Scotland gets like 1 week of sunlight in an entire year. I would go crazy
used to live in texas and visited florida quite often. I'm convinced sun drenched states makes people moronic. moved north to the midwest with a proper 4 season cycle and it's so much better than sweltering mutt weather 24/7/364.
im in North West England. It does rain about 175-200 days in the year but we rarely get extreme conditions. May get 1/2 weeks in the year where it is freezing temp.
Also North Wales and the Lakes are nice places only an hour away. Very scenic.
I moved from Indiana to Scotland and it's pretty comfy tbh. I didn't realise how mentally ill everyone is and how sick the culture was in the US until I left. Feel free to sperg out at me with a bunch of buzzwords to prove my point.
Getting away from Black folk was definitely a plus but I was actually referring to "culture war" bullshit and consoomer/wagie culture. >you'll always be a yank.
Been here since I was 23 and I'm now 31, most people can't even pick up on my accent anymore.
In Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland), the act of engaging in sex as part of an exchange of various sexual services for money is legal,[2] but a number of related activities, including soliciting in a public place, kerb crawling, owning or managing a brothel, pimping and pandering, are illegal. In Northern Ireland, which previously had similar laws, paying for sex became illegal from 1 June 2015.[3]
Though laws regulating sex work exist, they are not always strictly enforced, with some reports in March 2016 of police forces turning a blind eye to brothels.[4] Since then, however, there have been reports of crackdowns on brothels in the U.K.[5][6] Many brothels in cities such as Manchester, London and Cardiff operate under the guise of "massage parlours".
Although the age of consent is 16 throughout the United Kingdom, it is illegal to buy sex from a person under 18 where the perpetrator does not reasonably believe they are 18 or over.[7]
If you weren't a drunk you could have bought enough ahead of time. The point is to keep losers like you from drunk driving and killing families on Thanksgiving cuck. If you're not responsible enough to have your liquor cabinet stocked for the holiday you can just wake up with the shakes of Friday
Poor guy, get the shaky wakeys? Why didn't you keep an extra handle of rum for emergencies like this? I have a fully stocked liquor cabinet so don't act like it's moralizing. You're making yourself miserable out of a lack of forward thinking
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Your concept if freedom is so shallow it almost gives off an illusion of depth.
5 months ago
Anonymous
Responsibility is the flip side of freedom. You can't handle and don't deserve either. Even in an authoritarian state you can be a free man unless you're a fool.
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>authoritarian state
Thats the problem is its not. If they wanted to turn this place into North Korea that'd be fine with me. But just certain select freedoms are taken away while everyone still just runs wild all over everyone. So its the worst of both worlds.
In February 2021, the state of Texas suffered a major power crisis, which came about during three severe winter storms sweeping across the United States on February 10–11,[6] 13–17,[7] and 15–20. The storms triggered the worst energy infrastructure failure in Texas state history, leading to shortages of water, food, and heat.[8] More than 4.5 million homes and businesses were left without power,[9][10][11][12] some for several weeks. At least 246 people were killed directly or indirectly,[3] with some estimates as high as 702 killed as a result of the crisis.[4]
And no one ever did a goddamn thing for these people. Not a memorial, not an apology, nothing. In their homes in their beds. Beyond fricking sickening and this state is a fricking disgrace.
Cristian Pavon Peneda was found dead in his bed Monday — after spending some time out in the snow for the first time in his life, his family told the Houston Chronicle.
It was his "first time [seeing snow]," his mother, Maria Elisa Pineda, said Thursday. "That’s why he was excited outside. Everything was well. He was happy that day. He was not at all sick."
The sixth-grader died in a bed he shared with his 3-year-old brother.
>12 year old shares a bed with a 3 year old. >died only a couple hours after snowfall >the parents were there and did nothing
This makes no fricking sense
Wait a minute. If its so fricking cold that the 12 year old died then how the frick did the 3 year old and the parents survive? This makes no sense
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Anonymous
Because he protected his brother. And the parents didnt need protecting.
5 months ago
Anonymous
You can't shield the cold with your body like you can a bullet. If it was cold enough to kill the 6th grader then 3 year old definitely would have died, especially after the older brothers body went cold. If it was cold enough to kill the 6th grader then the parents would have died. Were the stupid mexican parents huddled around a furnace while they made their children share a single bed? Notbing about that story makes sense.
