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Amazon Knows You Have a Goldfish Named Ziggy, Even if You Don’t
Flat buttocks? Own a snail? Here's how to find out what Amazon's About You page knows — or thinks it knows — about you as a person.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/amazon-about-you-page-shopping-preferences/
platonic
Barbarians at the gate.
Never went to a reunion. There were few people I would care to meet again.
What @realplayer said. Haven't been to any high school or college reunions. And I live within spittin' distance of both institutions.
pudding
Here’s an earlier thread about the Nokbox. Includes sample pages.
https://wtf.coffee-room.com/topic/2009/nokbox/7?_=1791548255155
Nope, though it is available here.
We got one of those goofy "we've installed X in your neighborhood" letters a few days ago. It was for a company called Base Power. Was curious to see what their business model entails.
Base Power launched today across the Chicagoland area, bringing homeowners in ComEd’s service area a new way to lower electricity supply costs while adding whole-home backup power.
Base installs a battery in every participating home and uses the battery to reduce the cost to serve customers during peak-demand times when the grid is most stressed and power supply is increasingly scarce. In its offering to ComEd customers, Base members will get their energy supply at rates at least 25% below ComEd’s default supply rate. The battery also provides backup power for essential household equipment, including sump pumps, during outages like those many experienced during recent severe storms which left +400k without power.
Here's an article that goes into detail how it works:
https://epicelectrical.com/what-is-base-power/
We're not super interested (we have a manual transfer switch and portable generator) but I'm wondering what our resident Sparky experts think....@steve-miller @big_al ? Thoughts?
@Bernard Congrats! We updated our estate planning docs some months ago after years of putting it off. Now we're in the process of documenting our financial lives so that our successor trustees can take over if the need arises. Starting to fill up our Nokbox. I picked one up during a sale at a huge discount off their regular prices. It seems to be well thought out.
