Snowpocolypse: rolling blackouts instituted

[pgardn]

CC's attempt to big time me on frozen wellheads and pipelines turned into DMC's days-long jihad to show you up, first about the freezing point of natural gas, then about anything at all, so long as it isn't a fact or the thread topic.

DMC is a solid grudgeposter and a master deflector.

Yep

And I am dutifully playing along.
Which I should probably stop.
This new age of blatant disinformation has pulled me in.
Self reflection says I should just read the articles that people put up because some of them are actually very good.

[Winehole23]

Yep

And I am dutifully playing along.
Which I should probably stop.
This new age of blatant disinformation has pulled me in.
Self reflection says I should just read the articles that people put up because some of them are actually very good.Eh, the internet is good for many things. Without gambling, porn and flame wars it wouldn't be nearly as popular.

[DMC]

Uhhhhh

You fucking asked me?
I have stated many times I do not consider myself and what I do somehow lofty and above others. I worked hard and I got lucky. that’s about it. And I enjoy my work.

seriously DMC

you accuse me of getting a degree online from Phoenix University, then call me out and ask what I’m doing with a particular technique, and then accuse me of showing off when I answer???? this will all be forgotten by the majority of the board so it’s just not that big a deal.

If You can just stops putting your foot in your mouth.
Then we can assume you have lied.

You use a different name.
Go ahead. Put up or shut up.
I helped figure out the finer points of the ELISA assay.
Look it up. Its quite important, just like you and your self importance.
:lol

[ChumpDumper]

https://media.giphy.com/media/bC9czlgCMtw4cj8RgH/giphy.gif

[DMC]

^ still trying :lol

[ChumpDumper]

https://64.media.tumblr.com/6e57e03c2add9fe1531cb95122c929a0/tumblr_p6n0klCa5W1qep9hto1_500.gif

[Winehole23]

former Texas Governor Ann Richards, who once, it is said, persuaded the ACLU to drop their objections to a nativity scene on the Capitol lawn by saying “Oh, let It be. It’s the closest that three wise men are ever gonna get to the Texas legislature.”

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[DarrinS]

My CPS bill is $250

My bills in peak summer are over $500

[Winehole23]

My CPS bill is $250

My bills in peak summer are over $500Lucky you. Did you know at 58 people (at last count) died because of the blackout?

That's 14.5 Benghazis.

[RandomGuy]

Lucky you. Did you know at 58 people (at last count) died because of the blackout?

That's 12.5 Benghazis.

Probably on the low end, I would imagine. Can't cut power to that many elderly and impoverished children and not have it hit three figures. :grim

Even so, that is OK with Darrin. He will keep voting for them.

In-fucking-credible how little they seem to care about accountability or basic humanity, IMO.

[Winehole23]

Patrick v. Abbott

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[Winehole23]

Last week, Patrick called for the resignation of the PUC chair at the time, DeAnn Walker — and hours later, she called it quits. Then, after a regulatory watchdog told the commission earlier this week that the Electric Reliability Council ofTexas had overcharged power providers by $16 billion during the storm, Patrick demanded the PUC retroactively reduce the costs — and Abbott deemed it an emergency item for the legislative session the next day.


The watchdog later revised its estimate of the overcharges to $4.2 billion, but that did not dampen Patrick’s wrath. The lieutenant governor’s focus on the PUC took its most dramatic turn yet Thursday evening when he showed up at a state Senate committee hearing to personally grill Arthur D’Andrea, the new commission chair tapped by Abbott — and the only member left

[boutons_deux]

CPS Energy files suit against ERCOT to protect customers from 'illegal' snowstorm prices


https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/CPS-Energy-sues-ERCOT-for-snowstorm-prices-16021593.php

[DarrinS]

Lucky you. Did you know at 58 people (at last count) died because of the blackout?

That's 14.5 Benghazis.


That's tragic. Gasoline saved my ass.

[boutons_deux]

Sky-high natural gas prices, other expenses left CPS Energy with $1 billion bill for winter storm

Among those bills are $800 million CPS owes natural gas suppliers that sold fuel at price hikes of up to 1,600% amid the storm, according to the daily.

CPS also owes another $200 million to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, the state's power grid operator, which ordered rolling blackouts to prevent the crash of its entire system.

https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2021/03/02/sky-high-natural-gas-prices-other-expenses-left-cps-energy-with-1-billion-bill-for-winter-storm

[pgardn]

:lol

You use a different name.
Go ahead. Put up or shut up.
I helped figure out the finer points of the ELISA assay.
Look it up. Its quite important, just like you and your self importance.


You looked something up that does not quite work out bud????
The Elisa assay as we use it in our work. Its a wide ranging technique.
Lets see if you will really will do something you dont want to:

On what thread and what post number did I make that post? (since I now have your attention enough to make you go back philo)
You took time to find it, and I know your proclivity to alter an argument through pure lying or disingenuous editing

Wont you help me/us?
Go ahead, give it up?
I would love to see it, and you would too I bet.

edit: perhaps a response to your articles in TIME magazine... bet so.

[DMC]

You use a different name.
Go ahead. Put up or shut up.
I helped figure out the finer points of the ELISA assay.
Look it up. Its quite important, just like you and your self importance.


You looked something up that does not quite work out bud????
The Elisa assay as we use it in our work. Its a wide ranging technique.
Lets see if you will really will do something you dont want to:

On what thread and what post number did I make that post? (since I now have your attention enough to make you go back philo)
You took time to find it, and I know your proclivity to alter an argument through pure lying or disingenuous editing

Wont you help me/us?
Go ahead, give it up?
I would love to see it, and you would too I bet.

edit: perhaps a response to your articles in TIME magazine... bet so.

Just click the link in the quotes :lol

I have stated many times I do not consider myself and what I do somehow lofty and above others. -you

I helped figure out the finer points of the ELISA assay. Look it up. Its quite important -you also

The enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was conceptualized at Stockholm University, Sweden, by Peter Perlmann and Eva Engvall in 1971.
Perlmann and Engvall along with Schuurs and van Weemen received the German scientific award of the “Biochemische Analytik” in 1976 for this invention. -Wiki

[pgardn]

Just click the link in the quotes :lol

I have stated many times I do not consider myself and what I do somehow lofty and above others. -you

I helped figure out the finer points of the ELISA assay. Look it up. Its quite important -you also

The enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was conceptualized at Stockholm University, Sweden, by Peter Perlmann and Eva Engvall in 1971.
Perlmann and Engvall along with Schuurs and van Weemen received the German scientific award of the “Biochemische Analytik” in 1976 for this invention. -Wiki

The ELISA assay is STILL used fckn idiot or did you not know this? Its amazing that techniques get better with some time... eh?
You probably still think Watson and Crick are still the only people working with DNA and its all clear now?
Science will figure out everything! So yes I work with this and other techniques to hook stuff to proteins as I have already stated.

So we got you claiming:

1. Your are the expert in Vacuums and you are your own boss. So no big industries need THE expert in Vacuums? You should be hired and rich.
2. You are a PHD head hunter for Universities, and the candidates dont know anything near what you know. They are useless.
3. You have articleS published and apparently in TIME magazine.

1. So being an expert in Vacuums, you should be front and center of a ton of research. Name the projects you have worked on.
2. What universities did you look for PHD students IN SCIENCE? (god forbid) And what area of research were your many PHD finds associated with?
3. What are the various subjects of your published articles with TIME magazine. What area of expertise do you have so that TIME would publish and edit your article(s) and you protested the edits. All you need to do is give the basics as I have done.

But you dont brag?
you, the Renaissance man, who is into so many different fields, successful, and smarter than the rest, you dont brag...
You keep it all to yourself. You are the consummate professional. You reveal nothing, the humble all knowing and doing, DMC

Look forward to your short concise answers.
Go.
And keep going.

[DMC]

The ELISA assay is STILL used fckn idiot or did you not know this? Its amazing that techniques get better with some time... eh?
You probably still think Watson and Crick are still the only people working with DNA and its all clear now?
Science will figure out everything! So yes I work with this and other techniques to hook stuff to proteins as I have already stated.

So we got you claiming:

1. Your are the expert in Vacuums and you are your own boss. So no big industries need THE expert in Vacuums? You should be hired and rich.
2. You are a PHD head hunter for Universities, and the candidates dont know anything near what you know. They are useless.
3. You have articleS published and apparently in TIME magazine.

1. So being an expert in Vacuums, you should be front and center of a ton of research. Name the projects you have worked on.
2. What universities did you look for PHD students IN SCIENCE? (god forbid) And what area of research were your many PHD finds associated with?
3. What are the various subjects of your published articles with TIME magazine. What area of expertise do you have so that TIME would publish and edit your article(s) and you protested the edits. All you need to do is give the basics as I have done.

But you dont brag?
you, the Renaissance man, who is into so many different fields, successful, and smarter than the rest, you dont brag...
You keep it all to yourself. You are the consummate professional. You reveal nothing, the humble all knowing and doing, DMC

Look forward to your short concise answers.
Go.
And keep going.

cool meltdown

I don't talk about my work.

[pgardn]

cool meltdown

I don't talk about my work.

Oh you dont.

1. Expert in Vacuums
2. Head hunter for PHDs in Science for Universities.
3. Writer for TIME magazine.

You dont talk about your work?
But you write about it on a sports board.
And when you get called on it, you...

So your are not an expert in Vacuums.
You are not a head hunter for PHD students.
And you did not write and get an article published in TIME magazine while upset about the editing.

Correct?

[pgardn]

And sorry I gave you such an incredible in depth look into my work.
Maybe you could find many more people who I could work with given all the info I have rained down on you?

[ChumpDumper]

cool meltdown

I don't talk about my work.:lmao of course you do

You also read this post.

[SnakeBoy]

I created plasma by microwaving a grape

wasn't my idea tho


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwTjsRt0Fzo

[pgardn]

I created plasma by microwaving a grape

wasn't my idea tho


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwTjsRt0Fzo

So You got it published in TIME magazine, but to your dismay... heavily edited.
And the PHD students that you picked out to help in this difficult task... amazing finds, you know your people.

