She should be facing prison.

thats pretty harsh. they are going through some real emotional things right now. They hated him for so long but now maybe. maybe. he was more part of their crowd. maybe they had been wrong about him this whole time. its a lot to take in.

I wonder where all the pearl-clutching conservatives are now? I thought tearing down statues was something they were against?

LOL.

What struck me about that photo is how it doesn't have a bunch of John Barron's tacky fake gold gewgaws plastered everywhere.

How on Earth did JFK even do it without all that stupid shit surrounding him?

There was technically no ban on incandescent lightbulbs. Instead, the law set efficiency requirements, which were beyond what incandescents could meet.

I'm sure we could write something like that for HVAC systems.

I generally agree but in this case you can't really beat a heat pump in the near future, except with a better heat pump. The cats spending money to keep things from changing are the gas lobby.

If we keep installing gas we'll be stuck maintaining two expensive energy distribution infrastructures forever when one (gas) is much less useful and flexible compared to electricity

I use an evaporative cooler, works well with the dry climate and it is simple enough that I can do any repairs myself (no electronics, just a pump and a fan and switches for them), and is very energy efficient. I've also read about digging pipes that go deep underground to circulate air for cooling. I'd think about getting a heat pump but my main concern is maintenance, have heard from people whose heat pumps broke down and they had some trouble getting them fixed. It's not totally unambiguous that it is the best choice in all circumstances.

I can tell you for sure that in my uninsulated 1920s wind tunnel my heat pumps (mini splits) are cheaper than oil in the depths of winter to the tune of around $300 a month.

Installation cost me $0. Actually, that's not true. I had to run to Harbor Freight to get a bigger hole saw. Installation ran me like $40 for the hole saw kit.

I don’t think there’s anything that we’re on the cusp of discovering that would meaningfully change how humans heat their homes.

Also, for homes that have AC, mandating that the AC be a heat pump is logical. They’re cheap now, and the difference is a reversing valve and some logic. I can’t think of a good reason not to, in climates where heat is even occasionally needed - perhaps with exception of geothermal availability.

I don’t know prices in Colorado but in New England where I am, heat pumps are cheaper to run than propane, heating oil, or of course resistive heat. If similar, then just not allowing new gas connections should work great.

The problem here is that gas is the cheapest heat source, and of course conversion costs are high, but we don’t have much new construction

No. A specific tech should not be mandated. But, strongly incentivizing moving away from gas furnaces is a good idea.

The problem with mandating a specific technology is in the near future there may be something better, then the corporations that got fat over having their tech blessed spend their money to keep the law from changing.

Meanwhile dickhead donnie wants no new solar and no new wind installations.

"She probably needs a pardon"

-- Jared Polis, probably

It sure is accomplishing neither.

They should just send a response and indicate that anything the pedo-in-chief says is entirely irrelevant to how our schools will be run.

So federal authorities are threatening to pull hospital funding for a problem they are helping to create?

This is so infuriating. If we didn't allow people to just resort to their vibes when deciding whether their children were going to be allowed to participate in group activities if they don't vaccinate, this would not even be a thing.

Opting out for a legitimate reason is one thing, opting out because of your feels are quite another matter.

I read his letter as "hey you guys, I'm not affected by this, so what's the big fucking deal anyways?"

I've always hated how people compare us to some of the worst places on the planet and then say, "well, we have freedom and prosperity here, so STFU about MERICA. You need to show some gratitude!"

It's such cop out and a terrible argument.

That's not how normal people think about things. Normal Americans tend to think we should strive to be better and to always try to be among the best if not the very best. We should hope to be the model, the actual shining city on the hill, and the example for others to point to when they are trying to strive to do better.

I'm trying to think of how that dumb argument would fly in almost any other context - "Hey Dad, that one kid failed out of school, so my F in this class is no big deal. Let's have a group hug?"

There are so many jokes about the intelligence of devil dogs and this motherfucker just made them all true.

What a shit opinion from a goddamned veteran. He should know better.

Until/if the MAGAt party gets out of power, expecting or hoping for any consequences for criminal behavior or changes in direction is pissing in the wind.

I believe it’s past time we all just took a big breath, group hug, and think about all the freedoms and good things we have here in these United States. As a Marine Veteran who has seen more of this world, I can say from experience that what we have here ain’t so bad.

I’m sorry people had to lose their lives in the riots in Minnesota; however, I will say what no reporter or editor will say. They would be alive had they only obeyed the officers’ orders.

I wonder how many letters they had to sift through to find some stupid shit like this for "balance"? Because we have to be "objective" and all that.

Ice accountability laws don't matter without enforcement. State police must be willing to go to bat.

I would like to remind your readers who support the masking of ICE agents because of possible threats to their lives, that judges who have ruled against this administration, politicians who oppose this administration and reporters who question this administration are not masked and have also been threatened by said administration and doxxed by the same.

Well said

Minor quibble about the NASA letter - the cool thing about science is that it doesn't require belief.

Reading stuff like this is absolutely infuriating.

I want to see Stephen Miller in prison so much now.