I lived in a triple decker back when I was in college and those featured sleeping porches for the summer time. We would drag a futon out there and sleep in the open air with the cool night breezes. Worked well most of the summer (except for rainy/stormy nights and the dog days of August). We did not have AC, just fans. (there were some people who had window AC units in their bedrooms in some of the units). But we lived in a city so our jobs mostly had AC and we would go to the pub, mall/stores, movies, library after work and just hang outside at weekend festivals etc.. all AC or uneeded AC places. Frankly, it was just not hot enough here in the summer long enough to warrant a unit and the increased power bill. Once Labor Day came around it was Fall. In the winter we used electric blankets, long underwear, sweaters etc.

I just saw a YT clip about how the 25 y/o McMansions are all falling apart.

Yeah, I have tried to keep my central AC off as much as possible. My power bills over the past year have been insane.

It has been a choice since the Reagan years (both parties actually) and even before with the redlining etc. I just finisihed reading "There is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America" (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by Brian Goldberg. There are walking saints in this world and one of them is a person featured in his book "LA Pink." He focuses on some families in Atlanta. I highly recommend. He covers from about 2019-2022 so pretty recent. I feel it is really a bruise/scar on our nation that so much of this stirring of human misery/exploitation on the poor (working poor) is so prevalent and seems to never end. Remember the stories from The Jungle, the Tenenment Slumlords who were millionaires, the Triangle Shirt Factory fire??? They are still doing the same shit but making it legal. There is some fucking Heritage Foundation stooge either taking apart the proposed legislation or putting in these loopholes to allow the wealthy to fuck over the poor every time. There has been a class war going on from the beginning, they just don't like when we fight back.

I just don't want OneDrive. Can it stop refusing to be deleted?

How did Noem ever have the legal power to render a pardon???? Oops. forgot she was a state governor. I was thinking of her DHS role.

Now I want elderberry jam on my toast.

That podcast office he works out of must be a bank vault/bunker to keep people from coming in and impacting his throat.

Oh yes, the golden shower of riches that don't manage to find themselves in banks in Panama or the Bahamas.

I work in healthcare as a nurse. I can't see AI doing this. Esp. with ACA satisfaction scores. I still have patients with old flip-phones that don't really know how to turn them on or make a call.

Or all the water in their state (see Utah) or raising the temps so high their power bills are the size of a mortgage.

I know someone who refuses to buy insurance and insists on negotiating with the hospital. He is an attorney so maybe they are afraid he will sue them.