Tonight: A deep freeze sends Texas electricity prices soaring 10,000%; Citibank can't fix a $500 million oopsie; and vegan KitKats are now a thing. Let's get into it.

So if you get power back , DONT USE IT ! .

Is there a Word for the "American Double be Fucked" ?

Like when you survive your cancer but not the Hospital Bill ?

Or when your home survives the blizzard but you lose it then since you cant pay the electricity bill ?

      • CoralMarks [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        See, the Market saves the day again. The system works. :ancap-good:

        • ThomasMuentzner [he/him, comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmqgKsVi1UI

          And its singing its Song (Sorry outtranslated , hope you get the idea ) :

          Complete clearing and dismantling

          Price depends on the floor

          Stable offer

          But who is hanging that on my door?

          He knows himself, such an announcement

          Has no chance here in the neighborhood

          Anyone looking for dismantling will come to me anyway

          I am a demolition company

          That secretly suppresses taxes

          And when everyone goes to sleep

          Saw on your roof truss

          And when you wake up I'm long

          Engaged with my excavators

          Then everything is dust and rubble here

          You give me something, I'll break it

          Dear Commissioner:

          One thing is absolutely clear

          You are a son of a bitch

          Please don't take it easy on me

          But the guy who suffocated his wife

          The one who sold heroin

          Fucked his own daughter

          All trivial offenses

          And I'm still sitting here

          [..] Saw on your roof truss And when you wake up I'm long Engaged with my excavators Then everything is dust and rubble here You give me something, I'll break it 🎵 🎵

          • CoralMarks [he/him]
            ·
            4 years ago

            Was 'nen Glück dass ich deutsch sprech. Nicer tune, kannte ich noch nicht.

  • MelaniaTrump [undecided]
    ·
    4 years ago

    lmao wtf it’s literally cheaper to nationalize this

    but I guess that doesn’t allow some oil barrons great grandson to charge you $150 an hour to power a lightbulb

  • Not_irony [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    They'll call this historic, but then memory hole it by March.

    • Chutt_Buggins [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      depending on how long it takes to get power back to most people, it might already be forgotten before February ends..

      • Not_irony [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        as a subscriber to /r/collapse and current alive person in America, IMO, its possible the power might, just, not come back on. in this case, i doubt it. but next time? the time after that?

  • YoungGramsci [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    "Citibank can't fix a $500 million oopsie"

    I'm gonna call my financial issues oopsies from now on too.

    • protochud [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      why kulak? it makes sense, but i can't explain it. best i can tell, texas is a kulak paradise