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America moment: being forced to rely on a burger company’s app to find out where power outages are joker-amerikkklap

Link to the tweet

Oh, and of course we can not forget that said burger company is using this massive natural disaster/tragedy as an opportunity to do Brand Twitter™ PR and marketing in the replies to the original tweet!

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[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 47 points 1 year ago

Burgerlandia living up to its reputationfreedom-and-democracy

[–] YoungSheldonAdelson@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Texans are for small government and independence; so when a hurricane comes through they rely on the Whataburger app for power outage information, HEB disaster trailers for access to sugar water, and Joel Osteen not locking the doors to his megachurch for flooding shelter.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Getting shuffled single file into my local Buc-ee's ©️ relief center

[–] EnsignRedshirt@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Jesus, you can't look up where power outages are occurring? In BC, our power company is a SOE and there's a website you can look at that shows every power outage in the province. Areas with outages are overlaid on Google maps, which means you can see down to individual streets where outages are occurring, and each outage has information appended to it, like the cause of the outage, time since outage, whether teams are actively repairing it, etc.

And in Burgerland, you get the information from burger company.

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Oh my god

There are almost 300 registered energy providers in Texas. Each provider has rates and plans that change daily.

late ed: For reference, Texas has 254 counties.

[–] EnsignRedshirt@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

This would be grounds for a military coup in a more civilized country.

Some Bioshock shit lol

[–] Jew@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I can in my state, but we only have like 3 power utility companies. My guess is that you can't see a map of Houston because there are dozens of energy providers due to the lack of regulation. Any map would be incomplete and not as good as the Whataburger app...

[–] EnsignRedshirt@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

One day, burger technology will become so advanced that it starts to replace existing technology companies as the predominant driver of innovation.

[–] the_itsb@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

And in Burgerland, you get the information from burger company.

Texas is just especially stupid about it.

I'm in Ohio, which is trying to become the Florida of the Midwest, and my neighborhood is part of an electrical co-op. They have a great website with real-time tracking of outages and a text message service for outage reporting and updates.

It's not all co-ops here. AEP does electrical service a lot of the nearby towns, and from what I've heard, outage reporting and tracking is more effort and doesn't update in real-time. But at least they do have a map and an online outage submission form, so that's something.

I feel very badly for our comrades in places like Texas. Ohio sucks badly enough, but jfc, Texas really does it up.

[–] Runcible@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Don't worry comrade, someday Canadian utilities & burger places will be just as good as ours

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jesus, you can't look up where power outages are occurring?

[Chorus]
You don't tug on Superman's cape
You don't spit into the wind
You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger
And you don't mess 'round with Texas

Song

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Without the free market, companies like Whataburger would not have incentive to innovate and track power outages as a way to drive users to their service, and if a company doesn't have incentive to do something, it is literally impossible to do it. Checkmate commies smuglord

[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago
[–] dannoffs@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago
[–] Dr_Gabriel_Aby@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Dingus_Khan@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

America's own little America

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what caused these power outages, all the A/C load from the heat?

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, had to be Hurrican Beryl.

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I would simply avoid it by doing a Beryl roll

[–] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Press Z or R twice!

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Stolen honor from Waffle House

Context

Waffle House Index

The metric is unofficially used by FEMA to inform disaster response.

[...]

The Waffle House Index is a metric named after the ubiquitous Southern US restaurant chain Waffle House known for its 24-hour, 365-day service. Since this restaurant always remains open, it has given rise to an informal but useful metric to determine the severity of a storm and the likely scale of assistance required for disaster recovery. It was coined by former administrator Craig Fugate of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Once again, this will be spinned as

“See? I TOLD YOU the private sector can be trusted!”

[–] ihaveibs@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Unsurprisingly, the open Whataburgers do a decent job outlining the wealthiest parts of the city as well

[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Thinking back on how Twitter limited Japan’s disaster warning account during a live disaster

[–] crispy_lol@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Waffle House index warns us about the severity of storms - but what about the Whataburger index? Other countries don’t even have access to the advanced metrics we got here in murica

[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Waffle House index - severity of storms

Big Mac Index - PPP differences

Stripper Index - possibilities of recession

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

For a second I thought that was a Wonderwoman Burger joint or something