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buried_lede t1_j16xjcl wrote

Reply to comment by FuzzAldrin36 in Dunce by CloroxWipes1

I wonder. A lawyer I know did the same thing. He’s a good lawyer. He’s perfectly capable of evaluating evidence and grasping cause and effect. MAGA was deemed more important than truth, than anything, really. So he would flat out lie, draw conclusions that were irrational. I pressed him on it hard one day and he said it was a matter of faith and that we were in a battle of good against evil.

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buried_lede t1_j136xb7 wrote

Instructions in this news story. You aren’t alone. There is a hardship opt out form

https://www.wfsb.com/2022/12/12/i-team-eversource-customers-mistakenly-enrolled-hardship-program-say-theyre-unable-switch-electric-suppliers/?

And let AG Tong know. He’s already ticked off at them.

(I’m actually getting suspicious about this thing, that someone is making money somehow on this. )

People who never applied for hardship status could actually sue them for this, easy. Easy

No, the legislature did not give them that right. The opposite actually, when they passed the stupid dereg bill. You have a right to switch

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buried_lede t1_j12whms wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Dunce by CloroxWipes1

Downvoted by someone but I agree with you. Since the party went full out rogue, actively shunning seems to be an appropriate response. When I think of some republicans I know, I have to say, I don’t flat out shun so much as keep some distance, and never fail to disapprove of every expressed hint of the kind of values that led to the insurrection. I never let them feel accepted when it’s in play. That’s maybe not shunning fully but it is targeted shunning.

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buried_lede t1_j11dzpe wrote

Reply to comment by Linux-Is-Best in Dunce by CloroxWipes1

This is good but the government needs far more help getting up the nerve to file indictments against the top echelon of this attempted coup, Trump et al. If in the end hundreds of his followers go to jail and none of them are even charged, I will have the worst belly ache.

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buried_lede t1_j11djwr wrote

Reply to Dunce by CloroxWipes1

Scary to think of a doctor falling for the logic and reasoning of the Trump putsch, especially a dr from a top, nationally ranked hospital.

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buried_lede OP t1_iydh5q9 wrote

I’m half kidding, but otherwise, Hm. We know all that, we know a lot of that needs to be checked and we know we need to know a lot more about power pricing in this state and ISO than we do. There was a study that concluded a few years ago that prices in this ISO could not be entirely explained by the reasons we’ve been given for years. You know at least one of the companies that owns a power plant in CT has pipeline and natural gas interests too, it’s a subsidiary. There is a lot more to know.

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buried_lede OP t1_iycaqlb wrote

How much pure speculation do you think is involved in some of those futures prices?

What if we called their bluff? Is New England a big enough market to ripple back to the well head and get a redo?

It works when there is a Covid lock down in China and factories slow down. If there is a good amount of pure speculative bullshit in the prices, there is a certain amount of wiggle room. Why can’t we squeeze their margins?

(They’re probably trading their own futures. Shell Oil does that- it has a large energy trading unit)

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