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Feb 20

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egypt-museum:
“The Colossi of Memnon, early 1900sView of the two massive stone statues of king Amenhotep III in the Theban Necropolis. From Professor David Gordon Lyon photographs collection in the Harvard Semitic Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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egypt-museum:

The Colossi of Memnon, early 1900s

View of the two massive stone statues of king Amenhotep III in the Theban Necropolis. From Professor David Gordon Lyon photographs collection in the Harvard Semitic Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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dankmemeuniversity:

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cryptofwrestling:
“ Rodan (1957)
8mm film from the 60s…
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cryptofwrestling:

Rodan (1957)

8mm film from the 60s…

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tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva:

leepacey:

tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva:

this guy talks insanely fast but this is solid info on electrical outrages in the US.

privatization is cringe level 100

here’s a transcription of what this guy says in this video, because he talks extremely fast — i’m also including sources wherever possible, in case anybody wants to do some further reading or wants proof

If you’re looking at Texas right now and thinking, “It seems pretty bad that a state’s electrical grid can fail overnight from a snowstorm,” I have news for you. It’s so much worse than you could ever imagine. Don’t be a heartless idiot and blame ‘red state voters;’ it’s red states, blue states, purple states, green states, everywhere is in crisis.

In 2017, the American Society of Civil Engineers gave our energy grid a D+, because almost all of it was built in the 1950s and 60s with a 50-year life expectancy, and we’re 10 to 20 years past that. Across the country, 640,000 miles of high voltage lines run at full capacity at almost all times, which is way more than the grid was designed to handle, and Texas in particular has one of the worst ratios between planned and real capacity.

It’s so bad that the US Government has said that if just nine of America’s 55,000 electrical substations are brought down, it could cause a coast-to-coast blackout lasting 18 months or more. And testimony from the executive director of Task Force on National and Homeland Security has said that a prolonged collapse of the electrical grid could result in the death of up to 90% of the American population. [screenshot in the video has highlighted text from this source, saying: “a prolonged collapse of this nation’s electrical grid—through starvation, disease, and societal collapse—could result in the death of up to 90% of the American population.”]

Today, the US has more power outages than any other developed country. And that’s because 68% of the electricity in the US is managed by investor-owned privatized utility companies [the source I found said it’s actually 72%], and updating their systems cuts into their profits, so they don’t do anything until something fails. And when things do fail, and, for example, start massive wildfires in California, guess who pays for it? Mostly taxpayers

There’s no good news, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg, because all of America’s infrastructure is failing, so I’m gonna keep doing videos about it.

thank you !! I was hoping someone would do a transcript

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internationalbatofmystery-deact:

politijohn:

liberalsarecool:

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Corporations make more profits from suffering. The scarcity is a profit center. #ForcedPowerOutage

When Corporations can make more profit by increasing scarcity, they will.

Utilities should be public. Texas is a great example of the predictable deadliness of corporate greed.

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“Capitalism is indeed organized crime, and we are all the victims.”

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