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Samuel_L_Bronkowitz 80 points ago +81 / -1

How many people have to live with you in order to need Two giant sub zero fridges? I wish they’d have a gender reveal party on her street.

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Picador_20 33 points ago +33 / -0

The correct answer is two, his and hers. Nancy's husband prefers that his gourmet chocolate ice cream never be allowed to touch her artisanal vanilla gelato.

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SirWilliam 61 points ago +61 / -0

The forest was mismanaged for 30+ years. The mountains in the reddest area of the state are burning down uncontrolled, and they've had to shut down one of the most spectacular engineered system of hydro plants in the world as the forest burns up and takes the infrastructure with it. The people who's homes are burning are 80%+ MAGA. You were not even allowed to cut a tree on your own land here.

4 billion kilowatt hours per year, getting torched. It almost seems the fire was intentionally set...still under investigation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Creek_Hydroelectric_Project

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BigMikesBlackCock 31 points ago +34 / -3

You can't even collect rain water ! All rain water belongs to the state of California. I'm praying for rain

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sleepinggiant 21 points ago +22 / -1

Im praying for tidal waves....

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BigMikesBlackCock 11 points ago +15 / -4

Please flush it all away . I don't know about Maynard's politics but the dude moved to the desert to grow grapes and a whole town is thriving because of it

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Dang 8 points ago +8 / -0

Learn to swim

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FireannDireach 0 points ago +1 / -1

LOL, that's not true at all, when he started there in the mid 90's, everyone told him he'd fail. There's wineries NOW because he proved they can function there.

And, he brought an old mining town that was dying back to life. I'm guessing you hate Tool for...reasons, so you're shitting on his accomplishments there.

And, I've actually tried his wines. They're very good. If you're gonna spend $50 on a bottle of wine, his reds are worth it once in a while.

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BigMikesBlackCock -4 points ago +1 / -5

Rain barrels are illegal in California

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pingpongdingdong 15 points ago +15 / -0

ridiculous. i’ve lived in CA my whole life and “fire season” was a SoCal thing with the Santa Ana winds. NorCal fires were never a yearly event like now. Dems been in charge for far too long.

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triggernometry 5 points ago +5 / -0

How much you wanna bet there is a ton of Chinese money backing these infrastructure-dismantling policies?

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FireannDireach 3 points ago +3 / -0

This current electrical issue isn't from fires. They can't make enough in the daytime from solar/wind to keep the grid going at night, because they shut down NG and nuke plants.

California burns every year, and there were no grid issues until...PG&E lost a big lawsuit, and Sacramento shut down electrical production.

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pray4peace4 16 points ago +17 / -1

Exactly! When this heatwave hit us in California, I turned on my window banger A/C for 2 days, then got a warning in the mail from my utility company that they were going to fine me for using too much electricity. My Mayor's office is nice & cool all day. Did he get a letter? Bet not.

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thekindlyman555 9 points ago +9 / -0

How much energy does it take to run her ice cream bunker?

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Side-o-Beef_Curtains 83 points ago +84 / -1

Add in that so much of the state is burning that you can see it from space,

https://mobile.twitter.com/DrewTumaABC7/status/1302467633363578880?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

And I'd have to say that God is beginning to feel a bit "old testamentish" toward the golden state. The locusts are gonna be fun, but I'm excited about the plague of frogs.

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Massive_rally 90 points ago +90 / -0

It used to be common knowledge that removing excess dead growth was key to preventing forest fires. But then Trump mentioned it and it instantly became "settled science" that forest management was a right wing conspiracy theory. They get what they deserve.

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TD_Covfefe_Crusader 13 points ago +13 / -0

California used to do controlled burns before the Democrats banned them. They used to have a nuclear power plant in San Onofre that provided 20% of the power to large portions of Southern California too before the Democrats shut it down.

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TheGreenPede 10 points ago +10 / -0

Yea CA is pretty ridiculous with policies. no controlled burns to save the tiny squirrels and wild life. but now the GIANT BLAZE is killing everything

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FireannDireach 6 points ago +6 / -0

Don't forget the NG powered plants. They're gone, too.

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_Sully_ 25 points ago +27 / -2

I studied earth and planetary science back in the early 2000s. The thought then was working to prevent forest fires was causing unnatural fire conditions through out the state. It created islands of old and new growth forcing a heterogenous distribution. This is actually a culmination of a few caved-in brain philosophies pushed by the borderline personality disorder environmentalists that in my opinion are some of the worst misanthropes you can imagine.

