I agree that 78°F is way too high to be a confortable sleeping temp, though being in a country where residential AC isn’t really a thing and inside temps at night often are higher than that in summer… you get used to it, it’ll just never be fun.
My ideal sleeping temp is like 15°C but even if I had AC that seems too wasteful so I’d probably settle for 18-20
Yip, that’s the one
I saw a youtube video from a woman that had a similar experience yesterday. Came from a deeply red, rural community, and went not to war but to a military base in okinawa. She talked about how many of the US military structures are actually quite socialized (everyone at the same rank gets the same salary, free healthcare, etc.) and also about how eye opening it was to get a different perspective on the pacific war than just the narrative of the US.
I can definitely see how just leaving the country for a place with a radically different culture alone could push you towards more leftist views (though afaik in military bases you still have to actively seek out interaction with anything outside the base), to say nothing of experiencing the horrors of war first-hand.
Am I missing something here (after quickly looking up virginias climate) or is this no different from the average central europe experience these days? Not that I don’t agree that these temps indoors fucking suck (or that just about everything DOGE does is horrible), it just really doesn’t seem like anywhere close to the worst results of pausing affordable housing. Complaining on a really priviliged level if you will.
Yeah, what people forget is that even average americans (and central/northern europeans and some other plaves) are quite wealthy from a global perspective. Many people on lemmy, self included, are in that global 10%.
And many of those emissions aren’t something you can just avoid either, they often come as a result of being a user of local infrastructure etc.