5 months ago
Anonymous
If he was still cold and they didn't have enough blankets then why not simply put more layers of clothing on until he wasn't cold anymore? That way he wouldn't have to "protect" his brother because they'd all be warm.
5 months ago
Anonymous
Probably playing outside in the winter wonderland with little to nothing in the way of winter gear, hypothermia then death later.
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Thats probably it. Stupid fat mexicans let their kid roll around in snow half naked and act shocked when he fricking dies. Then they blame the government
Texans considered it a merit, not a flaw. No way they'd prefer to survive using some scummy Federal grid. Also: >Severe Winter Storms
Lol, Texas has never known one of those.
The people that died were mostly elderly blacks and a few mexicans. All very much under the poverty line. Old people die in droves every winter all across the US, don't let grandma get pneumonia.
>natural disaster
They turned off the fricking power. While the wealthy elite had their's kept on the whole time. Not all of the wealthy elite of course but that happened.
their parents were moronic and they were likely to be just as moronic
anyone who died during that likely wasn't much of a loss
Texans considered it a merit, not a flaw. No way they'd prefer to survive using some scummy Federal grid. Also: >Severe Winter Storms
Lol, Texas has never known one of those.
It was in the single digits and everything was covered in snow and ice. Typically how those are defined.
mother nature doesn't give a dogshit about the constitution. When it comes down to it you have to look out for yourself and your own. Wanting the government to be responsible for every little thing in your life is some extreme cuckshit. If you can't be bothered to buy a fricking generator because you don't think you'll need it, why do you think they should be bothered to winterize their equipment because they think they don't need it.
You saved tax money by them not winterizing their shit, use it fricking take responsibility for yourself in the event of an emergency.
generators run on gas
the gas price might've gone up locally a bit but they didn't go up at all like electricity from the grid did
also there were places open for people to go if they were freezing and couldn't afford the costs.
The amount of deaths were extremely low for what it was, the people who died had to be seriously fricking moronic.
Natural selection needs to exist or else you get this gay ass society
>They turned off the fricking power.
They, the winter storms?
> the wealthy elite had their's kept on the whole time.
Only because wealthy can afford their own generators and backups to supplement their solar panels and battery arrays.
no and no. Literally the entire state of texas did not lose power aka have it cut off. Ercot turned off the power. The winter storms didnt knock them out. Otherwise literally everyone wouldve lost power. Numerous places in cities all over the state kept their power on the whole time. Not even toggled. Not even brown outs. And gee what a coincidence look who's there.
>The winter storms didnt knock them out. Otherwise literally everyone wouldve lost power.
No, a winter storm doesn't have to knock out an entire state, the texas grid has a series of substations like any other, it is not one giant toggle that is either on or off.
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Nothing got knocked out. It was a "preventative" measure for a total blackout. I mean we lost stuff and things got knocked out but no one got knocked out of power. It was turned off. >it is not one giant toggle that is either on or off.
yeah there is its a telephone call
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>Didn't get knocked out. >Things got knocked out. >No one got knocked out..
>Knocked some out to avoid total blackout >Its one giant toggle that is either on or off.
Make up your mind, you sound like an idiot arguing with yourself.
5 months ago
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Well yeah its not a giant toggle in that they picked and chose literally who lived and died but given that, its still a giant toggle and that toggle is the electric company Ercot
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>its not one on/off toggle >it is one on/off toggle
You still sound like you are an idiot arguing with yourself.
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>No, a winter storm doesn't have to knock out an entire state, the texas grid has a series of substations like any other,
You could not be more wrong. Texas has substations but its not like other states. At all. Thats the whole entire point. Just because one substation or 50 substations were perfectly fine means literally nothing.
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>its not like other states.
Other states had problems that winter too, though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_major_power_outages#2021
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cucumbers in vinegar ice bath
5 months ago
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>90% of blackouts were in Texas
Either way, Ercot cut off the power thats the point. They literally picked who lived and died.