[DMC]

Oh you dont.

1. Expert in Vacuums
2. Head hunter for PHDs in Science for Universities.
3. Writer for TIME magazine.

You dont talk about your work?
But you write about it on a sports board.
And when you get called on it, you...

So your are not an expert in Vacuums.
You are not a head hunter for PHD students.
And you did not write and get an article published in TIME magazine while upset about the editing.

Correct?

You don't know what I do for work. That's evidence enough that i don't talk about it. Never claimed to be a headhunter, that's your narrative. I wasn't lying about Time Magazine or Popular Science.

No, you aren't correct. Keep whiffing though. :lol

[DMC]

And sorry I gave you such an incredible in depth look into my work.
Maybe you could find many more people who I could work with given all the info I have rained down on you?

Not interested in you. I just like fucking with you and watching you spin out of control :lol

[Winehole23]

(Not interested, but compulsively replies.)

[pgardn]

You don't know what I do for work. That's evidence enough that i don't talk about it. Never claimed to be a headhunter, that's your narrative. I wasn't lying about Time Magazine or Popular Science.

No, you aren't correct. Keep whiffing though. :lol

so you lied about your work.
And your lying cause me to whiff.

K

that’s how old man get his jollies.

You would do much better on here with your Ws if you could actually tell the truth. You have a lot of professions to keep track of so it must be difficult.

[Winehole23]

so you lied about your work.
And your lying cause me to whiff.

K

that’s how old man get his jollies.

You would do much better on here with your Ws if you could actually tell the truth. You have a lot of professions to keep track of so it must be difficult.Can't help himself under cover of anonymity, when deflection and distortion don't work, he lies and cheats.

[pgardn]

But you don’t talk about your work.

You publish articles in Time magazine and now Popular Science (yeah, it’s a wonder you got edited), you are an EXPERT in Vaccums, you at least ferry PHD students around and they don’t know shit compared to you.

Keep going.

And I am happy to hear that you don’t care enough about me to try and look me up on Facebook or check the sites emails like you have done with others.

and then you make fun of the wild cobra... yet you triangulate for posters background on this site.

Hypocrisy and lies.

[pgardn]

Can't help himself under cover of anonymity, when deflection and distortion don't work, he lies and cheats.

He asks about my work, I give a cursory explanation, and then it’s a “aha I got you by lying about what I do”

And then, “I don’t care about what you do and you don’t know what I do”
Except he is

1 an expert in vacuums (Hoover models?)
2 Writer for popular science and time magazine
3 assesses PhD students in science for their competence

and there is lots more. he is a renaissance man.

[DMC]

so you lied about your work.
And your lying cause me to whiff.

K

that’s how old man get his jollies.

You would do much better on here with your Ws if you could actually tell the truth. You have a lot of professions to keep track of so it must be difficult.

Moar narrative. It's fun watching you run around with your hair on fire.

[DMC]

But you don’t talk about your work.

You publish articles in Time magazine and now Popular Science (yeah, it’s a wonder you got edited), you are an EXPERT in Vaccums, you at least ferry PHD students around and they don’t know shit compared to you.

Keep going.

And I am happy to hear that you don’t care enough about me to try and look me up on Facebook or check the sites emails like you have done with others.

and then you make fun of the wild cobra... yet you triangulate for posters background on this site.

Hypocrisy and lies.

Now you've reduced "headhunter" to "ferrying". Who's lying again?

It's obvious you're rattled. You should take a shit break and post another novel.

[Winehole23]

^^^ does not care about pgardn

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

Abbott to overcharged Texans: eat shit

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[Winehole23]

Testimony on Thursday in the House and Senate revealed the price of potential “overcharges” was nowhere near the $16 billion (https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-16-billion-in-texas-power-overcharges-market-monitor-now-pins-figure-at-3-billion-11615479832) figure that Patrick used to rally most of the Senate against the PUC earlier in the week. Notably absent from the list of those senators criticizing the PUC was Business and Commerce Committee Chairman Kelly Hancock.

Patrick, perhaps unsatisfied with the performance of the senators, took a seat during this week’s hearing of the Senate Jurisprudence Committee and questioned PUC Chairman Arthur D’Andrea at length. During that exchange, Patrick asked D’Andrea whether he trusted the legal opinion of an economist, spoke in threatening tones about whether the governor’s appointee could be trusted, and asked the chairman why the commission didn’t just “let the market be the market?”

“The market was killing people. That’s why,” D’Andrea answered. “The market was killing people in their homes.”

[DMC]

^^^ does not care about pgardn

Care about? Sure. Interested in? no.

[Winehole23]

Care about? Sure. Interested in? no.

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQFfyMxkXysyctGWLI5w9v-L0l4U4StchEZTQ&usqp=CAU

[DMC]

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQFfyMxkXysyctGWLI5w9v-L0l4U4StchEZTQ&usqp=CAU
You've nary room to harp on pedantry.

[Winehole23]

one good turn deserves another

[pgardn]

Now you've reduced "headhunter" to "ferrying". Who's lying again?

It's obvious you're rattled. You should take a shit break and post another novel.

yeah I’m in shambles.

Oh but it’s not ferrying or headhunting but this is what you stated.
Your superiority to PhD students in science. And yes you were questioning them.

You can’t keep up with your own characters.
Do you need to keep a log of what you are and do while addressing different posters so there is some consistency? I would think a published writer for Time and Popular Science would think through their fiction.

[pgardn]

You've nary room to harp on pedantry.

Straight from Thread. DMCopyThatPhrase
The plagiarizing master of his craft, whatever craft is convenient at the time.

[DMC]

yeah I’m in shambles.

Oh but it’s not ferrying or headhunting but this is what you stated.
Your superiority to PhD students in science. And yes you were questioning them.

You can’t keep up with your own characters.
Do you need to keep a log of what you are and do while addressing different posters so there is some consistency? I would think a published writer for Time and Popular Science would think through their fiction.

Show the quote else you're narrating.

[DMC]

one good turn deserves another

Between my legs lays your mother.

[Cuppycake Gumdrop]

https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/8c1/4e1/05a166cc4c516b386f10ad11ec3120f150-15-joker.rhorizontal.w700.jpg

[Winehole23]

Between my legs lays your mother.


Man, that snap's older than Yo grandma’s kick-start vibrator.

[DMC]

It's old for sure but comes naturally

[pgardn]

Show the quote else you're narrating.

You know what I am talking about.
Otherwise you would say it is complete nonsense.
But you wont, because its not.

Dont play games old man.
Im also not going to fetch an old update you have given the board while traveling and enjoying a drink out by the pool at the hotel.
"But I dont discuss my business"

Bullshit.

"Im above all this nonsense of discussing my many accomplishments"

fkn hypocrite. You ASK me what I did. And then play it out to be breakthroughs on a technique in the 70s, like it just sits there unchanged into 2020... And Just because you have gotten your ass handed to you multiple times concerning topics that you have ventured into that you just dont know or are completely wrong. And then you have the gall to use me as some sort of expert testimony when arguing with others...

No shame.

[DMC]

You know what I am talking about.
Otherwise you would say it is complete nonsense.
But you wont, because its not.

Dont play games old man.
Im also not going to fetch an old update you have given the board while traveling and enjoying a drink out by the pool at the hotel.
"But I dont discuss my business"

Bullshit.

"Im above all this nonsense of discussing my many accomplishments"

fkn hypocrite. You ASK me what I did. And then play it out to be breakthroughs on a technique in the 70s, like it just sits there unchanged into 2020... And Just because you have gotten your ass handed to you multiple times concerning topics that you have ventured into that you just dont know or are completely wrong. And then you have the gall to use me as some sort of expert testimony when arguing with others...

No shame.

:lol Just show the quote. Would it kill you to back up your claims?

[pgardn]

:lol Just show the quote. Would it kill you to back up your claims?

Your hesitancy to flat out deny it as pure fantasy basically says it all.
No. Too much time.
You and I both know.

Thats all that matters to me.
You can play to the board.

I know your are a disingenuous, lying old man.

Just flat out deny it. Go all the way this time, you have before.
Go ahead.

[DMC]

You use a different name.
Go ahead. Put up or shut up.
I helped figure out the finer points of the ELISA assay.
Look it up. Its quite important, just like you and your self importance.


You looked something up that does not quite work out bud????
The Elisa assay as we use it in our work. Its a wide ranging technique.
Lets see if you will really will do something you dont want to:

On what thread and what post number did I make that post? (since I now have your attention enough to make you go back philo)
You took time to find it, and I know your proclivity to alter an argument through pure lying or disingenuous editing

Wont you help me/us?
Go ahead, give it up?
I would love to see it, and you would too I bet.

edit: perhaps a response to your articles in TIME magazine... bet so.


Your hesitancy to flat out deny it as pure fantasy basically says it all.
No. Too much time.
You and I both know.

Thats all that matters to me.
You can play to the board.

I know your are a disingenuous, lying old man.

Just flat out deny it. Go all the way this time, you have before.
Go ahead.

Now now, you can't have your cake and have eaten it too.

[pgardn]

Your hesitancy to flat out deny it as pure fantasy basically says it all.
No. Too much time.
You and I both know.

Thats all that matters to me.
You can play to the board.

I know your are a disingenuous, lying old man.

Just flat out deny it. Go all the way this time, you have before.
Go ahead.

Just deny you ever talked about "interviewing" PHD students in science and finding them lacking based on your assessment.

Then I might look.
You wont deny it because you did do this.

Just like you said you were an expert in Vacuums and were your own employer.
And that you had published articles in TIME and Popular Science (again this makes me gag).
And you DONT talk about your work ^^^^^ sure thing...

Go ahead, deny.

[DMC]

Just deny you ever talked about "interviewing" PHD students in science and finding them lacking based on your assessment.

Then I might look.
You wont deny it because you did do this.

