• DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca
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        17 days ago

        You need to use a carot/arrow on both sides of the word to use superscript on lemmy.

        ^this^ becomes this

        Edit: Header removed: maybe we shouldn’t encourage the use of headers.

  • SGGeorwell@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Have they asked Charles Koch and the other oil men to sit for this experiment? They should have a taste of the future they’re forcing us to endure.

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      15 days ago

      Will not defend the oil men, they don’t need it. But we’re all complicit, quit your high horse and look around at all the plastics, electricity and fuel you’re using in your day-2-day.

      I know, I know, they’re literally forcing you to do so. If you really wanted to remain pure, you’d have to act as the protagonist of the Brave New World, though, when he just ends up going to live in a secluded forest by himself.

      • sandbox@lemmy.world
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        C’mon mate, this is decades old fossil fuel industry propaganda - making people blame themselves for the mess they got us all into. There’s no benefit from beating ourselves up - as individuals we hold no power over the industry. We need to work together and build an organised movement if we want to change things, we can’t change our behaviour individually to change the system.

  • rcbrk@lemmy.ml
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    16 days ago

    Reader mode exposes a much better headline:

    Scientists testing deadly heat limits on humans show thresholds may be much lower than first thought

  • FauxPseudo @lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    I live in The South.

    My air conditioner broke 3 years ago. This year we got a small window unit. It’s not enough to cool the whole house. But it does provide the very important feature of dehumidifying the house. The temperature in the house and outside can both be in the high 90s. But it is so much less oppressive inside the house where the humidity has been stripped out.

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      17 days ago

      Get a good dehumidifier with a drain hose option so that you don’t have to keep emptying the tank. It will produce some heat, so placement is important, but it will pull moisture from the air more efficiently than the AC and that will improve the cooling.

      • FauxPseudo @lemmy.world
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        16 days ago

        We have a pretty decent one located in Mt wife’s room which is basically sealed off from the rest of the house. It runs into the shower. But despite its size it is inadequate for the whole house. I don’t have the money to buy a dedicated one for the whole house.

        But this little window AC is doing a really excellent job. Set it to 80 and it keeps going and drying the air.

  • Alpha71@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    On a side note who thinks this overlay on repeating .Gifs style of websites is bloody annoying.

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    It’s like all rhose.facebook memes ‘a boy in Switzerland invented a brand new idea to help the disabled, sticks you can use to support your weight when walking!’ And the comments are people amazed by it.

    I saw one where Finland inventes raised pathways made of wood so people can experience.nature without getting their feet muddy - europe has had raised track ways for at least 6000 years!