5 months ago
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Not according to your link.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis >three severe winter storms sweeping across the United States on February 10–11, 13–17, and 15–20. The storms triggered the worst energy infrastructure failure in Texas state history >Data showed that failure to winterize power sources, like wind turbines and natural gas infrastructure, had caused the failure. >Texas was hit by the Groundhog Day blizzard between February 1 and 5, resulting in rolling blackouts across more than 75% of the state > This storm, along with various other storms from the previous two weeks, resulted in over 75% of the contiguous U.S. being covered in snow. This storm was directly responsible for nearly 10 million people losing power A third winter storm caused an additional 4 million power outages, and 29 deaths, with 23 in the U.S. and 6 in Mexico. At least 246 people lost their lives during the winter storms. >extremely high electricity demand. Power equipment in Texas was not winterized, leaving it vulnerable to extended periods of cold weather. Natural gas power generating facilities had equipment freeze up and faced shortages of fuel. >disabled some compressors that push gas through pipelines, knocking out further gas plants due to lack of supply >Texas had faced similar power outages due to frozen equipment >Texas does not require a reserve margin of power capacity beyond what is expected. >not only insufficient power generation capacity online, but also insufficient natural gas supply to the power plants. The failure of some gas distribution infrastructure, which had not been adequately winterized, resulted in exceedingly high prices for natural gas. Some gas compressor stations lost power when utilities began shutdowns, and overall gas supply fell by 85% >demand for electricity in Texas hit a record 69,692 MW on February 14- 3,200 MW higher than the previous record set in January 2018 and 12,329 MW higher than its current capacity.
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>utilities began shutdowns
The story is that if they didnt do that then literally the entire state really would lose power.
The people that died were mostly elderly blacks and a few mexicans. All very much under the poverty line. Old people die in droves every winter all across the US, don't let grandma get pneumonia.
>don't let grandma get pneumonia.
Hundreds of people died at home in their beds with an autopsy report of hypothermia.
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>The story is that if they didnt do that then literally the entire state really would lose power.
Due to the facts above where they didn't have enough reserve power to meet demand and they didn't winterize their equipment, so it shutdown.
I'll do a worse one than that: Texas sells acreage to Chinese shitcoin miners, who put together large facilities with 1000s of Chinese computers connected to their grid and internet.
And it gets worse: since each of these facilities draws more power than a small city, Texas pays then TAXPAYER monies to the tune of 10's of millions a year to throttle down operations during peak demand hours.
- so you have computers made in China
-operated by a Chinese company with govt connections
- on their vulnerable grid
- hooked up to America's internets
- being paid with taxpayer funds
This is the most Red State thing evar.
They turned off the power. It didnt fail. They turned off the power to the most vulnerable so that the most important people could keep power.
You can't shield the cold with your body like you can a bullet. If it was cold enough to kill the 6th grader then 3 year old definitely would have died, especially after the older brothers body went cold. If it was cold enough to kill the 6th grader then the parents would have died. Were the stupid mexican parents huddled around a furnace while they made their children share a single bed? Notbing about that story makes sense.
>If it was cold enough to kill the 6th grader then 3 year old definitely would have died
Unless he was protecting him. >You can't shield the cold with your body like you can a bullet.
How would you think thats not true? Thats exactly how it works. Otherwise there's also just simply which side of the bed they were on and blankets etc.
They were in the same bed under a blanket. The big kid dies but the baby doesnt. If you think that makes any sense then you're fricking moronic. Why wasnt the baby in the parents room anyway? The whole story sounds like some moron Mexicans living in a shack.
a memorial to the 246 most moronic or already closest to death people in texas? What difference would it make? This is the kind of "tragedy" the world wipes its ass with, it doesn't mean anything.
People die every year of extreme heat or extreme cold, nobody makes memorials for them because it's a normal if sad occurrence. This is not unique to Texas at all, it happens all over the world.
Nobody wants to address the fact that ERCOT israeliteed everyone by turning electricity into a "market" that was designed to rip people off when they could just plan ahead for bad weather. The same dudes that did ENRON run Ercot. They created an artificial shortage to jack up the prices. Basically market manipulation. They should have been castrated but the Chosen who did this donate big dollars so they are untouchable
The Whole Wide World about author Robert E. Howard is a great film. A based work about a based man, and there is nothing more so than creating Conan the Barbarian.
Sure it takes awhile to drive to other cities, but the flip-side is that unless you're living in a city you can buy a lot more land for much cheaper than in Europe. You tend to get bigger houses in the suburbs too because of all the space.
What city? Places like Dallas very often had gas heat. So they were in the dark but still had heat. Central Texas was basically annihilated. And guess what happened again the very next year? Failed again. I got lucky that time I didnt lose it. But in Austin tens of thousands were without power for a week or more.
