Took this technique I learned in prison to make it bearable during the heatwave:

  1. Wet the window with a sponge or rag.
  2. Put aluminium foil up against it. Shiny side out. Cut beforehand on angled windows like that or use the roll on vertical surfaces.
  3. To cover the overlap, just wet the foil already on there, but be careful not to pull it off at the edge. An overlapping strip will stick to the other ones.
  4. Use masking tape to cover any overlapping edges that come away, as well as the edges that have a hard time connecting to the windowsill.

This keeps out an incredible amount of heat; you can feel how hot the foil itself gets during the day, while keeping the inside nice and cool.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    I basically agree with what you’re saying here, yeah, basically a bunch of totally unquailified PTA-like organizations are actually responsible for a surprising amount of norms and standards in the US, which are treated as if they are very smart and good rules, made by very smart and good people.

    I think the stylistic quibble here is… what you in your example call ‘not a conspiracy’, I call ‘a conspiracy’.

    A conspiracy doesn’t need to be secret or well hidden or non obvious, non mundane.

    A conspiracy is literally just when a bunch of people decide to do something, and then do things toward that goal.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/conspiracy

    Conspiracy is an agreement between two or more people to commit an illegal act, along with an intent to achieve the agreement’s goal. Most U.S. jurisdictions also require an overt act toward furthering the agreement.

    But, we as a culture have a rather hysterical relationship with the word conspiracy, because it is so often used by people promoting … basically either extremely racist, or convoluted/incoherent, or sci-fi nonsense level plots.

    But but, taking the very literal and basic concept of what the word means… and just replacing ‘illegal’ with ‘immoral’ or ‘devious’ or somesuch… people conspire very often and frequently, and its usually extremely straightforward with little to no significant attempt to ‘hide’ the conspiracy at all.