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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

You might try to not be an asshole to them and invite them in. You'd probably be able to get them more on biased with solar. But then you'd have to give up the opportunity to be a snarky troll.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

It's also nice to be on good terms with your neighbors, you never know when you could use their help or what they might offer you I'm the future. My neighbors wife asked for a cup of flour and we gave her an extra bag. Next day my wife is outside and they hand her an ounce of weed... what a trade

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I had to stop smoking weed for medical brain damage reasons, and ended up gifting 4 grams of concentrate and all my glassware to a cool neighbor.

Multiple hundred dollar bongs and a $300 Opal set in a dab rig.

Back on opiates for pain, but he was a cool kilt wearing bastard.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I would not want any of my neighbors up in my house.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

"hyah hyah hyah. Molly my dear, come look at the poors with me! What a riot, look at how hot they are!"

If Gilligan's island were real, they'd have eaten Thurston Howell first. Just sayin'.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

do NOT let them sleep in their car, there's a real risk they could die if from asphyxiation. Here in Mexico there were blackouts from the record heat and there was a family who slept in their car for the ac. They unfortunately all died

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yep, there's been a few cases of it happening at festivals like Bonnaroo, also.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You just got OP rock hard.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Assuming they're sleeping in the car with the AC running, my car never seems to let me keep it on recirculation for more than like 10 minutes. I noticed this while I was driving through a bunch of forest fire smoke I was trying to keep out, and I had to keep turning it back on.

Maybe that's just a safety feature my car has, but not all cars? Or am I misunderstanding and it's an issue with exhaust fumes? That would definitely be an issue in a garage.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

For my car I have to pump the air all the way down to cold for recirculation to stay on.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 7 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.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

LMAO alright Texas, we all believe you. We'll send you federal aid next time your shitty power grid goes out and people start freezing to death in their homes.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I assumed it's the one who used the phrase "these days" regarding a social issue like it's unique to now.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Lol this thread. So many entitled people out there.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Fuck you OP

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Me living in a state that doesn't have rolling blackouts...

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not everyone can afford the installation costs.

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