Not The Onion

20103 readers

2653 users here now

Welcome

We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

Links to news stories from...
...credible sources, with...
...their original headlines, that...
...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Please also avoid duplicates.

Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

kescusay@lemmy.world

193

Nashville is furious about power outages. Republicans say ‘woke’ is to blame. (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 10 hours ago by bytesonbike@discuss.online to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

24 comments fedilink hide all child comments

The finger-pointing escalated this week as some Republicans argued that a major utility company run by Democratic appointees has “woke” policies on diversity and tree-trimming that are the causes of customers’ woes.

There’s bipartisan and widespread consensus that Nashville Electric Service, which serves the city as well as surrounding counties, mishandled the storm, struggling to mobilize enough workers and equipment to quickly clear fallen trees and restore service.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Obviously DEI training isn't to blame.

But the point about a new tree-trimming policy seems logical at first glance. Does anyone know if it is valid?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

The complaint about the new tree trimming practices is "valid" in the same way that bitching about renewable energy replacing coal-fired power plants is "valid." The new "species specific pruning" practices are actually better in the sense that they promote the long-term health of the trees instead of indiscriminately butchering them in a straight line with an overgrown hedge trimmer, but giving a shit about that instead of doing everything the cheapest most shortsighted way possible is the ultimate sin, according to these demented assholes.