.@ConEdison is asking all customers in NYC to conserve energy. Limit use of appliances. Report outages to https://t.co/12zVPHpRjS or 800-75-CONED (26633). Multilingual & ASL link: https://t.co/EDp1gMOb9U.
— NYCEM – Notify NYC (@NotifyNYC) June 30, 2021
https://twitter.com/AliBaumanTV/status/1410444563513237510
New York is having power problems so they request people turn off their A/C.
The reporter is reporting this from in front of buildings covered in advertising lights.
How hare the people trying to live use A/C and cook food, don’t they know mega corporations need to have their jumbotron ads?
I’d mandate every lighted advertisement go dark before I told people to turn off their A/C, but I’m also not an asshole from New York City.
https://youtu.be/pnp8I6RDXJ0
Pardon me for being snooty.
After the novelty of the availability of goods and services day and night wears off, just what is the appeal of large cities?
Little peace and quiet, people crammed in with little personal space, greater risk of interruption of basic services, little self-reliance / preparedness ethic, poor understanding of where food comes from, higher crime (possibly due to the anonymity of city living).
Sign me up.
I know you’re being sarcastic, but there’s an answer to this one.
The biggest pro of a city is to congregate talent together across fields. An engineer/scientist/whatever doesn’t have too far to go to be productive since the other talents he needs are right over there instead of across the country.
Obviously cities dissolve into cesspools and invalidate their own existence over time, but that’s the original reason.
@Dead J: only the “sign me up” was sarcastic. 8>)
As a boomer, I saw people like my family moving out of the city (Boston, Cambridge). It seems like the peak of having people together was fading even then. Hmmm.
DeadJ, the proximity argument was a good one up to the 20th century or so. Today, it holds far less. Still to some extent in dealing with things that actually require physical presence. Hospitals are easier to find in cities, and specialized ones in particular. What other service needs a city?
I’ve never lived in a “big city” and not in any small city since 1980 (is Nashua, NH big enough to call a “small city”?). I’m very happy to live in a town of 4000 or so people, that’s more than big enough for me. I can watch the deer run in my yard, and do my target practice out in the back section, without causing any raised eyebrows. Life is good.
L. Neil Smith has an essay on cities in his collection “Down with Power”; it has some interesting things to say. One, if I remember right, is that cities are a convenient packaging scheme for totalitarian rulers to keep many of there subjects nearby and easy to control. That certainly accounts for the far-left politics of most cities.
Four months ago, due to Cuomo and DeBlasio, ComEd shut down over 1040 Megawatts of reliable nuclear generating capacity at Indian Point.
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=47776
F**k NYC let ’em swelter in the dark.
Even one IP unit would probably be enough to ease their concerns.
I am surprised that the Big Commie has not ordered the shutdown of the Times Square Jumbo Trons. Tell them they can light them up again at midnight. By then the power situation will be better.
Didn’t NY just celebrate the closure of a nuclear power plant in Indian Point (not sure if I remember correctly).
Funny what happens when you reduce generation capacity without having a replacement.
Added bonus: CA, the leader in green energy is asking people to not charge their electric cars because they will cause blackouts and brown outs.
That is what happens when you elect children with no concept of cause-effect into political office
Not sure what happened to my earlier post, but yeah, Indian Point 3 was permanently shutdown on April 30, 2021, eliminating 1040 Megawatts of generating capacity. Cuomo and DeBlasio basically refused to support extending the plants operating license and ConEd rolled over and agreed to shutdown the plant. Sorry if I don’t have any sympathy for the NYC socialists that voted for these clowns.
Some years back, there was a quiz on the internet about how much in the way of resources individuals used. If you were from a first world country, you automatically got some high amount. Playing around w. it, the only way you could get a score that you could virtue signal was to basically put you were living in a mud hut in Africa.
It was intentionally designed to guilt people into using less.
These are the people that took it to heart.
Of course the rich and connected won’t turn off their AC in their multiple town houses/mansions/suburbans. That’s only for the Proles.
They also don’t want third world people to have higher standards of living. The green thing is pretty clear about this; if you imagine even a moderately comfortable standard of living — say, by raising the third world to what is now the average of the people of Europe — energy consumption goes up a great deal. They don’t allow for that; they don’t even want to think about it.
Great Example would be China. They have built THOUSANDS of Coal Fired Power Plants to lift their economy from peasant farms to producing damn near everything for Europe and North America.
And even today, they still have a lot of peasant farms to lift out of poverty.
Most of China is still very much a third world country with poverty to match, only with vastly more oppression than in the typical third world country. Only selected cities are somewhat more prosperous. Not Western Europe levels, but perhaps comparable to Bulgaria or Mexico or similar countries that are noticeably above the level of the deep third world.
Elect MORE democrats. Pretty soon nyc will be like the 1800s only more crowded with idiots. Fuk em. Problem is lots of “them” are moving to my state….
re: multilingual & ASL link…. multilingual, i understand, if disagree with. but asking for Age, Sex and Location like you’re trying to make sure you’re not chatting with a 15yo is just twisted.