This is true. The entire machine of Neoliberal capitalism, governments and corporations included, is a paperclip maximizer that is destroying the planet. The only problem is that the paperclips are named "profits" and the people who could pull the plug are the ones who get those profits.
The the arms of the author's "wallflower" fractal don't seem to curve, as opposed to the other, similar fractal (quadratic von Koch island). Which can be explained by each iteration adding a mirroring.
The unfortunate thing here is that the swastika was appropriated by a genocidal regime. The symbol still has a totally different life in India and Japan.
That's a solid amp for the money, but IMO you get even more bang for your buck if you can snag a used Boss Katana 50. Loud enough to play in a band, hundreds of possible tones, excellent software for recording and customizing tones while plugged into your PC.
Over here in PA I pay $0.095, so nine and a half cents, per KWh for electric supply, but then I pay that same amount for transmission, so it's functionally 19 cents per KWh, but maybe the person you're replying to isn't counting transmission fees?
I pay 11.6 cents per kilowatt hour inclusive of everything (taxes too). My household used 647 kilowatt hours in April and the bill for the month was $75.02. The per-unit charge neglecting taxes and delivery is only 7.4 cents. This is in Washington state.
I don't know why anyone would not include the "delivery" fee, I think it really is that cheap in many places in the US.
Here in NYC the "supply" charge is much less than half of the total bill. If I add up all the fees and surcharges and taxes etc, the total ends up around 35 cents / KWh, which I thought was rather high until I heard about California ...
I pay around 10 cents per kWh in the southern US; we have a nearby nuclear plant. We do have a base fee just for the meter, but no separate transmission fee. My in-laws in Texas have an open market for generation but pay transmission separately.
Where I live I pay about $0.09 per kWh for generation and about that much for transmission as well. I think that's what they're referring to, the literal bill they get from their current provider.
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