I was in Houston. My mother with cancer and me survived just fine. We shared a bed to stay warm, unlike the stupid hispanics who thought sharing a bed with their 2 children would make them gay or something.
Back on topic, Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, and The Wild Bunch.
Yea I can tell you just moved here. Frickin tourist go back to Mexico you Black person. We got the week off from wageslaving and after a few days guess what the sun melted everything. Leave my state if you can't handle an occasional cold snap.
Swing and a miss. Don't quit your day job Sherlock. >you can't handle an occasional cold snap.
Is that a fricking joke? I'm not the one who can't handle it dipshit. It's your precious rat frick state that can't handle it. What a joke.
>Logans Run was filmed in a mall in Plano
And the fountain thing is in Fort Worth. The bottom is a pentagon and the day George Bush Sr, died, 5 died in the pentagon pool Logan's Run fountain. One person fell in and then the rest one by one just kept going in after them and dying. There was a gigantic suction pump at the bottom.
Cinemaphile morons defending the most israeliteed state in the entire Union is hilarious
Texas is basically owned by Google, Apple and every other megacorp at this point
ERCOT is one of said israeli-owned scams
You people love to slurp shit from your owners buttholes hot and piping
Paxton Wins Major Case Defending Texas's Anti-Boycott-of-Israel Law. Attorney General Paxton has secured a victory in the New Orleans-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit while defending a Texas law that prohibits state funds from going to companies that boycott Israel.Apr 18, 2023
I believe that anyone can adapt to it. I'm as pasty white as they come, I've lived in very cold states for many years as well. Your body gets used to it over time. I've worked outdoors fulltime in the Houston area for many years. I would get so used to it that I would become cold in most indoor environments where they blast the AC.
I believe that anyone can adapt to it. I'm as pasty white as they come, I've lived in very cold states for many years as well. Your body gets used to it over time. I've worked outdoors fulltime in the Houston area for many years. I would get so used to it that I would become cold in most indoor environments where they blast the AC.
I just got back from Montana and it feels colder here. Fricking humidity.
Stay hydrated. But the real secret is to get out in the early summer humidity when it's in the low 90s but humid as balls and do yard work or exercise. It's the worst time of year for heat stress. Once you acclimate to that the 100 degree days feel cool because the heat index goes down in July and August relative to the may and June heat index which gets up to the 120s ans 130s. Mid August it can be 105 but the heat index is 105 as well. Feels good, like a sauna
Tender Mercies
The Alamo
Lonesome Doves
Bone Tomahawk
Bone tomahawk is trash
>t. troglodyte
Paris, Texas
Happy, Texas
I love all our European city names. We always find different ways to pronounce them as well
Hell or High Water
This one is awesome
Hell or high water
>"GREAT" britian
LMMAOOOOO
The Big Country
Almost all of Richard Linklater's films as I recall. Slacker, Dazed and Confused, etc.
Piranha
No c**t for old men
True Stories
Well no wonder Europeans are so small minded
How do britcucks not rope on a daily basis? It rains every day too doesn't it?
Scotland gets like 1 week of sunlight in an entire year. I would go crazy
Scotland don't deserve any more.
i love the rain, my lead motivation to moving to the south
used to live in texas and visited florida quite often. I'm convinced sun drenched states makes people moronic. moved north to the midwest with a proper 4 season cycle and it's so much better than sweltering mutt weather 24/7/364.
im in North West England. It does rain about 175-200 days in the year but we rarely get extreme conditions. May get 1/2 weeks in the year where it is freezing temp.
Also North Wales and the Lakes are nice places only an hour away. Very scenic.
Rain is great, if makes everything green and luscious. Enjoy your dry plains.
I moved from Indiana to Scotland and it's pretty comfy tbh. I didn't realise how mentally ill everyone is and how sick the culture was in the US until I left. Feel free to sperg out at me with a bunch of buzzwords to prove my point.
>AND THATS A GOOD THING
>Mentally ill sperging almost immediately
Pure pottery
huh?
confronting a thief in the UK would be way safer because they almost certainly aren't armed and would probably bolt as soon as they heard movement
>I didn't realise how mentally ill everyone is and how sick the culture was in the US until I left
Just say you were glad to get away from Black folk and shitskins, lol. Typical coward tho, can't say what he actually means cause he's scared.
