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Saw this on FP recently, coming from South Africa this is just the tip of the iceberg
Here we see this system 20 years later In Cape Town one of South Africa's biggest and most productive cities
To all my American friends, allow us Africans to officially welcome you to the third world.
Edit: I do understand that texas is its own system and that this isn't inclusive with the whole of America
Shaodyn
Texas refused to join the rest of the grid to avoid government regulation (mostly limits on how much can be charged).
FrogBotherer
Are...are people still on those spot price energy tariffs that surged to ludicrous prices last time?
mydisciplesarelegion
Nothing screams freedom more than dying from the heat in a first world country. Well, maybe freezing to death in one does. Go Texas!!
mikeatike
Deregulation is what let Enron fuck up so many people's lives.
Soggybathroomsock
Yay late stage capitalism!
WorthEveryPenny
How's that "regulation bad" going you conservative dipshits?
toolarchy5
Texas as a hellhole, not a 3rd world country like america. But we know that's how it would be and why we laugh when they threaten to secede.
doAngelsFart
Hopes and prayers for third world nation the United States. Who could have seen it coming (Other than hundreds of economists and historians)
RootMeanSqr
The windmill cancer has infected the power grid.
FMan5
Keep voting republican Texas! And you'll keep getting what you deserve.
tacoprincess
I did the math in Feb. All of 16% of Texas voters voted for Abbott last election. The rest of the state population does not deserve this
FMan5
I guess that's why voting is so important. If you don't vote that 16% controls you
StarscreamAndHutch
Gov abbott, LtG patrick and AG paxton are all up at midterm. Vote these worthless fucks out with me, Texans. #morebluein22
WhiskeyAndEggs
Gilgamech
Back in my day, the future was going to be great. Today, it's the FU-ture.
ImKindaDone
Because Texicans are stupid and keep voting these fools into office.
BeetBoxer
What, did the wind turbines freeze up again?
olhotdogfingers
RagingSeas
South Africans are so used to loadshedding, the other day in the shops the lights went out, pitch dark, but no one so much as squeaked.
RagingSeas
Diesel generator came in within minutes but we carried on shopping by the light of our phones in the mean time. Used to it.
baadf00d
Hmm, now would be the time to sell backup generators in Texas. I wonder if they make big ones you can attach to your house.
itspeanutbutterjellytimesodontforgetthebread
Most in SA have resorted to in house power generation with panels / diesel motors and Batteries to store low amounts of emergency power
NeverDownvoteMelBrooks
They do. They're several thousand $$ expensive but they do exist.
thescarby
And what do those generators run on? You want more gas hoarding? Bc THAT’S how you get more gas hoarding. ::insert archer “get ants” gif::
readbackmonkey
Libertarian paradise.
Grenateh
So clever another ignorant imgurian dropped the L word they can't define.
SpamYarBlockers
This is a perfect example of personal responsibility and unfettered capitalism joining to create a dream society for libertarians and GOP
ImgursLibertarian
Fuck no it aint.
BennyLarva
living in a randroids paradise
libaf
Randroid, i'm stealing that. For your trouble:
BennyLarva
oh well ty ... was unlicensed horny for years lucky me now im legally horny
barrocoyote
Except it's also way more restrictive here in other ways. Just as long as they are in line with conservative beliefs (BAN ALL DRUGS)
Grenateh
There's nothing remotely libertarian about Texas.
TheTripleLindy
Where’s lil’ Ted gonna run off to during this?
Subsound
Hopefully somewhere he'll get eaten by a bear. Fox will say it was an antifa plot.
SmokyDoggg
If only there was something we could do to prevent such mishapsOH WAIT THERE FUCKING IS. There are several things we Texans could do.
Donku83
Ted Cruz trying to find a way to blame AOC
AStrongFemaleCharacter
Worst poker face ever.
KentuckyFriedChildren
Oh don’t you worry he’ll find a way. It’ll make no sense, but his troglodyte followers will gobble it right up.
itspeanutbutterjellytimesodontforgetthebread
Gonna take this meme for later
NomDeImguerre
Most. Indoctrinated. People. EVER.
rebeccaolson1955
Yes, and I live here.?
FelixTheCAT5e
I wonder where Ted Cruz will flee to THIS time?
ShaggaLikesAxes1
Canada or something
Goddamnitmisterrnoodle
ShaggaLikesAxes1
“Might wanna look into it” *BONK*
itspeanutbutterjellytimesodontforgetthebread
Thoughtfullyshynoob
Oh god that fits so well ?
GingerLaird
I wonder how many years we're gonna have to put up with this before we actually hold ERCOT accountable for their inactions.
1lightlyfriedfishfillet
All of them
georgedragonslayer
Until ERCOT ceases to exist and gets "transferred" to some asset holding company. Or so I am led to believe.
DrProfessorRocketSurgeon
So does this mean that Fled Cruz will be taking a skiing holiday?
