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I can’t help but think “whatever” to all this. It’s the absolute

Ultimate in pettiness. There is no culture war issue too petty to escape JM’s (or his phone’s) notice. Who could possibly give a shit about this? I have gas in my 18 yr old townhouse - I just can’t imagine my quality of life would be different by the tiniest degree if I had an electric range and stove.

Who can possibly get their panties in a wad over this? As long as my range or oven gets to the heat level I need to boil my water or whatever the hell l’m doing, what do I care? Because I…might one day get my electricity from something other than gas, coal or oil?

I know I’m not alone, but I don’t get how JM isn’t embarrassed by posts like this. Yeah, shitting all over elections and courts and everything else which makes democracy possible - no problem there. But don’t tell me Berkeley mandated “no gas” in new construction - how can anyone bear that outrage! And they backed down according to Hot Air’s grievance blog - what a sick burn!

Grown humans focused on this bullshit. That’s pretty much our problem in a nutshell.
[Post edited by hoolstoptheheels at 03/28/2024 08:18AM]

(In response to this post by SixerHoo)

Posted: 03/28/2024 at 08:17AM

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