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    6 days ago

    Replace ancestors with like, desperately poor people and this hits a little different.

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    5 days ago

    People who think the middle ages were great really need to do some serious reenactment.

    I mean, reenactors do it for fun, but we’re all insane (and we get to go home to our hot showers and memory foam beds and central heating)

    • LeninsOvaries@lemmy.cafe
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      5 days ago

      Well I don’t get to go home to most of those things. It sounds like you’re just rich and think everyone else is too

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          3 days ago

          Oh, no, I wasn’t trolling for that one. It takes a lot of effort to be a ridiculous tankie all the time, I was just pointing out that user is assuming we all have the same luxuries they have. And besides, what are luxuries worth when tainted by the knowledge their plenty is a sign of the impending apocalypse?

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      5 days ago

      Not everyone gets to control their own heat. My last apartment I had no way to adjust the room temp except with windows or buying my own mini/portable appliances.

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        5 days ago

        It really should not be that way. If it’s really such a problem then either change the way you dress or complain to the management, but don’t open the window with the heat running.

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          5 days ago

          if management is already running heat 24/7, opening the window is absolutely the answer. the other apartments won’t appreciably suffer from you bleeding heat, realistically you’re only changing your own temperature.

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            5 days ago

            The problem is if we make one exception then we need to make a million and then we’re bleeding fossil fuel and emissions and power prices.

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              5 days ago

              or management runs the heat less, which would’ve also been the perfect-world outcome of trying to talk to them like you suggested. occam’s razor and all that.

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                  5 days ago

                  you’re assuming apartments without thermostats are logging temps and sending them back to a central unit, which is then averaging the temperature of EVERY unit in order to maintain a temperature.

                  once again, occam’s razor. the way this is usually done is just running the whole building’s heat at a set temperature for a set period of time every day. literally nothing you do as a tenant will change the amount of heat coming out of your vents/radiators.

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      5 days ago

      In a lot of apartment in cities, at least in the US Northeast, the building turns the heat on 1 October (dates might vary).

      The perhaps urban legend says this practice dates to the Spanish 'Flu and was intended to force people to air their apartments.

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        Generally in the USA the halls are heated but each unit has their own thermostat with which to control the heating of their own unit. It’s okay to open a window when your unit’s heating is off, if it gets too bad then try to circulate the air, and if it’s still not enough call the landlord about it and demand something gets done about it.

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          4 days ago

          That wasn’t how it worked in the apartments I had in Manhattan. Probably other cities are different as you point out.

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      5 days ago

      there are far more wasteful things than airing out your house when the external temperature is below the house internal temperature

      the thermal mass of the air is negligible compared to the thermal mass of the house itself and items inside

      so “never” is a bit of an overreaction. now, if you left them open all the time so you were just constantly bleeding heat, different story

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            5 days ago

            You saying “there are far more wasteful things than airing out your house when the external temperature is below the house internal temperature” is whataboutism. I’m not saying all other wasteful things are permitted just because I take a stance on this one in topical conversation.

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              4 days ago

              alright, let’s say for a second that we just remove that line.

              the rest of the comment holds up just fine.

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            5 days ago

            They said “there are far more wasteful things than airing out your house when the external temperature is below the house internal temperature” and thats where I stopped reading because that IS whataboutism.

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    5 days ago

    My brain autocompleted “two cloves” as ”two cloves of garlic” and I was very confused about this tea.