Wouldn’t setting up shop as the arm of a nonprofit solve this?

I spent the past several minutes looking over Printify. Seems dead simple, and as someone with a graphics-arts background who needs work, I’d be willing to take this on.

Apparently, we could do Beehaw-branded supplements in case shirts, hats and mugs prove insufficient.

Seems like a simple solution, then. I much prefer that one anyway. Not a lot of “haw” without the hat.

Who has the rights to the Discord bee with a cowboy hat? That could easily be vectorized.

I’m surprised it wasn’t marketed as Rankine.

They just want Lebensraum.

Discord servers come and go. People have lives that change over the years. Also, there’s the definite issue of hesitation to post on a server that last saw a message a month ago, which becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The Beehaw Discord can go days without a post (in fairness, I can’t speak to the #gaming channel, as I have it muted). My college roommate’s ostensible gaming server is the same way. Ditto for the local server I’m in.

Discord – at least the way I’ve used it – is generally for low-volume, low-importance communication with people you know at least parasocially. It’s a completely different beast from the firehoses of social media companies, and I prefer it that way. Also, while it’s far from “secure,” conversations aren’t indexed by Google, providing a certain level of privacy.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to fetch my pipe and slippers, head out to the rocking chair and yell at a cloud.

Once you get out of Austin Energy’s service area, the market is deregulated and competitive … so, yeah, I had a choice of like 30 different providers. AE is a monopoly that the city uses to boost the overall budget instead of providing power to residents at cost (obviously, there’s admin overhead and lineman salaries) the way every other city I’ve lived in with municipal electric service does it.

If you’re just learning this, I’d encourage you to widen your news diet. Start with The Guardian to adjust to how blatantly biased corporate news is. Many other quality sites are linked here, but The Guardian is most general-purpose.

It’s going to be fun when they realize they went too far. Likely even odds on nuclear war first, but slightly less greed could honestly have avoided this. Leave the purchase of single-family homes to, you know, families – and I’m not against small-time landlords (they’re the best), but hedge funds owning a 3/2? This simply siphons money.

I’m doing my part!

(fixed in 2019, but my ex already had a full hysterectomy, so until that point, it seemed redundant)

As asterisks go, that’s a large one.

Austin Energy’s residential rates are really good compared to other utilities in the state

That’s interesting, given that I had a flat, fee-inclusive $25 bill for 1MWh in Round Rock in 2018. AE charged $46 to just get served. Then the usage came into play.

So, from $25 for 1,000 kWh, I was paying $3/kWh because of all the bullshit. When they cut me off in 2021 (like everyone else not just next to a hospital, fire department, etc.), I elected to get off whatever the fuck this grid claims to be. Sure, I have to balance my batteries a couple of times a year, but I’m otherwise fully off-grid.

TGS was roughly as bad … it was about $40/month to get my first BTU. Ain’t nobody got $90 just to have the joy of utility service.

He gives actual journalists a bad name. (With apologies to Bon Jovi.)

Isn’t that the real Gulf of America?

The larger issue is he’s a nepo baby who doesn’t understand why his dad’s last name doesn’t mean he inherently wins elections. His behaviour in Albany didn’t help his cause, but his entire campaign seems to be “pay no attention to anything I’ve provably done, just ‘Cuomo’ … we all like Cuomo, don’t we folks?”

That’s pretty much Austin Energy’s MO. Keep lowering rates for commercial and industrial while raising rates for residential. Texas in a nutshell.

I went off grid nearly two years ago, and AE has raised rates six times now. With pretty shitty uptime.

Ha! Joke’s on them … I’ve not taken a shower since June!

I’m doing my part!

But, but, but … the Statesman is still around! I see it on the rack at HEB, but it’s a fucking shell. Unsurprising when you have a burgeoning union while changing hands twice in five years and the best solution was Cox. (N.B., I ran the GateHouse team that designed A360 ahead of the Gannett purchase from Cox.)

When you’re getting better news on Kerrville from the UK than the AAS, well …

I use encrypted apps with some regularity, but for now, I’m not too concerned about inert conversation being plaintext.