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.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

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