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degggendorf t1_iyrcjv4 wrote
Reply to comment by KennyWuKanYuen in Check your headlights! by lugo2
Never going to happen.
The police radio detector would always be receiving signal, so then you'd have to have some kind of speech recognition AI or something to figure out if there's one checking speed.
Then if there were a built-in radar detector, it would be illegal to sell in many states.
degggendorf t1_iyqss5f wrote
Reply to comment by KennyWuKanYuen in Check your headlights! by lugo2
>and don’t rely on users reporting.
What would you want, Waze (Google) employees monitoring every mile of every road to know when there's a cop taking radar to put it on the map?
degggendorf t1_iyn55s8 wrote
Reply to comment by Icutthemetal in This. Is.Bad. Just got my gas & electric bills. 180 for electric ( normally less than 80$ ) gas is 280$ and we barely used the heat. its not even cold yet..... am i the only one ??? by kittyluxe
Ohhh lol it's a bill credit that made their bill so high. That makes sense.
degggendorf t1_iymcs5w wrote
Reply to comment by kittyluxe in This. Is.Bad. Just got my gas & electric bills. 180 for electric ( normally less than 80$ ) gas is 280$ and we barely used the heat. its not even cold yet..... am i the only one ??? by kittyluxe
>pellet production is super bad btw
What do you mean by that? Like, you have a pellet stove but can't find pellets because of production issues?
Or that you would never consider getting one because you see turning waste from lumber processes into fuel as a bad thing?
degggendorf t1_iymcddx wrote
Reply to comment by GrapeRello in This. Is.Bad. Just got my gas & electric bills. 180 for electric ( normally less than 80$ ) gas is 280$ and we barely used the heat. its not even cold yet..... am i the only one ??? by kittyluxe
It's also a bit counterproductive too; those trees are shading your house and keeping it cooler in the summer. Cutting them down for solar, you're generating power, but then turning around to use that power to cool your house that's now baking in the sun.
You'll still come out ahead, but imo there are better ways. Community solar and grid solar make way more sense to me...rather than putting expensive small arrays high up on roofs and removing trees from neighborhoods, put a big field of them on already blighted land. Cap off a landfill, cover it with panels. No one wants to live on a landfill, and there was no nature there before either. It's a win-win.
degggendorf t1_iymbp83 wrote
Reply to comment by Icutthemetal in This. Is.Bad. Just got my gas & electric bills. 180 for electric ( normally less than 80$ ) gas is 280$ and we barely used the heat. its not even cold yet..... am i the only one ??? by kittyluxe
I don't think "because you don't have solar and a pellet stove" is really a helpful answer. As do others, evidently.
degggendorf t1_iyma49c wrote
Reply to FiOS outage in Rhode Island? by GhostOpera406
It has been up all along for me (NK); I would have gotten a notification from my smart hub if it went down at any point overnight.
degggendorf t1_iym7xp3 wrote
Reply to comment by Icutthemetal in This. Is.Bad. Just got my gas & electric bills. 180 for electric ( normally less than 80$ ) gas is 280$ and we barely used the heat. its not even cold yet..... am i the only one ??? by kittyluxe
Counterpoint: it doesn't address op's question.
They're asking why, not how.
degggendorf t1_iym7u8k wrote
Reply to This. Is.Bad. Just got my gas & electric bills. 180 for electric ( normally less than 80$ ) gas is 280$ and we barely used the heat. its not even cold yet..... am i the only one ??? by kittyluxe
Rates are up ~40% on electric and ~10% on natural gas.
Have you broken down your price difference to see what's rate increases and what's usage increase? That would be a good first step. Then compare to the same month last year, being mindful of billing days in the period (it can be different) and weather.
degggendorf t1_iyhxiwr wrote
Reply to comment by Zealousideal-Draft63 in Is Jamestown the new dining destination in Rhode Island? by rhodyjourno
Right click/long press -> open in incognito usually works
degggendorf t1_iyhm5vf wrote
Reply to comment by doNotUseReddit123 in [ Removed by Reddit ] by Repulsive_Pound_714
For sure.
