Funny enough - my power in AZ is being cut for 2 hours when they switch over to a new powerline in my area. I don't mind because it's being done during the coolest hours of the day (resetting all the clocks is the only annoyance) after our temperatures are scheduled to drop-off (mid-month).
But the real reason I don't mind is that it should save me 300 dollars from installing a surge protection unit on the central AC unit - which has seen it's fuseblock blow 2x in the last 10 years (once last month - guy replaced it in 25 minutes with zero wait since he was less than a mile from me). I thought I'd wait for a 3rd failure before springing for the optional unit - and I'm glad I did (because the line update should take care of that for more than a decade).
It's fire season in CA which has been one reason for new power management rules, and I suspect more AZ people are using our nukes to higher capacity where we sell spare capacity to southern CA. We've had over 55 days of higher than 110ºF temperatures this summer - but it's coming down now (starting Wednesday).
Most of us here literally have no idea what reality is as no info outside the neolib narrative makes it into the darkblue bubbles.
I only realized with the 2016 elections- after 56 years in the matrix as it were. And I am exceedingly rare here to be a liberal and at the time Dem voter and have woken up. 😕
The cognitive dissonance rejection reaction to even small misaligning info and constant reinforcement of the narratives makes it almost impossible to break the propaganda lock.
Damn, as a millennial male, this is spot on. Even my brother is like that. He simply does not want to grow up and live in the real world. He would prefer to stay in his fantasy and resent anyone who deviates from it.
The culture of the west coast is absolute cancer. I have traveled and or lived in all the major urbanized regions there and it's truly bizarre how infantile people there are on average. At this point I have trouble relating to the very few friends I have left who are from there.
I'm from northern California, currently traveling in the real America (mid America) and looking to move. I've always been essentially far right my whole life I have to say that being from that hell hole has made me probably more extreme in my beliefs than people in most red states. There are some of us out there and there are red areas there in the mountains and rural areas. The sad truth though is that most people there are hopelessly brainwashed. Even my family who are conservatives seem very foreign to me at this point in terms of their views vs mine (I'm essentially a far right nationalist). I hope that all the craziness going on there can get more people to think the way I do and the state can be taken back but the reality is that a few million people absolutely will have to be deported for the state to ever have a chance at becoming a true American state again.
Funny enough - my power in AZ is being cut for 2 hours when they switch over to a new powerline in my area. I don't mind because it's being done during the coolest hours of the day (resetting all the clocks is the only annoyance) after our temperatures are scheduled to drop-off (mid-month).
But the real reason I don't mind is that it should save me 300 dollars from installing a surge protection unit on the central AC unit - which has seen it's fuseblock blow 2x in the last 10 years (once last month - guy replaced it in 25 minutes with zero wait since he was less than a mile from me). I thought I'd wait for a 3rd failure before springing for the optional unit - and I'm glad I did (because the line update should take care of that for more than a decade).
It's fire season in CA which has been one reason for new power management rules, and I suspect more AZ people are using our nukes to higher capacity where we sell spare capacity to southern CA. We've had over 55 days of higher than 110ºF temperatures this summer - but it's coming down now (starting Wednesday).
At least they have a non blue bubble friend...
Most of us here literally have no idea what reality is as no info outside the neolib narrative makes it into the darkblue bubbles.
I only realized with the 2016 elections- after 56 years in the matrix as it were. And I am exceedingly rare here to be a liberal and at the time Dem voter and have woken up. 😕
The cognitive dissonance rejection reaction to even small misaligning info and constant reinforcement of the narratives makes it almost impossible to break the propaganda lock.
Damn, as a millennial male, this is spot on. Even my brother is like that. He simply does not want to grow up and live in the real world. He would prefer to stay in his fantasy and resent anyone who deviates from it.
The culture of the west coast is absolute cancer. I have traveled and or lived in all the major urbanized regions there and it's truly bizarre how infantile people there are on average. At this point I have trouble relating to the very few friends I have left who are from there.
I'm from northern California, currently traveling in the real America (mid America) and looking to move. I've always been essentially far right my whole life I have to say that being from that hell hole has made me probably more extreme in my beliefs than people in most red states. There are some of us out there and there are red areas there in the mountains and rural areas. The sad truth though is that most people there are hopelessly brainwashed. Even my family who are conservatives seem very foreign to me at this point in terms of their views vs mine (I'm essentially a far right nationalist). I hope that all the craziness going on there can get more people to think the way I do and the state can be taken back but the reality is that a few million people absolutely will have to be deported for the state to ever have a chance at becoming a true American state again.