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I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

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They didn’t want to ruin the good time the GOP was having using it as a weak and lame attempt to own the libs. None so foolish as those who refuse to learn. And MAGA is in a state of arrested development at the toddler level.

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Fucking hell. I wish people remembered the difference between a conspiracy, and a conspiracy theory. Because this actually is a conspiracy. An incompetent, stupid, grim little conspiracy. What it's not, is a conspiracy theory. The words have meanings.

Look. I know language evolves but this is important. If we don't maintain both terms as separate things, then we literally strip our language of the ability to quickly differentiate between the delusional ranting of a far right nutjob who thinks 5g masts cause Covid and the Iran Contra affair FFS

Yes. Internet Archive folks gave me IA socks, which I wore to Computer History Museum dinner for new Fellows, including Brewster, who was cheered by the socks.

We live in a day and age people don’t want to stop harmful behaviors if it impact their comfort in any way it’s capitalism in its end stadium it’s just about extrem consumption

I caught them last year—there was a report by our OSCE mission in January 2017, right after his first inauguration, about a fresh Russian offensive in Ukraine at Avdiivka, which they finally deleted this year realizing it debunked his lies that Russia never attacked Ukraine during his first term

And what will the consequences for erasing that work without a reasonable cause? I he said, "The pox is extinct."... they will revive it only to contradict him? This time, maga must find out

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So... Messaging failure, though. Graham was able to take advantage by making it look like there's no relief or plan in sight, just sleep in 78f and be happy with it like the liberals want you to. --> Think of how a voting majority sees this, not your liberal neighbors or BlueSky

To raise awareness, which, with some luck and work, leads to friction. They cannot be allowed smooth sailing while building an authoritarian hellhole out of what once had some resemblence of a democratic state.

"Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving" -- -- Define "pathetic." #RemoveTheRegime

As somebody who lives in a place that regularly hits 110 F in the summer: 78 is fine. A little warm but you can still be perfectly comfortable if you've got a fan and a cold drink. In fact, it takes a *lot* of energy to get colder than that, trying to get under 76 will really strain your AC.

This is hilarious. Europeans moan about 35 degrees C Americans: you are so weak we get 40+ Also Americans: can't handle temperatures of 25 degrees C. You know the type of American I'm talking about too

Our new swamp cooler actually gets TOO cold sometimes, even on the lowest setting. But where we live we often get single digit relative humidities, and rarely exceed 30%. I'd rather have rain and use the ac now and then. Horrible drought here.

Didn’t Trump recently claim the Democrats were trying to get a nationwide door-to-door search for errant air conditioners? Same sweep would also presumably scoop up those guns and bibles that always seem to be peskily causing problems.

And it's a good temperature anyway! Makes going outside WAY WORSE if you have your room a ridiculous 65 degrees or something. There's a reason most stores and such keep it in the mid-70s. It's to reduce shock to our systems.

Partially, but in the 70s when AC in stores and cars become more widely available, places like Texas started seeing more and more people coming out of stores after shopping a while into blazing parking lots and passing out. Around that time stores started setting a standard of 72 degrees or higher.

Our store is regulated from Missouri. Summer temps in the front end are around 80 & the back room will be 90ish + This week is gonna be very uncomfortable working up front or freight. Winter overnight the temps are around 63.

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So typical. We all want 72 degrees, but that will be disastrous to the grid and our wallets. Can we manage at 78 degrees? Yes. Can we manage at all if the grid blows? No. Does the Department of Energy care? Hell no.

Pro Tip: If you want to save electricity turn off your electric water heaters. Oh, and the data centers too. #waterHeaters and #dataCenters waste electricity

Remember Michele Obama suggesting that schools feed the children healthy meals and how the Reich lost their minds only to have RFKJ get on World TV and do the exact same thing? Just like the Nazis, the Reich hates everyone that is not White and Reich.

It's the plan for the crime syndicate in power to create division and strife. Project 2025(900+pages) is 50% complete. Less of the wrong type of people=more for the oligarchy and ruling class. These plans have been in the works and gaining steam for 80 years. They found their coup vehicle in Trump.

This is not as uncommon as people are taking it! Conserving water and electricity has been a norm in extreme heat situations, my entire 70 years on earth! Stop playing into the propaganda! Gawd!

It just tells you that they are all in on this. There’s not 1 single department that’s will to stand up and say no. It’s the whole fucking government top to bottom.

We live in the age of big stupid. Your knowledge, expertise or education doesn’t matter anymore. Just say stupid things and see if it sticks and you’ll be rewarded.

And what most people & bots on the behalf of opposition parties either didn't realize or just wanting to ding Mandami It was done to Look what prevent a major blackout

People are just fucking stupid. This is just like fucking normal. Of course you put your air conditioning up to save the grid. It’s just common sense I don’t I can’t I can’t.over the bs republicans

The Trump regime's plan is not necessarily to actively kill the US population, just remove every department, agency, law, control, regulation & bit of advice put in place to keep people alive. People will die, and politicians will say, "Not our fault".

As someone who has been running websites since 1998 I wish this were true. But it absolutely is not the case. Even a bunch of stuff that was archived by the way back machine is missing some stuff (images, videos) that I wish I could get back.

This is petty on the part of the feds but IMO it's also an unforced error by Mamdani to be parroting standard government lines that everyone hates like a basic establishment politician. You can ask people to conserve electricity without making weirdly specific requests about thermostat settings.

I heard NYC people are a "tough crowd"—but I'm West Coast—so should be able to tolerate advice, and if they don't like it, then ignore it, like we do in California—not 😭—if Governor Newsom does something we think dumbass, which he does from time to time—not that many don't 😭.

That's 25.5°C - when I lived in the tropics, I used to keep my living room aircon at 26°C. I found that fairly comfortable but it didn't cost the earth in electricity! The local shopping centre used to chill the mall down to 22°C which was chilly if you're dressed for the 40°C outside in the street

And Texas has pleaded with residents to limit air conditioner use at least 48 times since 2008. If Republicans would embrace green energy instead of oil and gas company profits, maybe we'd have fewer catastrophic heat waves and other weather disasters.

I remember when a TX utility company remotely set people’s thermostats to a higher temp because those customers signed on to an energy saving plan and used web enabled thermostats. The More You Know.

Coincidence? Deleting 6,000 energy-saving pages after validating a 78-degree AC recommendation raises some red flags. What's really going on here? 🤔

They just keep getting more extreme with their stupidity. Things that have been common sense for longer than I've been alive are now politicized. You just can't sustain a society like this.

The government is out to take things down and kill us all. Oil and coal making money hand over fist. Wake up people and use common sense. Conserve to save lives...

Anything Mamdani say is being vilified because of his policies. There are scared of him and what he stands for. Bravo for getting free rent in their brains, the little they have left. 👏👍

Well, obviously we gotta stay constantly vigilant for signs that he's signaling a sleeper cell to begin the socialist sharia jihad. 🤷🏼‍♀️ Could be a tan suit, could be funding a food pantry, could be drinking tea while everybody else is getting blind drunk, you just never know about these things. 🧐