Cross-post 196 and NonCredibleDefense. Sh.itJustWorks
Imagine being a Texan trying to brag about having your own power grid, after dozens of people froze to death because of how shitty that power grid is.
Or died due to heat stroke / exhaustion because of that same shitty power grid.
I don’t brag about it. I fear each winter that it will happen again. Or that we will be woefully under prepared for natural disasters when they do strike.
There is no safe season in Texas. It gets tornadoes in Spring and hurricanes in Fall. And because every year is getting hotter and hotter, Summer in Texas is probably also gonna get pretty rough soon. And every time ERCOT struggles, the price of energy soars because of their bullshit predatory small print. I truly don’t understand why anybody would choose to move to Texas these days.
Summer will get rough soon? Didn’t we have two back to back years with heat dome dominated summers and people collapsing on the concrete? I distinctly remember being told by my job not to go outside due to extreme risk of heatstroke. It’s already bad. If ercot can’t handle winter now, they won’t be able to handle summer as AC system loads spike higher and higher.
I have lived here for 31 years. I don’t get the pride I’m supposed to have for being a native Texan. If I weren’t trapped here by the economic forces pressing all Texans down, I would live somewhere with a functional government at least.
Come to Chicago. Rent is fucked I won’t lie, but you can still find some cheap places. Depending on what you do (or are willing to do) there’s plenty of work here. Our city is a far cry from perfect but we have a mayor who actually has the people’s best interests in mind, we’re politically active and quite progressive, there aren’t enough free community resources but far more than most places, we have multiple forms of slightly shitty but fully functional mass transit, and weed is legal. Also, portions of the city are extremely walkable and bikeable.
I friend of mine is moving from New Mexico to Chicago, so it checks out.
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Or that we will be woefully under prepared for natural disasters when they do strike.
Texas is always prepared to receive
handouts, I meanwelfareI mean, their legitimate entitlements from the federal government.Right. What happens to Texas if it secedes and is subsequently hit by a substantial hurricane? Fuck those people in particular I guess. That’s the general stance of our state government.
It is definitely not a Texan. The choice of words and points they’re hitting is very Russian.
Hilariously, Texas is all about giving people the freedom to freeze to death with their substandard electrical service in the name of “freedom from government oppression”, but they can’t just let trans people decide to transition because it could be a mistake and they might regret it? All while supporting child labor where kids could get crushed or heinously injured in massive industrial equipments? Amazing.
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Louisiana would annex the gulf coast in less than a month
Cajun Navy gets shit DONE
What’s a warm water port?
This is how the capitalists & oil barons will sell your government on Global Warming like: “actually it’s a good thing the world is warming”
The interesting thing is that Russia already has two ice free ports on the Western side of the country: Kaliningrad in the Baltics and Novorossisk in the Black Sea, just East of the Crimean peninsula. There’s no real need for another port in Sevastopol. And on the Pacific they’ve got Vladivostok and much of the Kamchatka peninsula.
iirc the Novorossisk port is kind of bad, right?
Regardless, Baltic Sea access isn’t super great when you’re entirely choked out by Denmark for access to the Atlantic. Same goes for Black Sea and access to the open seas - Turkey and arguably also Spain/UK block several times on the way.
The Pacific ones freeze over and are kind of blocked by Japan, essentially.
It’s going to be interesting to see how much Russia’s geopolitical position improves from rising global temperatures - if their pacific ports become ice-free, then that changes the game quite a bit.
Regardless, Baltic Sea access isn’t super great when you’re entirely choked out by Denmark
Not only Denmark. Norway, Sweden and probably Germany could also shut down access if they wanted.
Norway and Germany couldn’t do it very well alone though.
That’s true. Atlantic access via the Baltic Sea is on heavy lockdown from all sides.
Not to mention that Kaliningrad also is kind of cut off by land in a dire situation as well, making this even more of a struggle.
Sevastopol helps them keep firm presence on the Black Sea and from that the Mediterranean so long as Turkey allows them through the Bosporus and Dardanelles to the Aegean. They don’t want their presence being dependent on Crimea’s holding
There is a vast untapped natural gas field southwest of sevastopol. On top of giving Russia another warm water port, it also gives them rights over the slarwa of the black sea where the gas field is. the argument has been made that this was the reasoning behind the Crimean annexation in 2014.
Canada doesn’t even have warm water outhouses
Canada doesn’t even have warm water.
Canada doesn’t even have warmth
Every port we have is warm Water accept far north. Learn something new everyday.
Except?
I’m aware of that, believe it or not. Purely a joke on my end. I legit love canada.
In my limited experience, 1/10 Canadians I’ve encountered were assholes. That’s 9/10 for my fellow Americans. Best ally any country could have, too. Canada is fucking awesome. If I had to move away from home to another country, it would be my pick
Which is kinda silly to say, I guess. But it’s true.
I think you might be wearing rose colored glasses when you’re thinking about Canada.
As a Canadian I think the ”crackhouse above a meth lab” joke is pretty apt. Canada is just America Light®. These jokes are especially poignant nowadays as our political landscape seems to be obsessed with doing its best American impression.
Of course Canada isn’t a horrible place to be but it gets way too much praise from outsiders. We have a lot of problems just like everywhere else and instead of learning from the mistakes of others we seem to be more interested in following them off the same cliff.
Well, I believe you, but I think about it as Canada exporting its best people south :)
Having nearly died experiencing that power grid first hand, and their only two state exports of Bucees and Whataburger being picked up in other states, it’s not looking good
Wait until they get slapped with export/import taxes and tariffs when they secede.
