Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle At The Door

On 1/13/2025 11:06 AM, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 1/13/2025 7:59 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Sun, 12 Jan 2025 08:59:34 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
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On 1/12/2025 8:44 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 11:32:54 -0800, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
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On 1/11/2025 8:54 AM, Paul S Person wrote:

On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 14:48:19 -0800, Bobbie Sellers
<bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:

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    So Southern California should be abandoned by all but the
entertainment industry and the retirees should move to Florida.:^(

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Florida is out -- retirees are fleeing because of the high condo fees,
or some such nonsense.
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Well, according to /some/ online sources, anyway.

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High insurance costs for all the beachfront buildings that are starting
to subside because of rising sea levels and the resulting knock-on
effects from that like insurance companies refusing to add new policies
or renew existing ones because doing so would endanger their profits.

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It's either that or raise rate ... nationwide. Gotta get the money to
cover the claims from /somewhere/, and adding it to the National Debt
is not available. So far.
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As other posts discussed, California is in a similar situation due to
wildfires. Which ultimately may mean "poorly-managed infrastructure,
specifically electricity distribution". Or not, as the case may be.
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It was in part.  The electrical utilities have spend a lot of money
(rate hikes) over the last several years updating and upgrading their
electrical equipment.  The largest has been moving their lines
underground, which is not quick or cheap.

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Our rates keep going up as needed to keep the electricity (and the
water, these are two different city-run utilities) flowing. They are
apparently installing EV chargers along parking strips in some areas.
How that actually works I don't know: does the user charge the cost on
a card?

 The user has to pay to charge their vehicle.  Think parking meters.

I drive an EV.
Quite a few places offer free charging, but I don't think I've seen a
free municipally=owned charger for several years. They used to be fairly
common, when chargers weren't networked. Most now are, and run by
companies like ChargePoint, which have some kind of revenue sharing
scheme with the site owner.
Its not unusual to find free chargers at restaurants - the low
speed ones cost about $2/hour to run, and if that fills another
table, its money well spent.
pt