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my thermostat might have a political agenda (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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First panel: a poorly drawn figure with half-closed lids asks a smart™ thermostat "hey little man hows it goin?" Second Panel: the smart thermostat points with a large arrow at a screenshot of a graphic that reads "August Trends: Heating & cooling compared with last year", and shows zero hours more heating, 129 hours more cooling, with a small caption underneath that reads "On average, temperatures were 5 degrees warmer than August 2022" Third Panel: the poorly drawn figure with half-closed lids is shown with an unreadable smile in front of a semi-transparent image of a NASA article that reads "NASA Clocks July 2023 as Hottest Month on Record Ever Since 1880" Fourth Panel: the poorly drawn figure says "yea"

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The facts became so undeniable that they're forced to accept that things are changing, but now they insist that the changes are absolutely not related to our environmental fuckery but are a natural thing.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Humans couldn't possibly change the environment that much!" [gets in manufactured vehicle and drives an hour to work on a concrete roadway without seeing a single natural tree or animal]

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, I'll have you know that concrete is very natural, so natural in fact, that you can grow it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was so confused by "Insulate Britain" - I thought it's some weird satire and the showsection is called "Insult Britain". But growing-concrete guy was serious and that was a real news show - crazy.

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

Aye there's some reet proper creatures on British news shows. Scarily sometimes they don't get made to look quite as daft as that

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

The most obnoxious thing is that even if we were seeing natural warming, the greenhouse effect would still be a real thing we have directly observed on Venus and the dumbest bastard in the world should consider not making things worse.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My house has had 2 different AC units fail this summer. One of them failing 7 times, I shit you not 7 times.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So where in Texas are you?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dallas area

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Oof! Sorry friend.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This made me chuckle briefly, ty

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thing is, they weren't wrong. I'm in Texas.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I don't have an A/C unit. Just the world's largest swamp cooler, aka The Pacific Ocean.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

I hate it when facts get all political.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Air conditioning costs have been ridiculous this year. I have had to both run it for longer and electricity costs more.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A desk/stand fan helps. We keep our thermostat at 77 during the day and have a fan on instead. Our bills haven't gone up a lot compared to previous years. 77 is actually comfortable. The problem is the air is not circulating/moving, so your AC works overtime because you tend to lower it so it keeps turning on and moving air around. We even feel the need to use a blanket in the living room because 77 with a fan directly pointed at you actually feels cold.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

that is 25 °C in metric.

Unless living in a swamp 27° C or 81°F is the earliest we'd use a fan most of the times though. I thought you'd have to get your flats to 31°C/ 90°F when complaining about how expensive AC is. 25/77 is really luxurious

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Oh believe me, I grew up in a tropical country and 26C was the lowest I set my AC to, and that was for sleeping. People in places like the US just have a different perspective. I sometimes see comments saying they keep it at 70F during the day and 65F at night to sleep comfortably. I already feel uncomfortably cold at 72F.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Haha I just work in 30°C with a fan that feels like it does nothing at those temps. In this house we sweat like pigs during the summer.

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

Where we live, I'd run the A/C very few days in the summer. My husband gets so uncomfortable in the heat, though.

A/C sometimes makes me feel disproportionately cold. I'm not sure why. I can be outside working in the winter, no problem, but A/C is something else entirely.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

How can it be political if all of the political parties agree it's happening and we need to do someth....

Ah, forgot about our cranially-challenged little cousins

[–] ryannathans 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Meanwhile we used over 3000kwh each month through the cooler months just keeping the house warm to 17-18C

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I lived through August with constant 36+ without an AC. Next year I'm fixing the damn thing or I'll just die.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Smh why can't the temperature and chemical content of the air be nonpolitical

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

It's not political if you don't imply to do anything think-about-it