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Cake day: August 12th, 2023

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  • Why doesn’t Texas connect to the federal US power grid? It certainly isn’t freedom for its customers.

    a Houston homeowner, didn’t have to touch her thermostat to pitch in. Her utility company remotely shut off her air conditioner nine times that day as part of a power-saving strategy

    9 times a day? I get annoyed at setting the oven microwave clocks each time but 9 times would be too much. And each day! That’s not freedom that Texas wants - they want to keep a deliberately bad grid away from federal inspection that would require the company to spend money on upgrading and updating their shit.








  • The most relevant part is at the very bottom of the article:

    There have been reports in recent months of small explosions across the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), where Cologne is located, due to gang-related activity.

    In the Netherlands, setting off small explosions outside buildings is a common intimidation tactic for some drug traffickers. NRW borders the Netherlands and is on the obvious route from there to central and eastern Europe, as well as the rest of Germany.