It follows Republican outrage over Mamdani offering the same heatwave advice as everyone else.
The US Department of Energy reportedly deleted about 6,000 pages related to energy conservation as a historic heatwave tears across the country.
The deletion was suspiciously timed, following Republican outrage over Mayor Zohran Mamdani asking New Yorkers to help reduce strain on the grid by setting their AC to 78 degrees. Republicans like Ted Cruz (who has famously fled severe weather in his home state), Nikki Haley, and Representative Nancy Mace (South Carolina) quickly pounced, framing the request as socialism and an act of war on women in menopause (the Republican Party is notoriously friendly to women’s health).
Of course, this is pretty standard advice during a heatwave. It was the official stance of the Department of Energy that Americans should set their thermostats between 75 and 78 degrees, and Republican governors in deep red states like Texas have issued the same advice in the past — including current governor Greg Abbott.
slams
They can’t help themselves
Don’t blast em over it, jeez.
“Lemming Blasts News Site Over Use Of ‘Slams’ In Title”
it seemed like more of a takedown tbh
Must be a morgue with this many bodies
I have officially rounded the corner where everything is so insane my first reaction was to laugh at how absurd this is.
Literally everything they do is the worst possible choice. They literally want to burn down the world and rule over the ashes, even if they don’t understand that’s where this is headed.
I don’t think humanity is gonna make it. Too many of us refuse to engage with reality and evidence.
Too many of us prefer what feels right to thinking.
I’m sure the Mongols, Ottomans, Greeks and Romans thought they were going to be around forever too.
reality and evidence are painful. people avoid pain.
fantasy and magical thinking feels good. so they embrace it.
IME maybe like 1/20 people is grounded in a greater reality, most are living in a fictional magical world and only want to be around other people who support their fantasies.
It’s hard to trust and discuss news of USA when I reside in Europe and Asia mostly, where I believe that too much news services manipulate, fabricate, and do not verify information nor sources.
Yet, normally, people are getting paid/compensated to try not to avoid pain and to prioritize reality over pleasant feelings.fantasy and magical thinking feels good. so they embrace it.
Like the: “Luigi will save us with our army of guillotines” bullshit
Sadly i think the powers that be will gladly overconsume and let climate, starvation, and war solve the overpopulation issue.
Probably thinking its alright, its like biblical plauges
We’re a deeply un-serious country.
“They’re coming for your
gunskidsthermostat.”heatwave
Or ‘heat wave’, if you write English and lament the wordjoining thekids aredoing.
Whats important is that we kept the Democrats from taking the presidency. Right kids?!
You can do your lesser evil shit all you want, that candidate won’t change the future of America any further than a Republican can undo it in 4-6 years. Real change isn’t this pretend, small-game shit. Democrats have won time and time again since Bush Sr, and we’ve had war after war after war with bipartisan support for laws that give less than they take for the benefit of billionares. The current Democratic party isn’t a separate choice, it’s a choice to lock Republican rhetoric in a box until they inevitably get out again. Your party is no more effective at ridding the world of fascism than Ash Ketchum is at defeating Team Rocket. Maybe we all need a firm reminder that Trump and Bush didn’t actually win their elections, yet were calmly allowed to move right on in anyway. Who opened the door? Biden opened one of them, and he had six months of Presidential immunity leading up to it. Hillary was pushing spyware campaigns, Obama was drone-striking and Bernie wants Ai in your 401k. Who do they work for? You? Doesn’t sound like it.
How’s winning over those voters your party lost last election going?
Look around! Clearly everyone made the right decision!
And i’ll tell ya this for nothin’ - they’ll do it again! Yeah! And get all this glorious fascism for free. Enjoy!
Seems like democrats should run a candidate that’s worthwhile and isn’t a female Reagan.
Seems like, if democrats didn’t want this, they shouldn’t have run a Republican campaign.
Does your mommy still shake your dick for you? You shouldn’t need to be pandered to - just vote for the better choice. If you didn’t, you’re responsible for the worse outcome that we’re all stuck with now.
I did. It sucks the rest of the US didn’t agree with PSL’s platform enough to get out and vote for the obvious better choice, but that’s just another example of the tragic consequences of the US being so far behind the rest the world in education I guess.
Well, I hope you enjoy the fascism you helped cause with that stupid move.
Incorrect, Third Party voters did not cause Harris’ loss.