I was of the mind that it was true that forest management was messing with a natural balance of nature but that it was too fuckin’ late to pretend that letting it return to a natural cycle as it would for sure kill people. These environmentalist view humans as aliens from another planet that have zero place on Earth. We are a foreign parasite. It’s disgusting. If I suggest that maybe their fevered utopian dream of sentimental, rosy, imagery is a delusion and dangerous then I must be a denier if some kind.

There is a mind virus going on and it’s convinced people that thinking in sentimental terms is good. I think of it as an effeminancy of philosophy. It only cares about how things look and how they make you feel and when things go wrong it’s more important that you don’t yell than find solutions because that makes them feel bad. Also you are mean and didn’t really give them a chance—as the state burns down.

I know this sounds misogynist but it’s what it fuckin’ is. You want to know what the world would be like if it is run by women? It wouldn’t last long and it would still be your fault.

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boxmakingmachines 13 points ago +13 / -0

These environmentalist view humans as aliens from another planet that have zero place on Earth. We are a foreign parasite. It’s disgusting.

This sort of attitude has sadly become the norm in all sorts of environmental and life sciences these days; Humans a a plague, Humans are awful, Humans are the worst, etc.

Yet, humans are awesome. They are the only species which has the self-awareness to curtail it's own development because it realizes it impacts other living organisms. No other creature even comes close to being this kind-hearted.

Jordan Peterson was absolutely correct when he said that post-Marxists "hate the idea of being altogether", which is the most intense and vile hatred one could ever posses.

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_Sully_ 13 points ago +13 / -0

Slavoj Zizek opened my eyes to this. He said that ecology is a religion that views humans as things dropped into a perfect homeostatic environment that serves only to disrupt it. Environmentalism as it exists now is misanthropic. For it to reach its ultimate goal it would need a final solution. And like useful idiots and like minded “religious” zealots, the stilted environmentalist don’t even realize that they are first on the chopping block in the NWO when those grabbing power decide they are no longer needed.

Edit: I forgot the best part from Slavoj Zizek. He said (paraphrased) “We need to redefine nature. Rather than it being a thing that exists separate from humans that they mess up it needs to be described as a series of unimaginable catastrophes they we are now benefitting from.” I liked this take because this is reality. Our most fertile farmland exists because it was once underwater, the Hawaiian islands are an explosion of fire and ash, the white cliffs of Dover are literally the skeletons of trillions of dead animals.

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boxmakingmachines 9 points ago +9 / -0

And like useful idiots and like minded “religious” zealots, the stilted environmentalist don’t even realize that they are first on the chopping block in the NWO when those grabbing power decide they are no longer needed

The 2 biggest polluters in the history of the world are the USSR and The Peoples Republic of China. Pretty sure there weren't many environmentalists around in either country.

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_Sully_ 8 points ago +8 / -0

Globalism is using environmentalism to wrest power. They don’t care about the environment, they only care about using it to control people and the economy.

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ZeroDeltaTango 3 points ago +3 / -0

We also have music. Top that, jellyfish!!

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DebbieinDallas 1 point ago +1 / -0

Well, we USED TO...in the 60s...but not these days

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ZeroDeltaTango 1 point ago +1 / -0

70s and 80s had some killer stuff too

90s and beyond it faded away

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DebbieinDallas 1 point ago +1 / -0

Bob Seger 1979 “Old Time Rock and Roll” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W1LsRShUPtY

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daveywavey86 1 point ago +1 / -0

ironically, the band Jellyfish were actually a fucking awesome power pop band from the early 90s. give em a whirl, it was excellent beach boys style power pop.

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SellTheSun 5 points ago +5 / -0

Great comment. Can you write a book so I can read it? Ty.

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Bongo_Occidental 2 points ago +2 / -0

I’ve noticed a culture on the left and in young people that says it’s very clever to defy common sense.

Take universal basic income. On its face it would obviously never work because people suck and would only lead to inflation, mass elective unemployment, and a huge tax burden. The left thinks that because everyone else can recognize how bad of an idea it is, they’re clearly smarter for supporting it.

It’s like they’ve conditioned themselves to value nonconformity above all else. When their big ideas fail big, they have no choice but to admit they were wrong, or double down with more bad ideas.

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DebbieinDallas 2 points ago +2 / -0

“You want to know what the world would be like if it is run by women? It wouldn’t last long and it would still be your fault.”. It’s ALWAYS your fault! LOL

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Gmama2 20 points ago +21 / -1

I believe Native Americans even did controlled burns.

