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"Mamdani wants you to diiieee! It's another genocidal socialist maniac! Feeeaaar!"
Official federal policy.
The Oil & Gas Party wants you to buy more oil & gas. This government isn't working for American, it's funnelling American money to those who invest in oil & gas.
The Oil & Gas Party
GOP - Gas & Oil Party.
Also "Guardians of Pedophiles".
We keep ours at 80°F unless there is a breeze, in which case we just use our ceiling fans and open everything. It gets a little uncomfortable, but if we remember to stay hydrated and eat less, then it's all good.
The same Government of Putin shitheads who killed the energy efficient heat pump incentives.
slams
They can't help themselves
Don't blast em over it, jeez.
"Lemming Blasts News Site Over Use Of 'Slams' In Title"
it seemed like more of a takedown tbh
Must be a morgue with this many bodies
78 during day is my standard. You let your body acclimate to the warm weather. Then when you go out and about in it you don’t feel like you’re about to die.
76 at night. Set to get that low by 10pm.
78f is roughly 26c, which the recommendation here in Australia during summer. I usually have mine set to 30c/86f.
I don't understand what the issue with Mamdani's advice is.
[Random rambling] ... HE'S A SOCIALIST ... [more random rambling]
In the mindset of the contrarian reactionary, it doesn’t matter what the advice is but rather that it’s being given at all.
He could have quoted MAGA and their recommendations and they still would have lost their shit.
He gave the same recommendation as the federal DOE. The sad part is this is the federal government following Fox News' lead. Literally fox news is rewriting government messaging.
Well, government media does what its government says.
Yeah "78 set it and forget it" was good advice when I was a kid and it's still good advice.
So I don't get chewed out: obviously energy conservation is important and obviously taking these pages down is a bad thing. That said all this government telling me to be hot for the greater good pisses me off when no ones been arrested from the Epstein files and we aren't taxing the rich and were still building data centers.
To me this feels like someone telling me climate change is my fault because I threw out a water bottle or drive an ICE vehicle. Like ya someday I'll get an electric car and I should have recycled the bottle but wtf. So many larger more massive issues with energy conservation at larger scales than me running the AC at 70.
I made the switch from ICE to EV a couple months ago, and it wasn't really even about climate change. It's just cheaper and more convenient in terms of fueling, and there's far less maintenance to keep on top of. It just no longer makes sense to choose ICE (usually) if you already need a new vehicle, can charge at home, and don't drive more than like 200 miles per day. I just did a road trip in it last month and it really only made the journey maybe 5-10% longer than if I used an ICE vehicle since we needed to stop for food and bathrooms anyway.
Recycling plastic is almost completely a lie. Very few recycling plants can recycle your water bottle, and it's incredibly wasteful and costly even if they can. The better choice is to not buy plastic water bottles in the first place, and if you do then reuse them several times, but also you're just a drop in the bucket compared to industries' waterfalls, so don't beat yourself up about it when you're not perfect.
It doesn't even have to be about climate change. It's also about balancing the electrical load of everyone in NYC blasting their AC at once. So they don't have brown and blackouts
A lot of the people making these decisions are also not individual people but building managers for corporations and other businesses.
IMO the reason the feds issue most these kinds of guidances is so managers can point at them and say "I'm just following best practice, don't yell at me"
lol his advice is like the most standard advice anywhere in the world. A NYC mayor giving advice isnt the government trying to control your life. Calm your paranoid fascist brain cells down.
I have a pretty long history here of not being a fascist and this overuse of the word over something trivial is why its lost its meaning.