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my thermostat might have a political agenda
(lemmy.ml)
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First panel: a poorly drawn figure with half-closed lids asks a smart™ thermostat "hey little man hows it goin?" Second Panel: the smart thermostat points with a large arrow at a screenshot of a graphic that reads "August Trends: Heating & cooling compared with last year", and shows zero hours more heating, 129 hours more cooling, with a small caption underneath that reads "On average, temperatures were 5 degrees warmer than August 2022" Third Panel: the poorly drawn figure with half-closed lids is shown with an unreadable smile in front of a semi-transparent image of a NASA article that reads "NASA Clocks July 2023 as Hottest Month on Record Ever Since 1880" Fourth Panel: the poorly drawn figure says "yea"
"Humans couldn't possibly change the environment that much!" [gets in manufactured vehicle and drives an hour to work on a concrete roadway without seeing a single natural tree or animal]
Well, I'll have you know that concrete is very natural, so natural in fact, that you can grow it
I was so confused by "Insulate Britain" - I thought it's some weird satire and the showsection is called "Insult Britain". But growing-concrete guy was serious and that was a real news show - crazy.
Aye there's some reet proper creatures on British news shows. Scarily sometimes they don't get made to look quite as daft as that