yeah not gonna lie I didn't really notice the emphasis on Southern Europe, but I'm aware of a lot of really counterproductive incentive schemes in other parts of the continent
(to expand on that - people haven't grokked that aircon is actually not that energy intensive, it just looks like it is because the US power grid has historically been much more idle in the winter because we burn gas for heating)
In my observations there's also a lot of cultural momentum. Air conditioning is seen as a wasteful American thing and actively shunned, and not enough people know the heat pumps are just air conditioners running in reverse. It's a mix of ignorance and snobbiness infecting policy in dumb ways.
I'm less concerned about that group of people than I am concerned about the many well-meaning individuals who are very strongly aligned with the idea that electoral politics is the least effective means to progress and then make the leap to not engaging with it at all.
Yes! It would have been amazing if everybody remembered that in 2016 is my point.
I don't like the framing of vote harder, but don't forget who nominates supreme court justices and what happens to decide who nominates them. I feel like every 4 years we have collective amnesia there.
Yes-ish, but bottom line is if we want to stop this ride we do actually have to vote
(in fairness, there's not /that/ much fatalism and some of it is about people who will do aftermarket crap anyway, but every time I see a "too bad the courts will block it" post I scream a little bit)
Any decent US fridge with a forced-air evaporator should be able to handle a hot thing being put in it just fine My last place had a fridge with external temperature indicators and it only ever moved out of the setpoint when I put an absurd amount of warm beverages in it. Like several gallons worth
This is all good news! But the fatalism in the replies is worth noting. It's don't think it's misplaced, but if you want more stuff like this to stick you do need to actually vote in all those down ballot races.
