Interesting. I had no idea there was a monopoly over internet service in courtrooms.

I pay around 9 cents/kWh, Texas has among the lowest rates for electricity in the country, and produces by far the most renewable energy in the country. I've never experienced a rolling blackout, although many people have. The winter storm that everyone points to was a result of the worst arctic weather we've had in the past century. We're not built for extreme cold and it sucks that 57 people because of that. Kind of like how Oregon and Washington aren't built for the heat wave they endured in 2021 when several hundred people died.

We had another recent hard freeze and thanks to weatherization improvements to handle extreme cold and ERCOT making sure enough plants were online, we avoided any blackouts. There's plenty of stuff out there to shit on Texas about. If you want to shit on a state's power grid, shit on California because a mere 10 day stretch of 100 degree weather almost collapsed their entire power grid. If you want to shit on Texas, I'd go for our shit for brains governor, the abortion embarrassment, and, despite having one of the world's leading medical centers in Houston, our atrocious healthcare outcomes.

Came here to say Supernatural. I've never seen a show that comes even close.

Japan has the 3rd highest GDP in the world.

I nominate "I gotcha, bro."