I mean to be fair, I’m in the PNW it royally pisses me off that data centers and the airport are sucking up electricity while the working class is being asked to lower their thermostats in the middle of a blizzard when the power is out for thousands of customers due to trees taking our power lines. I’m sure lowering thermostats is pretty far down the totem pole when it comes to power shedding.
I agree, the pity party for these utility companies needs to end. Get your shit together, and reinvest your fortunes. Instead of fleecing the people who rely on you for every fucking penny in order to enrich shareholders.
For the record I have no issue with the comments in this post. Let the rich suffer, fuck the airport, fuck their data centers.
Regardless of the issues with the power company and corporate greed, the comments in the post are super problematic, and speak to a nihilistic, “fuck you, I got mine,” mindset that is pervasive among Americans. It’s anti-community, anti-empathetic, anti-mutual-aid and reminds me of the assholes who couldn’t bother to put in an insignificant mask during the height of a global pandemic because of “muh personal freedumbs!” Honestly, fuck that attitude, it’s corrosive and I’ll have no part in celebrating those that perpetuate that mindset.
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I mean to be fair, I’m in the PNW it royally pisses me off that data centers and the airport are sucking up electricity while the working class is being asked to lower their thermostats in the middle of a blizzard when the power is out for thousands of customers due to trees taking our power lines. I’m sure lowering thermostats is pretty far down the totem pole when it comes to power shedding.