Trust me, I have been eyeing a heat pump for awhile now.
The house is close to 4k square feet, but I do have 10 people living there so it is being well utilized. I also live in Alaska so we get entire months of sub 20 temperatures.
It is still hard to deal with when you get that fuel bill.
First, that is not your child. It is a fucking elephant.
Second, I don’t care if the elephant says it has a high tolerance. You don’t shoot up anything with this much smack.
Third, labeling this poor junkie elephant as an aspie is just cruel and unusual.
The best was when he accused Walz of a billion dollars in fraud after pardoning multiple people who have actually engaged in billion dollar fraud.
Ross Ulbricht 1-3 billion dollars drugs/money laundering
Philip Esformes 1.3 billion Medicate/Medicaid fraud
David Gentile 1.6 billion pyramid scheme
Changpeng Zhao 2+ billion dollar crypto scam/money laundering
And runner up
Eliyahu Weinstein pardon by Trump for 44 million fraud and then went on to commit 230 million more fraud three years later.
Once you get into tens of millions the list goes on a really long time.
Just researching and putting this list together was horrific. Fuck everyone putting up with this criminal administration.
Of all the machines an Emachine. Those were the cheapest and worst built computers ever. They were often obsolete the moment they were sold.
I guess that makes the irony even more delicious.
You will accept AI has “feelings” or the Tech Bros will get mad that you are dehumanizing their dehumanizing machine.
I know your intentions are good, but this reads as a rather damning list of why a bunch of people are going to fight tooth and nail to keep the status quo.
The average for the whole US during the winter is just under $1,000. That is around $250 a month. This is also not a “few” hours.
Central air can easily run +$200 a month during the summer.
I will admit I have a big house that is heated with diesel. My bill would be half that if I had a heat pump.
Considering most Americans were living paycheck to paycheck before this recent bout of inflation, I don’t think most have any extra money to play around with anymore. It is time for tough decisions like keeping the house warm or eating things other than ramen.
My heating bills runs close to $800 a month in the Winter. That is more than a few hours of labor.
If I were you, I would get out of Venezuela! - Our President.
Then shuts down their airspace and starts blowing up boats.
No escape from the christofascist murderers.
I remember that year, it was the same year Biden cancelled Christmas. After black lives matter burned all the cities to the ground there was not much left for the holidays. A lot of people forget what really happened!
I read a study somewhere that says wealth gaps and democracy can uneasily coexist as long as money stays out of politics. This is the essential problem I think.
When we allow money into politics it corrupts them. We have to look at actual metrics to measure and consider externalities whenever creating policy. Making sure a monetary system is working for everyone and that people who take advantage of the situation are dealt with is a no brainer.
I did a little research and it does appear CA law is a little lax around loaning for political campaigns. I am not from CA so I really don’t know if this is really a big deal or not. I would be concerned though that this system would be abused.
I personally think we should actively attempt to eliminate wealth gaps. Money has been used to divide people for far too long and it is such a corrupting force for some people. It is a problem that has consumed the US entirely.
Corrupt politicians are a dime a dozen. Healthy spider plants in the office on the other hand are pretty rare.
Court orders tax payers on the hook for criminal administration.
Out of all the things Trump has done, I draw the line at deferred maintenance.
Oh don’t get me wrong. Even though I live in a fascist nation my life is not bad. I just bought a house, I have a stable job. I have a big family I get to hang out with everyday.
I have a job for the first time in thirty years I can afford to insure my family with. A lot of my contemporaries are not so lucky though.
I think it is good just to point it out. It helps to keep me thinking straight and not feel gaslight by my government when it makes policy decisions to benefit the wealthy.
Oh, I like that because it puts a ever increasing burden to use it or lose it. Once it is no longer profitable it goes back to public domain.
I find patents of dubious value to say the least. It is definitely the worst part of IP.
If there is any chance of reform it would have to still appeal to all parties. We definitely need to think about solutions that have not been proposed before.
As much as I would like to advocate for abolishment of IP, I recognize it is an unrealistic demand.
After all, IP didn’t magically appear. It took hundreds of years of court cases and laws passed to get to the arguably ridiculous point we are now.
Personally, I think that if small business capitalism actually existed then it would run contrary to that.
There would be no need for copyright or patents. These systems create artificial scarcity which hinders society as a whole to benefit a minority.
I feel like our existing system of laissez-faire capitalism fully embraces the rent seeking found in intellectual property.
Too hard to make up bullshit for report so we will have AI make up the bullshit for us.