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lerm4comptroller 17 points ago +20 / -3

... Define "controlled." There's evidence that several Native tribes burned down forests for better hunting, but I highly doubt it was as some sort of strategy to clear undergrowth and manage the forests.

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BigMikesBlackCock 17 points ago +22 / -5

Indians were basically cavemen that lived in shitty tents I doubt they had any understanding of forest management

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Ghost_Soul167 5 points ago +7 / -2

I would suggest you read 1491: The Americas before Columbus. Many reports spoke of the natives burning every summer, and describe the forests of North America as well managed as the Parklands in England.

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Wabasquaw 4 points ago +4 / -0

That book and the entire series are full on revisionist propaganda.

Basically it misleads by suggesting that the actions of one or two tribes in small geographic areas are representative of tribes all across the Americas. It does this not just with ideas of fire management, but also agriculture, animal husbandy, trade, governance, etc etc

The America's had some great civilizations like the Mayans and Incas that almost certainly did all of that as per 1491, but the vast majority of tribes were "basically cavemen that lived in shitty tents" especially as you move north - Northern US, Canada, Alaska, the arctic circle.

I can assure you there was no "forest management" occurring in January at -50F when the sun hadn't risen in 90 days in some igloo north of the arctic circle. What there was, was a sac full of fermented seal blubber that you ate raw to get enough calories to survive the winter without canibalizing your slaves. Six people huddled together in about 15 sq ft snow cave with a seal blubber oil candle to keep warm.

Even in temperate climates like Seattle & Vancouver it was not pretty. I suggest reading John Jewitt's journal's for a more balanced perspective than 1491.

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BigMikesBlackCock -4 points ago +1 / -5

I'm not into fiction

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Gmama2 1 point ago +1 / -0

You seriously should check out something called a "search engine"

Here is just one result of thousands. https://www.fs.fed.us/ne/newtown_square/publications/technical_reports/pdfs/2000/274%20papers/kay274.pdf

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Nunyo_Biznez 9 points ago +9 / -0

California would rather save bird instead of people.

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TD_Covfefe_Crusader 4 points ago +4 / -0

They slaughter millions of birds annually with their "green energy" wind farms and the solar bird vaporizer out in the Mojave Desert.

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DebbieinDallas 3 points ago +3 / -0

Wind Farms are Bird Murderers. We really ought to make this a thing. If we thought like democrats we would

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kmilt16 1 point ago +1 / -0

Plus the huge solar farms suck tons of moisture out of the air (hmmm🤔, could this be contributing to our drought situation?). It also burns me to see once beautiful areas dotted with crappy looking, broken-down wind machines.

The Democommies would like to dot every square inch of CA with solar panels and wind machines. They truly believe all electricity for the State will be generated this way (what the hell is wrong with natural gas?) They are truly, certifiably, insane.

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TD_Covfefe_Crusader 2 points ago +2 / -0

Those wind farms are an absolute blight on the landscape. We have them here in Oregon too. Endless rows of bird slaughtering monstrosities that generate meager amounts of electricity. If not for government subsidies they wouldn't even exist.

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TD_Covfefe_Crusader 4 points ago +4 / -0

It started long before President Trump. California Democrats banned controlled burns many years ago while I was still living there. The results were predictable and we are seeing it play out now. We are seeing the same shit from the same Democrats here in Oregon too.

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Side-o-Beef_Curtains 24 points ago +24 / -0

You from cali? So far only people I have met that know about the Chinese real estate connection are locals that "have more documents" than Alex Jones, lol. I used to work for a company that did.interior design for flippers. Anything from little guys to the multi multi multi millionaire companies. Most of my big clients were bitching about the Chinese buying up cali for a song back in 2009.

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BigMikesBlackCock -4 points ago +11 / -15

Lol african land .... them niggas can't farm to feed their own children yet rely on america to feed them so they can spread more hiv/aids and shit out more infected crotch spawn . We need to stop supplying africans with food

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ZeroDeltaTango 4 points ago +8 / -4

Not cool

The American black mutant epithet "niggas" was used to describe people living in Africa

A person can't help being born black or African; they definitely CAN help being a "nigga". The former aren't automatic jerkoffs like the latter.

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BoricuaPede 7 points ago +7 / -0

Don't bother arguing. He is another paid Sorosbot here to supply the missing racism for casual visitors. Deport.

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Pravikekec 8 points ago +8 / -0

The Chinese laundered a good portion of their money through the Vancouver real estate market and the casinos here in British Columbia, Canada.