>realise
trying too hard, you'll always be a yank.
Getting away from Black folk was definitely a plus but I was actually referring to "culture war" bullshit and consoomer/wagie culture.
>you'll always be a yank.
Been here since I was 23 and I'm now 31, most people can't even pick up on my accent anymore.
Does that make you a tartanbagger
In Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland), the act of engaging in sex as part of an exchange of various sexual services for money is legal,[2] but a number of related activities, including soliciting in a public place, kerb crawling, owning or managing a brothel, pimping and pandering, are illegal. In Northern Ireland, which previously had similar laws, paying for sex became illegal from 1 June 2015.[3]
Though laws regulating sex work exist, they are not always strictly enforced, with some reports in March 2016 of police forces turning a blind eye to brothels.[4] Since then, however, there have been reports of crackdowns on brothels in the U.K.[5][6] Many brothels in cities such as Manchester, London and Cardiff operate under the guise of "massage parlours".
Although the age of consent is 16 throughout the United Kingdom, it is illegal to buy sex from a person under 18 where the perpetrator does not reasonably believe they are 18 or over.[7]
Texas might as well be Saudi fricking Arabia
>Texas might as well be Saudi fricking Arabia
You can’t even buy liquor at the grocery store it’s fricking moronic bro
And that's for starters. All liquor stores were closed by state law on Thanksgiving. Frick this place.
If you weren't a drunk you could have bought enough ahead of time. The point is to keep losers like you from drunk driving and killing families on Thanksgiving cuck. If you're not responsible enough to have your liquor cabinet stocked for the holiday you can just wake up with the shakes of Friday
Yeah like I said Saudi fricking Arabia
Poor guy, get the shaky wakeys? Why didn't you keep an extra handle of rum for emergencies like this? I have a fully stocked liquor cabinet so don't act like it's moralizing. You're making yourself miserable out of a lack of forward thinking
Your concept if freedom is so shallow it almost gives off an illusion of depth.
Responsibility is the flip side of freedom. You can't handle and don't deserve either. Even in an authoritarian state you can be a free man unless you're a fool.
>authoritarian state
Thats the problem is its not. If they wanted to turn this place into North Korea that'd be fine with me. But just certain select freedoms are taken away while everyone still just runs wild all over everyone. So its the worst of both worlds.
i wish they would ban all alcohol all the time
>meteor the size of texas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis
In February 2021, the state of Texas suffered a major power crisis, which came about during three severe winter storms sweeping across the United States on February 10–11,[6] 13–17,[7] and 15–20. The storms triggered the worst energy infrastructure failure in Texas state history, leading to shortages of water, food, and heat.[8] More than 4.5 million homes and businesses were left without power,[9][10][11][12] some for several weeks. At least 246 people were killed directly or indirectly,[3] with some estimates as high as 702 killed as a result of the crisis.[4]
And no one ever did a goddamn thing for these people. Not a memorial, not an apology, nothing. In their homes in their beds. Beyond fricking sickening and this state is a fricking disgrace.
old people are built to die
People of all ages died. One ten year old died protecting his little brother by giving him his blanket. In their homes and in their beds left to die.
their parents were moronic and they were likely to be just as moronic
anyone who died during that likely wasn't much of a loss
Why didnt they just share the blanket? And why were two children home alone?
Cristian Pavon Peneda was found dead in his bed Monday — after spending some time out in the snow for the first time in his life, his family told the Houston Chronicle.
It was his "first time [seeing snow]," his mother, Maria Elisa Pineda, said Thursday. "That’s why he was excited outside. Everything was well. He was happy that day. He was not at all sick."
The sixth-grader died in a bed he shared with his 3-year-old brother.
>12 year old shares a bed with a 3 year old.
>died only a couple hours after snowfall
>the parents were there and did nothing
This makes no fricking sense
Wait a minute. If its so fricking cold that the 12 year old died then how the frick did the 3 year old and the parents survive? This makes no sense
Because he protected his brother. And the parents didnt need protecting.
You can't shield the cold with your body like you can a bullet. If it was cold enough to kill the 6th grader then 3 year old definitely would have died, especially after the older brothers body went cold. If it was cold enough to kill the 6th grader then the parents would have died. Were the stupid mexican parents huddled around a furnace while they made their children share a single bed? Notbing about that story makes sense.
