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Re:The Texas power outage is a nation-wide problem by 542354234235 on Friday February 19, 2021 @10:21AM (#26194088)
> was driven by a conscious desire to optimize for the needs of manufacturing.

Wasn't it so Texans could continue to live in the fantasy world that they could secede from the US any time they wanted?

Re:The Texas power outage is a nation-wide problem by krapp on Friday February 19, 2021 @10:37AM (#26194242)
Surprisingly, Texas' pathological urge to secede every time a Democrat wins the White House seems to have been abated by recent events[0].

[0]https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-02-17/texas-seve...