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Texas power prices briefly soar 1,600% as a spring heat wave is expected to drive record demand for energy (fortune.com)
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[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 67 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Pretty sure they are happy they don't have "communism" when they pay those bills.

[–] Apollo2323@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Imagine all those Californians that moved to Texas.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 28 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Seriously they deserve what they get for not appreciating what they had.

[–] CerineArkweaver@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Funny, I was thinking the same of the New Yorkers who moved to Texas. I live in New York (not the City) and yah the state has problems, but you couldn't pay me to move to a Southern state...

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works -4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

IDK, coming from NYC to TX is probably a net upgrade in a lot of ways, especially if you're a small business owner or work for one. The laws in NYC are just so bonkers.

Then again, I'm uninterested in moving to TX either. I'm pretty happy here in Utah, and I may move back home to Seattle, WA at some point, or maybe we'll move to NC. But I'm not moving anywhere further south than NC.

[–] CerineArkweaver@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 5 months ago

Yah the taxes in NYS (not NYC) are one of the problems I mentioned, but on the other hand I've seen what they paid for. As an Upstate NY resident I have a love/hate relationship with NYC. On one hand it causes a lot of funky laws to be passed at the state level. On the other hand it brings in a FUCK TON of tax revenue that Upstate benefits from

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

Honestly Louis Rossmans experience as a small business owner living the real life Kafka novel in new Yorks legal system made me never want to live there.

[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Some, but there are a lot of people here who recognize the hypocrisy and trash policies put into place in the state by politicians who do not wish to govern, only consolidate power.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Do this lot of people vote?

[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 35 points 5 months ago (2 children)

They do, but Texas is one of the most difficult states to register to vote. Voter suppression is real and by design.

This explains it well: Texas’s Voter-Registration Laws Are Straight Out of the Jim Crow Playbook

and Analysis: It's harder to vote in Texas than in any other state

[–] DaBPunkt@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I will never get why you have to Register at all

[–] anlumo@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

That‘s one of the consequences of not having citizen IDs, because they’re communist.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

There are actual checks and balance to ensure you’re a citizen and you vote at most once

[–] DaBPunkt@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Where I live you just get a letter some weeks before the election. With that letter you can vote at the place that is named in the letter (or anywhere in the same city). If you lose the letter you can still vote with your id-card, but only at the place that was named in the letter.

Easy, isn't it?

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

It make sense if it were like the TSA to be honest, bring everything you need to vote or preregister for a faster experience. Would also help if was voting month(s) instead of day so people could comfortably vote.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago

That's really dumb. Here in Utah, you sign up online, and you can get a mail ballot online too. I have never actually voted in person, I just fill out my ballot and drop it in one of the collection bins a few days before the election. We can even track our ballot to ensure it gets processed.

Why overcomplicate it? I don't need to take time off to vote, and I can take my time researching the candidates. Voting should be easy.

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 25 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Texas is really good at gerrymandeirng

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I wish it was possible to vote strongly enough for gerrymandering to be irrelevant.

Another 51% win for Biden will certainly trigger another violent inssurection attempt and another 4 years of inaction.

The best outcome would be a landslide victory if only to show the republican voters that their ideas are not supported by the general public.

[–] djsaskdja@reddthat.com 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

51% win for Biden seems insanely optimistic right now.

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net -3 points 5 months ago

it would take so little for Biden to rake in the votes but the Democrats in general seem to be doing everything they can to embarrass themselves even worse than 2016 …

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That’s a cop out. There are plenty of terrible people in that state.