sweetcell
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Re: Parenting issues
June 24, 2022 at 06:51 PM UTC
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useless wrote:
sweetcell wrote:
useless wrote:
people who live in cold environments send WAAAY more pollutants into the air than AC units and their electrical draw
where are you getting your information?
Analyses of home-energy use reveal that we use more energy to heat our homes (41.7 million BTUs per year, on average, at a cost of $631) than to cool them (7.8 million BTUs, at $276).
homeowners in cold states like Minnesota were putting out 20 to 25 percent more carbon dioxide through the use of their heaters than were the A/C-happy folks in Florida.
Source
they don't define "heating" and "cooling" particularly well. is cooling = A/C only? more importantly, is heating = furnace only? what about water heating and clothes drying, which are needed all year around?
here are some more recent data (that slate article is 10 years old) that breaks down energy consumption by category:
https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=96&t=3 - not much difference between heating and cooling.
thanks to climate change, we're seeing more heat events than cold events. as a general trend, temps are rising. the need for cooling will only increase, leading to more energy consumption.
EDIT: dammit. those stats are for electricity only. heating obviously uses gas and oil too… back to the drawing board.
sweetcell
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Re: Parenting issues
June 24, 2022 at 07:00 PM UTC
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Julian, wrote:
sweetcell wrote:
why are there brownouts or blackouts in the summer, but none during cold snaps in the winter?
Texas' ghetto ass powergrid would like a word.
n=1 makes for a poor counter-argument, but indeed, once again texas manages to provide an exception.
"exceptio probat regulam", the exception that proves the rule.
jrpa
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Re: Parenting issues
June 24, 2022 at 07:08 PM UTC
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Actually n=1 is a slamdunk counter-argument to "none" or n=0 claims, but feel free to pop off by all means.
sweetcell
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Re: Parenting issues
June 24, 2022 at 07:19 PM UTC
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"why are there THOUSANDS of brownouts or blackouts in the summer, but ONLY EVER ONE RECORDED CASE during cold snaps in the winter?"
pedants don't win arguments, brah.
jrpa
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Re: Parenting issues
June 24, 2022 at 07:28 PM UTC
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sweetcell wrote:
"why are there THOUSANDS of brownouts or blackouts in the summer, but ONLY EVER ONE RECORDED CASE during cold snaps in the winter?"
Sidehatch
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Re: Parenting issues
June 24, 2022 at 08:43 PM UTC
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sweetcell wrote:
"why are there THOUSANDS of brownouts or blackouts in the summer, but ONLY EVER ONE RECORDED CASE during cold snaps in the winter?"
Why did this have to become racist…I know the missing word about winter is white
Yada
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Re: Parenting issues
September 01, 2022 at 07:07 PM UTC
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Space, as the forum sponsor of parenting issues and vacation planning, WTF happened to the interface on AirBB where you actually have to pick a mountain house, yurt, camper, etc. and can't just see ALL of the options in a certain area? This is awful.
Space Freely
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Re: Parenting issues
September 01, 2022 at 07:29 PM UTC
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Yada wrote:
Space, as the forum sponsor of parenting issues and vacation planning, WTF happened to the interface on AirBB where you actually have to pick a mountain house, yurt, camper, etc. and can't just see ALL of the options in a certain area? This is awful.
I am not sure. I was looking for airbnbs in Portugal the other day and didn't notice anything new. Where were you looking? Do you mean it only shows you one type of abode at a time?
Why Portugal? My wife had expressed an interest in the Azores. Flights there were a bit pricey, but I noticed they are quite cheap from Lisbon. We weren't planning on returning to Europe a second year in a row. But I was playing around on Orbitz, and I saw several airlines (Brussels Air, British Airways, Lufthansa, Iberia) with ridiculously cheap airfares to Lisbon. Like $350-$450 RT in the height of next summer. Which is odd because the direct flights from which you are connecting to Lisbon from (Brussels, London, Munich, Madrid) are all over $1000 RT. So, Portugal and the Azores it is.
Sorry, I have no parenting questions today. We went to back to school night and met the teachers last night. None of them commented on my Wilco t-shirt, I guess there were no Nick Cave's in the house.
Yada
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Re: Parenting issues
September 01, 2022 at 07:48 PM UTC
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Space wrote:
Yada wrote:
Space, as the forum sponsor of parenting issues and vacation planning, WTF happened to the interface on AirBB where you actually have to pick a mountain house, yurt, camper, etc. and can't just see ALL of the options in a certain area? This is awful.
I am not sure. I was looking for airbnbs in Portugal the other day and didn't notice anything new. Where were you looking? Do you mean it only shows you one type of abode at a time?
Why Portugal? My wife had expressed an interest in the Azores. Flights there were a bit pricey, but I noticed they are quite cheap from Lisbon. We weren't planning on returning to Europe a second year in a row. But I was playing around on Orbitz, and I saw several airlines (Brussels Air, British Airways, Lufthansa, Iberia) with ridiculously cheap airfares to Lisbon. Like $350-$450 RT in the height of next summer. Which is odd because the direct flights from which you are connecting to Lisbon from (Brussels, London, Munich, Madrid) are all over $1000 RT. So, Portugal and the Azores it is.
