I’m trying to figure out if it should be read left to right, or right to left? I’m not sure it makes any difference to the meaning at all, but here I am, reading the picture in alternating directions for several minutes.

Not really, they produce heat from the electricity they consume. Everything else is just them moving heat from inside to outside, but that’s net zero, since even an airtight house will have heat radiate in.

Which EVs are “flimsy” and unreliable?
Yeah Tesla’s might be put together poorly, but there are so many good options nowadays. Combustion engines are vastly more complicated than electric motors, batteries do complicate things a bit, but industry has gotten phenomenally good at packaging li-ion batteries, or newer chemistries.

Nah, cut 2~3 cm of the bottom of the tree and keep it sitting in water, it’ll last 2+ weeks easily and it’s not easy to set fire to a live hydrated tree, even when it’s pine.
Now putting real candles on the tree is a slight risk factor, but if you get the old fashioned or cheap kind, the candles will burn all the way down and slightly bake/singe the pine needles, and that makes your house really smell like Yule!

But that’s the root of the problem, 99$ of all billionaires are sociopaths that will never have enough, always needing more; and capitalism is built on extraction of wealth.
There are billions who don’t have enough, because the filthy rich are incapable of ever having enough.

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Anecdotally: If your cat really likes you, it won’t mind getting your scent on it’s fur, even right after it’s been grooming itself.

Maybe don’t bring your 3 year old, when you “go” to a protest. Guess the wanker wanted a human shield, in case the protesters hurt his big-boy-anti-woke feelings too much…

If it’s some form of shared washer, run a cup of bleach through a cleaning cycle. If it doesn’t have one, any hot cycle will do, then an extra rinse.
If you somehow don’t have bleach, use a cup of that strong cleaning vinegar stuff, or a couple tablespoons of citric acid. But please do not even think about combining bleach and acids.

If you payed to use the washer, surely they must have some way for you to channel your best Karen and complain about it.

Accuses others of coping, wrote 4 all caps words in the title.