TIL and was not even remotely surprised.

I stand by my statement tho, panels and batteries for everyone.

As a lineman, how do you feel about the electrical workers in France striking by giving away power?

Is something like this even feasible in CT?

You also are confused at what capitalism actually is. Now we are getting into the government controlled school system discussion. You are right in the sense that the government has no business educating or feeding our children and the motive of the current government to remove parental rights has nothing to do with capitalism. You either have a free market or you don't. So what's your point? Social prescribed means? Everyone of a taxpayer funded support system? Let's entertain that for a moment, who are the taxpayers employed by? What is their product or service? Do people willingly exchange their money for that product or service? If the answer to that question is no then you have an insolvent socially funded wallet. If the answer is yes then you agree that capitalism is necessary. It also all you've ever known. Everything you purchase willingly is free market enterprise. I don't get your point! It doesn't make one. Terrible response.

> Capitalism is necessary for a free and prosperous society

We make people pay for their kids to get lunch at schools run for free by the government and if this arbitrary additional burden is too much we take their kids away. Third party vendors introduced a profit motive into giving children lunch and now you can lose parental rights if you don’t participate in their capitalism. Most of the rest of the school experience is still free, for now. Do you think capitalism will improve that too?

> corruption is not necessary and is punishable by laws on the books.

Who writes those laws? The legal system isn’t broken, it just wasn’t designed to punish the people with enough power to run it.

The people doing capitalism “wrong” are always the most successful capitalist and so they will always end up being the ones in control.

> Exchange that for a controlled monetary system. No more private enterprise. Your confusion is based purely on either irrational or uneducated biases.

Absolutely beautiful.

>Last year he got paid around $14MM

I'm sorry, just to clarify, this is your attempt to make him seem more sympathetic?

Saw an article the other day over how they were reporting RECORD PROFITS. How lovely. Tell them we said that they're welcome and hope that they're enjoying the pay raises and increased profits, while we so graciously keep our houses cold this winter.

Now if you excuse me, I gotta go check the thermostat to make sure it hasnt gone past 60.

I think what you mean is regulation. There are no ties of ones personal behavior to capitalism. Capitalism is a free market. The regulation of publicly traded companies is up for oversight as required by law. The main difference? Capitalism is necessary for a free and prosperous society, corruption is not necessary and is punishable by laws on the books. Blaming Capitalism for this is like blaming money for making people fat because they use money to buy McDonalds six times a week. See you like Capitalism because you can order some desirable $#!+ on Amazon and it shows up at your doorstep. Exchange that for a controlled monetary system. No more private enterprise. Your confusion is based purely on either irrational or uneducated biases. Read a book, understand how our Republic is supposed to function, then come on back.

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J. Gilbert Steakhouse Glastonbury

Fuck you. Pay me.

• this asshole

Right— the police are probably like “wow, a plate that comes back to the same vehicle it’s supposed to be on, not expired, valid insurance.”

Because the people we elect to regulate eversource are paid by eversource to threaten their constituents we either pay exorbitant rates or they’ll vote to build gas lines from Canada all the way down to CT.

State reps were making this case right here I. This sub prior to es doubling our rate.

#1 campaign contributor to state senate. It’s a matter of public record. You cam look up who has received what.

🤦‍♀️ This is why we can’t have nice things

They do have brains. Eversource is the largest contributor to campaigns for state senate.

How close are we, as a society, to just saying "fuck it" and killing these people? Like, at this point, if I turn on the news and see a headline "Man Arrested for Brutal Slaying of Energy Company CEO" The only thing that would make me upset is seeing that someone got arrested for it.

Here’s the part when the eversource trolls post about record profits passing thru eversource to power generator companies and not actually going to the company 🙄.

That's the egg producer, not the restaurant.

Yes, egg prices are insane.

“ why didn’t everyone rise up as one and slay them. “

Lewis Black

Except if you look back at 2020, their net income was down what, 25%? I bet a whole lot of maintenance got extended during that time, a whole bunch of really experienced people got let go, and ton of work fell behind. Looks like the cause of the crash might be a failed wheel bearing on one of the cars. They have about 6.5 million rail cars (Wikipedia), with at least 8 bearings each, so 52 million bearings. It takes a week to change a wheel, so I imagine a bearing takes that long too. Looks like some rail wheel bearings last 50 years (per Timken bearings), with reconditioning every 10. So that means that every year, 10% get at least reconditioned or 5.2 million bearings should have been serviced that year. Something tells me they fell behind, and this is the result. Maintenance failures aren't instant - they accumulate over time like skipping oil changes in your car. It's fine until it isn't.

Well someone has to say it so I will: J Timothy’s. Get their dirt wings

If state reps had any brains they would subsidize the hell out of solar panels and batteries and make eversource the customer for a change.

>Capitalism is working precisely as intended.

Seriously! I wish it were more surprising that the people who continue to vote for people that enable this behavior don't get it, but it's not.

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