Okay so just to be clear.
You are in an extreme heat wave. There is no power. You see your neighbors struggling due to the heat. You have the ability to invite them over cool down. Doing so would cost virtually $0.
You instead post a meme on lemmy making fun of them.
Even if you don’t get along with them, doing something like this would be a huge way to mend fences.
EDIT:
So I the Houston Chronicle has a Texas power outage tracker. According to them, there are like 2k customers without power in the entire state.
Also, Texas doesn’t have power outages related to grid capacity in the summer that often. The major power outages this year were caused by storms knocking down lines. The huge one a couple of years ago was related to cold weather.
While the Texas grid does have issues related heat waves, it’s not alone in that regard. Basically every southwestern state does, including California. Someone in Texas would probably know this and understand it’s ridiculous to act like this problem is unique to Texas.
So I this entire thing, like everything these days, is made up to push a narrative.
While the Texas grid does have issues related heat waves, it’s not alone in that regard. Basically every southwestern state does, including California.
There are stark differences between 49 other states and Texas.
- Texas power grid has been systematically gutted
- regulation and inspections are defunded, as Texas refuses the inspections required to join the nations power exchange as a peer.
And the big one
- now they’re not exchanging power, they have to buy from their rich constituents, at a premium, and they gut the bank accounts of your tax money
They’re set up for failure and occasionally they succeed.
So I this entire thing, like everything these days, is made up to push a narrative.
But you’re the one who brought up Texas and laid out the narrative that their isolated grid doesn’t have any issues that the rest of the country doesn’t have as well. Who’s pushing the narrative here?
“Hey neighbor. I’ll totally help you out during this heat wave, but only if you have the same political opinions as me. You’d better make that apparent quick, because your gas tank will only last for so long”.
On some level you have to realize that’s a toxic attitude, right?
If you actually believe in trying to help combat climate change, you’d get them out of their car just so they’d stop burning gasoline.
Well at some point we need to stop letting people believe that climate change denial is a reasonable stance to have. Letting folks stew in the consequences of their choices is effective.
So you know the state of the power of my house better than me? Want me to send the logs of my solar app that keeps track of my outages?
My power was out yesterday while it was 103°F. I’m sorry it wasn’t published on the internet.
Okay so your either lying or you laughed as your neighbors desperately attempted to escape dangerous temperatures.
Neither of those possibilities made you look good.
Oh no! People on the internet don’t think I look good! How will I ever recover!?
Not lying about the power outage. It wasn’t out long enough for anyone to actually be in danger, just slightly uncomfortable. No one was desperate, just wanted to be a little more comfortable in their cars.
You’re just being a toxic asshole that wants to find something wrong with everything, so you are making assumptions about a situation you don’t fully understand and jumping to conclusions like it’s some sort of Olympic sport.
