I mean, I use one evaporator to condition the air on the first floor of my home. I get what you’re saying, but a one bedroom apartment could be served by two PTACs.

Perhaps I’ve lost the thread of this conversation though.

You can do PTAC or mini splits to avoid ducts.

Apparently not because it happened twice!!!

(The exclamation points denote satire).

I was banned recently, my second ban (in 15 years), for saying that I wouldn’t mind if Iran wiped Staten Island off the map. I’m not sure I need to include context, Staten Island is terrible.

My previous ban, probably a year ago, was because I said it should be okay to crash your car into people with obnoxious mods (bright lights, pop tunes, etc.).

Both bans were for calling for violence, which maybe the first ban you could argue was, but the second one definitely wasn’t. And so the part that bothers me most, and the point of the story, is that they offer a route to dispute your ban, which I did, and never hear anything back either way. I want my due process.

Yeah, I think we are certainly learning it, albeit slowly. When we set up our suburbia world, it was fine, because there were just fewer people, and we had the room to do it. It’s now chaos, you take your life in your hands driving to work, it costs an arm and a leg. Unfortunately, we designed ourselves into a corner, and (at least where I live) trying to fix it feels insurmountable. And I live in a place with some of the best trains outside of Manhattan. And they’re terrible.

No solutions here. Just observations.

And just for clarity’s sake, I have contracts with local governments, and in the process of initially getting and subsequently renewing them, I fill out a bunch of forms about whether or not I have relationships (paraphrasing) with numerous countries, Iran, Belarus, Russia. Oddly enough, no China.

This being said, I don’t know for sure, but I’m curious if not only was it a lie by omission, but she knowingly submitted false statements via these forms or similar.

Some of the smartest people I know have massive gaps in their intellect. I like to say I know a lot about a little but a little about a lot. Some people know a lot about a lot, but nothing about a little, and it shows.

It’s that little bit of vanilla crunchy. Didn’t think you could improve on the Reese, but I’d eat a couple for sure.

Must suck to have the burden of such a complex palate that you can’t enjoy things.

Costco makes these 24-packs of chocolate chip cookies that I straight up have to avoid, because I lack the self-control to not eat like three or four at a clip, and when they’re 200 to calories each, it’s not good.

And I’m not fat, but I work hard to not be fat, and those cookies can undo an hour plus of real hard work in like five minutes. I love them, but I just can’t have them in my house anymore.

I’ve had the mini Oreo Reese’s cups and they’re phenomenal, I could easily house a bag and hate myself. I happen to like both Reese’s and Oreos though, probably up at the top of my guilty pleasure foods.

Yeah, that’s really overthinking things. I host my movies and shows, I watch them from wherever. I feel like I’m not going to spend more time analyzing it, because my usage of the app is literally finding my movie and watching it, or putting it on for my kids. If my junk email gets more junk emails, so be it. I personally lost the privacy battle a million years ago, although I guess I do my best by not having Facebook or Instagram or anything of that ilk. I do exist, and so I’m fucked anyway, but I’m not going to spend energy that somehow doesn’t get me a meaningful return on that energy spent.

Yeah, my job involves grammaticizing (my word) the spoken word, and I need to sometimes remind myself that just because a person speaks the comma, it doesn’t mean there is a comma. It’s definitely easy to want to vibe (to use the vernacular) commas places, though.

We need leaders (aka politicians) on our side we can rally behind, but they are few and far between. And I hate the reliance on politicians, but that is what their platform is built for. The best I can do is vote and hope for a progressive who isn’t afraid to make hard decisions, but I know the best I get is someone moderate who will just accept the shit.

Yeah, this is it. When they ask me for more money, or when they demand I host on their servers, I will adios. Until then, I paid $75 one time and the service does exactly what I want it to do, and it’s ezpz for a basic individual myself.

I think the most likely scenario is the company goes under because they didn’t have enough money, and then folks will come here and complain about that. Maybe I’ll be one of them, but I’ll try to remember I paid $75 more than 10 years ago, and so I think I’ve more than gotten my money’s worth.

I agree with what you’re saying but your commas are literally killing me.

They’ve absolutely gotten better. And I’ll caveat what I’m about to say with I’m neither a user nor a fan of AI, but people are doing real shit with it, and the only hope we have is that it will usher forward technological advancement. Obviously, I’m on Lemmy, and so what I think is that it’ll fucking doom society, but I have very left leaning friends who are also very deep in tech, and they are fully on board the AI train.

And so I’m just some dummy, I don’t know my ass from a hole in the ground, and so at this point, and for my whole life, I guess, past, present and future, in just along for the ride, and should shit go awry, I’ll rely on the same thing man has relied on for as long as man has existed.

A minute and 34 seconds into Imperials by Ratatat was always the one for me. There’s a bunch of the ones, but this one came to mind first.

It wasn’t always like that, and they also only got you so far, and mainly sped up the process.

Fantastic, I’ve been trying to replace my coke habit. Just need to smuggle this into the US.