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  1. ndawg
    I really should have added /s. I had the same reaction you did.
  2. ndawg
    Are you going to discount his argument simply because he doesn't know what "ad hominem" means? Sounds like an ad ho.... oaawwfuggit.
  3. ndawg
    With a tinge of, "the contrast between how much I hate you and me offering you a couple words of gratitude lets me also bask in my own magnanimity."
  4. ndawg
    Pretty sure that Dan Patrick saved his marriage by letting his wife know how many nights he didn't have sex with male prostitutes.
  5. ndawg
    Austerity psychology 101. Make life worse for lower and middle class rubes, while encouraging them to brag about who can fasten their belt the tightest. AOC is doing a wonderful thing, while also following a very sound strategy for loosening the grip of Republican gaslighting. Outworking the Republicans in the biggest red state in the union is a really, really good look.
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    Wow.. "we didn't have a problem in 2012, 2013, 2014..." Ah yes, the old "my son was a wonderful, kind person for twenty years, and was a rapist for only fifteen minutes" defense. Chernobyl was an expertly run power plant until it just happened to have one really, really unlucky day.
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    If it weren't super off-topic, I'd be happy if you explained the error in my understanding. I'm not going to claim to be an expert on the subject matter, but I do have a personal interest in the study of management theory and would appreciate any correction (or, really, which books to read to get a richer perspective).
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    The puzzling thing to me is that if you take away management methodologies like six sigma, you don't go back to some magical time when American managers were dynamic, creative leaders who started in the mailroom and never lost touch with the work as they climbed the corporate ladder. You're actually just back at Sloan style modern management, which essentially prioritizes... you guessed it... trimming excess capacity and cost cutting above all else.
  9. ndawg
    What is your basis for concluding that the issues were caused by a lack of front line experience among the management ranks?
  10. ndawg
    Even when we look at this level of detail, renewables themselves aren't to blame, it's a lack of project oversight that is to blame. Internet debates about who is to blame are a welcome reprieve and a chance to off-gas. I certainly feel the desire to get pissed off, too. It's not helpful, but it is understandable. On the other hand, it disgusts me seeing our elected officials exploiting a crisis for political points before they could even know whether their decisions as leaders have contributed to it. And I think that's because they know if they don't establish a scapegoat now, they might actually get held to account over their role, which will probably land somewhere between "inept negligence" and "outright corruption" before it's all said and done.
  11. ndawg
    "I have a great argument but you idiots are all too block-headed to really consider it" was a tired troll schtick in the 90s.
  12. ndawg
    I need to study up on how the whole supply chain for energy works. For instance, if a retail energy provider switches their upstream provider, how long does it take to change over? What would the batch size be of a unit of capacity sold at an auction? If the batch sizes are small enough, it seems like 10 day weather forecasts could be incorporated along with historical data in order to more accurately estimate needs.
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    I'm gonna be that guy who thinks of some naive solution, only to be told "that's been tried before and it's really stupid," but what the hell.. here it goes. It seems like the situation could be better for everyone if our electricity bill include a fixed payout to the electric company for our capacity allotment (based on square footage?) and a variable credit that comes from the city for the capacity we didn't use, or a charge if we went over capacity. The cost of energy could increase steeply the more a home exceeds their capacity, and the sum of all overcharges would fund the credit to those who stayed under their capacity. To make things more interesting, the credit reward for staying under capacity could be more lucrative the more you get your usage below capacity. Am I nuts here?
  14. ndawg
    Sure, I'm not saying we don't already have a good idea that some people really fucked up. It's just very American that the public spectacle everyone sees among politicians is a bunch of people arguing over who should get the blame. Here on a message board, what else can we do besides vent (I've got a lot of venting to do myself, too)
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    Also, holy shit, even a completely selfish asshole with an ounce of forethought would understand that catastrophes like this one are terrible for just about everybody's long term prosperity. There are many, many examples of public infrastructures all over the world. Texas is looking downright third world right now. It doesn't take a genius to realize we could probably be getting much more reliable capacity at an even lower cost if we had better management, even without looking into any of the details.
  16. ndawg
    It’s quintessentially American to figure out who to blame before we’ve even studied the problem in detail.
  17. ndawg
    Don't worry, we should be able to help subsidize anyone who can't afford a small increase in utility cost.
  18. ndawg
    It's really important that we dispel the myth that a cadre of Big Cigars rule the Republican party from a smoky humidor. Rich Republicans don't give a shit if life for us devolves back into Sherwood Forest. First, they think everything is fine, because they're not personally suffering, and don't really have it in them to imagine what things are like for people who are suffering. Second, they'll always have a Sheriff of Nottingham to protect them. Their reaction to heightened instability among the lower and middle classes will only lead them to invest in better security systems, taller fences, and more powerful backup generators.
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    Me too, and, hell, I'd be overjoyed if these GOP Texans actually felt humiliated over this. That might actually lead to self reflection and change. Instead, the cretins in charge as well as the cretins who vote them into office will react like they have for all the major crises of the last decade. The political force behind this dysfunction will only going to grow more convinced that they need more power, in order to finally put a stop to the decline that's clearly (to them) caused by the libtard socialists. They're never going to suddenly realize they're causing all this mess. The more bad things happen to the (R) voters, the more they're going to turn to the one thing that even complete idiots know how to do to improve their situation: sequester other people's shit in order to sustain what they have.
  20. ndawg
    Yeah, I definitely appreciate it. Just wanted to square that discrepancy.
  21. ndawg
    Is ERCOT lying on their homepage? The chart on the left says they have 54,000 MW of capacity. (Source: http://www.ercot.com/)
  22. ndawg
    I'll throw in my answer to that one.. if Texas went blue and things got worse, it'd be yet another reminder that to enjoy good governance, the people we elect must get off their asses do their jobs well, and we must replace them when they don't. Being "right" is a lot less important than being "capable." Of course, everyone who understands that has left the GOP by now.
  23. ndawg
    This is some low effort bullshit right here. I just googled "DonkeyCigars is not an imbecile" and didn't get any results. Link me something that proves that you're not an imbecile, otherwise you're just trolling.
  24. ndawg
    And very soon, the signpost at the next fork in the road will be, "how should we respond to the catastrophe that just happened? By trying to prevent it from happening again? Or by blaming the invisible boogeyman and then doing absolutely fucking nothing about it?" Oh, right, Abbot already crossed that fork in the road and happily chose stupid, in the middle of the fucking crisis to boot. These people will absolutely have no trouble believing that somehow liberals and socialism caused this mess, and will only come away from this more convinced that they need more power in order to stop the enemy from advancing.
  25. ndawg
    Republicans: "Doing my job would be socialism."

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