Just like you said you were an expert in Vacuums and were your own employer.
And that you had published articles in TIME and Popular Science (again this makes me gag).
And you DONT talk about your work ^^^^^ sure thing...

Go ahead, deny.

1. I've interviewed plenty PhDs. What's the big deal? That doesn't make me a headhunter unless you don't understand the term "headhunter".

head·hunt·er
/ˈhedˌhən(t)ər/
Learn to pronounce
noun
a person who identifies and approaches suitable candidates employed elsewhere to fill business positions.
"a headhunter offering you a wonderful new position at a higher salary"

2. Students aren't employed elsewhere. People who put in resumes or apply for internships aren't being recruited by headhunters. I was interviewing them for a role in a company I was working for then.

3. That's not my job now.

4. I am an industry recognized high vacuum expert. (not vacuums).

5. I have been published in both Time magazine and Popular Science.

6. I don't talk about what I do now (in detail) online. It's how I earn a living, not going to give it away. There are plenty here (including you) who have the same approach.

So chop chop on the quote.

[pgardn]

1. I've interviewed plenty PhDs. What's the big deal? That doesn't make me a headhunter unless you don't understand the term "headhunter".

head·hunt·er
/ˈhedˌhən(t)ər/
Learn to pronounce
noun
a person who identifies and approaches suitable candidates employed elsewhere to fill business positions.
"a headhunter offering you a wonderful new position at a higher salary"

2. Students aren't employed elsewhere. People who put in resumes or apply for internships aren't being recruited by headhunters. I was interviewing them for a role in a company I was working for then.

3. That's not my job now.

4. I am an industry recognized high vacuum expert. (not vacuums).

5. I have been published in both Time magazine and Popular Science.

6. I don't talk about what I do now (in detail) online. It's how I earn a living, not going to give it away. There are plenty here (including you) who have the same approach.

So chop chop on the quote.

So now you go anal to reestablish credibility.
Headhunter would work fine if you were involved with a school looking for post docs in a certain area.
Vacuum(s) ... oh the horror.

The machine vs. instrument thing...

I don’t talk in detail because it would fall on deaf ears and bore the crap out of people who don’t give a shit (as it should)
And I am far from special. Take anyone who got the parenting and had some money and was used to hard work and they could do what I do (Edit: have a bit of over curiosity) I got put in a good situation and got LUCKY with the people I associated with. I actually appreciate my situation. I don’t go through stories of being dirt poor and trudging through the snow... AND: Being white and male in the US was part of the luck. I also get this... Being around educated white males who had/ have wide avenues. Hopefully most posters just skip this selfish bull crap.

[boutons_deux]

Small farmers are struggling after the Texas big freeze

Small, diversified farmers are bearing the brunt of a lack of state support

"The thing with the freeze is, it wasn't just a weather event. It was a total system collapse,"

the failure of the state's power grid caused millions in damages for farmers across the state.

more than half of the region's grapefruits and nearly all of the Valencia oranges have been lost, and

citrus farmers in the region will also likely have no crop (https://bitli.pro/11u61_3e254b25) for next year.

Livestock losses were also widespread, and could reach $228 million in costs and lost income (https://today.tamu.edu/2021/03/02/agricultural-losses-from-winter-storm-exceed-600-million/) for farmers and ranchers as herds and flocks died in the freeze and feed costs skyrocket.

for small and diversified farmers, the losses are especially significant and will continue for months to come.

"This frost coming through has basically killed all mature vegetables and wiped me out of all saleable crops.

"There are definitely two–three months of investment in plants, tending things, weeding things, growing things . . . that's just gone,"

these crop losses will drive up food costs and even cause shortages at food banks when needs are high.

The crop loss is causing the state's food banks to rethink their sourcing, ramping up their purchasing (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/02/26/texas-storm-produce-shortage/) from out-of-state, which drives costs up.

https://www.salon.com/2021/03/15/small-farmers-are-struggling-after-the-texas-big-freeze_partner/

Ain't unregulated, free market, screw-everybody Capitalism great?

The shittiest possible product for the highest possible price, TX overpaid $28B to unregulated electricity system vs regulated.

[DMC]

So now you go anal to reestablish credibility.
Headhunter would work fine if you were involved with a school looking for post docs in a certain area.
Vacuum(s) ... oh the horror.

The machine vs. instrument thing...

I don’t talk in detail because it would fall on deaf ears and bore the crap out of people who don’t give a shit (as it should)
And I am far from special. Take anyone who got the parenting and had some money and was used to hard work and they could do what I do (Edit: have a bit of over curiosity) I got put in a good situation and got LUCKY with the people I associated with. I actually appreciate my situation. I don’t go through stories of being dirt poor and trudging through the snow... AND: Being white and male in the US was part of the luck. I also get this... Being around educated white males who had/ have wide avenues. Hopefully most posters just skip this selfish bull crap.

Still waiting for the quote. The gratuitous yapping not needed.

[ChumpDumper]

Small farmers are struggling after the Texas big freeze

Small, diversified farmers are bearing the brunt of a lack of state support

"The thing with the freeze is, it wasn't just a weather event. It was a total system collapse,"

the failure of the state's power grid caused millions in damages for farmers across the state.

more than half of the region's grapefruits and nearly all of the Valencia oranges have been lost, and

citrus farmers in the region will also likely have no crop (https://bitli.pro/11u61_3e254b25) for next year.

Livestock losses were also widespread, and could reach $228 million in costs and lost income (https://today.tamu.edu/2021/03/02/agricultural-losses-from-winter-storm-exceed-600-million/) for farmers and ranchers as herds and flocks died in the freeze and feed costs skyrocket.

for small and diversified farmers, the losses are especially significant and will continue for months to come.

"This frost coming through has basically killed all mature vegetables and wiped me out of all saleable crops.

"There are definitely two–three months of investment in plants, tending things, weeding things, growing things . . . that's just gone,"

these crop losses will drive up food costs and even cause shortages at food banks when needs are high.

The crop loss is causing the state's food banks to rethink their sourcing, ramping up their purchasing (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/02/26/texas-storm-produce-shortage/) from out-of-state, which drives costs up.

https://www.salon.com/2021/03/15/small-farmers-are-struggling-after-the-texas-big-freeze_partner/

Ain't unregulated, free market, screw-everybody Capitalism great?

The shittiest possible product for the highest possible price, TX overpaid $28B to unregulated electricity system vs regulated.



My peach tree is blossoming, so according to Darrin there is no agriculture problem in Texas.

[boutons_deux]

Texas Blackouts Are the Outcome of Systems for Private Gains at Public Expense

Our state is a cautionary tale about power generation that’s privatized and poorly regulated.

The big companies who run so much of the grid in Texas failed to winterize their infrastructure, leading to massive blackouts and tremendous suffering.

We knew this could happen, because it already did.

These same failures wreaked havoc after a winter storm back in 2011 (https://news.yahoo.com/extreme-cold-events-1989-2011-051906264.html), but politicians — often with industry donations in their pockets (https://apnews.com/article/business-greg-abbott-energy-industry-weather-austin-e2fe851121e86c7399c6a01e051a8079) — failed to fix the problem.

It was the corporations, utilities, and regulators who failed.

But it’s ordinary folks who bore the brunt of losing power who are being forced to pay — literally.

Why are they doing this? Because they can.

Our deregulated, privatized utilities in Texas are designed for private gain at public expense.

https://truthout.org/articles/texas-blackouts-are-the-outcome-of-systems-for-private-gains-at-public-expense/

Pro-business ALWAYS means fuck the customer, patient, employee, etc

[spurraider21]

It's old for sure but comes naturally
enough penis talk

[DMC]

enough penis talk

Hey! Tough crowd

[pgardn]

Still waiting for the quote. The gratuitous yapping not needed.

You want me to tell you what yapping is not needed expert and published author?
You said it. You have interviewed PHD candidates. My "guess" as to why was completely understandable if you understand what was already written. As far as I am concerned its up to me to believe you or not. Given your history... yeah...

I dont look up stupid details like you do. I remember them and thats why you actually admitted to it while refusing to talk about your work after you insist I talk about mine.

Just shut up already.
Or if you really dont believe me I can give you tons of crap about proteins and attaching crap to them you cannot read by googling; but you will understand I actually do know wtf I am talking about. You dont want this pissing match because you already have tried it. Or maybe you do. But then you would have to talk about your work... and you dont do that.

[SpursforSix]

It's old for sure but comes naturally

Bend over, I'll fucking show you something old that comes naturally.

[DMC]

You want me to tell you what yapping is not needed expert and published author?
You said it. You have interviewed PHD candidates. My "guess" as to why was completely understandable if you understand what was already written. As far as I am concerned its up to me to believe you or not. Given your history... yeah...

I dont look up stupid details like you do. I remember them and thats why you actually admitted to it while refusing to talk about your work after you insist I talk about mine.

Just shut up already.
Or if you really dont believe me I can give you tons of crap about proteins and attaching crap to them you cannot read by googling; but you will understand I actually do know wtf I am talking about. You dont want this pissing match because you already have tried it. Or maybe you do. But then you would have to talk about your work... and you dont do that.


Still waiting for the quote. The gratuitous yapping not needed.

[pgardn]

Then stop the expertise in yapping.

[DMC]

:lol spent years filing false claims
:lol given plenty rope/hangs himself in front of the forum
:lol cannot back up anything he's said

[pgardn]

:lol spent years filing false claims
:lol given plenty rope/hangs himself in front of the forum
:lol cannot back up anything he's said

Oh I did....

We got an expert Vacuum guy writing articles for big publications while berating PHD students he interviews and I got to back up claims...

Just find a field to go lay down in mouth down.
Backing up claims... "I dont give specifics about my work, top secret stuff this vacuuming"
Popular Science... sure thing. You wrote a letter to the editor concerning punctuation.

I need more emoticons, spare some for this post.

[DMC]

Still yapping

[pgardn]

Still yapping

Yapped your yapping Dr. Vacuum.

[DMC]

Yapped your yapping Dr. Vacuum.

At least you dropped the "s".

