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[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Another fun fact: The failure of one of those grids resulted in over 200 people freezing to death. Guess which one!

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Yeah that's the irony, Texas wouldn't even need to secede to fuck up its power grid.