HR serves the company as any employee does, but part of serving the company is attracting and retaining talent, which can be in the employee's best interest too. It's not like they're pure evil (or pure good), they just have a role that sometimes aligns with what the employee wants for themselves, and sometimes it doesn't, and people should understand that.
degggendorf t1_iyhjuei wrote
Reply to comment by igner_farnsworth in [ Removed by Reddit ] by Repulsive_Pound_714
What the heck kind of HR dept makes financial decisions? That company is all sorts of messed up.
degggendorf OP t1_iyfbzr5 wrote
Reply to comment by dishwashersafe in TIL the tallest natural waterfall in RI is.....12 feet. by degggendorf
> Does RI has the smallest tallest waterfall of all the states? That would be even more fun.
That thought crossed my mind too, but I quickly ran out of steam trying to research it. If you wanted to take up the mantle, then the four states with a lower maximum land elevation are Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Delaware which might be a good place to start.
degggendorf OP t1_iyep180 wrote
Reply to comment by RhodySeth in TIL the tallest natural waterfall in RI is.....12 feet. by degggendorf
Ohhh gotcha
degggendorf OP t1_iyem8vj wrote
Reply to comment by RhodySeth in TIL the tallest natural waterfall in RI is.....12 feet. by degggendorf
Idk, that certainly looks like more than 12 feet, but also doesn't seem to be the one others are talking about.
Did you find the new tallest waterfall??
degggendorf OP t1_iyeetkg wrote
Reply to comment by techsavior in TIL the tallest natural waterfall in RI is.....12 feet. by degggendorf
Surprisingly, there are four other states (and one district) with lower highest points!
Submitted by degggendorf t3_z8ydft in RhodeIsland
degggendorf t1_iydwtxt wrote
Reply to comment by dishwashersafe in New RI shark license plate is in the works for charity and you can vote on the design by MavDrake
Yeah, that's who I was thinking of too. Obviously the colors are a bit more subdued with the shark, but it seems to have that same kind of cartoony 3d effect with the animal mugging for the "camera".
edit: here's an example Lisa Frank that the shark feels similar to...the animal just floating in space, mouth open, angled toward the viewer, with other ocean accoutrements just kinda strewn about with wonky perspective.
degggendorf t1_iyd4bi8 wrote
Reply to comment by MavDrake in New RI shark license plate is in the works for charity and you can vote on the design by MavDrake
3M has no part in this design. They'll just print whatever we tell them.
degggendorf t1_iycsq01 wrote
Reply to New RI shark license plate is in the works for charity and you can vote on the design by MavDrake
Oh shit...the artist that drew the sharkscape - Paul McPhee - has some pre-existing RI connections.
He designed the album for the 1999 album Can't Get There From Here by.........Great White.
degggendorf t1_iycrxx5 wrote
Reply to comment by techsavior in New RI shark license plate is in the works for charity and you can vote on the design by MavDrake
In the actual post form the org, they say "we don’t yet know how dark the state will allow the painting to be".
degggendorf t1_iycrsae wrote
Reply to comment by eightbitbrain in New RI shark license plate is in the works for charity and you can vote on the design by MavDrake
They do seem to have an air of Lisa Frank about them.
I still think they're cool though.
degggendorf t1_iybkwg8 wrote
Reply to comment by waheifilmguy in Matt from Providence on Jeopardy! by Wilkey88
Aw buddy, no, sorry I just made it up.
Would have been funny though!
degggendorf t1_iybf4mj wrote
Reply to comment by waheifilmguy in Matt from Providence on Jeopardy! by Wilkey88
"This Stephen Schwartz musical is the second-highest grossing Broadway show of all time, second only to The Lion King"
degggendorf t1_iyyn0ac wrote
Reply to comment by b_______e in Anyone know what they’re building at the Quonset shops? by MarieTC
The classic combo of something you need, something you want, and something you fear.