ITryToOnlyRespondInGifs
BUT IT’S FOR THE CHILDREN!
ipooppyramids
Fled ha good one
MeatPopsicleMultiPass
Fled Cruz. I hope that trended on twitter.
itspeanutbutterjellytimesodontforgetthebread
Added the tag
uptaco
Chalybos
Heading back home. To Canada.
noctynight
Yep. He's already making plans as we speak.
theraininspainfallsmainlyontheplain
Utah the ski state here, nope we also have a heat wave. He's gonna have to go international.
FegNiwtons
That is NOT gonna be a problem for ted
sturmhauke
He'd have to go to the Southern Hemisphere. I don't think anyone there wants him.
DrProfessorRocketSurgeon
He was the most hated "man" in DC until diaper don showed up... and he's still a damn close second.
Aim3777
I don't think anyone anywhere really wants him...
treeclimbernick
It’s spelled “T-E….” Oh I see …like he FLED…..
DarkVoivod
That's cause all them leftist hippie solarpanels don't work when it's cold out and... uhm.. wait.......uhm....
SoDark
yah, next they will start making up some logic around sunlight being bad for solarpanels....
ITryToOnlyRespondInGifs
There’s gotta be a way to blame the vaccines…
Danxiety
Liberals turned the freakin sun gay! Now the damned solar panels can't absorb its gay rays.
dm80x86
It does shine with all the colors of the rainbow...
jcw99
Probably something based on solar panles having reduced efficiency at high temperatures
MrRemakes
That's actually true. I don't know if it's enough to account for ERCOT's absolute failure (probably not), but it's true to a certain degree.
AdmiralButtStuff
I wonder how many kids and old people ERCOT is going to get killed this time.
Vengeraxe
Fuck the kids, how many OLD people is this gonna kill off?
BennyLarva
well the invisible hand of the market is so sweaty it lost its grip obviously
ElroyJetsonEsq
Every time I see ERCOT my brain unwillingly says "what the hell does EPCOT at Disney have to do with the TX power grid?"
angrybook
Yeah I have to read it twice every damn time.
drcurlyfat
I keep reading ergot, and it kinda makes sense for a moment.
SirWadeWilson
Not enough for Ted Cruz.
bluesun68
What was the total last time?
AdmiralButtStuff
Ive seen as low as 200 and as high as 1000. My guess is it's very hard to pin down an exact number so. Whatever the number it's too many.
NeverDownvoteMelBrooks
350
MrTrevorBelmont
Hold on, are you an 8 story tall crustacean from the protozoic era?
mikeatike
Oddly specific number...
MacDaddySmitt
The man said TREE FIDDY
TacoPuncher
It was then I noticed the utility worker was a giant crustacean from the Paleolithic Era...
dailysuicidalthoughts
The heat is already killing inmates... almost no one deserves to die that way.
SpaceCoyoteRedux80
I'm imagining the chaos on the inside if the power goes out plus the heat...
iambrose
Just watched John Oliver. Knew it was bad from family stories, didn’t know it was THAT bad. (NY isn’t as hot as TX usually…)
SatanicSpirals
This was a facility in southern OH.
SatanicSpirals
I worked as a CO. It was over 105° in the pod I worked. They brought misters in, it was so humid that pools of water were forming in the >>
SatanicSpirals
Cells. Paper wouldn't crumple - it was like handling cloth. Ink wouldn't take to it. They forced the inmates to drag their mattresses to >>
SatanicSpirals
The gym across the complex. 150+ men to a basketball gym. Made me think of disaster conditions. Upper command stated they were ignoring >>
SatanicSpirals
Grievances, as minimum state and federal standards were met. To quote (concerning the grievance boxes): "we don't even have the keys."
AdmiralButtStuff
Not even almost no one. No one. No one deserves to die for corporate greed.
Gababu
i feel the sheer stupidity of the people outshines the coorporate greed here. Like you know... leopard will eat your face for real...
Bioman998
Or state neglect, for that matter.
NinjaGrizzlyBear
So the gorporate creed is nate steglect? Sorry I'm not funnier...
OperationRustysBlanket
What if it is the corporate greedsters? Only a thought experiment tho. That will never happen
Rathan5
I feel comfortable saying Mitch McConnel and probably whoever in Texas is responsible for that nightmare deserve it
LetumComplexo
Removed from power by whatever means necessary for their crimes against humanity? Yes. No one deserves to be tortured to death.
AdmiralButtStuff
Fair points.
Peachos
Texas has never been the crowning jewel of the states, but I'll be damned if they aren't competing w/Mississippi for 50th now...
zmanjace733
54th imho. The 4 potential states are better states at this point.
olhotdogfingers
Kentucky checking in. Do we have 51 states?
Peachos
Lol as it happens I had debated saying Kentucky instead but I didn't want the 'gImMe ZaUzE' crowd to argue which is which
DrShrimpPuertoRico85
As a Texan, it’s fucking embarrassing to be Texan sometimes here lately
newsguycraigevans
Lately?
dajex16
As a Californian living in Texas, yes.
HaloandQ
thesupersonic
Always has been
AlpacaFarms
What, only sometimes? I'd say more like most of the time. Maybe not always, but definitely most of the time.
CrispyTatorTot
Only sometimes? ?