[Winehole23]

Ken Paxton gets Griddy customers off he hook


Griddy Energy customers are off the hook for their outrageous electric bills for February, according to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

The attorney general’s office sued Griddy under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act on behalf of 24,000 customers who have a cumulative $29.1 million in unpaid electric bills from the week of freezing temperatures in Texas last month.

Paxton’s office also said it’s working with Griddy to get some “relief” for people who have already paid their bills, some of which were several thousand dollars each.

“Griddy and my office are engaged in ongoing good faith negotiations to attempt to address additional relief for those Griddy customers who have already paid their storm-related energy bills,” Paxton said in a statement.
https://www.dallasnews.com/business/energy/2021/03/16/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-wipes-out-griddy-customers-electric-bills-totaling-291-million/

[Winehole23]

Dan Patrick feuds with Speaker Phelan, pushes clawback bill in TX Senate:


At Patrick’s behest, the Senate scrambled Monday to pass Senate Bill 2142, which would force Texas’ energy grid operator, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, to claw back about $4.2 billion in charges after an independent market monitor found ERCOT artificially inflated prices and overbilled energy companies by $16 billion.


While Patrick has repeatedly characterized those billions of dollars in charges as a mistake, House Speaker Dade Phelan (https://www.texastribune.org/directory/dade-phelan/), R-Beaumont, said in a statement earlier Tuesday (https://twitter.com/DadePhelan/status/1371917149074288640/photo/1) that there was “no error” in the operator's pricing and instead called it “a proactive decision.” Phelan also expressed skepticism with reversing such charges and said doing so “based on disagreement with PUC and ERCOT’s management decisions is an extraordinary government intervention into the free market.”


“ERCOT and PUC failed Texas repeatedly during this tragic event, but the decisions made on pricing were made based on ensuring the reliability of the grid,” Phelan said. “I believe that these decisions saved lives.”
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/03/16/ercot-overbilling-legislature/

[Winehole23]

Abbott reverses and asks the PUC chairman to resign, which he promptly did.

Too chummy with the companies he regulated.


Update: On Tuesday night, PUC chairman Arthur D’Andrea, who was appointed chairman by Governor Greg Abbott less than two weeks ago, has resigned. In a statement, Abbott said, “Tonight, I asked for and accepted the resignation of PUC Commissioner Arthur D’Andrea. I will be naming a replacement in the coming days who will have the responsibility of charting a new and fresh course for the agency. Texans deserve to have trust and confidence in the Public Utility Commission, and this action is one of many steps that will be taken to achieve that goal.”

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/wall-street-profited-off-texas-blackouts/

[Winehole23]

Texas Monthly has obtained a recording of a 48-minute call on March 9 in which Texas Public Utility Commission chairman Arthur D’Andrea discussed the fallout from the February power crisis with investors. During that call, which was hosted by Bank of America Securities and closed to the public and news media, D’Andrea took pains to ease investors’ concerns that electricity trades, transacted at the highest prices the market allows, might be reversed, potentially costing trading firms and publicly traded generating companies millions of dollars.

“I apologize for the uncertainty,” D’Andrea said, promising to put “the weight of the commission” behind efforts to keep billions of dollars from being returned to utilities that were forced—thanks to decisions by the PUC—to buy power at sky-high prices, even after the worst of the blackout had passed.

Billed as “Learning the Texas Two Step: A Chat with the PUCT,” the call originally was scheduled for early February but was postponed until after the winter storm. The conversation shows a coziness between a top Texas regulator and some of the biggest players in the electricity market at a time when the PUC’s oversight is under fire from lawmakers. At one point, during a discussion about whether natural gas, which also saw huge price spikes during the crisis, would be “repriced,” D’Andrea said no, adding that most legislators understand that gas is priced by global markets and is out of their purview. “But I’ll let you know if I hear anything crazy on it,” D’Andrea said.

[Winehole23]

The PUC mandated that the $9,000 prices stay in effect for 32 hours after the market had returned to normal, (https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/blackout-crisis-texans-electric-bills/) a move that has angered many municipal utilities and retail electricity providers. Those providers are now struggling with huge bills that they say are unjustified and could push them into bankruptcy, while potentially eventually driving up bills for millions of residential and commercial consumers in Texas. The independent market monitor for ERCOT, the grid operator overseen by the PUC, has called the prices artificially inflated and recommended that billions be returned to purchasers.

[ChumpDumper]

Abbott reverses and asks the PUC chairman to resign, which he promptly did.

Too chummy with the companies he regulated.



https://www.texasmonthly.com/news/wall-street-profited-off-texas-blackouts/

https://i.imgflip.com/520ahq.jpg

[pgardn]

What a mess.

We appreciate business in Texas.
We are a business friendly State.
Maybe if Bloomberg had a giant slice of this investment windfall the red team might find a way to solve the complexity they created.

[boutons_deux]

The entire PUC board has resigned now


https://www.texastribune.org/2021/03/16/texas-public-utilty-commission-resignation/

[Winehole23]

Texas Lege: fuck you, Texas

Texas House rejects bill to reprice electricity sold during winter storm (https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Texas-House-kills-bill-that-would-have-repriced-16030647.php)
(https://www.houstonchronicle.com/author/taylor-goldenstein/)

[boutons_deux]

Texas Lege: fuck you, Texas

Texas House rejects bill to reprice electricity sold during winter stor (https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Texas-House-kills-bill-that-would-have-repriced-16030647.php)

(https://www.houstonchronicle.com/author/taylor-goldenstein/)


Billionaires set up PUC/ERCOT/electric market to enrich themselves in disasters. They created the disaster and the pocketed $Bs, just as intended.

Even without the Feb disaster, Texans paid $28B more for the unregulated electricity market vs regulated market, and they got flaky pile of shit.

[DMC]

Risk free ventures sounds appealing. Where do I sign up?

[Winehole23]

Risk free ventures sounds appealing. Where do I sign up?a two or three inches below your belt buckle

[pgardn]

Texas Lege: fuck you, Texas

Texas House rejects bill to reprice electricity sold during winter storm (https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Texas-House-kills-bill-that-would-have-repriced-16030647.php)

Dont mess with Texas.
Just fck us in the ass.


(https://www.houstonchronicle.com/author/taylor-goldenstein/)

[DMC]

a two or three inches below your belt buckle

So you take the cheap electricity but cry when the pendulum swings the opposite way.

[Winehole23]

So you take the cheap electricity but cry when the pendulum swings the opposite way.It's a bit late to be complaining about that, haven't you read through the thread?

Ken Paxton already used a provision of the TX deceptive trade practices act to let Griddy customers off the hook.

[Winehole23]

The rest of Texas didn't agree to pay spot rates, that was imposed on us by ERCOT.

[Winehole23]

lol DMC blowing the regulators :lol

[DMC]

It's a bit late to be complaining about that, haven't you read through the thread?

Ken Paxton already used a provision of the TX deceptive trade practices act to let Griddy customers off the hook.

Of course, but being off the hook doesn't change the fact that safety nets are almost a requirement now. Sure we want wholesale power... damn right, until wholesale is too expensive then no.. don't charge for that.

[DMC]

The rest of Texas didn't agree to pay spot rates, that was imposed on us by ERCOT.

Was never charged a spot rate.

:lol Winehole lonely as fuck, on a posting binge.

[Winehole23]

Was never charged a spot rate.

:lol Winehole lonely as fuck, on a posting binge.Lonely DMC, attached to my ankle late at night.

[boutons_deux]

Ousted Public Utility Commission chairman admits he favors helping investors,

not the public

https://link.dallasnews.com/lt.php?i=15369A15919A15A671446









That's exactly why he was put in that position by the shitbag Repugs, pro-Capitalism, anti-non-Capitalists (suckers)

Texans overpaid $28B for deregulated vs regulated electricity. fuckin thievery

[Winehole23]

Power to at least 150 gas production sites in the Permian Basin was cut off because companies failed to fill out a form designating their operations as critical infrastructure.


Oncor scrambled to flip power on to more than 150 gas facilities in the Permian Basin after receiving urgent calls from the Public Utility Commission that gas providers needed their power restored, said Allen Nye, chief executive of Texas’s largest electricity delivery company.


The problem, Morgan and Nye said, was that unlike hospitals, 911 call centers and fire stations, many gas production plants had never been identified as “critical” facilities, a designation that could have shielded them from outages during emergencies.


Yet the process of getting a facility designated as critical infrastructure couldn’t be easier. The owner simply needs to fill out the two-page form (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20517043-ercot-application-for-critical-load-designation-feb-2021-and-earlier) each year and turn it in to the local utility company.


A full assessment of how big a role electric power cut to gas facilities played in the grid outages is likely months away. Yet how some of Texas’s largest and most sophisticated energy companies, depended upon by nearly every resident and business, failed to complete a two-minute paperwork chore remains one of the most baffling mysteries of last month’s deadly outages.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Simple-paperwork-blunder-Texans-cold-winter-storm-16032163.php

[Winehole23]

predictably, this was a problem identified after the 2011 winter storm outages.

it would have cost nothing to fix.


Deepening the puzzle is that the same problem was identified during the state’s last major freeze, in 2011. A federal after-incident report concluded that just under a third of production losses in the Permian and Fort Worth areas were caused by outages, mostly power cut to electric pumps on gathering lines at the wellheads. It advised gas and electric companies to close the communication gap so the same thing didn’t happen during the next emergency.


“Gas producers, processors, pipelines, storage providers, and LDCs should identify portions of their systems that are essential to the ongoing delivery of significant volumes of gas, and which are dependent upon purchased power to function reliably under emergency conditions,” it recommended.

[Winehole23]

Phelan and Abbott expect Texas taxpayers to cover the costs of weatherizing power plants to make sure this doesn’t happen again. They want to tap the state’s Rainy Day Fund because they think it is somehow appropriate to spend the taxpayers’ savings on things corporations should do independently.

