There's always some kneejerk cliche ppl use to describe everyday consumer goods as luxuries and they always use it way after it's obsolete
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Right now it's "iPhone", only two years ago it was "flatscreen TV" (they kept saying this long after flatscreens became the only kind of TV)
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Just like Reagan kept saying "color TV" back in the 1980s, long after all TVs were color TVs
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Replying to @arthur_affect
This is a good point. Like how Heritage in 2011 decided presence of refrigerator, microwave = wealth. http://mediamatters.org/research/2011/07/22/fox-cites-ownership-of-appliances-to-downplay-h/148574 …
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Replying to @waterprinciple
He includes A/C as a "luxury" as though heat doesn't literally kill people
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Replying to @arthur_affect
(I have a separate rant abt how seeing A/C as a luxury but heat as a necessity distorts ppl's sense of what's "green")
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I read about that somewhere, a comparison of energy use in cooling and heating, and heating is WAY higher.
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I'm fine with saying people shouldn't live in Phoenix
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