Contracts that tie what a residence pays directly to the wholesale rate of electricity, plus circumstances that drive that “wholesale rate” into the stratosphere. An example, from Griddy: https://www.griddy.com/texas/terms-of-service-agreement . Which includes (“thetime” sic, because this is a professional outfit):

A bunch of people signed up to a super volatile tariff, which provides really low prices if the weather is stable, but if the weather veers to an extreme the price goes up super high, super fast. If there is high demand, due to heat needing everyone to run their AC full for any extended period of time, or demand due…

Your experience was horrendous and one of the even shittier things about it is that it’s far from unique. You don’t have to even try to find many similar stories of over-the-top harassment of women who had the audacity to have an opinion on something, especially issues facing women. But you’ll find no shortage of men…

My mom drove a 626 sedan of that generation and I loved it as a kid. The power oscillating air vents were especially cool.

From the preview for it, the show reminds me of “Saved By The Bell” based around a race team. Same type of formula and same type of production. Having two daughters, one of which has an interest in car culture and has attended IndyCar races with me before, I harbor no desire to watch this show.  In fact, I find the…

thanks to porn, I’m pretty sure women only want a BBC/BWC and since I don’t have that, I will never be able to satisfy a woman.

Yep. But to be honest, i’ve never heard stories of people being so blackout drunk and they can function like Weekend’s At Bernie’s 2. At the very least, they know they hit something and thought it wasn’t a person. 

You know how you desperately escape a situation in your life, know you did something wrong, but at least you think you can walk away and give your mind and heart some relief?
But then suddenly you get the worst news related to that thing, and now your feeling of dread is intensified and you’re even breaking into a…

Yum-Bo

Aren’t most trucks in Europe cabovers?

He should have called...

If you really have to be told not to put an industrial strength adhesive in your hair you shouldn’t be left alone with a glass of water.

Mark Sandman from Morphine. In the midst of grunge becoming huge there was a band that was the polar opposite.

Thank you. I’m glad to see a plurality of compassionate posts here, in contrast with the... let’s call them “tone deaf” ones coming from people I can only assume have really not lived very long. Or, worse, have lived long enough and become the kind of people who scoff at and disdain a man in so much pain he opts for…

I really, REALLY hate it when people say things like, “It’s a shame he didn’t choose to live...”

I wonder how differently that crash would have gone if the run-off at Eau Rouge was grass or had a few gravel traps. I wonder if either would have slowed the cars down at all or if they would’ve just skipped over them. I’ve heard having grass or sand might make other kinds of accidents worse, but I’m by no means an…

wishing him best of luck. I can’t imagine the guilt he must have, even though he really was not to blame