• Texas leaving the US would really open up competition for the title of Worst Shithole in the US.

    also, it would be hilarious to see the Tom Segura “you ask me we’re building the wall on the wrong side of Texas” come to life.

      • Florida and Texas have been battling it out since the beginning, but Texas has always managed to start and end strong by operating with literally the most unreliable and expensive energy distribution infrastructure/grid in these United States while it’s extraction infrastructure is an unsafe Byzantine network of pipelines vying to create another Biggest Spill in History at any moment.

        it’s a dice role of meteorological forecasting, but I am betting the most extreme mass casualty event to kick off the official climate apocalypse (North America edition) is gonna be Texas, because they are not going to be able to keep people warm or cool for a critical period of time during some phenomenon.

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          If we’re not counting that blizzard a year or two ago that killed a bunch of people in Texas, I honestly think that the mass casualty event is a real roll of the dice. Sure, you’ve got a power grid held together by chicken fencing and EU banned chewing gum in Texas, but the higher hurricane chance and much older average age in Florida keeps it very competitive, as far as I can tell