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Side-o-Beef_Curtains 2 points ago +2 / -0

They started in California at the exact same time. It was mostly the same people using different fake business entities.

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TD_Covfefe_Crusader 3 points ago +3 / -0

Back when I lived in Orange County a large percentage of the new homes were being bought by Chinese nationals. They would send their kids to college there and have them live in the homes they had purchased. Those homes weren't cheap either.

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Side-o-Beef_Curtains 3 points ago +3 / -0

You should see what has happened now that they have discovered RIT's. The real estate investment trusts are full of Chinese money and own a lot of the rentals here. It's crazy

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Peashout 5 points ago +5 / -0

I believe this is happeneing everywhere there is riots as well.

Property value goes down, china swoops in to buy it all.

I think they do this with homeless people too.

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ChuckedBeef 15 points ago +15 / -0

The idiots will just cry "Cliiimate Chaaaange!" and act as if they were right all along, as if forest fires are some new thing that have not been happening every year for millions of years.

The problem is they just want to "let nature be" and as long as they do that, these fires will still keep happening.

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TD_Covfefe_Crusader 5 points ago +5 / -0

They are already doing that. We have a local forest fire burning here that was set by an arsonist, but that hasn't stopped the Democrats from spewing their Climate Change bullshit. Those idiots will take literally anything and turn it into the result of muh Climate Change.

"It's unseasonably warm. Muh Climate Change."

"The berries came in late this year because it was a cold Spring. Muh Climate Change."

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kag-2020- 8 points ago +8 / -0

We are the plague. The flood of pepe meme's brought in our GEOTUS to the terror of the Democrat scum.

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Side-o-Beef_Curtains 4 points ago +7 / -3

Pretty sure two thirds of california caught herpes off of tinder. Does that qualify as boils and sores? When do all the first born come out as trans?

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Nunyo_Biznez 8 points ago +8 / -0

*The parts that burn are generally in the rural areas. Farms large parcels of land, generally Trump country. In San Diego, the area on fire includes a range and many Trump signs, flags etc.

*Newscum has said many times that he thinks california should take over the electric company. This is still phase 2 of his plan.

*PG &E are already convicted felons Convicted of killing people, but California passed laws allowing them to forward their fines onto customers.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pg-e-pleads-guilty-84-counts-manslaughter-devastating-camp-fire-n1231256

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Side-o-Beef_Curtains 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yup. I remember that pg&e bull crap. Nobody believed me when I was trying to get them to vote, and nobody understood how their electric bill went to $700.00

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swimminginthoughts 44 points ago +44 / -0

I bought a computer monitor recently. When you turn it on, it's dimmed to 80% brightness or something with a message that pops up that says something like "in order to be compliant with Californication BS laws, this monitor has been set to 80% brightness. You can set it to 100% under settings."

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PatrickSebast 3 points ago +11 / -8

As my eyes age I appreciate dimmed brightness settings more and more. This is okay with me.

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thenwat 17 points ago +17 / -0

Get f.lux, pede - it's a game changer. It's one of the first things I install on a new computer.

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ProgramNerd 7 points ago +8 / -1

F.lux regularly hard crashes (blue screens) computers, doesn't let you choose the sunset/sunrise times and the owners are the most self-righteous assholes I've ever interacted with from a customer service perspective. Use SunsetScreen instead if you want more controls and brightness dimming. Another good option is the Windows 10 built in Night Light paired with ClickMonitorDDC.

Dimming the screen through software like in SunsetScreen and F.lux is bad for your eyes though. Ideally you want to change the brightness from the monitor itself with either the buttons on the frame or using ClickMonitorDDC to change it from your keyboard and then change only the color using Night Light/SunsetScreen.

You might be lucky enough to avoid F.lux ruining your system, but I was stuck gaming at the absolute minimum settings on my $2200 system for over 6 months while I struggled to figure out what was constantly crashing my games after 10-20 minutes. It would even crash if I opened too many tabs. Instantly fixed by disabling f.lux.

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DisgustedByMisleadia -2 points ago +3 / -5

My Mac already has that feature. iPhones have it as well.

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UpTrump 5 points ago +5 / -0

Flux is better because of the wide customization and adaptation available. I think iPhones only dim to one brightness, but F.lux changes throughout the day

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DisgustedByMisleadia 1 point ago +2 / -1

Yes, both change to a warmer color (adjustable) at sunset, and return to daylight settings at sunrise.

