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But but but teh invisible hand of the free market!

"The year 2011 was a miserable cold snap and there were blackouts," University of Houston energy fellow Edward Hirs tells the Houston Chronicle. "It happened before and will continue to happen until Texas restructures its electricity market." Texans "hate it when I say that," but the Texas grid "has collapsed in exactly the same manner as the old Soviet Union," or today's oil sector in Venezuela, he added. "It limped along on underinvestment and neglect until it finally broke under predictable circumstances."

William Hogan, the Harvard global energy policy professor who designed the system Texas adopted seven years ago, disagreed, arguing that the state's energy market has functioned as designed. Higher electricity demand leads to higher prices, forcing consumers to cut back on energy use while encouraging power plants to increase their output of electricity. "It's not convenient," Hogan told the Times. "It's not nice. It's necessary."​

The architect of Texas' electricity market says it's working as planned. Critics compare it to late Soviet Russia.

 

I've never understood how jobs with variable hours are filled. Schedule flexibility is great for part-time workers, but if you need to make a mortgage or rent payment - hoping that you get enough hours in a month to make your budget has to be brutal.

 

Two disruptive fuckheads with the names Cinema and Mansion...you couldn't make this shit up.

Wait, yes you can!

 

It still blows my mind that the GOP is going all in with Trump after losing the WH, the Senate and the House - because of HIM! Ridiculous.

 

It’d be scarier if they had picked someone who isn’t going to be 78 years old in 2024 to be their cult leader.

You gotta pick your cult leaders like supreme court justices. Give them time to really do something.

 

I really hope the entire cast of Stalin Is Dead is still around to do a tangential sequel when Trump kicks the bucket.

Steve Buscemi as Stephen Miller.

 

Ohio raises in the Stupidest State Legislature poker game:

 

Maybe. He'll. Die.

 

Ohio: where John Boehner, John Kasich and Mike Dewine are now considered communists.

My bedroom is a stranger's gunroom
Ohio's in a downward spiral
I can't go back there anymore
Since alt-right opium went viral

 

I read her Medium post and the Washington Post’s coverage. Has the ring of truth to it.

Reactions like this are why women who are assaulted are afraid to come forward and why male predators continue to get away with it.

 

Meanwhile, a job has been posted.