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Re:Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water q... by golem14 on Saturday May 23, 2026 @04:27PM (#48251147)
Is the Texas power grid shitty? Say, compare to California’s?
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Re:Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water q... by ceejayoz on Saturday May 23, 2026 @04:41PM (#48251277)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis was pretty notable.
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Re:Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water q... by borski on Saturday May 23, 2026 @05:06PM (#48251533)
Yes. Both are shitty, but CA is at least shared with the national grid.
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Re:Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water q... by johnny22 on Saturday May 23, 2026 @04:42PM (#48251294)
it's that texas has it's own power grid. Other states tend to share grids.
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