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Northern California is a straight clusterfuck right now, and I'm in a relatively rural area so it might be awhile before I get my power back. What do yinz do to pass the time aside from doomscroll and shitpost?
Edit: Just to give you all an idea about how bad it is right now. Rual Northern California towns are much smaller than a lot of people think, so a lot of those outages are entire towns.
I've lived in 4 different countries, in multiple cities. I've never experienced a blackout in my entire life. Such a foreign concept to me (I'm very fortunate I guess :))
I've always just assumed they could potentially happen anywhere in the world.
Enron II but this time even less people give a fuck
I can't remember the last time the power was out long enough to think about what to do with my time. It must be like 10+ years ago that it last happened.
To be honest, while I would dread it in the short term, I honestly think the power should go out more often. Society's dependence on screens is insane. But that wouldn't magically cause third spaces to pop into existence, so I dunno, maybe it wouldn't help anything.