my thermostat might have a political agenda
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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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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.
"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]
Well, I'll have you know that concrete is very natural, so natural in fact, that you can grow it
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.
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
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.
Why not both?
What does this even mean? The warming trends coincide directly with the start of the industrial revolution. Even without direct evidence (of which there is plenty), we have centuries of data to show that this level of warming is statistically significant and does not fall within natural warming/cooling cycles, such as el nino/la Nina.
Maybe this isn't what you're trying to say, but I think it's extremely problematic when people use "fence sitting" arguments. It sounds like you're saying "oh well, we don't know how much warming is actually caused by man made causes... it could only be a little bit!" It's a completely false narrative but it also gives credibility to people who want to block climate progress, and I really don't think anyone should support that.
Humans are animals, everything we do therefore is a part of nature. "abnormal" doesn't mean "unnatural". just like the meteor wiping out the dinosaurs wasn't "unnatural".
Except we've kinda removed ourselves from nature by making medicine and ensuring even the dumbest of us survive.
You're not a part of nature when there's not much natural selection going on.
While I agree, it's far too easy for dumb people to survive and reproduce, it's all natural. Things like abortion and contraception are about the only unnatural things I can think of.
What, do aliens do abortions and contraception?
Or was it created and done by humans and therefore it’s natural?
Stay consistent at least.
So you agree, humans disruptions to natural events are infact natural?
My house has had 2 different AC units fail this summer. One of them failing 7 times, I shit you not 7 times.
So where in Texas are you?
Dallas area
Oof! Sorry friend.
This made me chuckle briefly, ty
Thing is, they weren't wrong. I'm in Texas.
I don't have an A/C unit. Just the world's largest swamp cooler, aka The Pacific Ocean.
Yeah... Never buy anything from Daikin.
Mitsubishi is the Toyota of ACs. Or so I’ve been told a bunch of times.
I lived through August with constant 36+ without an AC. Next year I'm fixing the damn thing or I'll just die.
DO NOT INSTALL A SMART STAT OR ENROLL IN A "ENERGY SAVING PROGRAM" this just gives control of the thermostat to other people in the name of "energy savings".
Your comment history has you on at least 4 watch lists LMFAO. FFS. Just wild. Mental health services need our support.
Oh the number of background checks I've done has me on lists long before Lemmy even existed.
Bad advice. You don't need to forfeit control just because you're using smart devices – learn about tech.
It's a opt in "service" now. If you think it will stay that way forever then give me your ATM card and your pin number. I promise not to use it without your permission.
You can host your own stuff, dummy.
I'm of course talking about generic "smart" shit that every moron thinks is cool dummy.
Good grief that comment history. Either a massive troll or genuinely dysfunctional. Please don't take this person's advice for anything other than deranged rambling.
And the best part is tons of houses and apartments haven't been fit with proper AC infastructure :)
Yeah that was never a consideration 20 years ago here in Sweden. It was a cool luxury but hardly a necessity.
Our homes are generally built to withstand harsh winters, so they’re great at absorbing and retaining heat. These summers are woeful, and this year wasn’t even that bad up here. We got off quite lightly.
I’m so glad we sacrificed the world for all that infinite growth we don’t get. It’s fantastic to not be able to afford a house and have no real hope for the future.
Meanwhile we used over 3000kwh each month through the cooler months just keeping the house warm to 17-18C
So? Are you complaining that
Or is it something else?
Landlords don't care about insulating properly
Energy prices are 30c per kwh, insane energy bill of 1000$ per month to heat to a cold temperature
This is using heat pump heating 💀
For a place to be "fit" for living in, it should cost less than a thousond a month in heating. All this while half the world is struggling with heat, wild isn't it?
It's definitely the woke climate
The fun thing is with the rise of "smart" thermostats other people get to control your thermostat! Good bye 70 degrees year round. You will save a few bucks though I guess.
Is the liberal agenda in the room with you right now?
What are you talking about? Last summer there was all sorts of articles in colorado of thermostats displaying messages about energy savings and setting themselves to 78 degrees. Many states have these programs.
The only time my smart thermostat changes temperature without me programming it is when a demon gets in there and it’s nothing a routine exorcism can’t fix.
My power company changed mine until i unsubscribed to the "rate reduction" program and then changed my t-stat to a non-wifi model.
I was going to reply to you then I realized your 25 day old account has a score of -1853.
Have a nice day!
Cool! How do I see my score? I am new after all.
Ask your smart thermostat.