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Non-paywalled link:

https://archive.is/IRICf

To save anyone a Google search:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton

This one's a howler:

"When Texas lawmakers met last month to begin sifting through the wreckage of the state’s energy grid, many expected to hear tales of poorly insulated power plants rendered inoperable by the latest winter storm.

Instead, energy executives raised an even more confounding problem: dozens of natural gas facilities had not filled out a three-page application for outage exemptions before the storm, meaning their facilities lost power at a moment when their fuel was needed most to feed struggling power plants."

This on its own doesn't excuse the multitude of other ways that power generators in Texas failed to prepare (lack of weatherizing, lack of backup power supplies, etc.) but this is just another part of the big picture.

Full paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2019.09.021

Thank you for sharing.

What was your experience like?

Not OP so not 100% certain, but it's likely to be an Epson Ecotank printer.

I live in London (Northern Line, Zone 2) and anecdotally I don't think it's that much worse. I'm sure they're under some pressure, but Amazon or Hermes couriers never seem to drive or park unusually recklessly, at least in my area. They'll usually always pull into a side road to make deliveries if they can.

Yesterday, I saw one Amazon delivery courier walk around my neighbourhood housing estate for a whole 20 minutes looking to drop off one package. He didn't look panicked, if that says anything. Maybe it helps that London is a bit denser than the average American suburb?

This was actually a pretty well-used feature back around ~2010. The problem was that it was hidden away more and more every time the site was redesigned, so its discoverability (and presumably use) basically dropped to zero over time.