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What’s interesting about the word retard specifically is it’s still used as a technical term that has nothing to do with developmental disabilities - for example, fire retardant - to slow/stop something.

They’ve been manipulated into this, sadly.

Really unkind in which threads? Yeah, I’m an asshole about politics, because I’ve had it up to here with backstabbing liberals who vote blue no matter who and scold the left while losing elections like it’s their job (because it is, they exist as a ratchet to prevent any kind of left wing reform). I’ve spent the last two and a half decades watching this country fall to fascism while there’s zero real opposition to it. As a queer neurodivergent I don’t have any more patience left for liberals.

Not to mention it’s been private unaccountable death panels for grandma this whole time even before covid. They have it coming.

It’s schizo to think this?! Being constantly surveilled is unreasonable search and seizure.

With that theory, any word could become an insult.

$20 the truck has cooties

No, they just died

I’m autistic, adhd, and I had a brain injury. Triple neurodivergent. 🙄

Go ahead and block me, I don’t really care, I think without context you taking offense to calling someone who is gullible “neurodivergent” seems over sensitive. Autistic people in particular unfortunately can be gullible and people abuse that.

Without the context it doesn’t come off as insulting.

Neurodivergent isn’t an insult…

VT is often colder than murmansk but less cold than the other two cities listed. Note the freedom units: -40 is the same as metric but -20F is more like -30C. Apparently -20C is only -4F? Which is not that cold but a common temp in VT.

I don’t know how cold those places are but I live in VT in the mountains where it does go down to -20F on the regular and -40 occasionally.

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!

Yeah, sounds like opposite environments. If you want to prep for that, you can buy a battery operated fan from one of the tool companies (dewalt, Milwaukee, etc) plus one or more of the larger batteries and then put it in front of a window with a tub of water and have the fan blow air from outside over the water into the house and it will cools things down.

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 don’t think vermont is on its own grid? We import a substantial amount of electricity from Quebec hydropower and most of our electricity is from renewable sources including our own hydropower, solar and wind.

Our grid goes down because trees fall on it.

There are times where storms are so bad here that power is out for a considerable amount of time and it’s brutally cold. Relying on electric is a non starter, people would literally die from exposure.

For most of the country it’s fine, but not for places that get deadly cold.

Wood furnaces are nice but not every place has one. My place does not.

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.