Remember, these are the same people who opposed spending Rainy Day money on schools or health care.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/columnists/tomlinson/article/Texas-government-making-no-real-changes-to-16037054.php

[Winehole23]

As for getting to the bottom of how the grid collapsed, we will probably never know. Dozens of journalists, including myself, have asked the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to turn over documents that could reveal what happened. But the electric companies have asked Paxton to declare all of the materials confidential, citing an exemption from disclosing proprietary information.

D’Andrea, meanwhile, has appointed an insider as director of accountability at ERCOT. Adrianne Brandt (https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/energy/article/PUC-names-new-director-of-ERCOT-16018667.php)is a former adviser to the PUC chair and has spent her career at Texas utilities, creating doubts about what new insights she will bring.

Less than a month after the Texas Blackout, our leaders are already sidestepping and covering up. Once again, corporations get bailed out and consumers remain poorly served.

[pgardn]

So you take the cheap electricity but cry when the pendulum swings the opposite way.

The pendulum...

So pendulums know how to cheat and don’t give a fck about “customers”
bunch of BS with your horrible analogies.

[pgardn]

Was never charged a spot rate.

:lol Winehole lonely as fuck, on a posting binge.

Labels posters as lonely...
An insight from an old crusty fck.

[boutons_deux]

"cheap electricity"

a regulated market would have saved consumers $28B. Cheap? :lol

ERCOT's system is designed, by the Capitalists, to extract maximum $Bs from consumers,

aka "shittiest possible product for highest possible price"

then really "deregulated-free-market" fuck them when supply/demand are badly mismatched,

eg, Feb '21's Big Freeze when under-built (saving Capitalists' $$$), under-margined ( saving Capitalists' $$$) extractive electricity system broke.

[pgardn]

Weatherizing is a completely exotic cost never to be heard of with our rapidly shifting climates.
gtfoh... We are business friendly, we fck customers over. Welcome to Texas.

[Winehole23]

Labels posters as lonely...
And insight from an old crusty fck.DMC as /clarivoyant/empath is one of his least credible roles on this board.

[Winehole23]

Weatherizing is a completely exotic cost never to be heard of with our rapidly shifting climates.
gtfoh... We are business friendly, we fck customers over. Welcome to Texas.that is essentially the meaning of "pro-business", plus tax favoritism and regulatory capture.

[DMC]

The pendulum...

So pendulums know how to cheat and don’t give a fck about “customers”
bunch of BS with your horrible analogies.

There wasn't an analogy in the response. That's called an idiom or figure of speech.

[DMC]

Labels posters as lonely...
An insight from an old crusty fck.

You calling others old is amusing, moonlighter. What would your supernatural sky daddy think?

[boutons_deux]

Paperwork failures worsened Texas blackouts —

sparking mid-storm scramble to restore critical fuel supply

Oncor, which delivers power to the Permian Basin — the state's most productive oil and natural gas basin —

had unwittingly shut off some of the state's power supply when it followed orders to begin the outages.

Oncor and other utilities didn't have good lists of what they should consider critical infrastructure, including natural gas facilities —

simply because natural gas companies failed to fill out a form or didn't know the form existed, :lol

“I was surprised at the amount of [critical] infrastructure that hadn't been identified,"

natural gas supply in the state hit its lowest point during the storm, experts said. Nye told legislators during his testimony that they were so concerned about the supply of natural gas that his chief operating officer called him and said:

“I'm just going to turn on the Permian and see what happens."

“And we just turned it on,"

By the end of the week, Oncor had added 168 new natural gas facilities to its “critical" list — a nearly five-fold increase from just a few days prior.

“That's a failure of regulation,"

“That's all it is. It's relatively simple." FreeDumb's just another word for fucking dumb TX cowboys

more than 100 natural gas production and transportation executives, power generation executives, regulators and ERCOT engineers, tuned in to a conference call.

The goal: Make sure the natural gas system remained functional during the storm. :lol

“big supply cuts" of natural gas. Production had plummeted at the wellheads —

crews couldn't go out on icy roads and

the water that comes up from the ground with oil and gas during production froze and created a mess for operators if trucks couldn't get to the wellheads to move it.

https://www.alternet.org/2021/03/texas-storm-2651160903/

[pgardn]

There wasn't an analogy in the response. That's called an idiom or figure of speech.

Writer my ass...

You used a figure of speech to make a COMPARISON between unregulated energy markets to a pendulum.

So live with it, it’s Bull shit.

[pgardn]

You calling others old is amusing, moonlighter. What would your supernatural sky daddy think?

You have grand children, or was that another lie?

DMCreator of man will know Everything.
Yes you’re an old fart that stays in the slow lane.
It has to be a sky daddy if we don’t know it. More BS.

[Winehole23]

There wasn't an analogy in the response. That's called an idiom or figure of speech.again with the schoolmarmishness, suits you tbh.

[DMC]

You have grand children, or was that another lie?

DMCreator of man will know Everything.
Yes you’re an old fart that stays in the slow lane.
It has to be a sky daddy if we don’t know it. More BS.

You're just less accomplished

You're likely living a lie.

[Winehole23]

You're just less accomplished

You're likely living a lie.Big timing an anonymous board. :lol

[DMC]

Big timing an anonymous board. :lol

Stfu already

[RandomGuy]

Power to at least 150 gas production sites in the Permian Basin was cut off because companies failed to fill out a form designating their operations as critical infrastructure.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Simple-paperwork-blunder-Texans-cold-winter-storm-16032163.php

but but it was wind generators that failed.... (whines)

[RandomGuy]

Paperwork failures worsened Texas blackouts —

sparking mid-storm scramble to restore critical fuel supply

Oncor, which delivers power to the Permian Basin — the state's most productive oil and natural gas basin —

had unwittingly shut off some of the state's power supply when it followed orders to begin the outages.

Oncor and other utilities didn't have good lists of what they should consider critical infrastructure, including natural gas facilities —

simply because natural gas companies failed to fill out a form or didn't know the form existed, :lol

“I was surprised at the amount of [critical] infrastructure that hadn't been identified,"

natural gas supply in the state hit its lowest point during the storm, experts said. Nye told legislators during his testimony that they were so concerned about the supply of natural gas that his chief operating officer called him and said:

“I'm just going to turn on the Permian and see what happens."

“And we just turned it on,"

By the end of the week, Oncor had added 168 new natural gas facilities to its “critical" list — a nearly five-fold increase from just a few days prior.

“That's a failure of regulation,"

“That's all it is. It's relatively simple." FreeDumb's just another word for fucking dumb TX cowboys

more than 100 natural gas production and transportation executives, power generation executives, regulators and ERCOT engineers, tuned in to a conference call.

The goal: Make sure the natural gas system remained functional during the storm. :lol

“big supply cuts" of natural gas. Production had plummeted at the wellheads —

crews couldn't go out on icy roads and

the water that comes up from the ground with oil and gas during production froze and created a mess for operators if trucks couldn't get to the wellheads to move it.

https://www.alternet.org/2021/03/texas-storm-2651160903/



But but... free market good... regulation bad... We were all free market-y and didn't have no gub-mint over lookin this.

I'm sure it was Democrats fault. Biden did it.

[RandomGuy]

You're just less accomplished

You're likely living a lie.

:lol

That may be the single most un-selfaware thing you have ever posted here.

[Trainwreck2100]

but but it was wind generators that failed.... (whines)

Might not have benn an accident. While I usually subscribe to hanlons razor some people made a shit load of money

[RandomGuy]

Might not have benn an accident. While I usually subscribe to hanlons razor some people made a shit load of money

(nods)

One has to wonder.

[pgardn]

You're just less accomplished

You're likely living a lie.

Im living a lie...

Holy shit.
You just keep at the hypocrisy.

And Accomplished?

The self proclaimed expert in Vacuum consultation rules over biochemistry. That’s cool. I just think it’s a gigantic lie. You worry about that status, I will keep enjoying the work.

[pgardn]

Incoming deflection concerning editing...

[DMC]

Im living a lie...

Holy shit.
You just keep at the hypocrisy.

And Accomplished?

The self proclaimed expert in Vacuum consultation rules over biochemistry. That’s cool. I just think it’s a gigantic lie. You worry about that status, I will keep enjoying the work.

You don't have grandkids. I like how you jumped to your academia when I talked about accomplishments. Shows where your heart is. What does your god think of that?

[DMC]

:lol

That may be the single most un-selfaware thing you have ever posted here.

The difference is you have no idea. You are just leaning on wish casting narrative.

[pgardn]

You don't have grandkids. I like how you jumped to your academia when I talked about accomplishments. Shows where your heart is. What does your god think of that?

Old dude.......

No I dont have grandkids.
And how do I know you are not some sort of Vacuum academic and man about town?

I basically implied you could be every bit as "accomplished" whatever the fck that means.
I guess make more money? What?

Oh I forgot. You are at the top of your field "expert", where I am one of many.
Got it.

Keep going.

[Winehole23]

Stfu alreadyjiji

no

[DMC]

Old dude.......

No I dont have grandkids.
And how do I know you are not some sort of Vacuum academic and man about town?

I basically implied you could be every bit as "accomplished" whatever the fck that means.
I guess make more money? What?

Oh I forgot. You are at the top of your field "expert", where I am one of many.
Got it.

Keep going. you said I have grandkids I said I'm more accomplished. My grandkids are my major accomplishment. I have a lot of professional accomplishments but I don't compare those.

I don't know where you stand amongst your peers but I have a feeling you don't actually work in a lab. If you did you would constantly be around people who know as much about that shit as you think you do and you would not feel the need to preach about it all the time here like you're teaching some class. I feel like you're around uneducated people a lot for some reason and that they look up to you as some kind of authority figure and it goes to your head a little. I have no doubt you got the degree that you say you have but I do doubt that you actually do it professionally.

[Winehole23]

(humblebrag)

[Winehole23]

I bet your descendants are better than you too.

Lol they're not "your" accomplishment, give them some credit.

[DMC]

I bet your descendants are better than you too.

Lol they're not "your" accomplishment, give them some credit.

