Yeh so's food and heating, its amazing how everything is outpacing inflation yet somehow that's not the rate of inflation.
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Yeah but we need the power to fuel the AI projects of all the billionaires and mega corps. And it's reaching its limit, so we all have to pay for it.
So yeah, just use less lights, watch less porn, but we will have AI which will replace your job in the future in return! Keep on paying!
Last month my electric bill was a around $300, this month it's $600. 🥲
That explains why my normally 250 electric bill is now 400 a month.
So weird. It's almost like everything is somehow rising faster than inflation....
Except minimun wage... somehow that hasnt gone up at all
No, see, we can't raise minimum wage because of the - hmm, right.
Quick blame it on Obama!
It's because of her emails and his dick being on a computer!
Feels like the meaning of "inflation" has been lost somewhere in there...
The meaning of inflation these days is "whatever the corporations think they can get away with charging."
Corporations phrase it differently: the charge "what the market will support". There's a magic point in an Excel chart where the markup is as high as can be while the sales remain high enough to be profitable. This is the point striven for: maximum profit at any human or environmental cost.
maximum profit at any human or environmental cost.
Don't be silly. Women can just pop out more ~~slaves~~ workers and climate change is a hoax - floods, fires and hurricanes are a profit opportunity anyway.
“Favorable market conditions”
We need some sort of tax on any single location that uses above a certain threshold of electricity. I suspect that just the opposite is happening.
How odd. Welp, I guess it’s just a mystery we’ll never solve.
Hey! Who’s up for stripping some more rights away from women! Yeah!
And America was great again. The end.
Oops, everything is Argentina now
Meanwhile, electricity generation is cheaper and more abundant than ever — thanks to renewables.
Not when AI and data centers are sucking up electricity and water faster than we can produce them.
No that just means that there's more competition for the electricity. Electricity is priced in a bid system. Price to bring another kW to market keep going down.
All so AI can tell recovering addicts to have a little meth as a treat
Moderation is good advice, if they take meth a lot then they would be an addict. You should only consume one small rock a day.
There's a manufacturer of high voltage transmission towers I'm aware of that has seen its annual revenue double over just the last 2-3 years. It's a booming time for the electrical transmission industry. Good work if you can get it.
Where are the "I did this." stickers?
I'll ask Claude and Gemini to both make one for you. Then you can compare them and see which one you like more.
Didn’t Trump say he will bring prices down day one? I guess they will have to fire whoever came up with these numbers…
That’s especially painful during the dog days of summer, when air conditioners are working overtime.
Evaporative coolers use a lot less power to produce a given amount of cooling than air conditioning does. As long as the relative humidity is low enough where you are and you don't need more than a given amount of cooling, that's an option.
Cries in 75F dewpoint forecast all week 🥲
Unfortunately, these work best in desert and mountain regions where water scarcity is becoming a bigger concern.