Sorry, I have no parenting questions today. We went to back to school night and met the teachers last night. None of them commented on my Wilco t-shirt, I guess there were no Nick Cave's in the house.
In the past, I have liked to use Airbb as more, I go, put in what I'm looking for and then legitimately search all of the eastern seaboard. It doesn't look like that's the case now if your location is "anywhere". I did find a work around though, just pick a city and then search outside of those city limits.
I was supposed to go to Lisbon in August of 2020. :0(
sweetcell
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Re: Parenting issues
September 01, 2022 at 09:25 PM UTC
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lisbon, and portugal in general, is a great holiday destination.
when airbnb ain't working for me, i check out vrbo.com. i actually prefer it for longer-term rentals (week+) or when looking for an entire house. got an amazing and relatively cheap beachfront house in the yucatan for 8 people for 10 days just before covid ruined everything.
Space Freely
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Re: Parenting issues
November 11, 2022 at 10:10 PM UTC
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My wife has been working since 7am yhis morning, and just got a job assignment at 5pm on a Friday Veterans Day.
My daughter wants to go for a walk with my wife, but wife too busy with work. Daughter says "Why do you have to be working after 5 on a Friday holiday, my father isn't."
Response: "Your father is a dipshit."
Yada
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Re: Parenting issues
November 12, 2022 at 12:14 AM UTC
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What a peach.
jeffml
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Re: Parenting issues
November 12, 2022 at 12:21 AM UTC
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A keeper for sure
Sidehatch
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Re: Parenting issues
November 12, 2022 at 12:24 AM UTC
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Is she wrong is the question we should be asking?
Space Freely
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Re: Parenting issues
November 12, 2022 at 12:35 PM UTC
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Salad-Hatch. wrote:
Is she wrong is the question we should be asking?
I guess my point is that though there were a million things wrong with both of my parents as partners, I don't ever remember either of them ever cutting the other one down or calling the other names in front of me or my brother.
And she literally prioritizes her work above everything. "That's what normal working people do, I don't have some fake ass government job, that's not the real world." And that's ok if that's what she needs to do (I think she should quietly quit(, but don't criticize me because I don't do the same. I work 45 hours a week, am happy with what I do, and get exceptional job reviews. But that's not my whole life. Sorry, but many normal people take federal holidays off. And when they do, it doesn't make them a dipshit.
Sorry for the rant. I suppose I should just rant to my teenage daughter, or my friends who died, moved away, or faded away, rather than other weirdos on the internet.
Starsky
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Re: Parenting issues
November 12, 2022 at 04:06 PM UTC
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Obviously it’s totally inappropriate for her to say that…. We’re just yanking your chain…from what you post here it doesn’t sound like she treats you as well as you deserve but things can be complex….we are only hearing your side although you are a thoughtful guy so I don’t think you are full of shit…sometimes putting down the partner is just a way of blowing off steam and it’s not really meant…sometimes people have a failing in one area but are exemplary in others…only you really know… sometimes there is a certain dynamic in a relationship with one partner being a bit dominant and the other more submissive …you got to weigh the good and bad in the relationship…personally I feel like people don’t change and these types of behaviors just get more engrained and worse… like she may talk about you like that now but in twenty years at thanksgiving watch out… only you can decide if it rises to the level of intolerable and take a stand…reality is once your daughter goes off to college you will be entirely free to leave the relationship if it’s not working for you…some people will just never leave no matter what…
And I think it’s more common than one would think….just nobody really admits it cause it’s a bit personal….my partner for years would yell at me in front of kids when I displayed my typical cluelessness “Do you have a brain tumor or something!?!” I didn’t like it after the 50th time…. Not so funny now that I got one so she doesn’t say it…
sweetcell
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Re: Parenting issues
November 12, 2022 at 08:43 PM UTC
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Starsky wrote:my partner for years would yell at me in front of kids when I displayed my typical cluelessness “Do you have a brain tumor or something!?!” I didn’t like it after the 50th time…. Not so funny now that I got one so she doesn’t say it…
wait what?? for realz? did I somehow missed this news? dude, sorry to hear that…
Space Freely
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Re: Parenting issues
November 12, 2022 at 11:31 PM UTC
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Thanks, Counselor Hutch, you've earned yet another beer. Someday we'll be at a show and you'll let me buy you one. Or two, given your penchant for cheap swill.
All pretty much on point and agree there's two sides to every story.
And damn, sensed you've been going through some health issues, but that's some serious stuff. I hope those closest to you have been helping you cope and rally. The world needs your NPR tote bag carrying music nerd ass around for a long time to come.
Yada
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Re: Parenting issues
November 13, 2022 at 03:14 PM UTC
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Wow…really sorry hutch. Is this different from the original diagnosis? Damnit.
Starsky
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Re: Parenting issues
November 13, 2022 at 04:22 PM UTC
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Oh no it’s fine…it’s an indolent cancer… it’s treatable…wasn’t trying to freak anyone out…nice seeing you last night