astanton1862

astanton1862 t1_jaac2lx wrote

> they already had Amazon Prime anyway

Probably the later, but one of the reasons I keep prime around is because they release 4 or 5 good series a year.

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astanton1862 t1_j9yjc6j wrote

The Texas storm wasn't once in a blue moon. We had two previous freezes in the last 20 years that took down the power with state funded reports detailing the risk and what had to be done. The state did nothing because it would cost the gas companies a little money.

And then the freeze happens and half the natural gas wells froze and and those companies who failed us during the freeze lost so much money they went out of business made as much profit in one week as they normally do in two years.

So no, Reddit isn't just picking on Texas. My power went out for days and my home got down into the 40s. There is nothing quite like having to check each morning to see if my elderly parents were one of the 250 that died. And all this happened while we have been put on a payment plan to pay the profits to the companies that failed to do their job. The criticism is extremely well justified.

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astanton1862 t1_j5yg8db wrote

Depends on the activity. If it is soccer, then yeah, you can play in the cold for a while, but just standing around and playing simple games like this, you go inside after an hour at most. It sounds like there was a lot of down time during the red light green light game, which means not much movement in freezing weather.

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astanton1862 t1_j1wquds wrote

Biden doesn't have a solution because the Executive Branch is not the problem. The fundamental problem is that are immigration laws are woefully outdated and completely incompatible with this current situation. The specific immediate problem is that the legal system put in place to lawfully manage this issue is so overburdened that a non eligible asylum seeker can stay in the country for years before their cases are adjudicated. That means that even if they are ultimately rejected, they can still work here to take money back home for months.

I actually do have a solution. The US should militarize the issue. Now, I'm not talking about troops or border walls. What we should do is draft all the lawyers into the Coast Guard and set up a special court system to process claims. Assign some as judges and advocates for each side and wind down the backlog. Of course this will never happen because wealthy and powerful people in our society will never be forced into service unlike the rest of us who they will happily push out in front of machine guns to die for our country.

Even if we don't go with the draft, the ultimate solution must come from Congress.

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