I have 3 of these units since last summer. Should I be cleaning them out? Pardon the ignorance. I’ve never owned a window unit before and I won’t have one after this summer.

I would imagine some sort of heat pump is being used to transfer the heat from the electronics to the radiators. I still wonder how they’re dealing with the heat.

I think Jared Leto is a pretty good casting choice. He’s a self absorbed douche so he barely had to act.

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I only watched a bit of True Detective season 2 but I could tell it was not going to be nearly as good as the phenomenal first season

Four fingers + shortcut: "what do you mean I didn’t draw a straight in my opening hand? This is bullshit!

Didn’t the US mostly back the Kurdish forces in that civil war? Meanwhile Turkie backed the group that eventually toppled the government. I’m probably oversimplifying

Hey our names are similar

Spy Kids 3D

Oh man I haven’t thought of Jericho in a minute. I used to watch that after The Unit.

I actually disagree. I don’t think maga needs to be stamped out. It needs to be out-narratived. The Trump voters you think of that are fully racist and believe absolutely insane shit will never vote Democrat. But he has attracted a lot of voters who are just voting for someone that’s addressing their concerns. The everyday American is dealing with rising prices, financial insecurity, and a general feeling that the government doesn’t represent them well. I think a left wing candidate could easily come up with narratives that directly counter Trump’s talking points.

• “We need high tariffs to bring back manufacturing jobs from overseas.” -> “We need a global minimum wage so foreign sweatshops can’t out-compete American manufacturing.”
• “The flood of illegal immigrants is taking jobs and not paying taxes” -> “The illegal immigrants need to pay their taxes and earn their path to citizenship”
• “The deep state is pushing unamerican ideologies from within the administration.” -> “corporations have poisoned government through regulatory capture.”
• “The elites are running this country behind the scenes.” This one actually doesn’t need to change. Just point to different people when you say elites.
• “We need to drill more oil to secure energy independence.” -> “We need more wind, solar, hydro, and nuclear power so we aren’t so dependent on fluctuating global oil prices.”

People are already primed to care about these issues. By just retooling Trump’s talking points, you can use them against him. I think this would work better than “stamping out” maga ideology. They already see themselves as the underdog and the government is out to get them. That would only embolden them and lend legitimacy to their claims. The more important thing is to make them seem like the weird assholes they are.

I think it’s more of a South/north thing within Chicago. Also, white sox merch just looks cooler. Wrigley is the much better stadium though

I loved it and am very bummed it’s going to be harder to watch now.

People know socialism exists

I’m not sure they do. I think most people have heard the term and think that it basically means high taxes and high govt intervention (basically social democracy). Or they think it means that the government controls the economy and all companies would become nationalized. I was effectively a socialist for a couple of years before I realized I was. A lot of people need to know what socialism even is before they can erase the stigma in their minds.

My dad was a high school English teacher for decades before taking an early retirement last year. Administration banned the Handmaid’s Tale, one of his favorite books to teach. He became a suicidal alcoholic and was pushed out. Thankfully, he’s much happier now that he’s sober and spends most of his time woodworking, but it never should’ve come to this.

The right wing has embraced populism going back to the tea party movement in the late 2000s. The democrats are having a harder time embracing left wing populism because it scares away their big rich donors. That’s always been a factor but more so now that corporate donations and dark money in politics makes those rich people so much more important for fundraising.

I think he wears them because he sometimes rides a sketchy train line late at night and he wants to be able to record if something goes down. He has normal, vision correcting lenses in them so I can’t just ask him to take them off. The best path forward to respect my friend while respecting my own privacy is to try to bring up the privacy concerns of those glasses and hope he gets the hint.

My main point is when people say things online like “if I see somebody with those I’d slap them off”. No you wouldn’t. You wouldn’t do or say anything. The person who says that online is a keyboard warrior that’s unfamiliar with real life confrontation. Your privacy is not being respected by getting into a fistfight, drawing the attention of everyone including the police. That’s not how you would solve this conflict. That’s how you become an asshole with a mugshot.

People say stuff like this online but it’s just dumb. These glasses intentionally look like normal ray bans so you probably wouldn’t notice. The only time I’ve noticed someone wearing them, it was a friend of mine so I’m not going to be an asshole. Are you an asshole?

OP lost access to YT music, not normally YouTube. It’s confusing.