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doublethink 4 points ago +4 / -0

Windows 10 does too. It's called night light.

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sackofwisdom 8 points ago +8 / -0

This is okay with me.

Then turn down the settings on your own. What the fuck man?

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PatrickSebast 3 points ago +3 / -0

You can turn up the settings on your own as well. Max brightness is extremely bright on a lot of screens. I do agree it is stupid law though considering it has several workarounds and doesn't do anything meaningful to save energy.

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DebbieinDallas 1 point ago +1 / -0

Funny, as I age I need MORE light. Preferably bright white

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ShitOfPeace 34 points ago +34 / -0

Seems like they should have better infrastructure given they have ridiculous tax rates. This is why you don't elect Democrats. They can't run anything correctly.

Over here in TN I have my thermostat set to 70 all day and pay no income taxes, and there's no discussion of power shortages.

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Gmama2 16 points ago +16 / -0

The taxes are for graft silly.

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Ebbie8708 5 points ago +5 / -0

¡no te olvides de los extranjeros ilegales! You know the rich ain’t paying shit for the people they virtual signal for.

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Dahnald2020 5 points ago +5 / -0

They have a solar mandate and a big boner for alt energy, except nuclear of course. Alt energy does not have steady streams of power generation, which really fucks with the grid. They have the infrastructure, just dumb regulations preventing them from using it most effectively

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DebbieinDallas 3 points ago +3 / -0

“This is why you don't elect Democrats. They can't run anything correctly.”. Several yrs ago I heard Chris Matthews say (he was at a convention) something like “If there is an elevator marked Disabled People Only and it is empty because there are no disabled people around needing to use it, Democrats would still line up and wait for the regular elevator while Republicans would use the disabled one.” Paraphrasing.

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UpTrump 1 point ago +1 / -0

Is Tennessee in danger of flipping in the near future?

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ShitOfPeace 2 points ago +2 / -0

Doubt it. At least not the whole state.

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308freedom 1 point ago +1 / -0

They are safely landlocked, unlike Guam.

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lukefsje 28 points ago +28 / -0

Turn off major appliances? What a stupid thing to do. How are you going to cook dinner if your stove is shut off? Over a fire in the backyard? How will you wash your dishes? By hand for over an hour every night? How will you keep food refrigerated without power to the fridge? Hope it stays cold enough till tomorrow when you can turn it on again? God forbid you have to wash clothes for tomorrow, you can't cause the government absolutely fucked you over.

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KMacsBinder 14 points ago +14 / -0

You joke, but portions of the antifas have been going on about the concept of "rewilding" as a part of their overall anarchist philosophy. The good news is that these groups will fracture because they can't come to a consensus on what flavor of Anarchist or Communist philosophy to pursue collectively.

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DebbieinDallas 2 points ago +2 / -0

That would be AWESOME. Somebody needs to make a Chris Farley meme.

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SilverStarv5 2 points ago +2 / -0

going on about the concept of "rewilding" as a part of their overall anarchist philosophy.

Is that why they don't bathe?

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South_Florida_Guy 4 points ago +4 / -0

That's about the natural technological advancement level of most of their favorite victim groups.

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boxmakingmachines 17 points ago +17 / -0

Also, I am pretty sure by letting your house and refrigerator warm up, it will take even more power to cool it back down again than if you would have just let it be.

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rma92 9 points ago +9 / -0

This pede thermodynamics.

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ZeroDeltaTango 6 points ago +6 / -0

Any idiot who goes by what some stupid-ass democrat mayor says to do deserves the shitty life they lead.

Nobody unplugs anything, least of all major appliances. What a joke.

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PanderjitSingh 3 points ago +3 / -0

Exactly. Who would trust the same people who created the problem to correct it? They’ve proven their incompetence and malevolence beyond any doubt time and time again.

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I_no_asshoe 21 points ago +21 / -0

I know lefties still in CA and I swear they are so smug about their wonderful CA policies that they probably love the daily 3 PM shutdowns. It’s their new virtue signaling routine.

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308freedom 6 points ago +6 / -0

Participation trophies all around for everyone who unplugged their refrigerators and dryers.

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cuntard 21 points ago +21 / -0

turn off AC right before the hottest time of the day...

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DisgustedByMisleadia 4 points ago +5 / -1

My utility offers a discount by giving them limited control over our Nest thermostat. When they predict a surge in demand in the late afternoon (as people arrive home from work):

  1. Choose a subset of customers that have agreed to the discount terms.
  2. An hour before the start of the peak period, the thermostat is lowered by 2 degrees to pre-cool our house.
  3. At the start of the peak period, they raise the thermostat by 1-3 degrees (above the normal setting)
  4. At the end of the peak period (usually 2 hours long), the thermostat returns to normal.

