Northern California is a straight clusterfuck right now, and I'm in a relatively rural area so it might be awhile before I get my power back. What do yinz do to pass the time aside from doomscroll and shitpost?

Edit: Just to give you all an idea about how bad it is right now. Rual Northern California towns are much smaller than a lot of people think, so a lot of those outages are entire towns.

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  • ziggurter [he/him, comrade/them]
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    9 months ago

    Yeah, PG&E (being the west-coast private owner of all the electrical grid infrastructure, so other local power generation companies—even when they exist—have to lease the lines from them) of course keeps getting soothing "It's OK BBY, you don't have to fix anything, and we'll absolve you of the murders you've done and most if not all liability too" from the completely capitalist-captured courts and Public Utilities Commission. It's no surprise that their shit can't deal with a little intense (but completely predictable) wind and rain. But at least it's wet enough right now that this time it isn't that they set a quarter of the state on fire. Silver linings!