First we abjured mediocrity
Then we disavowed mediocrity
Then we simply would not tolerate mediocrity
Then we began to accept mediocrity
Then mediocrity became common
Now we are supposed to revel in mediocrity.
Suffering, your suffering, is a virtue to them. This is an excellent Twitter thread on the condition. Lots of gems.
“The leftist approach to shortages is never to fix them, or improve the situation.
They see it as a vindication of their ideas — an opportunity to “bring people to their side” and to punish their enemies.”
Just got a new circuit board put in the propane fired generator, seems to be working again. We’ll see. We get rolling blackouts here that are the ice and wind inspired type. All that climate change that occurs over 24 to 48 hours they used to call weather.
I respect your project to keep you and who you share your house with safe by having backup power.
But unreliable grid power and the widespread use of backup generators, which are mainly diesel backup generators, has long been a characteristic of Soviet/Russian client states. Like Iraq.
The original New Deal emphasized Rural Electrification, combatting poverty in the Tennessee River Valley with the TVA.
The Green New Deal will bring us to getting our power from small, smelly diesel generators?
First we abjured mediocrity
Then we disavowed mediocrity
Then we simply would not tolerate mediocrity
Then we began to accept mediocrity
Then mediocrity became common
Now we are supposed to revel in mediocrity.
Suffering, your suffering, is a virtue to them. This is an excellent Twitter thread on the condition. Lots of gems.
“The leftist approach to shortages is never to fix them, or improve the situation.
They see it as a vindication of their ideas — an opportunity to “bring people to their side” and to punish their enemies.”
https://mobile.twitter.com/0xAlaric/status/1606529560253710342
Just got a new circuit board put in the propane fired generator, seems to be working again. We’ll see. We get rolling blackouts here that are the ice and wind inspired type. All that climate change that occurs over 24 to 48 hours they used to call weather.
I respect your project to keep you and who you share your house with safe by having backup power.
But unreliable grid power and the widespread use of backup generators, which are mainly diesel backup generators, has long been a characteristic of Soviet/Russian client states. Like Iraq.
The original New Deal emphasized Rural Electrification, combatting poverty in the Tennessee River Valley with the TVA.
The Green New Deal will bring us to getting our power from small, smelly diesel generators?