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submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I miss malls. I miss the dynamic nature of them. I miss exploring them. I miss seeing all the things that people could buy. I miss the atmosphere. I miss the fountain you throw your pennies in. I miss meeting so many different people. I miss the escalators. I miss the joy of going into the mall pet shop and seeing the animals warm up to you. I miss sitting at the food courts, eating my weirdly quality pizza and taking in the ambiance. Hell, I miss getting lost in malls.

One of the things that feels like a stab in the heart as an aspiring parent is I will never be able to take my kids to the mall and have them experience the same experience. I look at malls now and want to cry. Look at me, a commie crying over a pillar of capitalism. That's how much of a friend malls were to me, yet nobody I know will say they relate.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I wish it could happen repeatedly though. Like, once a month eg.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Let's bring more chaos to this process! At some random time during the month, the power grid will just automatically turn off. No warning. Just instant lights out.

Its duration will be determined by a log-normal distribution or similar. So the average duration will be 24 hours with a long thin tail going towards longer durations. There will be a very small chance power is out for the whole month. There will be an even smaller chance power will be out for a whole year. Also, the duration will not be announced at the start of the outage. You'll just have to sit there in the dark for who knows how long.

All home power generators will also have to be hooked up to this control system. Any home with active power during a deliberate grid blackout will be bombed by automatic drone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

You just perfectly described "load shedding". If you want to live your dream the good news is you could head to somewhere like South Africa right now. If you wanted to sprinkle in some drone strikes there's also lots of other countries you could get a holiday home in to experience them too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

At some random time during the month, the power grid will just automatically turn off. No warning. Just instant lights out.

Yes like a fire drill