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1. whatever1 · 1790687310 · focus · HN ↗

   In Greece there is no incentive to fix power losses since the electric bill has a power losses line item.

   You can steal as much as you want. The ones who pay will pay.

   1. blitzar · 1790689305 · focus · HN ↗

      > The ones who pay will pay.

      Until solar panels came to liberate us from the utility overlords.

      1. whatever1 · 1790690380 · focus · HN ↗

         And handed us over to the mafias that collect protection money for solar panels.

         A failed state will be fail-stating regardless of the technology.

         1. TeMPOraL · 1790691230 · focus · HN ↗

            Indeed, you need to insure from the risk of brick-rain where this weather phenomenon occurs!
         2. vagrantJin · 1790709832 · focus · HN ↗

            A failed state is a funny thing. It cannot fail indefinitely and yet it persists in a limbo.
      2. inglor_cz · 1790691135 · focus · HN ↗

         In places where the grid is reliable, approximately no one disconnects voluntarily from it, and solar panels are just a nice extra.

         It is the places where the grid is failing where solar panels indeed liberate you, but not from the utility overlords, but from incompetent and corrupt governance.

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