Tell that to your God

[Winehole23]

ok, buddy

7RzdKzVTAcs

[boutons_deux]

Warren Buffet trying buy into TX grid because he knows he will make $Bs raping TX electric consumers

[pgardn]

you said I have grandkids I said I'm more accomplished. My grandkids are my major accomplishment. I have a lot of professional accomplishments but I don't compare those.

I don't know where you stand amongst your peers but I have a feeling you don't actually work in a lab. If you did you would constantly be around people who know as much about that shit as you think you do and you would not feel the need to preach about it all the time here like you're teaching some class. I feel like you're around uneducated people a lot for some reason and that they look up to you as some kind of authority figure and it goes to your head a little. I have no doubt you got the degree that you say you have but I do doubt that you actually do it professionally.

Well that’s wonderful because you feel wrong.

And the feeling is more than mutual because you have lied your ass off.
If you were really interested in stuff I would love to show you around, but I can see a chump picture situation occurring because you are paranoid. And I bet you would love to show me around as well.

you seem to forget you asked me what I did and I summarized it. The other stuff I know about gas under pressure freezing is not my area of expertise. But I do understand the basics and you were just dead wrong. I am not an expert because I understand -295 under STP. The P is the important part which you just totally didn’t get. I have a pretty good grasp on biology chemistry and physics. But I am very narrow in the specifics of what I do, you should understand this if you really do what you say you do. You just get bent out of shape because I have trashed your science before. And you have the gall to use me as the expert in an argument with RG... did you even check my response to see if it was correct based on what you can read?

[pgardn]

Here is an engineering perspective that is supposed to be easy enough for everybody to understand. There is no going into Ercot and discussing their business.

I found this very good and concise. there is more that should probably go in but for less than 20 minutes, this is really good.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=08mwXICY4JM

[DMC]

Stick to your day job, let the professionals deal with the realities and you deal with the "impress the uneducated" kiddie teachings.

Maybe you're not doing what you paid to learn, but at least you can talk about it online.

[pgardn]

Stick to your day job, let the professionals deal with the realities and you deal with the "impress the uneducated" kiddie teachings.

Maybe you're not doing what you paid to learn, but at least you can talk about it online.

Then WTF ask me old fart?

And then claim you are an expert in the field of creating low pressure?
Let the professionals... what? reality? sure.
You write article(s) for Popular Science... BS.

You, are a liar.
Thats it, and thats all.
You got called on your knowledge and are pissed because you realize you got in way over your head.
Nature v. Nurture... Anemometers; read with a finger when I explain humans are basically visual animals and must SEE VISUAL readouts to you... gas cant freeze... and on and on.
WE will know everything.

And then using my explanation to diss another poster? No shame DMConMan

[DarrinS]

You guys still arguing? Wow

[pgardn]

You guys still arguing? Wow

did you watch the youtube?

[DarrinS]

did you watch the youtube?

The midnight cowboy shit whinehole posted?

[pgardn]

Here is an engineering perspective that is supposed to be easy enough for everybody to understand. There is no going into Ercot and discussing their business.

I found this very good and concise. there is more that should probably go in but for less than 20 minutes, this is really good.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=08mwXICY4JM

It explains why the rolling blackouts could not be rolling along with a bunch of other stuff.
We were close to shutting off the whole grid for at least weeks.
Its really good and apolitical.

[DarrinS]

It explains why the rolling blackouts could not be rolling along with a bunch of other stuff.
We were close to shutting off the whole grid for at least weeks.
Its really good and apolitical.


My bad. I'll watch it.

[DMC]

Then WTF ask me old fart?

And then claim you are an expert in the field of creating low pressure?
Let the professionals... what? reality? sure.
You write article(s) for Popular Science... BS.

You, are a liar.
Thats it, and thats all.
You got called on your knowledge and are pissed because you realize you got in way over your head.
Nature v. Nurture... Anemometers; read with a finger when I explain humans are basically visual animals and must SEE VISUAL readouts to you... gas cant freeze... and on and on.
WE will know everything.

And then using my explanation to diss another poster? No shame DMConMan

You're not a professional at anything other than talking. This I am pretty sure of.

Story of the agnostic Christian :lol

[Winehole23]

111 attested winter storm deaths so far

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2021/03/25/111-texans-died-in-last-months-shock-winter-storm-state-says/

[pgardn]

You're not a professional at anything other than talking. This I am pretty sure of.

Story of the agnostic Christian :lol

Got the emoticon.
Agnostic who understands why people need religion to answer philosophical and moral questions.
And this coming from the guy who thinks an ape from the savannah will understand EVERYTHING.
How very Popular Science of you.

Old man, you are a joke.
Expert and writer for TIME and Popular Science... give me a break with your professional attitude.

[DMC]

Got the emoticon.
Agnostic who understands why people need religion to answer philosophical and moral questions.
And this coming from the guy who thinks an ape from the savannah will understand EVERYTHING.
How very Popular Science of you.

Old man, you are a joke.
Expert and writer for TIME and Popular Science... give me a break with your professional attitude.

^just denied Jesus thrice

Pretends to be young. :lol

[Winehole23]

SoJkxNa6v14

[pgardn]

^just denied Jesus thrice

Pretends to be young. :lol

Grumpa thinks Im 20.
Will I go to your hell oh master?

Its very disappointing to find older seasoned learned people who turn out to be frauds.
I have learned a lot from old people not in the DMCircleOfKnowing

[DMC]

Grumpa thinks Im 20.
Will I go to your hell oh master?

Its very disappointing to find older seasoned learned people who turn out to be frauds.
I have learned a lot from old people not in the DMCircleOfKnowing

You're not young.

You're not agnostic.

Stop lying to yourself.

[pgardn]

You're not young.

You're not agnostic.

Stop lying to yourself.

Oh....

The guy who claimed I was a grad student now tells me I’m not young. 20s are not young I guess, ok.

Damn DMClairvoyant get out of my head and my life!
You are too good old man, you got me on the ropes, keep going.
Please.

[pgardn]

Also I think the board could use a good lecture on how religion is only for people who are afraid to die. The ~6 billion years we were not around has me terrified. So terrified I don’t remember it, can you imagine that?

[DMC]

Oh....

The guy who claimed I was a grad student now tells me I’m not young. 20s are not young I guess, ok.

Damn DMClairvoyant get out of my head and my life!
You are too good old man, you got me on the ropes, keep going.
Please.

20's

:lol

Rehashing worn out theological debate bullet points :lol

[DMC]

Also I think the board could use a good lecture on how religion is only for people who are afraid to die. The ~6 billion years we were not around has me terrified. So terrified I don’t remember it, can you imagine that?

"halp guise!"

[pgardn]

20's

:lol

Rehashing worn out theological debate bullet points :lol

Okay I was an old grad student, or am?
Keep with the conjectures.
This is fun.

[pgardn]

"halp guise!"

You are so brave and courageously let the board know what we should think about dying and religion.
Its cute.
Keep going.

OH. Why am I not supposed to steal in order to get to... the clouds?

[DMC]

You are so brave and courageously let the board know what we should think about dying and religion.
Its cute.
Keep going.

OH. Why am I not supposed to steal in order to get to... the clouds?

"message in a bottle..."

Vicarious alter-life :lol

[DMC]

Okay I was an old grad student, or am?
Keep with the conjectures.
This is fun.

You're probably 60, got a late start for whatever reason, maybe born on 3rd and fucked off too long.

[pgardn]

"message in a bottle..."

Vicarious alter-life :lol

Emoticon activation.

The purpose of religion is only to present an afterlife.
You told us this big bad messenger. Yes, you told THE board.
You want me to fetch in for you.

[pgardn]

You're probably 60, got a late start for whatever reason, maybe born on 3rd and fucked off too long.

If Im 60 you are dead!
and your posts are smelly rotting.

Yor are Definitely in my dad's range, but much more of a boaster toaster and not nearly as bright.

[pgardn]

god belief is disingenuous and cowardly

What a crock of shit.
You cant get western religion and white christ out of your head.
You are so narrow minded you think religion is all about heaven and hell and some afterlife!
Just stfu old fart.

Who said what... I wonder... philosophy, ethics and morality... all science questions. Sure.

[DMC]

Emoticon activation.

The purpose of religion is only to present an afterlife.
You told us this big bad messenger. Yes, you told THE board.
You want me to fetch in for you.

It seems you're embarrassed to be religious because you really have a difficult time reconciling your "agnostic" claims with you environment and your god belief, and the whole scientific angle really takes a wet shit on all of it huh? Must be a struggle. I don't envy you.

[DMC]

god belief is disingenuous and cowardly

What a crock of shit.
You cant get western religion and white christ out of your head.
You are so narrow minded you think religion is all about heaven and hell and some afterlife!
Just stfu old fart.

Who said what... I wonder... philosophy, ethics and morality... all science questions. Sure.

I'd bet my pay that you surround yourself with white Christians who believe in a white Christ. Christianity, which is your religion, is about just that... heaven, hell and the afterlife.

Keep putting on that act of being a good Christian man. It must really suck to have to testify to people about shit you don't even believe exists.

[Winehole23]

just reading a book about how a West Ugaritic storm god became Yahweh and why that's important.

tl;dr

The Hebrew Bible was one of the very first religions to turn away from royal and hieratic orientations and address "the people" as a historical subject in their own vernacular.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41yG7Qk-QXL.jpg

[RandomGuy]

Grumpa thinks Im 20.
Will I go to your hell oh master?

Its very disappointing to find older seasoned learned people who turn out to be frauds.
I have learned a lot from old people not in the DMCircleOfKnowing

He claims to be an atheist, yet argues in flawed logic like any theist.

[RandomGuy]

Emoticon activation.

The purpose of religion is only to present an afterlife.
You told us this big bad messenger. Yes, you told THE board.
You want me to fetch in for you.

And remember DMC's sole reason to be here is to troll. Every once in a great while he drops the schtick. No point in giving him what he wants.

