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Why?

I was born and raised in Texas, and as much as I've grown tired of their shit, this is a vastly different situation to the last couple of power incidents they've had.

This was essentially a freak storm that came out of nowhere with something like a couple of hours of notice, spawned multiple tornadoes that took out a bunch of infrastructure, including at least one high-voltage transmission tower, and cut a path over a thousand miles, from Houston, Texas all the way to Cape Canaveral, Florida.

There are no regulations they're circumventing by being in their own power grid that could have avoided this, and even being interconnected wouldn't help much when the transmission lines have been ripped apart.

I mean, if it convinces people to actually do something about the climate? Yeah, let's crow about it.

A lot of the remaining resistance to fighting against climate change is made based on a "it's too expensive" or "companies would lose too much profit" argument. If we can tell them they'd lose more if they don't help? They might do something.

It does fly in the face of the constitution, and multiple SCOTUS' have affirmed exactly that several times.

Referring to people as unhoused is actually a way to help people see them as people and not an "other". Some see "homeless" as a bit dehumanizing.

Giving politicians money and then asking them to pass a bill favorable to you is not "petitioning the government," it's bribery. If corps and billionaires want to try to convince the politicians that they should pass the bills they want, they can still do that. There just shouldn't be money changing hands.

I got glasses for the first time about 5 years ago. Since I work on a computer all day, I asked them to add the blue light blocking coating to help reduce eye strain (if you're not familiar, it looks mostly clear but it has a very mild yellow tint). My frequency of getting migraines while working has dropped significantly.

A lot of people, especially those on the far right, have painted anyone critical of the Israeli government 's actions in Gaza as anti-semites. This is clearly absurd if you take a second to think about it. Making note that Jewish people and Israelis are also critical of these actions is pointing out the absurdity of the statements of the far right.

And that price goes right into their pockets.

No, mostly British and some parts of New England.

"an historic" works if you're not pronouncing the "h", which is common in some dialects. A vs an isn't about there being an actual vowel, it's about the sound. The same happens with honor and herb (again, depending on pronunciation).

It's the GOP, but they believe in Qanon. Which describes a worryingly large amount of the party.