bobs_monkey

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I call them and see if they'll make my bill bigger LMAO⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah gotcha. Our local utility went away from net metering a few years back due to revenue losses, so while solar is mandated for new builds, the customer isn’t getting the benefit of overproduction. Like you said, it’s almost wasteful to not have a battery system installed, but then again, costs are costs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I call them and see if they'll make my bill bigger LMAO⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  NEM3?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s getting harder to skirt RTO policies without employers noticing⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  And when line goes down, they’ll cry fowl insert Principal Skinner meme here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I call them and see if they'll make my bill bigger LMAO⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Here in SoCal, it isn’t unheard of for people to have $5-600 electricity bills in the dead of summer. Gotta keep that AC cranking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI claims new GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to ‘PhD level’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  AI as it sits is a tool that has specific use cases. It is absolutely not intelligence, as it’s commonly marketed. It may seem intelligent to the uninformed, but boy howdy is that a mistake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer wants to build 60 apartments and 24 parking spots. New York politician tells him to build less housing and more parking spots⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I honestly believe that’s absolutely the direction we should start moving in. It’s just going to be a tough sell on divorcing people from there cars, and hopefully an “if you build it they will come” approach works out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer wants to build 60 apartments and 24 parking spots. New York politician tells him to build less housing and more parking spots⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There has to be a way to incentivize tenants to forego cars for a project like this to succeed. I kind of understand the 1:1 ratio thing, because while I agree it’s ridiculous to cut housing units for parking spaces, the reality is that if there aren’t enough onsite parking sports for a given MDU, you’ll just have people clogging up city streets with overflow parking. Perhaps billing the building as carless or something and charging a premium for a parking spot to disincentivize car ownership?

  You see this in major cities here in CA like LA or SF, where much housing was built and zoned before the surge in personal car ownership. Street parking is a nightmare, and neighborhoods are filled to the brim with people plopping their cars wherever they can. It has to be coordinated effort between residents and cities to help alleviate the situation. Even neighborhood vertical parking structures would help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did you have one of these?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought one just for shits sometime in the 90s, it sure wasn’t the most reliable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you so young that you have never been in a car with one of these?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My buddy had a 93-94, we crammed like 12 people in it one night, including the trunk lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is killing off Windows 11 SE, its Chrome OS competitor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Everything will be ok, swearsies.

  Tbf, I’ve never even heard about this till today lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Bronze age, they’re zombies and so are you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US education⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Now listen here you little shit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US education⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps it’s time we call the men in white coats

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US education⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve sure sworn at it when I’ve shown up to a call and something’s arcing, so yeah kinda.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US education⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Electrician here, I’ve certainly felt electricity, and it sure ain’t pleasant.

  And those generation alternators must be very confused.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨akshully it's "epheboiatrist"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He’ll be fine as long as his colleagues can read.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | FCC to Appoint a Babysitter to Make Sure CBS Isn't Anti-Trump⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m really hoping he joins forces with Jon Stewart again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is rude at work⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Proceed to shoot off incoherent insults when they’re different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is rude at work⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a lot of herd mentality in the trades and it’s fucking exhausting. Not only is it almost expected to go for beers and jack off about work after work every other day, but you’re up a creek if you don’t have the same views on absolutely everything as them either. Agreed, running my own electrical shop is rad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't Trump destroy or modify the Epstein files?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a chance he’d resign willingly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any nominations?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't Fool Me!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. Had this dream about two months ago while in Vegas with a buddy for a concert, cept it was a urinal, and I was awoken to trying to piss in the corner of the hotel room.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wall Street’s AI Bubble Is Worse Than the 1999 Dot-com Bubble, Warns a Top Economist⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t get me wrong, I certainly think AI/LLMs have their uses, more as an aid to humans. Medical diagnostics, front line customer service, clerical, every industry could benefit from having a computer doing basic to even advanced level support. What we’re seeing now though is all these execs think that the tech is at the level where it can replace entire workforces, and that’s where the fallacy lies. Imo, humans should always make the final judgement, especially when these decisions involve affecting other people. It has the ability to improve and enrich lives, but the way things are going is that they’ll be used to make the line go up at the expense of people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You'd need to calculate the compound interest⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to get off Mr Bones Wild Ride

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wall Street’s AI Bubble Is Worse Than the 1999 Dot-com Bubble, Warns a Top Economist⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I had to guess, the entire reason they’re shoving AI integration into absolutely everything is to try to make it irreplaceably viable, if only to keep it relevant. The bubble pops when VC funding decides that maybe AI isn’t the holy grail they thought it was and the market on it tanks (bringing every associated stock down with it). Personally, I’m wondering if this bubble is what brings the house of cards down with it, because the amount of money that is all in on AI is absolutely insane, and for no good reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wall Street’s AI Bubble Is Worse Than the 1999 Dot-com Bubble, Warns a Top Economist⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m fairly certain this is why the current administration is so vehement about not letting anyone regulate AI. We know it’s bubbling, they know it’s bubbling. It’s only a matter of time before the market finds irrefutable proof that AI has been oversold and investors bail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Child rapist visits Prince Andrews brother.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The only thing I can gather is pushing whatever possible boundaries exist once they’ve won capitalism, including the diddling. Either that, or they realize once one acquires a certain level of immunity, they can carry out their sick fantasies. I dunno, burn them all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corederella⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gamma ray, plutonium, same difference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You’re a farmer in the 1700s, you wake up and see this — what’s your reaction?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Ze fuck is zat”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-Enabled Trash Trucks Will Scan Your Trash To Scold You About Recycling⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Step 4 is reporting to your health insurance how much junk you eat and other unsavories of your lifestyle, justifying rate increases.