Replace ancestors with like, desperately poor people and this hits a little different.
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Smth smth the sweatshop workers can only hope that the person they're making products for are enjoying it smth smth
Right, like I don't have any of those things.
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)
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
[checks bio while keeping finger on the downvote trigger] -.- carry on
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?
If you dont have those same limitations, then you are trolling.... lmao
Good troll <3
Don't run the heat with the windows open. Never do that.
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
Thats whataboutism.
no, it isn't.
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.
alright, let's say for a second that we just remove that line.
the rest of the comment holds up just fine.
You just had thermodynamics explained to you and called it whataboutism.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Opening the windows makes the heat run MORE.
You have to talk to management.
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.
The machine heats the units. It stops when a specific temperature is reached. Opening the window will make it run for longer.
i have lived in an apartment in the US wherein the heat turned on the same day every year, and ran everyday starting and ending at the same times. from what i heard from my neighbors this was not uncommon for converted homes and public housing.
not every heating unit works like you think it does!
If a heating unit runs on timers its timers either need adjustment or replace that thermostat.
I refuse to believe a heater made in the last half century lacks external controls and if its older then that it's probably filled with radon.
Stop being a little bitch and talk to your landlord.
The apartment I was referring to used boiler heat, not furnace heat. It all came from one place and we couldn’t adjust it ourselves. Not shut-off valve for our unit, not even a water control valve to slow the flow rate of water for our unit. The superintendent was the only one who could control it. We were up on the top floor too so it was hotter up there. I did complain about the heat several times, but while we were hot, the lower floors would be comfortable or even cold (heat rises and all that), so usually she wouldn’t do anything about it. Any time someone would complain about the temp (either too hot or too cold) she’d do a building survey. If most people would agree then she’d change it, but usually the top floor was always too hot and the bottom floor was always too cold. We only lived there for a year before moving out.
yes, and when I lived in a building with no per-unit temperature control, that temperature was above what I could tolerate, so windows open it was
Talk to your landlord there is no excuse.
fuck you're really committed to being this stupid huh
You're really committed to never touching grass huh
It's kind of hard to touch grass when it's covered by a foot of snow. I did uncover some of the other day clearing a path in the yard though.
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.
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.
That wasn't how it worked in the apartments I had in Manhattan. Probably other cities are different as you point out.
Sharks don't do any of that.
They do it very smoothly.
My brain autocompleted “two cloves” as ”two cloves of garlic” and I was very confused about this tea.
Improvements over the past give us hope for the future 🙏
I'm so grateful for stuff too 💜