• Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        27 days ago

        A $40 dinner for two at a cheap burger place is still way more than a few more kWh/BTUs of energy use at home, even if you buy and cook something at home. Two low-tier beers at a dive bar cost more than a six pack of a nicer brew you can drink at home. I’ve had to do the math too many times when going out and it hurts.

        • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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          A sad fact.

          This is why we’re all home, reading social media on our phones.

          It’s fine though, look at that amazing ballroom and peace in the middle east. Economic depression is a small price to pay for minting our first trillionaire and obtaining freedom from anti-corruption laws. Are we great again yet?

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          27 days ago

          kWh/BTUs or kJ (though usually MJ for gas usage where I’m from)

          Ahhh I can rest easy now.

          BTUs might be the funniest US Customary unit for the name. The absolute worst US Customary unit for power is tons of refrigeration, I feel violated knowing that’s used at all.

  • Zephyr@sh.itjust.works
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    27 days ago

    So true, sidebar I could have sworn I’ve heard Twonk before. Looked it up and got this.

    Twonk is a mild, humorous British slang term used to describe a foolish or silly person. It is typically used in friendly banter among mates to refer to someone who has done something a bit thoughtless or clueless, but not necessarily malicious.

    I really can’t confirm if it’s legitimate though.

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      27 days ago

      When there was a spate of articles being like “workers want to come back to the office” and a bunch of people on social media were like No One Ever Said That Even Once, I remembered that directly out of college I rented a room in a town home where the other three bedrooms were also rented out to people I didn’t choose. My room was 8’ X 10’ and the kitchen had to have been 6’ x 10’ (I could stand in the middle and lean side to side and touch each wall) and there was no living room. If I had to work from home living there, I would have done anything to get out.

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      27 days ago

      Completely agree. I will go out if invited out, but I don’t go looking for reasons to be out at all. Cabin fever is a non-existent feeling here.