If he was still cold and they didn't have enough blankets then why not simply put more layers of clothing on until he wasn't cold anymore? That way he wouldn't have to "protect" his brother because they'd all be warm.
Probably playing outside in the winter wonderland with little to nothing in the way of winter gear, hypothermia then death later.
Thats probably it. Stupid fat mexicans let their kid roll around in snow half naked and act shocked when he fricking dies. Then they blame the government
Texans considered it a merit, not a flaw. No way they'd prefer to survive using some scummy Federal grid. Also:
>Severe Winter Storms
Lol, Texas has never known one of those.
I moved to Wisconsin from Texas and the snow we got today was worse than the power grid thing. I think the people that died from that were geriatrics.
The people that died were mostly elderly blacks and a few mexicans. All very much under the poverty line. Old people die in droves every winter all across the US, don't let grandma get pneumonia.
that's tragic. even commiefornia gets litigious and goes for blood whenever a fire-related disaster breaks out
If we built memorials for every natural disaster related death every inch of the planet would be covered before you were born. moron
>natural disaster
They turned off the fricking power. While the wealthy elite had their's kept on the whole time. Not all of the wealthy elite of course but that happened.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
It was in the single digits and everything was covered in snow and ice. Typically how those are defined.
Yeah didn’t Tee Cruz flee the state during that period?
Yep, Flyin' Ted had the whole family packed up and at the airport headed to the Carribean.
mother nature doesn't give a dogshit about the constitution. When it comes down to it you have to look out for yourself and your own. Wanting the government to be responsible for every little thing in your life is some extreme cuckshit. If you can't be bothered to buy a fricking generator because you don't think you'll need it, why do you think they should be bothered to winterize their equipment because they think they don't need it.
You saved tax money by them not winterizing their shit, use it fricking take responsibility for yourself in the event of an emergency.
>You saved tax money by them not winterizing their shit
Yeah right up until people got ruinously high electricity bills during the winter shit.
generators run on gas
the gas price might've gone up locally a bit but they didn't go up at all like electricity from the grid did
also there were places open for people to go if they were freezing and couldn't afford the costs.
The amount of deaths were extremely low for what it was, the people who died had to be seriously fricking moronic.
Natural selection needs to exist or else you get this gay ass society
>They turned off the fricking power.
They, the winter storms?
> the wealthy elite had their's kept on the whole time.
Only because wealthy can afford their own generators and backups to supplement their solar panels and battery arrays.
no and no. Literally the entire state of texas did not lose power aka have it cut off. Ercot turned off the power. The winter storms didnt knock them out. Otherwise literally everyone wouldve lost power. Numerous places in cities all over the state kept their power on the whole time. Not even toggled. Not even brown outs. And gee what a coincidence look who's there.
>The winter storms didnt knock them out. Otherwise literally everyone wouldve lost power.
No, a winter storm doesn't have to knock out an entire state, the texas grid has a series of substations like any other, it is not one giant toggle that is either on or off.
Nothing got knocked out. It was a "preventative" measure for a total blackout. I mean we lost stuff and things got knocked out but no one got knocked out of power. It was turned off.
>it is not one giant toggle that is either on or off.
yeah there is its a telephone call
>Didn't get knocked out.
>Things got knocked out.
>No one got knocked out..
>Knocked some out to avoid total blackout
>Its one giant toggle that is either on or off.
Make up your mind, you sound like an idiot arguing with yourself.
Well yeah its not a giant toggle in that they picked and chose literally who lived and died but given that, its still a giant toggle and that toggle is the electric company Ercot
>its not one on/off toggle
>it is one on/off toggle
You still sound like you are an idiot arguing with yourself.
>No, a winter storm doesn't have to knock out an entire state, the texas grid has a series of substations like any other,
You could not be more wrong. Texas has substations but its not like other states. At all. Thats the whole entire point. Just because one substation or 50 substations were perfectly fine means literally nothing.
>its not like other states.
Other states had problems that winter too, though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_major_power_outages#2021
cucumbers in vinegar ice bath
>90% of blackouts were in Texas
Either way, Ercot cut off the power thats the point. They literally picked who lived and died.
Not according to your link.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis
>three severe winter storms sweeping across the United States on February 10–11, 13–17, and 15–20. The storms triggered the worst energy infrastructure failure in Texas state history
>Data showed that failure to winterize power sources, like wind turbines and natural gas infrastructure, had caused the failure.
