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The cause of the problem is of course gay sex, trans people using bathrooms and a lack of guns and bibles.
As long as bitcoin farms have power, there is no problems
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Filthy sodomites asked for it! Also all the steamy hot gay sex is heating up the atmosphere. Steamy hot gay sex that I never fantasize about!
There is a guy, a politician, who said that gay sex releases too much greenhouse gas. Also blew cigar smoke into a plant terrarium calling it 'necessary CO2 for the plant to live'.
We live in a simulation, and it's breaking down.
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The Harris County Republican Party criticized CenterPoint in a social media post for its “seemingly lack of preparedness.”
The reason this keeps happening in Texas is republican deregulation though...
They can't keep deregulating if they can't keep blaming the government. And the more they deregulate, the more that goes wrong, the more they can claim the government wasn't prepared for.
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It's a bigger economic problem than people are talking about. I have a manager who works from Houston. He can't work right now. Several other coworkers as well.
At some point, employers will have to consider the liability of employing someone in Texas, simply because a power outage could seriously impact them.
So Texas and Florida are out?
Florida, all the craziness aside, is actually part of the national grid and, like the other commenter said, usually rebounds quickly.
Texas OTOH keeps insisting their independent unconnected grid is superior, even though the evidence is stacking quite tall against that claim. If it's not a hurricane, it's the heat. If it's not the heat, it's the cold. If it's not the cold, it's the wind.
It's always SOMETHING with their grid, but I'm sure it has nothing to do with their insistence that their grid be independent. It's all the WoKeNESs that's the problem!!! /s
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Florida rebounds really quick after a hurricane. I do have coworkers in Florida, at most they are out for a day or two.
It's been 4 so far for Houston. And I'm not talking a hurricane which won't impact most of the state, I'm talking about any power outage across the state.
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Yeah, red states are very poor, mostly due to their backwards economic policies. I know someone is going to being up that Texas is actually rich over all, but they still have far worse wealth disparities and widespread poverty than a comparable state like California. So they are indeed still a very poor state.
This poverty is a huge liability. It's all fun and games complaining about how the gov wrecks everything until you need something like well regulated utilities.
Poverty is always a liability. In the healthcare system, poverty raises the costs for everyone else when they don't get things treated or prevented.
What bothers me is that there is a whole bunch of financial types who seem to blissfully ignore liabilities. "Those are unrealized costs," when it should be "those are ticking time bombs." If you don't mitigate liabilities like through well regulated utilities those ticking time bombs will always have bigger consequences when they ARE realized.
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The company I work for has a production and shipping facility down near Houston that has been closed down since Monday due to the lack of power. It's insane.
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It sure would be stupid if Texas wasn't connected to the national grid because that would make solving this problem a lot slower and a lot more expensive.
Sure would be stupid...
Trust me, you don't want connect your grid to our disease. The infection needs to be cut out first.
You guys do have the wind farms. Fat lot of good it's done you, but...
Poor (not really, fuck him) T. Boone Pickens. He thought they would power all of Texas after he was gone.
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Remember this at the next elections, when you will have that incredible urge to not vote or to vote right.
Republicans in Texas focus their voter suppression efforts on Houston since it is the biggest Democratic voting population in the State.
Don’t worry. They’ll vote for the same folks who allowed this unpreparedness to continue.
But if we tax rich people to pay for services that's Communism! Also black people would benefit, is that what you want commie?!
Keep voting republican!
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Will they get angry enough to do something about the GOPers that are causing the problems? Probably not.
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