#climate control

There's a 100 hour Livestream going on right now talking about NASA and Weather and Climate Control and what everyone does to help keep us safe!

I have wall-mounted units in each room, each with its own thermostat. (They're not window AC units; it's a whole-building system that has a separate fan unit and control panel in each room.) And the thermostat temperatures tend to be wildly off from the room temperatures.

But the thermostats aren't broken! I have an infrared thermometer to double-check, and the thermostats are (more or less) correctly reporting their own temperatures. There's just a steep temperature gradient from the thermostat to, like, a foot away from the thermostat.

The thermostat reads 83; my IR reports the thermostat around 78; the temperature of most of the objects in the room is like 71.

The following is an analysis from my good friend on twitter named Sam regarding this song.

I'd like to talk about this and I'm not sure how to without doing a whole existential rant (which i don't want directed at any individual and moot is on private so i covered out of respect) bc this is not the only post like this I've seen.

first, you're not exactly wrong but its more complicated than that. i do believe this song was written when he said it was, that actually makes it more impactful. Shawn is in New York recording his next album right now. his country, his home, is on fire and the evidence is billowing down in the form of an orange smoke that's polluting the air he's breathing. these fires are unusual, out of season and the majority are out of control, and this will have massive negative affects on the canadian climate for a long time even after the fires are gone. I don’t know if you've noticed, but the world is kinda dying. mega corporations have done a lot of irreparable damage to the environment and are refusing to take accountability for the damage that IS repairable. the likelihood of any government standing up to these corps and forcing climate reparation is increasingly low due to corruption and while there are some wonderful organizations doing incredible work there's no guarantee it will be enough to counteract the ongoing destruction. it all feels a bit… hopeless. so that's literally happening and it also feels very metaphorical for what's happening to the world, to society, right now especially for queer individuals. it's pride month. our rights are under attack which affects the community as a whole but also can feel like a direct personal crisis. it's got a lot of people scared and looking for their best option for surviving. we're kind of suffocating in hate right now. and that can have impact on our relationships. can make us doubt if its worth it worry that the love we have for each other won't be enough to stop the wave of hate we've been seeing build over the past couple of years. i believe the message in Shawn's song is a bit nihilistic in that he's almost accepting that we will probably lose but also willing to go out sticking to the moral and philosophy of love. choosing his person. choosing to be queer even in the face of potentially fatal hatred. he doesn't want to lose that before losing the bigger fight because that would feel worse than dying. he doesn't want to sink into the closet just to survive in a world where he can never be fully himself, fully happy. just to survive in a world that's slowly dying itself. bc what is the point of that? survival ≠ living. the fact that it was written this month and the feeling is so raw and fresh is something that makes this song hit as hard as it does, in my opinion. i think that 'hopeless but determined and proud' emotion is something a lot of people need help finding because as a community we've always kind of had to have that kind of philosophy of life to be openly queer in a hostile world. it's the bravest thing in the world to choose authenticity and love in the face of the kinds of hate and violence we've always been met with. its the most beautiful thing in the world to choose to make the most of the life we do have for as long as we have it.

Joe Biden and Senate Democrats passed a bill with $369B allocated for reducing carbon emissions, and it's being paid for by high corporate taxes and taxing the 1%.