I get a notification on my phone at least a couple of hours before this process starts.

Per the agreement, any one customer will only experience the adjustment a certain number of times in a year. I don't remember the number, but I think it's around 15.

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farstriderr 10 points ago +12 / -2

How about we just turn the power plants back on.

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DisgustedByMisleadia 4 points ago +5 / -1

If peak demand can be lowered, there's no need to start up more power plants. Discount programs like this and others that discourage peak period usage (like free nights and weekends) smooth out the peak demand. So, you don't have to light up as much standby capacity, and it's easier on the grid.

My state is #3 in renewable generation capacity (and #1 in non-hydro renewable), but we also have enough "idle reserve" to pick up the slack if weather conditions require it. Our idle reserve runs on natural gas, and has remained on standby. It's really easy to start it up on short notice.

Since our grid is almost entirely isolated from the rest of the US, we have to manage supply and demand ourselves. We can't buy from other states or sell excess to them, at least not in significant amounts.

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DebbieinDallas 1 point ago +2 / -1

You sound smug

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DisgustedByMisleadia 2 points ago +3 / -1

Just the facts.

My state makes it work. We've reduced emissions without compromising reliability.

We do it because it lowers costs to consumers, not to worship some false god of environmentalism.

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FireannDireach 2 points ago +2 / -0

Yeah, but I'm not letting that Nest spyware into my damn house.

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DisgustedByMisleadia 0 points ago +1 / -1

What's a thermostat going to do? Are you afraid someone will know what temperature you set? That's all it does.

We don't have a Google Assistant (or Alexa), and our security cameras (albeit not Nest cameras) are all on the exterior of our house.

But, I guess you aren't being paranoid if someone is really out to get you.

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FireannDireach 2 points ago +2 / -0

I've looked into Nest and all of the devices like that. They're not coming into my home. if you're comfortable with it, fine, but hard pass from me. It's not paranoia, it's principles.

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DisgustedByMisleadia 0 points ago +1 / -1

If your "principles" were based on something other than paranoia, you might have a point worth considering.

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FireannDireach 1 point ago +1 / -0

You're not worth a potential penalty responding to you appropriately.

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DisgustedByMisleadia 0 points ago +1 / -1

Grow up.

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rapidtransit440 1 point ago +1 / -0

Sounds like a muni? I moved from 1 single room apartment to another one in another city my electricity went from $25 to over 100.

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DisgustedByMisleadia 1 point ago +2 / -1

This discount program is a partnership with Nest. Other utility companies also participate:

https://nest.com/rebates-and-rewards/

Select "energy" on the right side, then enter your ZIP code. The program is often called "Rush Hour Rewards".

An example: enter 90001 (Los Angeles). You'll see that Los Angeles Dept. of Water and Power offers it:

https://nest.com/energy-partners/ladwp

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ZeroDeltaTango 1 point ago +1 / -0

I keep my AC on 80 all day and night anyway, but that's me. I live in Florida.

We bring a jacket if it's below 70.

In the winter we put it on 69 and wear sweaters in the house :)

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MAGA_CENTIPEDE 20 points ago +20 / -0

Those rules are just for the peasants good sir, the elite obviously require luxury

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CovfefeAnon 18 points ago +18 / -0

Power to the People, courtesy of the California Club.

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AlphaNathan 7 points ago +7 / -0

1984

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CovfefeAnon 5 points ago +5 / -0

1666 and the Great Fire.

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catvideos3 17 points ago +17 / -0

Good thing we shut down those nuclear reactors....

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POTUS_DonnieJ 15 points ago +15 / -0

Lead by example. Start with all government buildings and homes of elected officials. Garcetti should give the internet access to his wifi thermostat to keep him accountable, but he won’t because we all know that every room in his 6000 sqft house is kept a nice and cool 65 degrees 24/7.

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ohheyitsherbyj 12 points ago +12 / -0

Mmmm more social engineering... Freedom is selfish! Do your part to help the community! Sound familiar? No different than the shit they're pulling with masks.

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anon1011101 5 points ago +5 / -0

look at the faggot's twitter avatar, he's wearing a mask in it. virtue signalling at its finest

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50blessings 11 points ago +11 / -0

Yeah use a fan when it’s literally 108 degrees out! Fuck off Garcetti, you little bitch. Kiss my ass.

