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_tezz , 11 days ago to Mildly Infuriating in I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07.

Do you live in an uber-HCOL area? I ordered Jets the other day and it was not nearly this expensive... I just priced out a delivery for your order and it came to $34.07 w/ taxes and fees, less tip. Even opted for the bone-in wings.

_tezz , 11 days ago to Mildly Infuriating in I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07.

Pretty sure it's been going on a while, but unless you've changed jobs in the last two years it's unlikely you feel these effects. Employers dont give raises in line with inflation but they're sure paying new employees a lot more than they used to.

https://www.epi.org/blog/average-wages-have-surpassed-inflation-for-12-straight-months/#:~:text=Real%20wage%20growth%20continued%20to,wages%2C%20not%20adjusted%20for%20inflation.

_tezz , 1 month ago to 196 in pride rule

There's no L in the image...

_tezz , 1 month ago to Memes in Back to the studio!

Damn they really came for you. Eminem himself has said multiple times that Kendrick is one of the best ever

_tezz , 2 months ago to linuxmemes in Top post of PCMR on Reddit today XD

We can compare anecdotes if you want, I've been in tech twice as long as you were and I can count on one hand the number of people doing their own IMAP setup. That remains the same if you go back to me being a child.

There's no need to be a dick man, this is a nerd forum for awarding fake internet points. Chill out.

_tezz , 2 months ago to linuxmemes in Top post of PCMR on Reddit today XD

Why would a random 83 year old set up his own email port configs? He signs into gmail.com like everyone else, let's be realistic if we're gonna talk shit

_tezz , 2 months ago to Technology in ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say

While they would no longer be competing in the US market, any 'competitor' would have to do the work of gaining billions of customers in other countries, that are already entrenched into Tik Tok user space. I think that worry is kinda moot if you're TT leadership.

_tezz , 2 months ago to Technology in ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say

Well for one, because if they don't then they will get precisely 0 money. If it is indeed about the money then we would absolutely expect them to sell no? Otherwise.... There's no money

_tezz , 2 months ago to Lefty Memes in Oh no, Anarchists!

That's what I mean. That's a very weird example for you to use in this case, pick a different organization if you wanna talk about how great anarchism is. The UN ain't it.

_tezz , 2 months ago to Lefty Memes in Oh no, Anarchists!

I'd be careful with this example. One of the key issues people take with the UN that they indeed can't enforce things, like in Gaza. Security council approved a ceasefire, but the fighting goes on. Russia doing genocide in Ukraine, UN tells RU that they need to stop being bad.

For the record they of course do stuff, but if you'd like to advocate for anarchism I'd use a more effective example. If even the UN can't stand up to fascism, what shot does an anarchy have, ya know?

_tezz , 2 months ago to Memes in Me irl

And they're saying chat software is a headache lol

_tezz , 2 months ago to solarpunk memes in seize the means of production

I gotta be honest, your replies are very wordy and I'm having trouble following.

I would in fact say that you have only one (well, two) power providers. You have one mail delivery service, presumably random-online-shop.com isn't providing you mail service right? That's the same thing here. Your "provider" doesn't produce the energy. They, like in the packages example you used, are simply handing off the "packages" to your power provider (the mail service) who then administers and provides you with your power (delivers your mail). They have the power at that point, it's on their grid, and you want the power, so they give you the power. You're still paying the other company, to pay Ennexis, to provide the power. These companies just make it.

And again, if all the packages are the same, there's no difference and it doesn't matter, why would you sign a contract with any of these companies specifically? Why doesn't the entire NL just buy from the cheapest company if it's all the same to you as an end-user of the network?

Anyway at this point I'm just happy to be able to push a new idea on other folks here. The concept of govermment-run programs is still scary for some reason, but we do public/private partnerships very well here. It could just be that we have different understandings of the word "provide", which I'm fine with. Who am I to tell the Dutch what words mean lol. Feel free to redeem your Charity Coupon™️ if you'd like. Thanks for the chat.

_tezz , 2 months ago to solarpunk memes in seize the means of production

So I've been thinking a lot about this. With a few exceptions you're actually pretty close to describing what we have in the States. There is more than one power producer in my state, and all the producers feed into the same grid whose infrastructure is regulated by the government. If a producer fails to produce, I can still get access to the electricity on the grid, but the key difference is that most of the delivery infrastructure is fully owned and operated by the same companies that do the production. I think we're getting hung up on the difference between provider and producer, which in America is mostly always the same thing.

It sounds like the Netherlands does in fact have two power providers then in the form of Enexis and TenneT, at least as I understand the term "provider" as we use it here. Or do you also maintain contracts/payments with individual power production firms that you haven't already described? What is the benefit of maintaining a contract with any of these companies if they already sold the power to Enexis/TenneT and they don't do any other administration services?

Our system is indeed fragile and I wish we could figure it out. I was a little off, DTE Energy services 2.3 million customers for power. We regularly experience outages affecting people into the hundreds of thousands. There's no incentive for them to improve the infrastructure
since they're a monopoly. Most of the power here is delivered via free-standing poles instead of underground lines, which are obviously prone to issues related to wind/snow/trees. It fucking sucks. Even just separating the delivery system from private business would be a monumental shift.

_tezz , 2 months ago to solarpunk memes in seize the means of production

What's the difference between private and government?

Welp... In case you don't actually know, a lot....

https://www.cmich.edu/blog/all-things-higher-ed/difference-between-public-and-private-administration

We work with/in our communities.

Right. Our local governments. Government organizations.

_tezz , 2 months ago to solarpunk memes in seize the means of production

Interesting, I've never heard of this before but I suspect you're right. Was it always this way in Australia? I can't for the life of me figure out how America could be convinced to make its way towards this, but this sort of arrangement seems like a pretty ideal middle-ground.