Honestly, no. I’ll credit three things - first, I trained my family to have the fear of god of the high-tier TOU charges. Second, I programmed my power-hungry devices to not run during on-peak. And third, we had a pretty mild summer up until this past week or so.
My last two excel bills have have $95 and $98 for a central air conditioned 1600 sq ft house.
The modifications I made to get here: ~ I put ceiling fans in every room that we spend a lot of time in. Bedrooms and living room. They’re on 24/7 and the very slight breeze is really helpful in making it feel a degree or two cooler than it actually is.
~Whole house fan. I have mine connected to my HomeAssistant and evaluating every hour if it should run for ten minutes. I leave a secured basement window open, so it exhausts the hot attic air and sucks cooler basement air upstairs. Once the sun sets and the exterior temp is lower than my upstairs temp, it will run all night until the sun rises and the exterior temp is greater than the indoor temp.
My A/C rarely runs more than an hour or so a day. There have been a few days where I ran it for hours to try and cool the house for guests and a few days where it was a little stuffy around 5PM while we waited for the sun to set, but it hasn’t been too bad.
I miss the local community Reddit has/had - meaning vibrant town/city subreddits. The one for my town here on Lemmy is just one dude (@ickplant you’re doing your best) but it just doesn’t have the critical mass.
I agree locking kids into rooms is not a great way to handle this situation, but what other kind of tools are school admins given? As we’ve clearly seen, even students as young as middle schoolers are such trouble that they’re charged with attempted murder. So, they can’t send them to a different school, but they’re also not allowed to do anything to keep the rest of the student population safe? Got it.
Yes! That’s it - Matfer. I think America’s Test Kitchen recommend them and I’d follow ATK off a cliff on kitchen advice. So far, the pans have been fantastic, but I can’t imagine there’s a whole lot to go wrong with a carbon steel pan.
I think the primary difference, at least in the hobby farmers I know who are young, idealistic, and just getting started, is that they aren’t expecting to scale the operation beyond some arbitrary point - beyond which, it stops being fulfilling and starts being a giant pain in the ass. Conversely, the dairy farmer I know who has the largest operation in the county is a stand up dude, who avoids cutting corners but is getting squeezed big time by small artisanal operations with street cred and big, industrial operations with margins. The middle, where there used to be a huge swath of family farms, is a bloodbath of debt and suffering.
I imagine most of these new hippies are trying to stay small.
Bonus points if you budget a little extra and make friends with a local upholster. They can work magic in turning that solid, but ugly, chair from something your grandma would have to something you might find in a design magazine.
Carbon steel pans. You season and treat them like cast iron, but they develop a beautiful, smooth, non stick surface. I just made two over easy eggs in mine. They’re basically all I use anymore - no PFOx, no muss.
I thought I bought two from a French company that started with an ‘M’ but I can’t figure out which brand 😂
Your dream is Harris?! Shit, no. No, no, no.
My hope is that Biden is staying in the race until the 11th hour to be the lightening rod and the dems have someone better to step in.
Of course, that would require some intestinal fortitude and a few brain cells and I don’t think the dem leadership has that.
So good to see WI get out from under this bullshit. If the people want (R)’s, let them get them fairly. Gerrymandering (in either direction) is bollocks.
Park them outside where they’ll be stolen by Kia Boiiyz*
- yes, we know these models aren’t push button. save it, pointdexter
(post comment edit - if you put things inside < > as your entire post, Lemmy will eat it. Cool>
This is a net good thing -and- it might help create some lifelong habits involving public transit ridership. RTD seems to be… making decent choices recently? Someone, quick, check on hell. Has it frozen over?
Yep - I bought sync way back in the day and paid less than $5 for it. Used it for years and years across multiple devices until I switched to iOS. I got my moneys worth for sure - $20 seems like a bargain.
No doubt, it’s a chicken or egg problem.
I used to ride road and that exact stretch was one of the final road rides I did before I made the judgement call that riding road was just too sketch. What a tragic and preventable loss.
Add Inciweb to that for info straight from the sources:
I’m certainly not immune to using petroleum products …but man, can this refinery get bent or what? They're constantly going over limits, they had the explosion last year, and the PR person won’t comment because they got hacked? What the hell kind of Mickey Mouse operation are they running over there?
Suncor needs to go.
So they couldn’t just drive away, they had to leave with some parting shots? What the heck is wrong with people?
I'll start by saying - I really love(d) RTD. I rode it nearly every day for almost ten years - sometimes combined with walking, sometimes with a bike, and often combining buses and trains.
I appreciated the convenience, how it mostly was reliable and on time, and how I could do other things while being whisked to my destination. There was a small price to pay in terms of speed (it rarely was faster than driving) and convenience (first and last mile is always a consideration) but overall, it was a good tradeoff.
The stars lined up for me today - I needed to travel across town to I-25 and Lincoln and I had a ride there but not back. Since RTD is free at the moment, I figured I would give it a go and see how they were doing. I haven't been riding much in the last three years and almost none in the last two.
First strike - the track work has totally fucked up the SE light rail lines and RTD is doing a poor job of communicating that to anyone who isn't totally on top of it. The train was late (~5 minutes, forgivable) but didn't go where I wanted (Peoria). I routed downtown and around to use the A-Line. That added a lot of time to my trip. And this shit is scheduled to go on through OCTOBER?!
Credit where it's due - the trains were clean and (mostly) void of tweakers. Lots are riding with a dog, though - at least three clearly non-service animals rode with me today. Aside from one half-tweak having a very loud conversation about his dog, it was mostly what I remember from the before days - quiet people trying to go places sprinkled with a handful of raver kids headed to Global.
**But it is SO SLOW. SO. SLOW. ** God, it is slow. The same drive would have taken me 40 minutes in the heaviest traffic imaginable. I walked in my door after an hour and 55 minutes. Almost three times longer. It's too fucking slow. And the headways are unworkable. Half an hour between trains? What? No. Even if RTD lowers the fares (yay! a good move) it desperately needs to make the system more efficient because I don't know anybody who's going to go for a commute that's three times as long, even if it's substantially cheaper.
Thanks for coming to my Ted talk, happy Friday, y'all.
Conversely, if they can move two straight days of free fares with the biggest game in town it might be the very beginning of a redemption arc*
*probably not, but a guy can hope