@hohoho
People can keep up with the situation and work to change it without also being drowned by it when trying to keep in touch with others online.

Getting angry at wading through hot takes just raises my blood pressure and wastes time I need to engage usefully irl.

@protist @reddig33
I mean to a degree *maybe* I could get behind realigning prices. But commercial and industrial buyers are making a profit using that gas and residential buyers aren't... And residential buyers are more likely to need the gas for everyday life and I feel like they *should* be shouldering less of the share of the costs.

@protist @kalpol
OMG I heard that in his voice! 🤣❤️

@protist
That makes sense.

I tried to get an appointment at another and was told they couldn't do the battery work.

Autonation does a good job it just takes them longer than it would if there were more mechanics available.

@scytale
After a few years the Bermuda grass takes over and doesn't need the water!
@reddig33

@reddig33
Tomatoes (especially cherry tomatoes like Juliet or Sungold), peppers, okra and black eyed peas. I learned a few summers ago why those are involved in so much Southern cooking.
@31337

@dylanmorgan
They're not for local government. They're for State run government. They're not for small government. They're for small federal government so they can control more at the state level.
@logicbomb @austin

@reddig33
I think you're right

@reddig33
I'm also wondering if some of them are Democrats coming back to the party because there aren't sane Republicans to try to get into the main election.
@robolemmy

@helenslunch
Show me proof it doesn't matter and I'll believe it. There has been housing subsidizing for a long time. I had a subsidized apartment back in the 90s for a while. And yet prices didn't really spike until the last couple of years. I'll grant you it's possible subsidies cause landlords to raise rents a few dollars. But not to the degree we've seen lately.

What's happening lately is tenants are expected to bid for apartments. That's what's allowing the rents to skyrocket.

@helenslunch
All the less than 7500 people getting rent assistance in a market with how many apartments? That's a miniscule part of the market.

Rents increase because more people are moving here (it's gone from about 100k to nearly a million in the 30 years I've been here without much new building until the last few years) and Austin already had a tight apartment market in the 90s.
@FigMcLargeHuge

@helenslunch
There are way more people with money offering (or being asked for) over the advertised rent to get an apartment than there are people getting help with rent. It's fighting over apartments that's driving prices up. Not aid.
@robolemmy

@reddig33
Right now it's going to pay back the producers because ERCOT offered them way more than the limit during the '21 storm. Even though it did nothing to increase the amount available since if they weren't producing it was because they couldn't.
@netburnr

@800XL
Most places that disannex do it for property tax reasons. They figure they have little enough needs that they could pay less than the city on average. Sometimes they're right and sometimes not.
@reddig33

@cheeseandrice
I don't know what kind of math is going on there. We pay about $150 or so. 5% would be more than $2.
@netburnr

@SuiXi3D
If you're further north, Rogues Gallery is in Round Rock on I 35.
@rikudou @Austin_Admin

@KidDogDad
That's like Braker or Parmer.
@reddig33

@netburnr
I don't think so. That graph is weird but it makes sense as the weather cools down a little and hopefully whatever maintenance or what have you ends that we'll have more leeway again.

@malloc
You can go to the website and watch the lines separate as the day goes on. It looks like it's helping.

https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards
@austin

@Blamemeta
We usually see 100+ temps off and on through the summer. Not every day.
@kalpol @austin