Every Texan I know has a generator to deal with the unreliability of the grid, and there’s never been an article about someone in Iowa getting a surprise $100k electric bill…and the average wage in Texas is substantially lower than in “left wing” states like California or Washington…so not sure you’re making an apples-to-apples comparison, but time will be the judge, we can all check-in in a year and see how this plays out. Does Lemmy have a remind me! bot?
“The inmates are running the asylum” – Richard A. Rowland, 1919
“Sounds like a good idea.” – Elon Musk, 2025
Reached for comment, Donald Trump said “see, why can’t I do that?!”
There are so many breaking points:
Capitalism doesn’t just crush you once, it finds a new way to crush you every day.
Trump’s greatest accomplishment, surpassing the DuoLingo owl in being the most annoying thing to make me want to learn Spanish. Pendejo.
Is this a midwest thing? It feels like a midwest thing.
The one state that refuses to connect to the interstate power grid and has Uber-like surge pricing on electricity? Yeah, I’m sure this won’t result in regular people footing the bill for more billionaire profits.
Texas is a joke, but not a good one.
No, but they can remain solvent longer than you can survive on the streets.
And that’s how they get you.
I’m not going to take up catcalling, but this makes me realize we could all be complimenting each other much more creatively than we do now.
What makes them (it?) good?
Jeff Bezos can afford to do this because of Amazon.
Boycott Amazon.
This was an incredible read. All the liberal media lamenting the loss of USAID, but an estimated 90% of the funds were actually used to further CIA goals. Crazy. 10/10 would read again.
Inside one of the multiple houses they own.
FTFY
I’m on day 16 of being sick. This flu SUCKS.
Lootbox gambling is a cancer…extra cancer points for aiming it at kids…and wow, that revenue split is insane, no wonder Roblox is such a rich, publicly traded company. Sigh.
Yeah, but it’s Joe Biden…he admitted to war crimes, but he didn’t realize he was admitting to war crimes.
Whoever downvoted this amazing joke is a soulless monster.
I once installed Linux to the wrong drive and lost all my files…it cost me $100 for the recovery software and 3 days to recover most of what I lost…and words can’t describe how pissed I was…I’m pretty sure if I magnified that by 12 years and $742 million, I would lose my damn mind.
Me googling “Fon du Lac” to see if it’s in Florida: Nope, Wisconson…good for you Florida, you dodged this one!
I see what you did there – using the thread about complements to complement another Lemming, good on ya!