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To everyone saying this is AI, I can assure you it's not. It's an editorial blog from a well known journalist. He does write in a more relaxed conversational style but I am sure, after following his site for over 20 years now, he's not using AI.

It was written less than an hour after his previous post so I'm sure there was a lot he was tracking before throwing this out there.

As to the story itself, I have seen where a lot of organizations have pushed guidance not to respond until leadership tells everyone what to do. At least in the DoD. I don't know how everyone is supposed to respond by Monday night anyway, some people have schedules where they don't work on Monday.

Linux Mint Debian Edition for GUI, Debian headless...

For anyone reading this that has to install Windows, when you get to the point where it asks you to log into a Microsoft account, hit shift+F10, type oobe\bypassnro into the command prompt and after it reboots select "I don't have an account"...

I would still maintain that Linux is a better option though.

Puerto Rico is not autonomous. In Puerto Rico v. Sanchez Valle, the US Supreme Court found that sovereignty of Puerto Rico ultimately resides in the United States Congress. The US Congress can pass a law for Puerto Rico and there is nothing anyone in the Puerto Rican government can do about it. US Congress has ultimate control over Puerto Rico (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROMESA as an example). That isn't autonomous.

"If Congress chose to alter Puerto Rico’s political status, it could do so through statute regardless of whether a plebiscite were held or what sentiment such a vote revealed." Political Status of Puerto Rico: Brief Background and Recent Developments for Congress (https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R44721/7)

Puerto Rico had been owned by the United States since the US took it during the Spanish-American War in 1898. It is part of the US. There have been multiple votes asking if they want to become an official state of the US. Other countries don't get the choice to become US states. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territories_of_the_United_States#Incorporated_vs._unincorporated_territories

You don't need a passport because it is inside US borders.

It can be just like you've said. You can also run tailscale directly on the system hosting a service and access it directly over the tailscale network.

Would you prefer the reporter refer to you as a family, company, or building...

The point being made here is that customer is the best noun that the English language has for a reporter to talk about a companies customers. This was never about an electric company referring to people. This is all some made up BS that is completely off topic to the article.

What should the AP have called all the customers of the utility companies other than customers?

You're correct about the problem being flooding. The zones in Hillsborough county that were under evacuation orders were the low lying zones. I'm in one of those houses you speak of right now and Milton is currently about 50 miles away. I feel safe here. I know there may be some damage outside that I'll have to fix, but I would have to do that regardless.

It probably also helps that my house isn't in an evacuation zone, though there are houses in my neighborhood that are.

It's looking like there was more storm surge with Helene. If Milton had hit 10-20 miles north though it would have been a toss up.