[Winehole23]

He claims to be an atheist, yet argues in flawed logic like any theist.Usually starts with an elaborate strawman that he attempts to pin his subject to. It's amazing what he spins out out his head as if it were logically required, when in fact it's shit he just made up.

[pgardn]

I'd bet my pay that you surround yourself with white Christians who believe in a white Christ. Christianity, which is your religion, is about just that... heaven, hell and the afterlife.

Keep putting on that act of being a good Christian man. It must really suck to have to testify to people about shit you don't even believe exists.

I like the story.
What is your paycheck worth?
I'll take it.

And can you give me your Popular Science Treatise on why you think human beings, basically apes from an African savannah, will eventually understand EVERYTHING about the universe?

[pgardn]

And remember DMC's sole reason to be here is to troll. Every once in a great while he drops the schtick. No point in giving him what he wants.

But Im having fun.

I like it when the fake DMC, Arbiter of the Middle Ground, twists himself into a pretzel with all the hypocrisy. This hard honed Trumphead trying to play like he is above the fray, analyzing wisely from a distance so as not to be tainted by his surroundings. A true Human God among men...
He does not understand what science can and cannot do. The very basics.
I want more.
He keeps giving.

If I was the rest of the board, I would be totally bored, but I adore his humble nature.
I really dont follow slap fights. But this one is fun. Just for me.

[SnakeBoy]

111 attested winter storm deaths so far

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2021/03/25/111-texans-died-in-last-months-shock-winter-storm-state-says/

There have been 132 homicides in Chicago in 2021.

[ChumpDumper]

There have been 132 homicides in Chicago in 2021.Only took Republicans three days in Texas. :tu

Thanks for admitting your Trump did nothing for Chicago.

[pgardn]

There have been 132 homicides in Chicago in 2021.

We cant do anything about guns and violence or weather.

Simples...

Next for Snake. Poverty.

Laziness.

Next up...?

[Winehole23]

There have been 132 homicides in Chicago in 2021.Don't know where Chicago ranks this year, but as of last year (i.e., 2019 stats), it wasn't in the top 25 most dangerous cities for violent crime in the US.

Beaumont, Texas was more dangerous city on a per capita basis than Chicago, IL in 2019.

[Winehole23]

Why do y'all keep picking on Chicago?

[Winehole23]

Folklorical hatred of Obama?

[ChumpDumper]

Folklorical hatred of Obama?They hate him in particular and black people in general.

[Winehole23]

They hate him in particular and black people in general."Folklorical" was intended as sort of a euphemism, but in the straight sense racism is a main current in US folklore.

[DMC]

I like the story.
What is your paycheck worth?
I'll take it.

And can you give me your Popular Science Treatise on why you think human beings, basically apes from an African savannah, will eventually understand EVERYTHING about the universe?

You'd lose, you know this already.

[SnakeBoy]

Why do y'all keep picking on Chicago?

https://www.chunkofchange.com/wp-content/uploads/Family-Guy-Do-Not-Push-Button.gif

[Winehole23]

straight trollin

[pgardn]

You'd lose, you know this already.

No , I would win. I would just never know what the paycheck amounted to since consultation experts get paid by the job. The same type of experts you have derided it before.

“oh you are a consultant, sure....”

hypocrite using the same tall tales he makes fun of

So what was your popular science article worth?

[boutons_deux]

Why do y'all keep picking on Chicago?

it's Fox/Repug/RWHM strategy, based on racism of course, while cities in RED/Repug states have much higher murder rates, but the strategy is silent on them.

Chicago is Dem in a Dem state, has gun control, hyped murder rate (guns imported from Repug states), and above all lots of blacks.

https://www.thetrace.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/city-murder-rates-2019.png

https://www.thetrace.org/2018/04/highest-murder-rates-us-cities-list

[pgardn]

Why do y'all keep picking on Chicago?

Fairly regular number of gun deaths
The combination of severe poverty, drugs, and guns amongst a large population.
Easy target. It also aids in the black on black violence that proves so much.

[pgardn]

it's Fox/Repug/RWHM strategy, based on racism of course, while cities in RED/Repug states have much higher murder rates, but the strategy is silent on them.

Chicago is Dem in a Dem state, has gun control, hyped murder rate (guns imported from Repug states), and above all lots of blacks.

https://www.thetrace.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/city-murder-rates-2019.png

https://www.thetrace.org/2018/04/highest-murder-rates-us-cities-list

This is not about looking at rates.
This is about finding sheer numbers that are at the freeze levels.
This is a tried-and-true procedure for both teams.

[boutons_deux]

Texas Senate approves plan to levy $1M a day fines :lol

for power companies that don’t weatherize plants :lol were warned 10 years ago that Feb 2021 was coming

https://link.dallasnews.com/lt.php?i=15581A16132A27A682883

idle, empty threats, fines NEVER to be collected because the power companies BRIBED the legislators to setup, run PUC/ERCOT de-regulated to maximize Capital intake (+$28B more Capital intake than a regulated market), not provide a great product.

Pure political theatre to gull the gullible

[DMC]

No , I would win. I would just never know what the paycheck amounted to since consultation experts get paid by the job. The same type of experts you have derided it before.

“oh you are a consultant, sure....”

hypocrite using the same tall tales he makes fun of

So what was your popular science article worth?

:lol jousting another windmill.

I said "pay" and you said "paycheck". Then you went on about a paycheck and how the verbiage means something different than I have alluded to. :lmao

You really are special, aren't you.

[pgardn]

:lol jousting another windmill.

I said "pay" and you said "paycheck". Then you went on about a paycheck and how the verbiage means something different than I have alluded to. :lmao

You really are special, aren't you.

Oh good lord it’s the same basic thing, a bet for $
What did you make for your popular science article and send your money to me because you don’t know what the fck you’re talking about when discussing science.

Now go off on how I used fck again. You do everything you can to weasel out of this.
Keep weaseling. What does science say about free will? Try quantum mechanics and give me your experiment. Such an butthole...

[Winehole23]

from the forthcoming Boehner book


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ex91_gdXEAArAPh?format=png&name=small

[RandomGuy]

There have been 132 homicides in Chicago in 2021.


Only took Republicans three days in Texas. :tu

Thanks for admitting your Trump did nothing for Chicago.

https://media.hotpress.com/uploads/2019/06/26152408/Sideshow-Bob.gif

:lol

[RandomGuy]

There have been 132 homicides in Chicago in 2021.

Does that suddenly mean your political party in this state isn't too incompetent to manage a power grid?

I'm confused.

[RandomGuy]

:lol jousting another windmill.

I said "pay" and you said "paycheck". Then you went on about a paycheck and how the verbiage means something different than I have alluded to. :lmao

You really are special, aren't you.

DagraMmarCop layin down the semantic law. :lol

Serious question: So fucking what?

[RandomGuy]

So Abbott picks another crony, with no experience managing a power grid to fix the power grid.

Another "pro business" shill who was chosen for political purity over competence.

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/04/01/greg-abbott-public-utility-commission-appointment/

"Former Business & Regulated Industries Advisor at Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives"

meaning he was part of the political establishment that fucked this shit up in the first place. (slow clap)

[RandomGuy]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas’ power grid that buckled during February’s deadly winter storm would operate under new oversight and require power plants to prepare for more extreme weather under overhauls that moved closer to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk Tuesday.

Six weeks after more than 100 people died in subfreezing weather in Texas, including many of hypothermia, both the GOP-controlled House and Senate have now passed sweeping reforms that lawmakers say would prevent a repeat of the widespread blackouts that spiraled into one of the worst power outages in U.S. history.

But the proposals are far from finalized and big issues remain unsettled, including who will pick up the cost of weatherizing Texas' hundreds of power generators, which Abbott is demanding after plants failed in the cold weather and more than 4 million customers lost electricity.

https://www.chron.com/news/article/Reforms-to-Texas-energy-grid-begin-moving-after-16064953.php

It isn't going to be big business, I would wager. That would be ideologically toxic to the corporate fascist party.

What will likely happen is "free market" across the board price hikes that amount to regressive taxes on the poor, so that the executive bonuses aren't threatened.

[Winehole23]

https://www.chron.com/news/article/Reforms-to-Texas-energy-grid-begin-moving-after-16064953.php

It isn't going to be big business, I would wager. That would be ideologically toxic to the corporate fascist party.

What will likely happen is "free market" across the board price hikes that amount to regressive taxes on the poor, so that the executive bonuses aren't threatened.I don't hear any noise about a legislative fix.

Texas Lege is in session, right?

[DMC]

DagraMmarCop layin down the semantic law. :lol

Serious question: So fucking what?

You are one lonely motherfucker. How's the job search going?

[RandomGuy]

You are one lonely motherfucker. How's the job search going?

:lol can't even justify the DagraMmarCop

Sad.

[DMC]

:lol can't even justify the DagraMmarCop

Sad.

Grammar? :lol

You're uneducated. This is obvious.

[RandomGuy]

Grammar? :lol

You're uneducated. This is obvious.

It is documented that you are lazy.

[DMC]

It is documented that you are lazy.

It's documented that you were cucked out by your wife. Do you see me campaigning on it?

[ChumpDumper]

It's documented that you were cucked out by your wife. Do you see me campaigning on it?

Frankly, yes.

[DMC]

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[ChumpDumper]

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Remove user from ignore listYou'll drop your little charade if you think of a zinger.

It's how Trump supporters work.

[Winehole23]

1379262861088788482

[RandomGuy]

cucked

:lmao

[RandomGuy]

You'll drop your little charade if you think of a zinger.

It's how Trump supporters work.

True that.

[boutons_deux]

Analysis reveals nearly 200 died in Texas cold storm and blackouts,

almost double the official count

making the natural disaster one of the worst in Texas this past century.

The tally, which is nearly double the state’s official count,

comes from an investigation of reports from medical examiners, justices of the peace and Department of State Health Services, as well as lawsuits and news stories.

The state count, which is preliminary, has yet to incorporate some deaths already flagged by medical examiners as storm-related.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/texas-cold-storm-200-died-analysis-winter-freeze-16070470.php

Capitalism and its cheap Repug whores KILL

[Winehole23]

it's what, 84F today?

