If I'm reading the pull quote from DEED correctly, we've only paid out more because second quarter premium payments have not been collected and KSTP basically posted "Q1+Q2 benefits > Q1 premiums" like it was bad. Once Q2 premiums are collected we'll be ahead even!

the thing is data centers use power purchase agreements with renewables to get fixed electricity prices (this is true in the US and the EU) renewables uses these PPAs to finance the construction and we would not have nearly the renewable buildout without these PPAs

tfw you have no idea what happened but you support whatever's going on <3

IEA has been underestimating solar for almost 20 years first image is from 2018 second is from 2024

Finally a craft beer that comes in a small can

Got some old clothing for our daughter but I don't know I can have her wear this NYC shirt

Got some old clothing for our daughter but I don't know I can have her wear this NYC shirt

You kids don't know what you want! That's why you're still kids 'cause you're stupid!

why does Massie look like Rand Paul here

if one ate through two pears on Tuesday and still hungry, of course you'll be hungry on Thursday after eating through four strawberries. It's less food!

want one these guys that blabber about social trust but hate cancel culture to tell me their thoughts about social shunning in high trust societies

need someone to pitch "you only think the past was better because of propaganda"

why is Claude asking me to make changes for other variables when I gave it the correction?

Kwik Trip cashier sent someone back to the line who skipped it front of me amazing

the nurse at our one week appointment was chatty initially but then became quite reserved while explaining the vaccine schedule pamphlet. we just said our daughter is getting them all, her face lit up, and she thanked us.

inventing a baby monitor that doesn’t cause your baby’s eyes to glow like they’re possessed by Ba’al

it’s the time of year when all the foraging groups on Facebook have people eating lilies thinking they found ramps

the subtitles for The Substance sure use “squelching” a lot

I would appreciate the weather getting warm again. I have a cute matching outfit with my daughter that is for 0-3 months and she’s sized out of a bunch of that stuff. My part of the set is shorts and shirt and sub 50 and rainy isn’t shorts weather for me anymore.

shopping for a new toilet

it’s odd how good the Ted tv show is

“The text and melody must stand on their own.” name a song with gay lyrics but a straight melody that prevents it from being a gay song alternatively, straight lyrics with a gay melody

been so fun seeing all the news covering SunZia this week glad to have been a part of it (my little reports helped with expense and earned value tracking for catching slowdowns and overages amongst other things)

What a weird use of qua Yes, it’s a feature of democracies since people in power hold onto power but it’s not a feature of democratic systems as democratic systems. that is to say it’s not a feature of the will of the people to bend the rules to keep incumbents against the will of the people.

works great for my personal lorem ipsum

will be interesting to see how the voters abroad finishes but that gap between domestic and abroad is always insane

I’ve had this sticky note on my monitor for almost 3 years as a North Star for getting data for planning, budget, forecast and actuals into our data warehouse so I could make an actual earned value graph in PowerBI. Finally was able to do this today and I’m feeling very accomplished.

bought something for $10 shipped from Newegg instead of $6 of Amazon since I canceled prime and needed to spend $50 for free shipping. item arrived from Amazon.

did someone make a joke that his next book will be “Integralism is for Everybody”?

just noticed this came with some burned cds including Jimmy Buffet encores and the O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack

not the most responsible purchase with a 2 month old but I bought a 1990 Miata yesterday local pastor is retiring and is upgrading to a newer roadster

kinda nice that I knew we were gonna have a baby during open enrollment. signed up for hospital indemnity insurance at $27 a week/$1400 a year We received $4k for our 3 night stay when our daughter was born in January

“Families that maybe didn't know that they were even seen or noticed before — now, they had volunteers show up for six weeks in a row, and they realized how much they were seen, how much they were wanted,” said Jenny Groen, program manager for Arrive Ministries Willmar.

found a long white nose hair

bring your cat with on vacation

This is silly

Paul Bunyan Land in MN The Paul Bunyan statue talked via a man behind the curtain. I remember Josh G would always ask him how big his dick was. They have since torn it down and moved everything to another area in Brainerd. This wasn’t the only Paul Bunyan themed park in MN, Bemidji had one too.

my wife and I have been rewatching Disney movies recently Watching Sleeping Beauty tonight and I feel like it’s easily the best of that era.

346 parallel bucket brigades consisting of the 76 million Trump voters Gemini says this would be 45% of the effectiveness of Keystone XL based on 8 hour shifts

hyped that my new PC shows up tomorrow* Looking forward to playing Death Stranding 2 on ultra *prebuilt from Costco since parts are way too overpriced

I wish he would prioritize the cool energy producers (I don’t normally climb towers for my job, was just a tourist from the head office)

I started buying stuff from Target again after we had our baby. they’ve been throwing so many Target circle discounts that everything has to be a decent loss after operating expenses.

Conservative hating James Talarico just look like less self aware Homer Simpsons jealous of Ned Flanders

Markwayne Mullin is dumb as rocks and will be terrible but I appreciate Noem being replaced by her original nemesis - an enrolled member of a tribal nation

bloklahoma

have to do my annual review for last year at work I hate this, too much German Protestant humility to brag about my achievements and I’m not great at tracking all the stuff I do. chatgpt has access to office365 and sharepoint and was able to give me some decent bullet points

I used to never understand why people showed off pictures of their kids but now i have a baby and cant stop doing it

It’s my birthday (37 🎉) Doing my normal thing of cooking a meal and my wife agreeing to do all the cleanup. Ribeye from a local farmer (sous vide @131) Riced potatoes Roasted broccoli (using the reverse sear method from ATK) Biscuits either have it with an Aussie shiraz/Cab or Kirkland Barolo

I come from a long line of Emploids and it hurts to hear that we as a society haven’t moved past this, especially since I wasn’t one in my 20s. Only after struggling with my identity acknowledged that I was a jobcel at heart.