:british-maw: Personally, I found it fun to huddle around a family candle
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/12/hellish-blackouts-could-yet-have-silver-lining/
Gotta love how these crusty white boomers are all like “A little hellish amount of suffering is good for you”
They lived during a time of unprecedented economic and societal stability, especially in comparison to to their non-white counterparts and especially so compared to the nations they exploited to achieve that
Worst they probably suffered was a Jell-O salad every now and again
Living in Texas during a blackout that lasted a few days at below freezing was… a bit more than mildly unpleasant. Can’t imagine having to put up with that shit for weeks or months at a time.
Probably the worst angle on it is the theory that this will encourage people to turn off their damned phones (wut r batrys?) and go outside (in the middle of UK winter?) for anything other than a full blown riot.
I mean, the lights are on right now. We didn’t lose the grid during the August heat wave. So… eh.
