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But the long deployments take a toll on the crews and Marines, who had planned for a normal rotation and are now months past their initial scheduled return home.

“You don’t sign up for an easy time, you know any deployment is going to be uncertain,” said Joe Plenzler, a retired Marine Corps officer. “But extending deployments like this, when it feels really open-ended, that starts to bleed into retention. How much more likely am I able to convince my family to do another enlistment and stick with it?”

In hindsight, this was somewhat predictable, but I chalked up some of his beliefs, none of which were particularly extreme, to his own emotional experience and trauma at the hands of patriarchy and the unique racist systems of punishment that black men experience. The key thing I forgot though, is that patriarchal punishment to expressions of patriarchy isn’t necessarily linear and is often filtered and refined through online spaces, due to efforts to relieve a core sense of despair (and really to affirm misogynistic beliefs for the illusion of alleviation).

Anyway, our break up totally devastated him (his words) and for a while he was hanging on by a thread because he had decided to hang his self worth onto his romantic prospects with me. And so I wonder if he slid further into that Internet space in the process, since he, like many men, struggles to rely on his loving friendships and positive routines to bolster his sense of self (sleeping well, eating well, engaging in helping activities, etc.).

for background: Lake Tahoe residents live in California and get their energy from Liberty Utilities, a California energy provider. Liberty Utilities gets 75% of its energy from NV Energy, a Nevada energy provider with the power lines and energy going to Lake Tahoe. NV Energy has a contract to stop supplying energy to Liberty once a new transmission line is built that can serve Tahoe.

based on the headlines you'd never guess that

the energy supplier NV Energy already sold its CA assets to CA-based Liberty Utilities in 2009 and told them to find their own energy provider within five years

Liberty Utilities did not do that (it's hard and costly and they're a small provider!) so NV Energy granted temporary extensions in 2015, 2020, and 2025

Liberty Utilities is struggling and having to raise energy prices because fire insurance has gone through the roof. CA has a Wildfire Fund that helps energy providers with this, but Liberty Utilities isn't covered by it

NV Energy is building new transmission lines that should give Liberty Utilities access to energy from other providers

NV Energy will continue providing energy to Liberty Utilities until the new transmission lines are finished

so the headline is insanely misleading rage bait. a Nevada energy supplier is finally ending their 16 years of temporary energy service to Tahoe residents in California because the infrastructure for letting a different provider serve Tahoe is about to be built. Tahoe residents are kinda screwed but their plight has been 16 years in the making.

Tahoe residents complain that prices have gone up, but it's not because of ai, it's because of fire insurance! Liberty also isn't trying to increase profit to fund ai stuff. they asked for an 11% return on equity (max allowed shareholder profit) and the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) instead brought them from 10% to 9.75%. larger energy provider PG&E is also down, from 10.28% at 9.98%, but PG&E is way bigger and benefits from the CA Wildfire Fund! which is to say Liberty is allowed less profit than before they had to raise the prices, and less profit than larger energy providers despite carrying way more risk.