Yes but if you don’t cause a bunch of poor people conflict and pain how will your wife know that you love her? /s

Interesting article!

Its pretty US centric though so I think one would have to contrast that against the UK and Europe which generally has homes that are brick and concrete rather than lumber, we also have (I believe) tighter insulation regulations and - just generally - vastly smaller homes.

I think if US houses were built to European regs and sizes then the numbers would look much different.

It’s easier and more efficient to wrap yourself up with blankets and covers and use minimal heating (with decent home insulation) to warm yourself up than it is to cool down when you are too hot.

I would love to see it!

Nearly 36 degrees (that’s 96 Freedom Units) in the Arctic circle?!?

How is this not bigger news?!

We’re so fucked :(

I think there is a big difference between the passive warming / cooling of clothing vs the huge energy requirement, spent resources and emissions required to basically run your entire home / office / factory / hotel as a giant fridge.

Humans probably shouldn’t be living in these conditions if they can’t survive without AC, no?

Not bad, but I prefer Swatch Internet Time

Agreed.

I would be hyped to play a new version of actual Marathon, it’s a game that existed before my time and was only on Mac before they were cool so basically no one played it.

This is just a different skin on a genre that has no interest whatsoever to me.

When it’s done right, it’s amazing. The problem is that (here in the UK) it’s just terrible.

Example, going from London to Edinburgh

A flight takes 1h30m and costs £33 A train takes 4h26m and costs £178

Yes there are other monetary costs involved (driving to the airport, parking) and other time costs involved (you need to be at the airport 90 minutes early) but the headline price make a flight seem like much better value for time and money.

Trains are also often late or cancelled, this seems to happen much less with flights.

Until flights are taxed to hell people aren’t going change their habits.

The UK could meet its net-zero goals if it halved the number of private-jet flights.

Flying isn’t entirely horrible, but private jets are just about the worst thing you can do for the environment.

Yeap, but Digg was still pretty early in it’s life and was very much catering for tech nerds.

Reddit is basically the home of all communities these days, its swallowed what used to be individual forums from around the web and put them into a single place.

Building those new communities across multiple lemmy instances also adds to the complexity.

Reddit also didn’t have Reddit to compete with, which certainly makes things harder.

I’m in the UK, we have a system for switching ISPs that is apparently relatively painless so I’ve started that process but it’s apparently going to be another 2 weeks before the switch can happen :(

This had already gone past the first level “customer service” level to the 2nd level “technical support” team who sat on it for a couple of weeks, they’ve apparently now escalated it again and they’re waiting for their “network team” to take a look at it.

I’ve basically lost all hope with them at this point.

Too late then, I’m afraid you got the crew who were more concerned about getting home at a slightly more healthy hour than giving you fresh food.

Never go in to any restaurant past 9pm unless it’s in a busy metro area and there are other people about or you are getting food that caters to drunk and high people that can be taken away.

Honestly, it’s 9pm so unless the store is 24 hours (and even if it is) then they’ll be trying to close down a clean up and get things ready for the morning shift which starts early.

When I worked at McDs years ago a few big orders deciding to sit in the restaurant around 9pm could mean the difference between getting to go home at 12:30 and getting an OK nights sleep vs getting to go home at 2:30 and getting a terrible nights sleep before they might have to come in at 10am the next day.

You could argue that if they didn’t want customers at that time then they shouldn’t be open - which I would agree with - but obviously the low level grunts making your food don’t get to make those decisions.

It would have probably been pretty fun to play, but I do wish Bungie would one day get back to a single player narrative focused stories rather than building more multiplayer games…

I mean of course, the Tories have clearly taken up the Republican playbook of making things a little better in the first year or two and if things are going south they’ll waste all the budget on useless shit, pass a bunch of unsustainable but populist policies and underfund police and social programs to such an extent that things like this happen.

Then you can easily blame all of the countries ills on the side in power when the next election rolls around.

Given that the entire countries school system starts and breaks up at the same time you get an absurd system that holiday companies are able to rinse parents wanting to get away with their kids.

And since it isn’t tied to income it essentially ends up as a tax on poor people who aren’t able to afford the fines or the additional cost of taking them out during holiday times.

It’s a crap system that wouldn’t actually be that difficult to fix if they put some thought into it