Reminder for disabled and sick folks, or anyone with a disabled or sick or elderly person in your home, as seasons change whether it's getting hotter or colder for you:
If your power grid is being overtaxed by too many people in your community using their air conditioners or heat, and your leaders tell you something like it's "your civic duty" to lower your AC to an unbearable and dangerous level for you (or to reduce your heat use to unbearable and dangerous levels for you), ignore them.
That's right, I said ignore your civic duty. Let the ableds who can tolerate too hot or too cold with just mild discomfort take on the burden of society for once. You may feel guilt, but you're not saving the world by courting heat stroke or freezing to death because you're more vulnerable to either.
Eco fash and eugenecists will be blocked on sight
This also counts for anyone taking meds that lower your tolerance to heat or cold. Many medications, including but not exclusively psych meds, cause this side effect, so even if you could tolerate extreme temperatures before if you can't while taking meds that still counts for my above point
Oh, and keep an eye out if you have a smart thermometer. During the Texas Freeze the power companies lowered the temperatures of houses with smart thermometers without the consent of those paying the companies. People froze to death in that Freeze.
Also be careful if you live under the English Monarchy, the U.K. power officials tried breaking into low income and elderly people's homes to put physical caps on their meters to reduce the amount of energy used by that home.
(I'd source both of these stories if I didn't want this reblog to be seen. But they were both reported on at the time and you can still look them up in a search.)
Apparently New Yorkers got an actual emergency alert telling them not to use their microwaves or ACs to conserve power, but the billboards and advertisements are still allowed to run
Anyway, once again, if you're vulnerable to heat and you need to heat your food, ignore this crap. Let the ableds carry the burden for once
Time of year again for the northern hemisphere
