WARMTH OF COLLECTIVISM: Mamdani urges New Yorkers to keep AC at 78 degrees F during heat wave
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@raphjd not quite. The UK national grid is going through its largest operational upgrade ever. Costs likely to spiral of course, some sources suggest could end up costing Ā£120B. On top of the grid itself there are some reactor replacements including Sizewell and Hinkley point C, plus about 30 more initiatives for nuclear power involving smaller facilities. Energy usage in the UK is likely to increase by 50%. Sorry if this feels off-narrative but itās all verifiable. I would say however they wait until they have no choice which is a decidedly panicked way of doing things, that being said, any business I have worked for has been the same, leave it until itās desperate.
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Partially true.
The UK is doing a massive program of installing electric pylons through the countryside. They aren't doing anything to improve the grid in the areas where people live. The pylons, at least in Scotland, are solely to take electricity from the solar farms (to be built) to wherever it's going. They are clear-cutting forests for these solar farms.
Ed Miliband is taking the country to Net Zero at any cost, which is why the UK has the highest energy costs, despite Labour's lies about reducing them.
Any new power plant, especially nuclear, will take decades to go online.
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@raphjd agreed this is something we should have started significant investment in during the 80ās and 90ās. Instead we focussed on financial services(a focus Brown-Blair had in the 2000ās before you think Iām marking this partisan), free-reign to the city providing them with different fiscal rules to the rest of the country so they could facilitate transactions to backwater countries easier and have fewer controls over their balance sheet, selling off the infrastructure for cheap allowing a certain few to profit from it in the short term rather than considering long term implications.
Not wanting to invest in skills and trade we lagged behind on technology which over time relinquishes our hard won sovereignty (economic controls the political).
As a result we have bankrupt country that can only make investments other people are willing to provide funding for - we have no money of our own. They may not be what everyone wants but itās something.
Either way, to the OP keeping AC under control in NYC is hardly a path to bullets given itās in line with rules existent under various mayors of NYC including Giuliani.
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@xyzzy141 Listen to yourself talk about essential things -not- happening or they take decades with politically-driven massive cost overruns.
You don't have to live like this.
It's not right & you really don't
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@blablarg18
The reality of privatisation. -
@xyzzy141 No, the reality of a big government.
Those private actors who might be capable, DARE NOT MOVE or to do anything quickly or good. Only "connected" (politically) and incompetent private actors are granted crumbs.
so then, shit gets to be job of government, by default.
& they do either bad things or nothing, because "It's what commies & neo-feudal bureaucrats do. To fix power grid, is treated as impossible. To want to, is treated as sinful - except if it helps migrants."
Worst of all worlds.
But you don't have to live like this. It's Stockholm Syndrome - yourself being either abused or abuser or both - If you argue that you must live like this.
In USA: Trump government repairs public monuments, arrests criminals, stops child exploitation, stops destructive migrants, upgrades power supply - or permits private companies to, re-shores chip & auto manufacturing - or permits private companies to, builds rockets - or permits private companies to. & indeed they work at it
Not all is well - government debt is big problem or will be soon, like in UK - it might destroy currency. But in general, the more people tell commies & neo-feudal bureaucrats to go fuck themselves, the more people can live, do things & solve problems.
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@xyzzy141 & u bringing up Giuliani - Really? You think he's good - really?? U think that???
If u must compare Zohran to Giuliani, quarter century ago - if that is what u libs (becuz that was Lib Memo which went around) are reduced to - then, Zohran is utter failure already. <<<
Thanks for playing!
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Gosh I bet youāre a joy at dinner parties
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@xyzzy141 collapse
leaves rubble -
Oh dearš¤. Youāre just boring thatās all.
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@xyzzy141 U don't have to live like this
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Communists always ration.
They give it to u first with smiles, then bullets.
Is your complaint that the very Capitalistic, for-profit, publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (the oldest stock on there!), S&P 500 energy corporation ConEd's failure to provide sufficient power to the residents of New York City is a failing of Communism?
That's like blaming starvation for obesity.
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I wonder how much red tape and regulations have to do with the situation.
California, for example, is notoriously difficult when it comes to getting planning permission to build anything. Illinois is also well known for making it nearly impossible to improve anything. I don't see NY and NYC being any different.
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@hubrys Chat-GPT is smarter than u. & not even alive
[q] con ed of new york. are they state-established monopoly? not in sense where state literally owns their shares but in sense where state guarantees their position as sole provider of something and tells them what they can, can't or should do. answer in less than 40 words.
[a - attempt 1] Con Ed is given exclusive service territory rights by New York and the stateās Public Service Commission heavily regulates its rates and operating obligations. That means itās a regulated geographic monopoly.
[a - attempt 2] YesāCon Edison is a state-regulated, service-territory delivery monopoly in practice: New Yorkās PSC grants it the franchise to be the default wires/steam utility and sets the rules and rates, with limited competition within that territory.
[q] to be clear: New York's legal regime intervenes to stop competitors for Con Ed and give it special, exclusive privilege in geographic areas? say yes or no, whichever is closest.
[a] Yes. New Yorkās PSC authorizes utilities like Con Edison to serve defined geographic āservice territoriesā as the default regulated delivery provider, while limiting meaningful competition within those areas.
ok?
STATE-DIRECTED, STATE-PROTECTED MONOPOLY, genius
This fits what I told @xyzzy141 earlier:
Reality of a big government. Those private actors who might be capable, DARE NOT MOVE or to do anything quickly or good. Only "connected" (politically) and incompetent private actors are granted crumbs.
But u say
blaming starvation for obesity
ok, I got u to 1. defend communism, at least by implication or comparison to what you falsely claim is "capitalism", and yet, 2. admit it's starvation. Thanks for playing! gg
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