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12 minutes ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said:
The point is that the folks who are working for the energy companies are the same individuals who's pipes froze, same as you. I'm not making excuses, I'm simply saying we shouldn't be trying to crucify a bunch of folks for not being smarter than we were. Yeah, we can learn from this and make things better. But we can also throw 100 billion dollars at it and still see significant outages. Some times we just need to chalk stuff up to "shit happens, and how can we not make it happen again" instead of trying to figure out who to disfigure.
Perhaps I'm wrong, but I don't think people are out to destroy the average worker in the O&G business. But people do want to see significant consequences for those that allowed this to happen, through either neglect, ignorance, or greed. It doesn't matter if it was "intentional" or not. This is how leadership works. You get to be in charge of shit. In return, you will get compensated more than others and it comes with varying degrees of prestige. However, you are responsible for what happens. That's not cancel culture, or heretofore unseen vindictiveness. That's just politics.
Did Chamberlain intend for Hitler to sweep across Europe? No, he was a good man who chose poorly and his legacy was forever destroyed. Rightly so.
Did Hoover cause the great depression and its lasting effects? In short, no. But he got the blame and took the fall.
Was Jimmy Carter solely responsible for energy crises of the 70s and the floundering economy? No, but he got the blame and the boot. He's been a running joke for 40 years.
Obviously these examples are not meant to be analogous to the current situation, only informative. I'm simply tired of "leaders" crying foul over being held accountable. We are seeing it everywhere these days at all levels and from both parties. People who have fancy titles and nice paychecks just totally paralyzed in the fact of covid, or protests, or homelessness, or climate change, or you name it. They have no ability or even the desire to lead. Usually, they took the job in the before-times when things were running relatively smoothly, and all they had to do was shake hands and take pics with constituents. Now that shit has hit the fan in every direction, they are nowhere to be found.
TLDR: People in power face the metaphorical firing squad when shit goes bad. Always have, always will.
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4 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:
I know how power grids work from playing Cities: Skylines.
Last one I played looked like this:

On a related note, a few years back when my daughter was an infant, I bought Civilization V on a whim. I developed a literal addiction and my wife would find me in the living room at like 2 am waging war on Ghandi and his dreams of Indian world domination. Ended up just having to delete the game as I was incapable of putting it down. /csb
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State November 2020 rate (cents/kWh) Avg. monthly usage (kWh) Avg. bill Cost ranking Alabama 13.00 1,136 147.68 49 Alaska 22.53 601 135.41 43 Arizona 11.69 1,033 120.76 31 Arkansas 10.59 1,028 108.87 24 California 22.26 554 123.32 35 Colorado 12.38 678 83.94 3 Connecticut 21.41 690 147.73 50 Delaware 13.62 912 124.21 36 Florida 12.00 1,089 130.68 42 Georgia 11.38 1,062 120.86 32 Hawaii 28.84 506 145.93 48 Idaho 9.67 1,000 96.70 8 Illinois 13.41 692 92.80 5 Indiana 13.23 928 122.77 34 Iowa 12.34 831 102.55 14 Kansas 12.98 861 111.76 26 Kentucky 11.43 1,052 120.24 30 Louisiana 9.94 1,187 117.99 29 Maine 16.17 546 88.29 4 Maryland 13.27 940 124.74 37 Massachusetts 22.10 583 128.84 41 Michigan 16.43 633 104.00 18 Minnesota 12.92 748 96.64 7 Mississippi 11.99 1,132 135.73 45 Missouri 10.07 994 100.10 12 Montana 11.22 865 97.05 9 Nebraska 10.73 957 102.69 16 Nevada 11.61 854 99.15 11 New Hampshire 19.20 599 115.01 27 New Jersey 15.69 654 102.61 15 New Mexico 12.94 615 79.58 2 New York 18.91 572 108.17 22 North Carolina 11.64 1,042 121.29 33 North Dakota 10.26 1,063 109.06 25 Ohio 12.35 841 103.86 17 Oklahoma 10.27 1,039 106.71 20 Oregon 11.12 969 107.75 21 Pennsylvania 13.51 805 108.76 23 Rhode Island 23.58 577 136.06 46 South Carolina 12.68 1,082 137.20 47 South Dakota 12.03 978 117.65 28 Tennessee 11.10 1,150 127.65 39 Texas 12.20 1,112 135.66 44 Utah 10.29 745 76.66 1 Vermont 19.68 538 105.88 19 Virginia 11.65 1,078 125.59 38 Washington 9.84 1,023 100.66 13 West Virginia 12.46 1,026 127.84 40 Wisconsin 14.77 660 97.48 10 Wyoming 11.12 854 94.96 6 U.S. average 13.35 867 115.74 -
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1 minute ago, GRHorn said:
I’m sorry to hear that. Those kinds of kids don’t handle change or transitions well at all, but there’s little doubt that in the long run those kids are the ones that need help from people like your wife the most. It should get better for them over the next couple days/weeks.
On the positive side, little 3 and 4 year olds are poor transmitters of the disease. I haven’t heard of any preschool requiring masks that young, and there haven’t been any mass preschool/daycare closures that I’ve heard of.
Yes, age of kids is a silver-lining. Although, when you are hugging crying, snotty kids, along with changing roughly 20 diapers in a day, I'm not sure the "studies" have taken that into account. Even during non-covid times, she comes into contact with a pretty good amount of bodily fluids. She is part of a public elementary school that has a pre-school special-ed component for kids in the district, so the mask rule is universal for the school.
She's not worried about herself. She has already received one shot. She has 3 aides, 2 of whom are at risk or live with elderly family members. She's instructed them to just remain on the other side of the room so that they don't come into contact with the kids. She's just overwhelmed.
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So my wife went back to in-person "teaching" today at a local public school. She is a special-ed, preschool teacher. Despite the district repeatedly telling her that masks are required on kids, everyone always knew that there was no way 3 and 4 year olds with autism and other disorders were going to be masked or distanced.
She's already called me crying. She's in a room with 8 maskless kids. The majority are bawling hysterically because their parents have left them and they don't understand. She's hugging and holding bawling, maskless children. By herself.
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58 minutes ago, NIUHuskies said:Supposed to be headed to H-town Friday, how's the craziness there?
Total madness. People are fleeing in droves, if they can make it out. Some crazed, Rasputinish man seems to have taken total control in an attempt to proselytize the masses. Laughing stock of the entire nation.
And that's just the football team.
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2 hours ago, Patricio Swayze said:
This was CA this summer except it was the AC filter section. People were climbing over each other to get at them.
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11 minutes ago, wd40 said:
maybe, but my working theory lately is there's too many damn lawyers here, and no one wants to take the chance on getting sued. kind of like how none of the real doctors chime in on the health/injury threads.
fuck, you're onto me. 80% of my practice involves suing surly posters for giving bad advice.
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ERCOT, PUC, and deregulation got us here
in Cloak Room
This kinda sums up the last 20 years of politics.
Was our national security held to the same standard as the individual workers in the twin towers on 9/11? Well, Dave with Cantor Fitzgerald had no inkling that the Taliban was going to be flying planes into the buildings on 9/11, so how could we possibly expect our Security agencies to be prepared.