Resistive heating elements are inefficient compared to heat pumps, and usually cost more to run than gas.

If it’s an old a/c system you may want to upgrade it to a heat pump. In many cases you can keep the air handler and resistive heat and only replace the outdoor unit and indoor coil.

Here is the source of the content, since the original source is down:

https://www.hipforums.com/forum/threads/the-14-characteristics-of-fascism.237793/

Hallmarks of a Fascist Regime By Skip Stone Posted on Hippy.com 12/8/2002

One leader who has nearly absolute control of government, despite pretense otherwise. There is no effective opposition to his policies.

All opposition held in check through various overt and covert means (although they go thru the motions of being an opposition).

Limited public debate about policies.

Control over media. Media only reports what government allows it to report. Covert Censorship.

Rigged Elections

Constant appeals to Patriotism with lots of flag waving. Flags and/or images of the Leader appear everywhere. Those who don’t follow along are singled out and ridiculed.

Vocal Opponents end up dead under mysterious circumstances (Like Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy, Paul Wellstone for example)

Leader passes laws giving himself even more powers

Controls the masses through Fear Mongering

Scapegoating. Certain class of people blamed for the problems the leader faces, justifying new laws and military actions.

Must have an ongoing war to keep people’s minds off how fucked their own government is.

No real policy to improve the lives of the average person.

Leader surrounded only by trusted friends and business people who profit handsomely.

Most actions favor insiders, friends and Corporate entities at the expense of the people. Laws that monitor and control business practices are removed.

Constantly preaching morality to the masses (to cover their own immoral actions)

Government involved in numerous illegal activities, all kept secret through various means.

Violates, disrespects or refuses to agree to World Conventions on Human Rights, international norms of conduct, and other laws. All manner of excuses offered.

Spy agencies given broad new powers and funding.

Government increases covert activities against its own citizens. Citizens are urged to spy on citizens.

Many civil liberties restricted or suspended.

An incredible amount of blood is spilled, with no obvious benefit except to those in power.

Does ANY of this sound familiar where you live?

Then YOU’RE LIVING under Fascism!

Some well known fascists:

Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Marcos, Saddam Hussein, Noriega, Suharto, Sukarno, Pinochet, Milosovich, Bush

Please note at one time or another most of these people were either trained or supported by the US government and had numerous business dealings with US corporations.

Title of article doesn’t represent what various official statements have said.

“Activist daughter of newspaper owner makes statements that are refuted by both the owner and opposing management” would be more accurate.

It think that represents only 1/1800th of his wealth.

Divide your wealth by 1800 to get some perspective. I’ve spent that much without much thought.

I agree, but the quote adds some context to why Besos would do such things. I’m not agreeing with it in any way.

In a 2019 lawsuit, Amazon claimed it lost a $10 billion Pentagon cloud computing contract to Microsoft because Trump used “improper pressure … “to harm his perceived political enemy” Bezos.

I didn’t catch that the “former” part of the article headline.

What always catches me off guard about these types of reports is that someone had time to work a normal job and then also manage a completely separate job. Did they do nothing but work? Was the money worth it?

I saw a dude jogging up the stairs and his gun fell out of his hoody sweats. He looked at it for a second and the picked it up and put it on his hoody like it was his phone.

5/7 best subway exit ever.

Don’t mess with usps. They are funded and bored.

Possible windows fix here?

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/mtp-usb-driver-software/ed82ff3b-350b-4e04-ad52-1c2a1111981c

Cooking. So much SEO filler is avoided. You can’t rely on it though, it’s tried to sub sugar for brown sugar. You still need to understand basic flavor concepts.

Too many cats.

Sounds like a great feature to request

Is insurance fraud in Florida even newsworthy?

My healthcare services websites. Their website and mobile app require separate logins. The website logs in then redirects to a completely different website.

They have a tax-free “store” that feels like a completely different website.

Everything is laid out using what seems like the idea of middle management and not modern design philosophy.

Amazon also bought up a comic distributor a while back which may make this easier to get the content I want.

I’ve never had issues emailing PDFs and epubs to my kindle address to read them.

I’ll need to check out kobu though, they have a color one that’s $100 cheaper.

No, it’s how we ended up with proofpoint, mimecast, barracuda and all the other spam filtering services.

They bought up postini. Before then their spam filtering was poor.

They then leveraged that to get enterprises ising postini into their email service. This created a vacuum for enterprise spam filtering since many customers did not like the Gmail enterprise features or changes to UI.

“Shall” and “may” are used a lot, especially in gun law.

For instance there are counties that have concealed carry permits written as “may issue…” and the sherif decides if a ccp will get issued, but others are written as “shall issue…” and the sheriff is forced to issue the ccp unless they can defend a valid reason against doing so.

What I’m getting at is the “may vs shall” argument has a lot of previous legal definitions.