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  That's a really cool dashboard
context: So it’s time for Cruz to jet off to somewhere tropical? >
  
  Apparently MGT is in Costa Rica at the moment, so the answer is yes. >
  
  They literally are lizard people. It's been projection all along.
  Have you ever seen a Republican in cold weather? Have you ever seen Palin outside? As soon as it gets cold they run off to the equator...
  Bernie puts on gloves and sits on his porch watching the snow fall. Dark Biden eats an ice cream on the train with a window open.
  Seeing a pattern here. Texas, five letters, 666 is three 6s, which is 1 more than 5. Texas is the devil confirmed. >
  
  I did not expect this latest twist. >
  
  You’re not a lizard person, that’s why. >
  
  We dont think lizard thoughts. If we did, we'd do lizard things. Says science. >
  
  Don’t judge us lizard people by Ted Cruz. We don’t even like him. >
  
  Back down to just Al Franklin liking him the most, and he hates Ted Cruz. >
  
  As the great Benjamin Franken once said
  "A stitch in time saves nine" >
  
  Texas after last winter storm: We're going to increase how much you pay so we can fix these problems.
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  The problems: not fixed.
  The money: pocketed.
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  How are Texans not furious. And if they are, are they mad at the right people, or are they finding some way to blame democrats? >
  
  Democrat in Texas. I'm frigging furious. And we know who's to blame. Big Money runs Texas, for Big Money.😠 😡 >
  
  My brother recently moved to Texas and my mom asked about the electric grid since it seems to cause problems in these storms. Somehow it’s the democrats fault? I’m not sure how since it’s a red state but yeah. >
  
  The retort to that is then how come power grids aren’t an issue in other states? >
  
  A great example is California (which will tweak many a Texas conservative). When the grid faced rolling blackouts last summer people came together to reduce their usage, and the problem was averted. Collective action saved the day, which is an arrow in the heart to the conservative ideal of "fuck you, I got mine". >
  
  And if it failed for longer they could tap the national grid as needed. >
  
  Which we did.  Pulled power in from as far away as Canada, even.  Not having an isolated grid is great! >
  
  The other day I was looking up some stats on power generated in WA state, and it’s pretty impressive how interconnected things are. Our excess output goes into a grid that includes 14 states, plus parts of Canada and Mexico. So you probably got some juice from us during all that! >
  
  We definitely did! >
  
  Crazy that just a few years ago I remember that Texans had great pride in the fact that they had a different grid from the rest of the US. It helped validate their desire to secede.
  Now the grid is just a deadly embarrassment for Texas. >
  
  “A deadly embarrassment” should be the Texas state motto. >
  
  Uvalde cops waiting patiently to enter the chat. >
  
  ...very very patiently... >
  
  with the sounds of children’s screams being removed >
  
  I upvoted this because goddamn I hate it so much. I can’t believe that phrase had to enter our lexicon. I was driving the other day and for some reason it popped into my head and I got all mad again >
  
  It makes my stomach feel like it’s in knots because I’m fucking pissed at the disgusting piglets (calling them piglets because those pigs acted like children) who did jack shit, but then I’m so incredibly sad thinking about those children who were slaughtered because of the inaction of the piglets. >
  
  It’s the first time in my life something on the news gave me literal nightmares >
  
  For me, the scariest part about all of this was finding out that pigs are not obligated to save or protect anyone’s life that isn’t in cuffs. It’s true, they could sit in their piggie mobile finishing of their second dozen doughnuts for the day while people are spitting up the elementary school right next to them. When they royally fuck up, they act like they’re the victims. It’s time we abolish qualified immunity because those fuckers are not even qualified enough to flip burgers at McDonald’s. >
  
  Reading the PDFs in the article, it's ERCOT is requesting suspension of environmental permits in what looks to be 16 natural gas plants for the purpose of increasing electrical load which the state of emergency will allow for the duration of the chill with DOE providing terms of conditions of the go ahead. >
  
  Correct, this is absolutely nothing like last years issue but on reddit, its gonna be parroted around for a while. You can already see all the posts on /r/whitepeopletwitter talking about how the grid is failing and blah blah. Its just like the article from yesterday that painted texas to have like 300k people out of power, when in reality it was like 80k, which was pretty much on par for most states experiencing high winds.
  There is a difference between a grid failing, like what happened last year, to this year where the grid is functioning but the output is not high enough which means the grid is still intact, but the output cant meet demand. >
  
  The other thing is that the ice that remained on the ground on the ground for weeks during the ice out wasn't present in the last couple of days which means repair crews will be able to travel as needed much more rapidly. 
  Politics aside, this is a fairly boring exchange of state and federal government agencies working as they should. >
  
  I live in an area that uses diesel backups, and we have been denied EPA permission to run them over the limit for particulate emissions, and we had to have rolling blackouts. >
  
  Do you know how long for? >
  
  No clue, it ended up being easier to rent mobile generation and substations and move them around then deal with the EPA.
  It's a rolling calendar limit on the particulate emissions though, it's not a sudden surprise that they are out of hours they are allowed to pollute in a given area.