California issues first rolling blackouts since 2001

Post by bleepblorp » Sun, Aug 16, 2020, 2:53 AM UTC

blhack wrote: post #39

lisper wrote: post #2

The entire U.S. is feeling more and more like a third-world country. Corrupt government. Unreliable and deteriorating infrastructure. Extreme poverty (I recently learned that 30% of houses on Indian reservations don't have running water). Marginalization or even outright vilification of intellectuals. 75 years ago we saved the world from fascism. Who is going to save us from ourselves? :-(

I would highly encourage you to reassess where you are getting your information about the world if you genuinely believe this. I’m seeing this sentiment expressed more and more, and it seriously concerns me. If you look at the data, almost any data which compares the US to other countries, you’ll see that the US is at or near the top. This isn’t blind patriotism. Seriously if you are feeling like the US is becoming a…

Post by electriclove » Sun, Aug 16, 2020, 3:21 AM UTC

roughly wrote: post #128

spaetzleesser wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. Instead of using cheap money to drive up asset prices it would be nice if it actually got used for something useful.

This is because one of our two political parties doesn’t believe that government spending should exist, and is iffy about the concept of government overall. Because of that, the only body able to respond to crises is the Federal Reserve, and the only lever they have is the money supply. We’ve had multiple trillion dollars worth of infrastructure repairs we need to do and nearly sub-zero borrowing rates for the last d…

Post by rabidrat » Sun, Aug 16, 2020, 3:32 AM UTC

diogenescynic wrote: post #151

dmode wrote: post #145

I live in a suburb of the Bay Area where temperatures are usually in 70s and 80s. Suddenly it is going to be 100 for 5 day straight. I have never seen anything like this

Get a window air conditioner or portable air conditioner... makes life much bearable for those days.

Post by guerrilla » Sun, Aug 16, 2020, 5:56 AM UTC

refurb wrote: post #77

guerrilla wrote: post #60

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> This isn’t blind patriotism. Maybe it's just ignorance then. Quality of life in Northern Europe is far better than it ever was in California, which in retrospect looks like a joke.

What is quality of life? Sounds pretty subjective. One person may rank weather at the top, so Northern Europe sucks. Another may rank parental leave at the top, so the US sucks. Probably the most objective way is to measure how people vote with their feet.

Post by redis_mlc » Sun, Aug 16, 2020, 6:01 AM UTC

lumost wrote: post #156

edge17 wrote: post #28

Strange reporting that people were "believed" to have been blacked out. We lost power yesterday in Sunnyvale from 5-9pm. Very interested in more info on the "hundreds of thousands" because it seems like the cuts were fairly limited. There was enough power to keep the fridge running but thats about it.

I find it strange that a town with multiple high-tech fortune 500's can't power itself. This begs several questions on adequate management of taxation at the local level, and corporate interest in their own community's ability to support them.