Looks cool, but what do you mean about encrypted data syncing to their servers? Why is that necessary if there is a local sync feature?

Hey, just wanted to say I appreciate your posts. They give me the vibes of cracking open an old EGM. It’s nice to have a nice curated newsletter that doesn’t read like the SEO garbage that’s all over the web.

Apparently he’s kind of raw and injury prone though? Niners don’t have a good track record with those kind of players. Hope it works out though.

Been kind of tuned out, what’s the consensus? DL? Trade down?

Loved this game! Really liked the cyberpunk vibes and even printed out the zines into little booklets. It’s been a while since I played but what kind of questions did you have?

What? Wilds can be played offline. The grind is there but it’s about the same as the other monster hunter games which can also be played offline. The online part of the game just lets you do hunts with other players.

Awesome. Hopefully he stays for a bit and doesn’t bail after a year or two. Would be nice to have some coaching stability for once.

Welp. As usual the team looked like sloppy undisciplined trash but this time we didn’t have the high end talent to bail us out. Watching this team is just brutal.

Whatever decision making process they have in place that let them allow Ceedee Lamb to be completely wide open for his 2 TDs needs to be completely revised. Almost blew another huge lead in the 4th quarter.

Not that the refs really killed us this game, just thought this was a useful screengrab.

Definitely time to stop calling Kyle an “offensive genius”. This is some absolutely atrocious play calling. No timeouts and need a yard or TD? Calls an inside run. Insane.

Do we have the worst special teams unit in the league? We have like 3 huge negative special teams plays every game.

MISUTAAA SUPAAAKURU

Wow, I didn’t realize we’re so inefficient compared to large commercial jets. 60% of the fuel for 9% of the passenger capacity? And I’m guessing most private jets aren’t even at full capacity, probably just a few passengers per flight. If 2 billionaires flying their jets create as much pollution as a full commercial jet, then eliminating their emissions seems like a win to me.

Your original post seems pretty skeptical of the EV plane tech because they are smaller planes. To me it seems like a reasonable way to start - smaller machines and probably easier to sell. And it targets a very fuel inefficient sector. Is there any reason to believe they won’t be able to scale up to full commercial passenger jet sizes?

Don’t private jets contribute a significant amount of carbon emissions? I remember seeing headlines about how much pollution was being created from Taylor Swift’s non-stop private jet usage. Wouldn’t this tech help at least reduce that kind of pollution?

Decrease in new solar. Once the panels are up there’s no reason to take them down unless your roof is leaking or something.

There was a huge rush last year to beat the deadline to get grandfathered into the old NEM 2.0 rate structure. Like the article says, the new NEM 3.0 rate structure pays about 25% of what the old plan does for surplus energy back to the grid. This basically doubled the payback period for a solar project from like 5-6 years to over 10 years.

Under the new structure it’s more cost efficient to add battery storage so you can time your exports but the battery costs are also large so the payback period is still way higher than before. These changes basically killed all financial incentive for anyone interested in solar.

This is all different from the flat electric bill you mentioned which is something just recently approved by the CPUC. This change adds a ~$25 unavoidable fee every month so that even if you use zero or negative energy you still have to pay. To compensate, they are lowering the per-kW rates by a small amount. Of course however, this new policy has no limits on how much the new flat fee or the per-kW rate can increase. And as we’ve seen in the past few years, PG&E will raise rates however much they want with no recourse.

So in the end, big wins for PG&E shareholders. The only losers are every single Californian and every living being who enjoys a livable climate.

Prop 13 just limits how much property taxes can increase every year.

This proposed proposition would fundamentally alter how all state and local taxes are voted on. For state taxes a 2/3 majority in the assembly and senate are already required but this bill would also require voters explicitly approve every bill. For local, it would change the threshold for tax increases from ballot measures from a simple majority to 2/3 majority. Both of these changes would utterly handcuff state and local governments.

This looks great! Loved going through these kind of zines back in the day. Also, for anyone else who likes these kinds of things, the Zachtronics game EXAPUNKS uses cool in-world zines to tutorialize the gameplay mechanics. Highly recommend that game.

I thought his defense definitely underperformed this year for the talent he had to work with. But in the Super Bowl the defense I thought did an okay job. Shut down the Chiefs for a lot of the game until Greenlaw’s freak injury. Then the missed XP and muffed punt really killed us.

But yeah we should be able to get a new DC whose scheme better matches our personnel. Hopefully we already had someone in mind before making this move.