Some people aren’t mincing their words about it either, calling the deals “circular financing” or even “vendor financing” - where a company invests in or lends to its own customers so they can continue making purchases.

“Yes, the investment loans are unprecedented,” Mr Altman told me on Monday.

But, he added, “it’s also unprecedented for companies to be growing revenue this fast.”

OpenAI’s revenue is growing quickly, but it has never turned a profit.

The city owns and operates AE and has a right to its profits, which go toward funding city services. AE’s rates are in the lower half of rates statewide, and I think you’ll find AE’s general fund transfers pale in comparison to the profits taken by the for-profit electric utilities, which goes to lining the pockets of shareholders and executives. I’m very glad I live in AE’s service area, their service is way better than the for-profit utilities I used around Houston.

Austin Energy doesn’t serve Round Rock…

You must be thinking of another electric utility, my friend.

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Do you have a source on this? Texas Gas Service is absolutely doing this, but Austin Energy’s residential rates are really good compared to other utilities in the state, and really haven’t ticked up much in recent years outside the $5 base rate increase in '23.

As far as uptime, outside the statewide winter storm outage in '21 and the ice storm in '23 that shredded power lines, I don’t think I’ve experienced an outage in 10 years

Thank you for giving the Austin Chronicle credit where it’s due. I’m a donor and love their paper. It’s a free weekly that’s the only print news really left in Austin, and they do great work. Also a great resource to find live shows around town

First proposed in 2005 and subsidized by Venezuela, Telesur was launched under the government of Hugo Chávez, and promoted as “a Latin socialist answer to CNN”. It has been described as a network showcasing the diversity of Latin America and a propaganda outlet for state views under chavismo.

No it’s not besides the point, it’s in direct response to your point. Leaving a house in the middle of the highway is a better outcome for no one

In the US, the government provides compensation, not developers, and they pay fair market value as determined by local appraisal districts.

It’s hard to overstate how much safer and more ethical it is to use eminent domain and fairly compensate someone monetarily for their property than to leave their house in the middle of a highway

This is obviously just a poor translation. I can tell you from experience that toilets like this are pretty cool. The surprise is just lights, but it has a ton of other functionality. I like the bidet function and heated blow dry

lmao

This article directly contradicts your commentary

Looking forward to all his boasting about self driving Teslas being the best profit generator in the history of mankind falling flat on its face. Seems like this isn’t far behind

The Houston Museum of Natural Science is a fantastic museum and I love visiting, but the entire top floor is basically propaganda for oil companies who made big donations. It’s under the guise of teaching about petroleum engineering, but it’s just so blatant and gross. If you go (which I highly recommend), skip the top floor

Confirmation bias. If they told them what they wanted to hear, they would have believed every word

That’s insanity. I can only imagine he doesn’t tell girls he tries to date all this up front, which is why they keep leaving him.

Did he write this or did you, based on your observations of him?

Strong incel vibes. Has your brother ever had a girlfriend before?

“Volume control disabled.”

Then the windows all go opaque so you can’t be distracted by the outside world