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September 26, 2021 /u/sweater_

The Front Bottoms at WOMH

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February 16, 2021 /u/sweater_

ELI5: What even is the electrical grid?

Every time these kinds of disasters happen I realize how little I know.

I understand that most of TX is on its own grid and that is somehow making everything harder. But what, physically, is the electrical grid? And what does it mean that the utility providers couldn’t turn the power back on due to increasing instability? I read the ERCOT guy said, “I know this has been a terrible problem, but we don’t want a blackout that could last for a very, very long time where the system has to be rebuilt.” What would need rebuilt and why?

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June 4, 2020 /u/sweater_

Baytown BLM protest tomorrow

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April 3, 2020 /u/sweater_

Houston Chronicle: “As Houston leaders strongly encourage working from home, own staff report to empty buildings”

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March 24, 2020 /u/sweater_

All City employees have been reclassified as essential and been told to report to work…including library, parks, HR, etc. There are 20,000 people who work for the City of Houston. Call your city council member and demand to know why.

People I know who work for the city are being offered the option of two weeks of unpaid leave, or come in and do busy work. They are literally scrambling to invent work, and for what reason? Optics, I’m guessing. Sylvester Turner cares more about his p…