>Texas was hit by the Groundhog Day blizzard between February 1 and 5, resulting in rolling blackouts across more than 75% of the state
> This storm, along with various other storms from the previous two weeks, resulted in over 75% of the contiguous U.S. being covered in snow. This storm was directly responsible for nearly 10 million people losing power A third winter storm caused an additional 4 million power outages, and 29 deaths, with 23 in the U.S. and 6 in Mexico. At least 246 people lost their lives during the winter storms.
>extremely high electricity demand. Power equipment in Texas was not winterized, leaving it vulnerable to extended periods of cold weather. Natural gas power generating facilities had equipment freeze up and faced shortages of fuel.
>disabled some compressors that push gas through pipelines, knocking out further gas plants due to lack of supply
>Texas had faced similar power outages due to frozen equipment
>Texas does not require a reserve margin of power capacity beyond what is expected.
>not only insufficient power generation capacity online, but also insufficient natural gas supply to the power plants. The failure of some gas distribution infrastructure, which had not been adequately winterized, resulted in exceedingly high prices for natural gas. Some gas compressor stations lost power when utilities began shutdowns, and overall gas supply fell by 85%
>demand for electricity in Texas hit a record 69,692 MW on February 14- 3,200 MW higher than the previous record set in January 2018 and 12,329 MW higher than its current capacity.
>utilities began shutdowns
The story is that if they didnt do that then literally the entire state really would lose power.
>don't let grandma get pneumonia.
Hundreds of people died at home in their beds with an autopsy report of hypothermia.
>The story is that if they didnt do that then literally the entire state really would lose power.
Due to the facts above where they didn't have enough reserve power to meet demand and they didn't winterize their equipment, so it shutdown.
I'll do a worse one than that: Texas sells acreage to Chinese shitcoin miners, who put together large facilities with 1000s of Chinese computers connected to their grid and internet.
And it gets worse: since each of these facilities draws more power than a small city, Texas pays then TAXPAYER monies to the tune of 10's of millions a year to throttle down operations during peak demand hours.
- so you have computers made in China
-operated by a Chinese company with govt connections
- on their vulnerable grid
- hooked up to America's internets
- being paid with taxpayer funds
This is the most Red State thing evar.
interesting.
huh? what did you want to happen, exactly?
Well like I said even at least a memorial woulda been nice for them to accept some responsibility.
a memorial? people die every day. and what responsibility does who have in this situation, exactly?
They turned off the power. It didnt fail. They turned off the power to the most vulnerable so that the most important people could keep power.
>If it was cold enough to kill the 6th grader then 3 year old definitely would have died
Unless he was protecting him.
>You can't shield the cold with your body like you can a bullet.
How would you think thats not true? Thats exactly how it works. Otherwise there's also just simply which side of the bed they were on and blankets etc.
They were in the same bed under a blanket. The big kid dies but the baby doesnt. If you think that makes any sense then you're fricking moronic. Why wasnt the baby in the parents room anyway? The whole story sounds like some moron Mexicans living in a shack.
>el gordo, go play in below freezing temperatures
>ay ay ay el gordo es muy muerto! Why didnt the government do something?
a memorial to the 246 most moronic or already closest to death people in texas? What difference would it make? This is the kind of "tragedy" the world wipes its ass with, it doesn't mean anything.
People die every year of extreme heat or extreme cold, nobody makes memorials for them because it's a normal if sad occurrence. This is not unique to Texas at all, it happens all over the world.
Nobody wants to address the fact that ERCOT israeliteed everyone by turning electricity into a "market" that was designed to rip people off when they could just plan ahead for bad weather. The same dudes that did ENRON run Ercot. They created an artificial shortage to jack up the prices. Basically market manipulation. They should have been castrated but the Chosen who did this donate big dollars so they are untouchable
Strongest texan
No Country For Old Men
Red Rocket
The Whole Wide World about author Robert E. Howard is a great film. A based work about a based man, and there is nothing more so than creating Conan the Barbarian.
being cucked by Alaska
ONLY STEERS AND QUEERS COME TEXAS PRIVATE COWBOY
Lone Star (1996) is a favorite of mine
Who the frick would want to live in such a massive country? You have to drive a billion hours just to get anywhere lol
I dont like being crowded
Sure it takes awhile to drive to other cities, but the flip-side is that unless you're living in a city you can buy a lot more land for much cheaper than in Europe. You tend to get bigger houses in the suburbs too because of all the space.