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booblitchutz 9 points ago +9 / -0

The blackouts will roll into predictably poor areas, too. Beverly Hills, Manhattan Beach, Malibu.. these areas will not black out for one moment.

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Deplorable_in_PA 9 points ago +9 / -0

Hell, even people in rural Arkansas or the Mississippi Delta have reliable electricity. That is such an embarrassment.

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4moreyears 8 points ago +8 / -0

Weren't the rolling blackouts during the Enron fiasco caused by shutting down plants for "maintainance" and directing others to export energy out of state? Are they still doing that BS or do they truly not have enough energy production capability? Or is the grid just that shitty? Either way how TF have they not fixed it by now?

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lacker101 16 points ago +16 / -0

http://www.caiso.com/todaysoutlook/pages/index.html

DEMAND ISNT EVEN HIGHER THAN 2006. PRODUCTION IS LOWER THAN IT WAS 14 YEARS AGO.

Reposted for you. Basically they've cut Nuke/Ngas production and are surprised they're coming up short. I was told Wind/Solar would make up for it. Guess not.

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boxmakingmachines 7 points ago +7 / -0

I was told Wind/Solar would make up for it.

This is the one of the biggest scams passed on to the public. Wind and solar will never be able to provide us full time power. They are also not nearly as 'clean' as advertised. Ever see a wind turbine graveyard?

And, even if you managed to perfect the solar panel, just how many mountain ranges are you willing to strip mine in order to obtain all the rare earth elements which go into building them??

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Dahnald2020 5 points ago +5 / -0

This exactly. Wind and solar are also inefficient and costly compared to natural gas and other evil fossil fuel sources.

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FireannDireach 3 points ago +3 / -0

Of course it's a scam, and I bet that if you dig into the companies that built the solar/wind farms that replaced the nukes and NG plants, you'll fine heavily connected Dem donors and friends of Nancy.

'Member when CA mandated the use of MTBE in gasoline, to "protect the environment", and it was later discovered to be worse for the environment than the gasoline itself, and it was later discovered that the companies providing the MTBE were Dem donors and buddies of all the top state Dems?

I 'member.

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4moreyears 4 points ago +4 / -0

Thank you for the links! I had a feeling it was their usual incompetent/corrupt bullshit. Nothing changes after all these years. We are the world's #1 producer of energy we should not have shortages anywhere.

Cutting nuclear and natural gas is absurd. They are cheap, clean, and reliable. Build all the solar and wind you want and if you end up with a surplus then figure out where to scale back. Its remarkable how awful politicians are at providing the bare minimum for their constituents...

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aaafirefly123 4 points ago +4 / -0

Democrats are some of the most useless and corrupt administrators in a America, the fact that CALIFORNIA has rolling black outs speaks volumes about their leadership.

And they have the gall to call GEOTUS a bad leader.

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ThePowerOfPrayer 2 points ago +2 / -0

Either way how TF have they not fixed it by now?

Democrats is a safe answer.

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FireannDireach 2 points ago +2 / -0

Nah, the final straw for Grey Davis was boosting car registrations, after the CA economy collapsed in the dot com bust. He was re-elected after the energy scandal - mostly because the Pubs ran a weak as fuck opponent - my feeling at the time is nobody decent wanted to clean up Davis' mess. Davis was hated by everyone, even the Dems in the state. He was recalled because he was incompetent across the board, he couldn't even be corrupt effectively.

I dimly recall his car registration bullshit had some people paying more for their first year of registration than the down payment. That was the point everyone said "this fuck needs to go." He could have raised taxes on the rich, but instead he fucked EVERYONE over, because he was so deep in the pocket of rich Dems. (and a powerful mobster, according to some.)

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AmericanGuy 8 points ago +9 / -1

I need gov Abbot to come out swinging just to piss off libs by saying "Don't worry, we'll never follow stupid Democrat rules here in Texas".

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cook_does 10 points ago +10 / -0

Abbot is a wet noodle loser. Chad Prather 2022

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wholesomekangz100 2 points ago +2 / -0

Castle Doctrine on all public property of Texas to protect from the hordes of Cali faggots

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Team_Baby_Kittens 8 points ago +8 / -0

No way libs in LA are setting their air to 78.

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Gmama2 7 points ago +7 / -0

There will be a few of the party faithful who wear the hairshirt. The elites will set theirs to 70 and put on a cashmere sweater.