1382086798063583234

[Ef-man]

it's what, 84F today?

1382086798063583234

:lmao

Who had unexpected Springmageddon on their bingo card?

[pgardn]

Lets blame frozen windmills Guvnah.
"We were totally unable to grind wheat or pump water"

[Winehole23]

still experiencing some technical difficulties


https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/b6623c0/2147483647/strip/true/crop/529x460+0+0/resize/880x765!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F2d%2F41%2F7fa0c0104b 209e0d7b0ac4a9a93f%2Foutage-graph.jpg

https://www.kut.org/energy-environment/2021-04-13/warning-of-emergency-grid-conditions-ercot-asks-texans-to-conserve-electricity

[Winehole23]

1382108321809858568

[boutons_deux]

:lmao

Who had unexpected Springmageddon on their bingo card?

jul aug sep gonna be fun

[pgardn]

1379262861088788482

If derp were on the left you know he would have put this up, and meant it as fact.

[pgardn]

1382108321809858568

This is actually true and a problem.
Especially when you dont pay for upgrades.

[ChumpDumper]

This is actually true and a problem.
Especially when you dont pay for upgrades.Or connect to the national grid that can give you more power in just these situations.

[Winehole23]

Texas’ susceptibility to blackouts has long been a concern for the North American Electric Reliability Corp., which has some authority to regulate power plants and oversee grid operators in the U.S.https://www.texastribune.org/2021/04/15/texas-ercot-blackouts-summer-climate/

[boutons_deux]

This is actually true and a problem.
Especially when you dont pay for upgrades.

and don't operate supply 15% above predicted demand. 15% is the industry standard. ERCOT runs at 7%, more profit for extractive, rentier Capitalists

[Winehole23]

Texas lege is all set to kick the can again

1384186386438262785

[RandomGuy]

Dusted off the generator

Exclusive: All-night ERCOT meeting raises questions about Abbott's role in power pricing debacle
https://www.expressnews.com/politics/texas/article/All-night-ERCOT-meeting-raises-questions-about-16124189.php

Why are Republican elected officials so venal and stupid?

[Winehole23]

long hangover after an all-nighter


the highly-criticized decision to leave electricity prices at $9,000 per megawatt hour for 32 hours after the outages stopped — 300 times higher than pre-storm prices — led to what an independent market monitor described as a $16 billion pricing error, and $3 billion to $5 billion in unwarranted and potentially recoverable (https://www.expressnews.com/politics/texas/article/politics/texas/article/Estimated-cost-of-ERCOT-power-pricing-gaffe-16017668.php) overcharges.

[Winehole23]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E0KSZfkXoAA5fdn?format=png&name=900x900

[DarrinS]

My great grandmother survived the Spanish flu and lived to 107. All before we even had CO2 detectors.

[Winehole23]

My great grandmother survived the Spanish flu and lived to 107. All before we even had CO2 detectors.sorry, what's the connection with contagious disease?

[DarrinS]

sorry, what's the connection with contagious disease?

What's the connection of CO detectors to the Texas energy grid?

[Winehole23]

What's the connection of CO detectors to the Texas energy grid?when the grid conks out during extreme weather, people suffocate in their houses and cars.

[Winehole23]

cheers, Darrin :drunk

[Winehole23]

it happened recently in Texas

[DarrinS]

when the grid conks out during extreme weather, people suffocate in their houses and cars.

My smoke alarms are battery powered. They are annoying AF when battery gets low.

[DarrinS]

cheers, Darrin :drunk

You should get back to your grudge bump. Its you, Trill, you...

:lol

[Winehole23]

My neighbor drained two propane bottles heating his Airstream last night, I sure was glad to see him alive this morning.

[DarrinS]

Muh neighbors with Airstreams.

[Winehole23]

Muh neighbors with Airstreams.my landlord, fwiw

[Winehole23]

My smoke alarms are battery powered. They are annoying AF when battery gets low.they sure are

1387815535455391745

[ChumpDumper]

WTF is Darrin's problem?

[Winehole23]

WTF is Darrin's problem?in the attempt to beclown other posters the thread is often lost, or the attempt backfires.

[boutons_deux]

ERCOT Hires Interim CEO And President As Major Grid Reforms Stall In Legislature

some of the biggest threats to the grid’s stability are outside of ERCOT’s control.

ERCOT doesn’t have the power to mandate major changes.

That’s the job of the Public Utility Commission (PUC),

which oversees ERCOT and regulates the grid, as well as the Railroad Commission, which regulates the natural gas sector.

The Texas legislature oversees all of the organizations, and its efforts to mandate weatherization have stalled (https://www.tpr.org/government-politics/2021-04-06/texas-policymakers-split-on-electricity-repricing-natural-gas-reforms-in-aftermath-of-winter-storm).

https://www.tpr.org/texas/2021-04-27/ercot-hires-interim-ceo-and-president-as-major-grid-reforms-stall-in-legislature

[boutons_deux]

Texas Policymakers Split On Electricity Repricing, Natural Gas Reforms In Aftermath Of Winter Storm

Texas state policymakers are split on two key issues related to the deadly power outages in February:

electricity repricing and

natural gas reforms.

https://www.tpr.org/government-politics/2021-04-06/texas-policymakers-split-on-electricity-repricing-natural-gas-reforms-in-aftermath-of-winter-storm

[Winehole23]

Texas lege shuffling its feet


The people of Texas expect us in the Legislature to act to harden our energy infrastructure, and HB 14 will not accomplish that. We should have acted in 2011. In 10 years, let’s not say the same thing about Winter Storm Uri when another freeze hits.https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/Opinion-Texas-must-weatherize-now-not-plan-a-16142310.php

[boutons_deux]

We can expect that AGW will again cause the polar vortex to collapse and spill, again, hyper cold air down to Texas.

wealth-sucking Capitalists, +$28B after deregulation, who own the electricity grid don't fucking care. They made $Bs off URI disaster.

They decide/bribe what happens in TX legislature

[leemajors]

Texas lege shuffling its feet

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/Opinion-Texas-must-weatherize-now-not-plan-a-16142310.php

I guess Abbott and Co think everyone has forgotten as he screams about other shit.

[boutons_deux]

I guess Abbott and Co think everyone has forgotten as he screams about other shit.

persecuting trans youth, some to death, is the current distraction from actually governing

[RandomGuy]

My great grandmother survived the Spanish flu and lived to 107. All before we even had CO2 detectors.

Translation:

"I don't understand science"

smh

[RandomGuy]

I guess Abbott and Co think everyone has forgotten as he screams about other shit.

finding distractions worked for Trump. pivot to the new thing to change the news cycle. I can't blame him for trying here.

[Winehole23]

finding distractions worked for Trump. pivot to the new thing to change the news cycle. I can't blame him for trying here.I do

[Winehole23]

fits a broader pattern

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[baseline bum]

I guess Abbott and Co think everyone has forgotten as he screams about other shit.

They'll still vote for him, why should he give a shit?

[Winehole23]

finally, something

Texas House advances plan to subsidize power plant weatherization (https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/03/texas-house-power-weatherization-fund/)

[boutons_deux]

finally, something

Texas House advances plan to subsidize power plant weatherization (https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/03/texas-house-power-weatherization-fund/)



Texans paid $28B more for electricity after deregulation, and now taxpayers have to pay to make the electricity network reliable?

[Winehole23]

Texans paid $28B more for electricity after deregulation, and now taxpayers have to pay to make the electricity network reliable?Socialize the risk, privatize the profits.

[Winehole23]

important stuff

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[boutons_deux]

important stuff

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Shitbag Repugs bribed as always

"Texas accounts for 15.5% of the cash receipts for cattle in the United States. ...

Texas has had 11 million head of cattle or more every year since 1967 until 2014.

The largest cattle inventory ever recorded in Texas was in 1975 at 16.6 million head.

Texas is the 4th largest food producer (by value) in the United States."

https://beef2live.com/story-texas-cattle-ag-facts-0-115781#:~:text=Texas%20accounts%20for%2015.5%25%20 of,cattle%20in%20the%20United%20States.&text=Texas%20has%20had%2011%20million,value)%20in% 20the%20United%20States.

Mammal meat people in Idaho gonna kill 90% of the wolves, 45K applications

[boutons_deux]

CPS Energy to propose 'provisional rate increase' due in part to winter storm, pandemic

It would be the first rate hike since 2014.

The proposal includes an estimated 4-4.5% increase to maintain operations and support growth and

an estimated 1-2% to make up for unrecovered costs during the coronavirus pandemic.

Also included is a proposed 1.5-3% increase to pay for costs incurred during February Storm Uri.

CPS Energy estimates the average impact for customers over the next year ranges between $9.70 and $14.60.

While the pandemic-related increase is projected to last up to five years, the increase due to the winter storm could remain in effect for up to 25 years.

https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/cps-energy-provisional-rate-increase-winter-storm-pandemic/273-e928a525-405a-45ed-be88-deb83957b7e8

The Trump-Made Pandemic and the billionaire's SHITTY extractive, deregulated electric grid? guess who pays?

[Winehole23]

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[Winehole23]

Texas at ‘Elevated Risk' of Summer Power Shortages, Potential Outages, Regulators War (https://www.nbcdfw.com/investigations/texas-at-elevated-risk-of-summer-power-shortages-potential-outages-regulators-warn/2642319/)n
Texas is expected to see above-normal temperatures this summer and a higher risk of drought across much of the state, potentially increasing demand for power and putting more strain on the grid.

[boutons_deux]

I can't find whether the shitbag TX legislature did anything about PUC/ERCOT.

If not, PUC/ERCOT is not on Patrick's menu of red meat he wants to throw at the rubes in the requested special session

[leemajors]

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/05/texas-power-outage-almost-became-weeks-long-catastrophe/

[Winehole23]

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/05/texas-power-outage-almost-became-weeks-long-catastrophe/damn