What did was Democrats running Kamala Harris without a primary, after trying to pretend Biden was mentally and physically stable enough to actually be president again. That and the whole endorsing and explicitly materially supporting a genocide. And Harris’ extensive history of anti-black racism. And Harris exclusively catering to the far-right despite every single retired democratic strategist telling the DNC for over a decade now that going right will not win a single vote as Trump supporters do not change their voting habits.
And people like you. Trying to shame people into voting for a genocidal racist far-right fascist with a blue tie.
In the general election, there were only two choices. That’s how the game theory of our election works. You can talk about making the obvious better choice in the Democratic primary all you want and that’s fine, but if you bitch about voting third party in the general election you are objectively a fucking moron who doesn’t have a goddamn clue.
Either that or a pro-fascist concern troll spreading disinformation on purpose. One or the other.
Incorrect, the first party to get 51% of electoral college votes win. That is the system Americans choose to continue to live under. Not the made up system you described.
If 31% of the US population voted third party, a third party would win the white house.
Actually it’s as low 21%, but that’s a theoretical low and unlikely to happen.
A female Reagan!! Hahahahaha!
I also thought that was hilarious. She was a terrible candidate. This country is the worst.
Vote blue no matter who! Fix everything!
Literally incapable of not strawmanning
Well, how the fuck else do you portray those people?
The Republican Party is notoriously friendly to women’s health
The fuck?
Clearly that’s snark.
Read it again. Does anything stand out?
They dropped their /s
For fucks sake do you really need one?
At this point, unfortunately yes. Even if it’s only to stop dog whistling being hidden behind “it was only a joke” or “it was obviously sarcastic”.
It also helps non native English speakers.
Nah. Fuck that. You sacrifice nuance, complexity, bandwidth, and depth of communication? That’s everything the fascists want.
It’s akin to clear cutting the forest around a castle. We lose something, but it helps draw a line in the sand. At this point, we need some sort of defence line.
I reserve the right to believe what people say. I also reserve the right to not roll that back when they say it was “just a joke”.
Yes. Defend yourself from fascism not by immersing yourself in humanity, not with defense in depth, not with a robust diligently humanized intellect, not with art and philosophy, not with deeper knowledge and complexity and communication, not by becoming something they cannot understand predict or fight, but with the shallow aesthetics and quick reactions they’ve been pushing on us since the 30s! Death to the enemy! Exterminate them! That’ll fix everything!
And how does making sarcasm explicitly obvious affect any of those?
Wonder how long before Trump renames it “Department of burning Oil and Coal”
Department of finding ways to increase fossil consumption by working coal and raw oil into the American food consumption
They’ll build a land called New Jersey and populate it with “food scientists.”
We’ll make fun of them in movies, then ridicule their children on television.
They’ll poison our offspring with cancers and obesity!
The same Government of Putin shitheads who killed the energy efficient heat pump incentives.
“Mamdani wants you to diiieee! It’s another genocidal socialist maniac! Feeeaaar!”
Official federal policy.
78f is roughly 26c, which the recommendation here in Australia during summer. I usually have mine set to 30c/86f.
I don’t understand what the issue with Mamdani’s advice is.
In the mindset of the contrarian reactionary, it doesn’t matter what the advice is but rather that it’s being given at all.
He could have quoted MAGA and their recommendations and they still would have lost their shit.
He gave the same recommendation as the federal DOE. The sad part is this is the federal government following Fox News’ lead. Literally fox news is rewriting government messaging.
Don’t bother, there’s nothing to understand
[Random rambling] … HE’S A SOCIALIST … [more random rambling]
Yeah “78 set it and forget it” was good advice when I was a kid and it’s still good advice.
We keep ours at 80°F unless there is a breeze, in which case we just use our ceiling fans and open everything. It gets a little uncomfortable, but if we remember to stay hydrated and eat less, then it’s all good.
long as the humidity is low, higher temps can be quite comfortable. used to keep mine at 80 til my visiting folks started futzing with the thermostat. 77-78 is a good compromise
Yeah, I live in a swamp. Dehumidification is the real miracle of ac.
Nevermind I’m dumb
78 during day is my standard. You let your body acclimate to the warm weather. Then when you go out and about in it you don’t feel like you’re about to die.
76 at night. Set to get that low by 10pm.
How old are you? 50?
We keep our AC at a constant 76 and use fans.
Same here. 76° & Ceiling fans mostly.
I’m in an older place without ceiling fans.
I have also found that a fan pointed at the ceiling can give you that nice breeze effect of a ceiling fan.
