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It may be juvenile but as a Dutch person “kut.org” and “kut news” is so surreal to read. Maybe on point: as someone living in a country with relative big gover

It may be juvenile but as a Dutch person “kut.org” and “kut news” is so surreal to read. Maybe on point: as someone living in a country with relative big government and reaping the huge quality of life reward from it, I just can’t understand why people would want to create a society where you risk losing basic facilities such as electricity. What happened in Texas is such a string of failures to actually govern and force companies to adhere to regulations, it’s crazy to me.

jefftk 3y ago
It's a radio call sign: K because it's West of the Mississippi River, UT for the University of Texas, and three letters because the license dates to 1925 before the FCC completely moved to four letters.
- louwrentius 3y ago
  I understand, but it spells a rude word for “vagina” in Dutch.
  - amanaplanacanal 3y ago
    English has the same word but they put one more letter in it.
    - mannykannot 3y ago
      There is a University of Northern Texas - a public research university in Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. It has a radio station, callsign KNTU.
  - pests 3y ago
    Lovely. Imagine someone trying to explain why a radio station is named C*T lmao, it would get changed so fast.
  - stevehawk 3y ago
    i'm sure you understand why that is not particularly important to a small American radio station
    - sidewndr46 3y ago
      As someone living in Texas, I can assure you Texans do not take kindly to the idea of one of our radio stations being called 'small'
      - selimthegrim 3y ago
        Weren’t all the border blasters in Mexico
  - tinus_hn 3y ago
    You better not look up what was one of the historical names of the Katholieke Universiteit in Tilburg. Apparently they actually printed letter paper.
avar 3y ago
Pretty much all of Dutch society (trains, highways etc.) shuts down every couple of years due to something that would be considered light snowfall further north in Europe. The temperature in Texas reliably doesn't go below freezing, except in freak weather events such as these. That's why they had water pipes exploding everywhere. So I think this is analogous to the Netherlands having a week of >40°C weather (>105°F). Sure, you could blame the government for some of the resulting chaos, but it's also partly the freak event itself. Most of the people that died in that event in Texas would be alive if they had sufficiently warm clothing. Is that entirely the fault of the government?
- Mechanical9 3y ago
  I think some of the blame towards Texas is due to many of their politicians denying that climate change exists. Texas is a major oil producer, and is on the higher end of CO2 emissions per capita. They should probably realize that their once reliable weather patterns are not going to be reliable anymore.
  - lupusreal 3y ago
    But when Dutch politicians neglect to prepare for extreme weather, they don't have as much blame because they pay lip service to climate change? This seems backwards; failing to prepare for a threat is made worse by you previously acknowledging the threat. The climate change deniers can at least claim to be earnestly surprised; anybody who previously acknowledged the threat already gave up that excuse.
- blovescoffee 3y ago
  What are you talking about? Freezing weather is definitely not a freak event in Texas. Probably approaching 10% of days in many parts of Texas. “If they had sufficiently warm clothes”… sufficient is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Besides, if freezing is such a freak event, why do you expect people to prepare and not the government to prepare. The temperatures in many homes were below freezing for several days. There are normal citizens who cannot survive such an event.
- turquoisevar 3y ago
cowsandmilk 3y ago
Netherlands has no risks of people losing electricity due to lack of capacity? https://www.alliander.com/nl/financieel-nieuws/ook-elektriciteitsnet-in-woonwijk-loopt-tegen-grenzen-aan/ https://www.alliander.com/nl/financieel-nieuws/ook-elektrici...

jefftk 3y ago

It's a radio call sign: K because it's West of the Mississippi River, UT for the University of Texas, and three letters because the license dates to 1925 before the FCC completely moved to four letters.

louwrentius 3y ago
I understand, but it spells a rude word for “vagina” in Dutch.
- amanaplanacanal 3y ago
  English has the same word but they put one more letter in it.
  - mannykannot 3y ago
    There is a University of Northern Texas - a public research university in Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. It has a radio station, callsign KNTU.
- pests 3y ago
  Lovely. Imagine someone trying to explain why a radio station is named C*T lmao, it would get changed so fast.
- stevehawk 3y ago
  i'm sure you understand why that is not particularly important to a small American radio station
  - sidewndr46 3y ago
    As someone living in Texas, I can assure you Texans do not take kindly to the idea of one of our radio stations being called 'small'
    - selimthegrim 3y ago
      Weren’t all the border blasters in Mexico
- tinus_hn 3y ago
  You better not look up what was one of the historical names of the Katholieke Universiteit in Tilburg. Apparently they actually printed letter paper.

avar 3y ago

Pretty much all of Dutch society (trains, highways etc.) shuts down every couple of years due to something that would be considered light snowfall further north in Europe. The temperature in Texas reliably doesn't go below freezing, except in freak weather events such as these. That's why they had water pipes exploding everywhere. So I think this is analogous to the Netherlands having a week of >40°C weather (>105°F). Sure, you could blame the government for some of the resulting chaos, but it's also partly the freak event itself. Most of the people that died in that event in Texas would be alive if they had sufficiently warm clothing. Is that entirely the fault of the government?

Mechanical9 3y ago
I think some of the blame towards Texas is due to many of their politicians denying that climate change exists. Texas is a major oil producer, and is on the higher end of CO2 emissions per capita. They should probably realize that their once reliable weather patterns are not going to be reliable anymore.
- lupusreal 3y ago
  But when Dutch politicians neglect to prepare for extreme weather, they don't have as much blame because they pay lip service to climate change? This seems backwards; failing to prepare for a threat is made worse by you previously acknowledging the threat. The climate change deniers can at least claim to be earnestly surprised; anybody who previously acknowledged the threat already gave up that excuse.
blovescoffee 3y ago
What are you talking about? Freezing weather is definitely not a freak event in Texas. Probably approaching 10% of days in many parts of Texas. “If they had sufficiently warm clothes”… sufficient is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Besides, if freezing is such a freak event, why do you expect people to prepare and not the government to prepare. The temperatures in many homes were below freezing for several days. There are normal citizens who cannot survive such an event.
turquoisevar 3y ago

cowsandmilk 3y ago

Netherlands has no risks of people losing electricity due to lack of capacity? https://www.alliander.com/nl/financieel-nieuws/ook-elektriciteitsnet-in-woonwijk-loopt-tegen-grenzen-aan/ https://www.alliander.com/nl/financieel-nieuws/ook-elektrici...