Yea I lived through the meme storm it wasn't that bad unless you were a moronic Californian who didn't pack a sweater
What city? Places like Dallas very often had gas heat. So they were in the dark but still had heat. Central Texas was basically annihilated. And guess what happened again the very next year? Failed again. I got lucky that time I didnt lose it. But in Austin tens of thousands were without power for a week or more.
texas is going to be third world like LA in 10 years.
I cannot believe that was less than a year ago. So we actually had one good year between these two.
I was in Houston. My mother with cancer and me survived just fine. We shared a bed to stay warm, unlike the stupid hispanics who thought sharing a bed with their 2 children would make them gay or something.
Back on topic, Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, and The Wild Bunch.
Yea I can tell you just moved here. Frickin tourist go back to Mexico you Black person. We got the week off from wageslaving and after a few days guess what the sun melted everything. Leave my state if you can't handle an occasional cold snap.
Swing and a miss. Don't quit your day job Sherlock.
>you can't handle an occasional cold snap.
Is that a fricking joke? I'm not the one who can't handle it dipshit. It's your precious rat frick state that can't handle it. What a joke.
Texas belongs to the mexicans and we're taking it back pinche gringo puto
You are so fricked come March 1st. Prepare thy butthole Paco. Because this time you ain't goin back. You're goin to a frickin cage where you belong.
UK includes canada and australia.
Eva, Nadiseco, Vinland saga ADV dubs.
Also, the only good shit to come out of Houston.
Gaaaaassssssssssssss!
It's shit movie but it has old footage of Dallas and Ft Worth and several other locations. Worth seeing.
Logans Run was filmed in a mall in Plano
Dazed and Confused
Death Proof
No Country for Old Men
>Logans Run was filmed in a mall in Plano
And the fountain thing is in Fort Worth. The bottom is a pentagon and the day George Bush Sr, died, 5 died in the pentagon pool Logan's Run fountain. One person fell in and then the rest one by one just kept going in after them and dying. There was a gigantic suction pump at the bottom.
I've played around in that pool. You could probably fall in and die, but it's probably smart to just not fall in
Texas is the only state in the Union that can legally divide itself into 4 more states as they already have the approval of Congress to so so.
Bernie
>texas vs uk
Texas would win
King of the Hill
Cinemaphile morons defending the most israeliteed state in the entire Union is hilarious
Texas is basically owned by Google, Apple and every other megacorp at this point
ERCOT is one of said israeli-owned scams
You people love to slurp shit from your owners buttholes hot and piping
Yes yes everything you don't like is israeli...
Paxton Wins Major Case Defending Texas's Anti-Boycott-of-Israel Law. Attorney General Paxton has secured a victory in the New Orleans-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit while defending a Texas law that prohibits state funds from going to companies that boycott Israel.Apr 18, 2023
It's called the watch your mouth goy law
Nobody likes ercot. You're arguing with yourself
Can any Texan in this thread tell me how they cope with their never-ending 100°F summers?
I believe that anyone can adapt to it. I'm as pasty white as they come, I've lived in very cold states for many years as well. Your body gets used to it over time. I've worked outdoors fulltime in the Houston area for many years. I would get so used to it that I would become cold in most indoor environments where they blast the AC.
i go back and forth between FL and WA a lot and it usually only takes me a couple of days to readjust to the respective climate.
I just got back from Montana and it feels colder here. Fricking humidity.
You get used to it. Mostly. The dogdays when it stays 90 degrees at night with 80% humidity are rough.
Stay hydrated. But the real secret is to get out in the early summer humidity when it's in the low 90s but humid as balls and do yard work or exercise. It's the worst time of year for heat stress. Once you acclimate to that the 100 degree days feel cool because the heat index goes down in July and August relative to the may and June heat index which gets up to the 120s ans 130s. Mid August it can be 105 but the heat index is 105 as well. Feels good, like a sauna
>Make b8 thread trying to imply Texan superiority
>Thread ends up discussing Texans dying from power outages like a literal third world failed state
Texas is like half the size of Western Australia. Midge state
The Thin Blue Line