From afar Macron sometimes looks like a capable leader, transitions for decent periods of petulant child, and finishes with clueless on major issues.

I like them. Only issue I’ve had was self made, dropped a spool and it dented the cardboard which caused it to hang in the Sunlu dryer. Probably print some rings for my next bout of clumsiness.

I’m probably the only person that cares, but the weird way he sips water behind the bench has always been intriguing. Eyes glaring at someone with a sippy nipple pull of water from the bottle. Can’t find an image, but will next season.

I’ve heard about this which is to challenge card sharing obviously. Heading there next week and see if my location is doing it. Memberships are for households so what are they validating? Same address and over 16 is what defines the extra household card.

Can’t say I mind, guess there’s a few positions on it.

1. It devalues my membership when extra cards are shared.
2. I lend granny my card to see if she likes it and wants a membership.
3. Major abusers, and I don’t know how this would work, sharing a single membership among many.
4. Costco needs additional membership plans? Seems like this could be a system issue depending on what those would look like. Me and granny only go a couple of times a year so a multi-household plan with a limited number of visits? Feels like a stretch case.

Yee-Haw, livin’ in Texas, Guns Up! This just sucks.

Also, it’s possible to overlay your linked map with current prices. https://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/contours/rtmLmp.html

The stories of folks with those contracts will start coming out in a month. Similar to the situation during the freeze a couple of years ago. Griddy in particular had a lot of lower income families who didn’t understand the implication of variable rates along with being told about “average” rates and then were stung when the bill showed up.

We’re in our first year with solar so this should be interesting. It’s brutal out there, ten minutes in the garage and I’m soaked.

This is sad. When these things happen I think about the times when there’s cold and ice in Texas, folks from the north point at the idiot southerners but when it comes to heat and they’re suffering it’s a “poor them” situation. These folks were from Florida and really do feel bad for them. This heat spell is deadly and you might feel fine now but in 30 minutes your world could be in a really bad place. Know your limits, you’re just as much a hero for hunkering indoors.

Geez, that’s like getting sucked into a blender. Horrible….

Looks like it’s American Family Insurance under the covers and they seem to have good reviews and lower customer complaints than usual. I just learned Costco offers this, thanks!

Interesting situation. Prigozhin has criticized the Russian military over the past few months and Putin has stayed silent. Now this and the military responds but Putin remains silent. Putin needs a weak military to avoid being overthrown, but the FSB opens an investigation, why? Prigozhin threatens to attack the russian military and comes up with a story/lie that he realizes the Ukrainian invasion was based on lies. What does Prigozhin want, money a coup?

We’re going next week and I’ll look, but I’ll say Costco is very geographic in their stocking.

I’m seeing this from lemmy.world trying to join lemmy.ca communities using another account. Found this: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2685

We’ll be in Aberdeen this September. Drop in between castles for lunch.

My bad, I misread your post and thought you were talking about the 19 innocent people killed by Russian missiles in April of this year. Sorry, my bad.

That makes it worse. The event I was talking about was May of 2022. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61369229

Sixty people die when Russia bombs a Ukrainian school and it passes by without much reaction. A sub with 4 people who know the risk of what they’re doing and a billionaire thrill seeker goes missing and it’s news to follow hourly.

Thanks Liz. We had almost forgotten that but now you’ve jogged our memories on how funny that was.

Is Bergeron really a free agent? Technically yes, but he’s going to either resign for a year or retire. The season had a crushing end and is it worth another campaign depending on how his back injury plays out? I’m usually wrong but will go with retire.