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Spez_BTFO 7 points ago +7 / -0

My home state (Louisiana) just got hit with the strongest hurricane in 160 years to landfall there and still has more reliable power.

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SWAGLORDX1776 7 points ago +7 / -0

It was 107 in my part of SoCal - until about 7PM all I could do was sleep 1" away from the big construction fan we have, just sweating the whole time.

I assure you these chumps were not enduring the same conditions.

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2SmoothGQ 6 points ago +6 / -0

78? Hahahaha jack ass. I could imagine someone trying that shit in the southeast. It’s 95 with 90% humidity. We need everyone to essentially turn off their AC now.

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ZeroDeltaTango 5 points ago +5 / -0

I do not know even one person who scampers about their home UNPLUGGING EVERY APPLIANCE NOT IN USE.

Then every time you want to do the dishes you have to haul the dishwasher out of its space and plug it in...and every time you cook you have to haul the range out and plug it in...same with the washer and dryer...yeahright. LOL

That shit gets plugged in the day it's bought and unplugged a decade later when it gets replaced.

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BoughtByBloomberg2 5 points ago +5 / -0

Mayor chilling at 70 degrees of course.

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linden687 5 points ago +5 / -0

"Babe, it's 3pm, time to return to the middle ages!"

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grndmrshlgando 5 points ago +5 / -0

power for them, none for you. ice cream for them, none for you. gym for them not for you, masks for you not for them. this is the definition of tyranny. why california residents are just laying down in their own filth and not rising up I don't understand.

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Elias 5 points ago +5 / -0

It is stunning how conservative progressives are.

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Dahnald2020 3 points ago +3 / -0

The "progressives" have adopted puritan culture

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Mad_Maximo 4 points ago +4 / -0

Remember when every leftist mocked other areas of the states because CA was the richest state and how their policies bettered the state?

Now they're moving out...

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pray4peace4 4 points ago +5 / -1

I live in this crappy commie state & the SJW's comment about this energy fiasco is "I'll take this over fracking any day". Somebody needs to tie this guy up & put him outside in the 102 degree heat on the hot concrete for awhile & see if he changes his mind.

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Ladybug87 4 points ago +4 / -0

Funny thing is, the morons living in CA are actually defending this on Twitter and complying like little sheep that they are and, obviously, blaming it on muhh climate change and not on failed progressive policies.

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Hillandbill 4 points ago +4 / -0

Aah, the sunshine state! If only they were solar friendly! It's pretty much impossible to make it past city ordinances and hoa's and get solar. And if you do, they all drag their feet with permits and inspections. A friend of mine has his panels on the roof for almost a year before they let him turn them on and use the power.

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human_centipede 4 points ago +4 / -0

When she says "Show us your tax returns!"

Trump should say "Show us your electricity bill last month!"

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Trumpaholic831 3 points ago +3 / -0

Social distancing is SOOO EASY for Demonrats because nobody wants to be around them, anyway . . . ?

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GrabLifeByThePussy 3 points ago +3 / -0

Seventy fucking eight?

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Dev404 3 points ago +3 / -0

Those big mansions those limousine liberals live in need more juice for their A/C to warm up all 80 rooms plus appliances. Stop being greedy lowly citizens and think of the oppressed rich for once.

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SendThemBackToCanada 3 points ago +3 / -0

Too bad we have people like this shit around.

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Isthisusedtoo 3 points ago +3 / -0

Living in a Democrat run area is like living in a country without the constitution.

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substantialmajestic 3 points ago +3 / -0

What is a major appliance that you would turn OFF? I can only think of a stove but don't you need that to make food? Your fridge, you keep running. No using the dish washer until bed time?

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Ez_mac 3 points ago +3 / -0

Far left politicians will send us back to the dark ages if they are given the chance.

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jomten 3 points ago +3 / -0

What the fuck kind of idiots run out of power when gas was at negative prices a few months ago?

How fucking stupid do you have to be to be asking your citizens to go without when you could have gotten paid to have an energy reserve?

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Shockrocks 3 points ago +3 / -0

Reads like some dictatorship, 3rd world shithole edict. Oh it’s comiefornia, so it is.

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BuckyKatt60 3 points ago +3 / -0

How are those electric cars working out Cali? 😂

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Polks_Corps 3 points ago +3 / -0

Ahhhhhh.....pure Elitism. The rich are not doing without anything don't doubt me.

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Picador_20 3 points ago +3 / -0

By instructing people to unplug unused appliances, they are admitting that turning off appliances doesn't stop them from passively consuming electricity for which the user is billed.