• balsoft@lemmy.ml
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    People settled there because A/C became available

    Yeah, but like, don’t. Or at least cover your house with solar. If you need a literal life support system and are dependent on a centralized power grid for that with no backup, you will die.

    You can’t just shut off the A/C and cackle while the elderly and infirm die of heat stroke.

    I agree that in places like that AC should be among the critical systems which are the last to shut down, but it’s also important to note that the vast majority of inhabited places on earth are not like that (yet).

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      Yeah, but like, don’t. Or at least cover your house with solar. If you need a literal life support system and are dependent on a centralized power grid for that with no backup, you will die.

      Sorry gramma, a lemmitor said you shouldn’t have been born in the armpit of america, so you’re going to have to either die when power shuts down or drop everything and move.

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        you’re going to have to either die when power shuts down or drop everything and move.

        That’s not my opinion, that’s a sad fact of life. If you can’t move, get a backup electricity supply. Blackouts happen.

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            Nah, it’s colonial settlers living in a place where they shouldn’t, and then capitalists plastering everything with heat-absorbing asphalt because it’s more profitable to force people into car-centric hellholes. If you are unfortunate enough to live in a place like that, prepare a backup power source, because it’s not feasible to build a power grid which never has blackouts.

            Of course, it would be nice to have a government that would provide everyone in such regions with backup electricity sources, but that ain’t happening with capitalists in power, and recommending that grandma should lead a communist uprising is not that helpful

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          You must be lost. This is hexbear where we shit in the toilet, not on our big balls. We believe in the power of love, but not the power of being a smarmy wpos.

          I bet you don’t even eat beanis.

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          I don’t think a mostly for-comfort utility should be the last to shut down

          I don’t think

          mostly for for-comfort

          should

          Pretty sure this entire line which began and summarizes your whole comment is literally 100% opinions, and they’re your opinions.