• andyburke@fedia.io
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    2 months ago

    What is this? Why? This is maybe the most ridiculous protest poster I have ever seen, especially the fine print.

  • gl4d10@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    remember when we all did a great job saving water so they just upped the rates? something tells me this isn’t going to help consumers

  • tektite@slrpnk.net
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    2 months ago

    If anyone thinks they want to participate in this… you should probably flip each breaker off individually before switching the main power. It’s not a great idea to be turning them all back on simultaneously by only flipping the main.

    Then remember that you’ve cut the power to your fridge and freezer for the entire day…

    • mesamune@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      It’s only for 3 hours instead of the full day. Ive been telling local people if it helps just unplug literally everything but your fridge. People can only do so much.

      • tektite@slrpnk.net
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        2 months ago

        The poster says 6am to 9pm but regardless, leaving the fridge on is probably for the best.

        • mesamune@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          2 months ago

          I didn’t see the am…woops.

          Yeah that’s way too long for a fridge/freezer. Thanks!

          • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world
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            2 months ago

            It depends. If you don’t open either it’s not so bad. Mine ended up being off for like 30 hours before and it was mostly fine. Things in the fridge didn’t last quite as long but nothing spoiled. Not even the milk.

            • Sethayy@sh.itjust.works
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              2 months ago

              And depends on the thermal mass you got in there, a bit of planning with some water jugs can go a long way

              (Important to note they will expand in the freezer so leave some air space in the jug)

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    A real protest would be to get millions of people to synchronize flipping their breakers on and off every 5 or so minutes for an hour. That would likely actually cause infrastructural damage. Power distribution infrastructure isn’t really designed to handle repeated massive transients like that, afaik. And that’s when it’s maintained properly - we’re talking about PG&E here.

    For real though, when the fuck are they going to have their C-suite thrown in jail and just get taken over by the state? I struggle to imagine how CA itself could do a worse job than PG&E.