If you're not a douche bag you wouldn't have had to post as AC

I'm old enough to remember the ground covered in snow all winter. I also remember A/C being a luxury, not necessity in the summer. Yeah it still got hot and uncomfortable but it at least cooled down at night. Now they cancel school because the older buildings without A/C routinely hit 100F in the afternoon.

Laying the tile is easy, especially if you get the spacers. I always hard the grout work.

Same with drywall, hanging is easy but it's the mud and tape that takes all the time unless you are really good.

The OP said storage fees (home batteries) are dropping, not utility rates.

If solar is becoming more convenient and storage is cheaper, small investments can now recoup costs much more quickly.

Biden was better simply by not doing anything. That is how sad Trump is.

You probably want to target an abandoned product name folks have actually heard of.

One thing holds true around the world.

Regardless of how terrible a government may be, the people are generally nice and welcoming when given an opportunity.

Here in the US, foreign visitors don't often visit areas where anti-immigration hostility is high.

his AI data center thing is the latest moral panic. Few really cares much about the water use or incremental increase to electricity costs... certainly not enough to become activists and start recall campaigns.

This tells me you live in an area that is not attracting data centers.

Most of my family live in such areas. A significant portion of the population already live paycheck to paycheck. People have been hit hard by the higher inflation over the past 4 years since wages are not keeping up. Small increases to utilities is actually a very big deal when it's something that is not necessary to day-to-day life.

People do what they can when food goes up because it's a necessity. AI is a luxury item, so when people who are less likely to benefit from AI data farms are the ones getting hit with "incremental" cost increases, they abso-fucking-lutely care.

It's not about job replacement, it's about squeezing more money out to the "1%" at the expense of the working class.

Easy to say now. Not such an easy decision as a 17 year old.

If only I could go back in time and give that advice to my high school self...

I was still 17 years old when I started university and emotionally immature. It would have been nice to have a bit of a "get out of jail free" card for those first few months as I acclimated to independence.

I'm sure at least 80% used it without knowing.

I don't watch much tv but have OTA. The commercials are of 4 sorts. 1) prescription drugs. 2) investing in gold. 3) shriner's hospital or abused animal foundation requests for money. 4) lawyers for mesothelioma.

Here in georgia, which is a battle ground state, they've made it more difficult to vote, especially in urban areas. Even though it's a purple state, state government heavily controlled by Republicans. State government controls the voting and they've done plenty to dissuade turnout from traditional Democrat voting regions.

Start placing bets of undesirable things happening to the execs of these companies. Maybe that will urge some guard rails to be implemented.

Freedom fries. Liberty cabbage.