Unfortunately it’s required for the South Koreans (and probably North Koreans too?)

No, they just died

What grinds my gears about MLs is they have the nerve to call anarchists naive.

I feel like that’s debatable. He had direct access to wealth, his family owns many businesses. Perhaps he is estranged from them financially but we don’t know that yet. I put him in the capitalist class - if he stayed on a “normal” path he would of inherited the businesses.

Completely fucking insane. They wanna live in their little liberal bubble where they can just vote their way to the most moderate inconsequential reforms.

Even if he’s scum of the earth (doubt it) the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

He seems run of the mill rich gen z tech bro with serious back problems. Which makes his points even stronger being a traitor to his class. Assuming he’s the shooter.

This story isn’t going away and the rich -especially those rich from blatantly problematic industries - should be scared.

There’s a very deep genuine anger in this country and it’s tied to emotionally charged life or death issues. I’m just surprised it’s taken this long for the powder keg to start to blow…

I thought so. But power issues can happen anywhere in extreme weather especially if lines aren’t buried.

What my state and Texas have in common is we were both at once time independent republics before we joined the union. And my states pre USA independence lasted longer than the confederacy!

Generator only lasts so long as you have gas for it, but yes. Been begging the landlord for one, our well pump is electric so when we lose power we lose water too.

I love how they’re trying to paint him as a working class hero (see the cringe NYT opinion piece as an example) when he’s a class traitor who screwed over other working class people to enrich himself.

I’m on oil (and a renter so it’s not like I have a choice) but a friend of mine is on a heat pump and loves it. She has backup heat too, a wood stove and I believe either heating oil or gas. But most of the time she runs the heat pump and the wood stove.

If the goal is the help the environment, then it might be more beneficial to use the appliance until it reaches end of life.

This. Reminds me of the cash for “clunkers” debacle that took plenty of perfectly good ICE used cars off the market.

At the end of the day, the point of this post is simply that utility companies should be a service for the community and not run for profit.

Especially this.

Heat pumps are popular in VT where it does go down to -40 somewhat regularly. Most places still have a backup heat for the really cold days - either wood stove and/or oil.