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Pretty much the same temps for me in the south bay.

It's not much, but wearing a soaked t-shirt/tank and having a fan or two circulating the air with the dryer stuff outside has helped me a bit.

I didn't check today but it was 105 yesterday a few miles inland. I saw the HVAC dude at the food truck and he was the happiest I've ever seen him.

If you have a window to put one in a window AC unit can be life changing and you can get them for a decent price. I know it might still just be too expensive but if you can afford one i highly reccomend it. You can even bring it with you if you ever move apartments.

Also increases baseline allowance, which will be super useful since my "portable" AC has been eating so much power this month.

You just hit the nail on the head for things that bother me. People just throwing out ideas that "only partially" work. This isn't just Monday's, or climate change, but literally every fucking bit of politics. It drives me up the wall.

"Yeah but it only makes things 50% better, so I don't support it"

So we'll sit with 100% bad rather than 50% better because Jim in Arizona thinks we need to only have perfect solutions, and that anything that only makes things better aren't worth investigating. Better transit, electric cars, heat pumps, hydrogen trains, gun control, sex education, free lunches? All horrible things to Jim because "they don't solve the problem". No, they just make it much better. Maybe we could use them while we search for the perfect solution, you know slow incremental change? No, okay then fuck you too, Jim

And while I clearly call out one side, us liberals are very guilty of this too. In fact, there's already an example of that elsewhere in these comments.

But... but... what about infinite growth??

have you seen the sharp decline of fossil fuel based energy in some locations? The whole point in the necessary move for a battery storage in the long term is to minimize the requirement to boot up gas facilities after work hours, where peak power usage happens and solar is minimum.

The problem with global usage is poorer nations cannot afford to switch off dirty energy, and richer nations have a harsh post work hour usage. Lowering usage doesn't fix the problem that there are dozens of countries that will still continue to burn dirty till some country invests in a cleaner option.

put in perspective, even though China and the US has the most power consumption, unlike GDP, it doesn't take that many more countries after them to equate how much power they consume. So unless theres a global shutoff of power (which on its own, will have a plethora of long lasting problems if everything just shuts down), the best solution is to swap the type of energy that generates the most heat/green house gasses out.

Yeah like during covid lockdown just people driving around less had huge positive effects on the environment. If we could just adopt some of what we did in lockdown like remote work for everyone who can do it permanently it would make a huge difference. And there are tons of ways we could just be less wasteful in general but people dont bother.