Here comes the Black Mirror episode with the bikes and ads.
This episode is as far as I got. Which isn’t very far. It just hit way too close.
People in the future: “Who could have seen it coming?”
https://www.electricchoice.com/electricity-prices-by-state/
State November 2025 Average Residential Rate Maryland 19.87¢ per kWh California 31.58¢ per kWh It could be worse, Maryland.
Now compare average wages between California and Maryland.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/median-household-income-by-state
State Median Income, One Person Household, 2023 Maryland $52,519 California $50,251
Lots of things could be worse. Let’s not normalize the worsening of our local services
It’s not just Maryland, it’s the entire PJM area.
It’s lots of places. Yet it was somehow a partisan issue in local elections, with the parties blaming the other for the cost increases. It was enough to make me want to pull out what was left of my hair.
Hey this is about where I make it to on Factorio before my entire factory begins having brownouts and eventually a full on blackout and I gotta struggle to figure out wtf went wrong.
No one wants these things, no one wants AI, please just fuck off already.
This is why we need cheap fusion power that can easily be replicated.
All this nonsense about power from new technology like this would vanish and would be so transformational.
One day.
I don’t think we can get there with solar the same way. Solar can definitely cover existing needs and reasonable growth ignoring these massive power hogs though.
