Yeah, every Saturday afternoon, supposedly. Unless I’m out in the yard at that time I don’t even notice it. It’s on the other side of the garage, so it’s not that audible.
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Finally found something via a Beto tweet. Zero warming centers in Bexar County. Crazy. Of course, even if they existed, they may not be accessible right now due to roads.
Power came on around 3pm for them in SATX, I think it might be back off now, looking at the outage map and lack of texts. At the very least, the house will have warmed up a little before they go to sleep. And tonight is like 20 degrees warmer than last night, so hopefully the worst is behind them.
I wonder if they actually figured out how to do legitimate rolling blackouts now. A cousin in Austin also got power back for 5-6 hours, then out again. Looking at the SATX outage map, I’ve seen adjacent zip codes flip flop today in terms of who has a lot of outages, and who doesn’t. A few hours on, then a few hours off is a lot more tolerable a situation.
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Winter is a libtard conspiracy invented by lesbians like HRC!
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I’ve dived patients patients for this and heaters (I think - these people usually don’t have great story quality ability)
I took this opportunity to test our CO detector.
This genius doxed himself on Facebook today.
https://twitter.com/findlayassholes/status/1361839155525869575?s=19
I took this opportunity to buy a new one. My old one just beeps intermittently, even with new batteries.
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I’ve been wondering about true rolling blackouts as well. I live in an older section of town and, knock on wood, we’ve had no power outages. In the North part of town, which is newer construction, there have been multi-hour blackouts. Wondering if newer grid is more “flexible” than older grid?
uh what is that?
Politics fan fic.
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The singer of the band Boston killed himself by running 2 charcoal grills in his bathroom
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Wiki on that is wild.
https://twitter.com/torriangray/status/1361778280521605122
thread of people who prepared if biden won in texas, so it came in handy lately
or did it since they’re the absolute dumbest fun read
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The economy of the Czech Republic might be more leftist than America but their economics classes aren’t much different from what I took in the states.
Just straight-up right-wing propaganda. Apparently if you give poor people more money than they need, they’ll just waste it on things like food (literally what the student said his Econ teacher taught) rather than using it to make money whereas the rich will invest their money to make others richer.
Fucking piece of shit Reagan influenced economic philosophy here almost as much as America. No wonder why there’s a libertarian bent among the students at my school. I normally keep my mouth shut about shit like this but had to speak up against the poverty shaming being propagated here.
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They’ve largely been told by their parents how bad socialism/Marxism was under the auspices of the USSR (the country was crap of course, but not because it resembled any form of socialism anyone would want).
I had an impossible time convincing young Czechs in the 90s that capitalism would lead to widespread poverty and they shouldn’t embrace the new right doctrine. Your students are the same generation as their kids.
After Havel went all hope was lost.
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Ronald Reagan is almost universally respected here as well due to his influence on bringing down the Berlin Wall and his contribution to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Given that the economy in general was booming under Reagan in America, I suppose policy makers in the Czech Republic admired some of the principles that appeared so effective to them.
Thank God that they haven’t been as aggressively applied to the Czech economy as in America.