Every girl needs somebody to eat their…cat.

.28! Bro…

I wonder if he’ll just get reelected?

As an uninformed resident, this is frustrating to learn, or hear confirmed.

I personally am so conditioned to assume all rates and fees are ways to keep padding executive bonuses, keep investors getting paid dividends only taxed at 1% instead of my 22%, and have nothing to do with supporting long term goals.

Maybe regulation is the only way to force investment in infrastructure and cap executive compensation and investor profit.

Maybe the government should run it since there should be no profit involved in utilities providing the basics of modern life, oh wait, they definitely won’t screw all that up either, ha

I had not heard about this either. We are on Duke up here. I looked a bunch of years ago and the rate was .11 cents per kwh. That’s pretty cheap. Now I’m interested in looking again.

There are many places in the world that present like they are paying extremely high rates.

There’s not really competition in utilities, it’s supposed to be “regulated”.

I agree with your point. The military does this a lot too. Training requirements are important and necessary.

The guy is still a giant hypocrite in some obvious ways, I can’t seem to shake my distain.

I think I asked this before, but does anyone support this? Currently, I do not.

Can anyone explain why people care about votes on Lemmy? Isnt it like winning a contest no one’s play, or am I missing something?

Yeah, damn, I always forget about that…just like they want…

Bold statements.

It took reading pretty far before calling for action from city leaders finally turned to calling for parents.

I think most rational people believe that law enforcement alone can’t properly protect kids from themselves and there likely isn’t enough manpower in the system to start locking up all the teens. Maybe that would taper off as the rules got enforced more.

I want to believe this should be a combination of parents and city, but mostly parents. I don’t think I’d let my son run around even until 10 or 11 at night.

So what’s happening here that isn’t an easy solve? If it was as easy as telling parents to get your kids inside, we wouldn’t have the article.

There was plenty of politics mentioned, but is that what’s at play or far more complex social issues?

I guess I don’t understand how you can vote in our state’s elections and not be a citizen.

I consistently find myself frustrated by the government’s inability to maintain our identification systems in an effective, accurate, and efficient way.

Some ID is free, some costs money which I disagree with, some has to be done in person which is annoying for less mobile people.

Maybe if we could get those things addressed, it could also accurately track naturalization and allow new citizens to vote without allowing non citizens. Doesn’t seem impossible in 2025, and yet …

I agree with heavy commercial vehicles doing more damage, and wouldn’t be as opposed in their case.

The downside of course being higher costs for freight since we have had 100+ years of dismantling rail, which I heard was most economical way to move freight, but slower.

My plate fee for a Tacoma was $600. I don’t see how that can get higher.

Not that I could affect anything, but I wish we had more insight into the road project costs, and where money goes.

Your desire for fresh air is “woke” and “extremist”. We Christians have determined you’re somehow headed straight to hell…

/S

Sucks if you wanted a different EV, like Rivian, Leaf, that toy battery truck coming soon…

It’s like living in the upside down from the Netflix show

Anyone going to bat for the smokers here?

I’m not at all upset by taxing tobacco, but I’m sure plenty of people have good arguments backed by studies regarding alcohol and sugar.

If they start trying to add sugar taxes to candy bars and cup cakes, I imagine people would riot.

This was a long article, but I appreciated the details and perspective.

Now, personally, if we’re going to argue weather lawsuits are political or Justice related, and if it’s a waste of money, then since he was found at fault in two of the six reported cases he can pay back a third of what we spent, right?

I don’t know enough about this legal principal to attribute it to political parties or not.

I don’t like it thought 😕

Personally, after reading the specifics from the article, but without further details, I am currently disappointed in this ruling.

I feel like if a private company can be sued for negligence resulting in material loss, then we should be able to equally keep our public services accountable to that same standard.

Ha, “regulatory action”…

Only when corporations feel pain do they ever utter the words…

The only time corporate enshittification is fun to watch is when they’re doing it to each other. Of course, normies still pay for it…

I mind the work much less than the general corporate organization and interacting with it.

I usually enjoy system building. I agree it’s taking many technologies and pieces and putting them together. Where we differ maybe comes down to the why, for whom, and how much good it does? Maybe if you’re any good at it?

I have no interest in duck taping things. Any solutions I’m involved with need to be balls out, bullet proof, maximum effort, or not at all.

I wonder how many of us agree with the ‘dona few things really well’ vs being a generalist.