaster posted:

Engines turn or passengers swim

(The other engine would be enough to make it)

US Berder Patrol posted:

homie is pretty lucky it blasted his truck and not the roof of his house

Immanentized posted:

Oh so that's what the boom was earlier today.

E: I was in the neighborhood next to the nacelles impact, figured it was a dumpster being lowered

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His Lights Stayed on During Texas’ Storm. Now He Owes $16,752.

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“My savings is gone,” said Scott Willoughby, a 63-year-old Army veteran who lives on Social Security payments in a Dallas suburb. He said he had nearly emptied his savings account so that he would be able to pay the $16,752 electric bill charged to his credit card — 70 times what he usually pays for all of his utilities combined. “There’s nothing I can do about it, but it’s broken me.”

Mr. Willoughby is among scores of Texans who have reported skyrocketing electric bills as the price of keeping lights on and refrigerators humming shot upward. For customers whose electricity prices are not fixed and are instead tied to the fluctuating wholesale price, the spikes have been astronomical.

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The steep electric bills in Texas are in part a result of the state’s uniquely unregulated energy market, which allows customers to pick their electricity providers among about 220 retailers in an entirely market-driven system.
Under some of the plans, when demand increases, prices rise. The goal, architects of the system say, is to balance the market by encouraging consumers to reduce their usage and power suppliers to create more electricity.

But when last week’s crisis hit and power systems faltered, the state’s Public Utilities Commission ordered that the price cap be raised to its maximum limit of $9 per kilowatt-hour, easily pushing many customers’ daily electric costs above $100. And in some cases, like Mr. Willoughby’s, bills rose by more than 50 times the normal cost.

Many of the people who have reported extremely high charges, including Mr. Willoughby, are customers of Griddy, a small company in Houston that provides electricity at wholesale prices, which can quickly change based on supply and demand.

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The company passes the wholesale price directly to customers, charging an additional $9.99 monthly fee. Much of the time, the rate is considered affordable. But the model can be risky: Last week, foreseeing a huge jump in wholesale prices, the company encouraged all of its customers — about 29,000 people — to switch to another provider when the storm arrived. But many were unable to do so.

Katrina Tanner, a Griddy customer who lives in Nevada, Texas, said she had been charged $6,200 already this month, more than five times what she paid in all of 2020. She began using Griddy at a friend’s suggestion a couple of years ago and was pleased at the time with how simple it was to sign up.

As the storm rolled through during the past week, however, she kept opening the company’s app on her phone and seeing her bill “just rising, rising, rising,” Ms. Tanner said. Griddy was able to take the money she owed directly from her bank account, and she now has just $200 left. She suspects that she was only able to keep that much because her bank stopped Griddy from taking more.