SteelyDad
Sure... lately.
blaghart
It's always embarassing to consider yourself a Texan. The state's ideals are literally founded on "fuck you got mine"
Grenateh
Since at least the 90s* FTFY
7Daddies
As an El Pasoan, I claim New Mexico. We're on their grid after all.
ChromaticPassingTone
Indeed.
FlyingButtPliers
Hopefully the influx of people from California will stay to fix the vote and infrastructure
badbmc
Pffft. Imagine what it's like being "Florida Man".
sylkysmooth
All my life I've found Texas embarrassing to the union and a bad place to live, I'll never understand why anyone would want to live there.
ShutUpandTakeMyFunny
Lots.
Lethous
It’s pretty nuts. Even as a big states right guy there’s a point when policy isn’t effective or wise. Like power grid or weird zoning laws
DGNightwing95
MrBlueSands
That's a Quebec-sized correct, kemosabe.
DrShrimpPuertoRico85
That’s exactly how it feels reading the news
Pherlin
Sometimes?
FallingWithStyleSquirrel
Lately?
BloodGoddess
Just lately huh? Hahaha. *Cries in former-Texan*
BigKat77
Yep, agreed.
callmethelizardqueen
As an Arizonan, who operate on our own grid , Texas is DUMB.
NoCutsNoButsNoCoconuts
It used to be embarrassing. It still is but it used to, too.
scienz
Rest in peace - Mitch Hedberg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHLAe3RyMDk
aclencheddelirium
*all the time. See: Ted Cruz
TheRearNakedGuy
How many Republicans does it take to power on a lightbulb
unfriendlybastard
Sometimes? Lately?
bringbackfritoburrito
Welcome to the club! - Georgian
Bmxrider70763
Sometimes? You guys have your own dialect. Its like regular English except every word is the sound of a gun going off.
RoulettesPlay
That was kinda uncalled for level of aggressive >_>
NonstopRampage
YOU TAKE THAT BACK
KentuckyFriedForeskin
Yeah, just lately... definitely.
MisterPeachum
As opposed to your glorious history hahaha
FrogDelay
Sometimes?
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Fellow Texan here. Yeah...
BennyLarva
at least you have freedumb down there
SirPrized
Ditto. Make sure to vote
crookedhindlegoni
I was raised there, I don't miss it. Though I do miss the fucking food.
GreenAppel
Mesquite brisket omfg
Lethous
Best things about Texas are the instant turnaround for interstates, and the taco places.
totolapse
Tex Mex and the elaboration on BBQ Caribe are both good.
ShutUpandTakeMyFunny
We have Tex and we have mex. we have everything.
shyasen
Fucking Food; is that food like cuccumbers and corn on the cob?
garuffthehorse
Lately? /s
Bendmydickcuminhersnatch
Then stop voting for incompetent people to office.
BrdCdn
But muh guns. The Dems will take them
Heisanevilgenius
I can guess how this is going to go down. Texans refuse to follow instructions because "muh freedoms" and it overloads immediately
Grenateh
We literally generate over 10 times the capacity we need. This has nothing to do with overloading the grid.
Grenateh
ERCOT shuts plants down that don't need to be shut down, which is exactly what happened last time. So they can hike prices.
Heisanevilgenius
I guess I don't understand the issue then
Grenateh
Surprise but the biggest state in the country where people actually live, yea, guess what, we have enough electricity.
Harryteeters
As a non-Texan, I've always been embarrassed for Texans
youaresoverywrong
Same
topscreen
Usually not sometimes. And not specially lately.
DrShrimpPuertoRico85
I apologize for us rational thinking Texans. The other dum dums make us look bad
DrStudwell
I live in Kentucky and actively feel your plight
jpparkenbone
No need to apologize, you've been being the butt of everyone's jokes while being one of the few trying to fix things. Hold your head high.
DrShrimpPuertoRico85
Harryteeters
I hear ya. People cringe when I say I'm from Charlottesville. Their first thought is usually tiki torches and swastikas
Grizzlious
Nerfgunner
Moving from the north to south. Wtf is going on here. Overt discrimination. Plus guns "made n merica".
kaiserkevin
As a Californian I feel its my obligation to insult y'all solely to motivate you to unfuck your state out of spite, dummys.
Starfury42
As a fellow Californian - Texas needs to get their shit together and they say CA is fucked up? They do have good food there though.
Richter12x2
If we can get a couple more million of y'all to move here, we could finally go blue, AND you could afford a house.
vzero1
Couple million more of them move here, they'll be the only ones affording houses lol. Real estate keeps escalating (at least in DFW)
filben7
When was it not embarrassing?
DrShrimpPuertoRico85
Spurs championships
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Grenateh
Native Texans like to ignore that they hopped on the warmongering dick in the 2000s and that they've been fundamentalists since the 90s
Grenateh
Texas literally tried to ban gay marriage in the 90s while simultaneously making it legal to fuck animals.
Grenateh
I mean they tried to do both at the same time in the legislature.
Grenateh
Or you know there's the whole civil war. Or that Texans stole this country and then cried for help when they got their asses kicked.
Grenateh
Then rebelled against the government that helped them.