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Cake day: July 3rd, 2025

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  • I think of the 90’s as us trying to continue the optimism and work that was put in during the 60’s to create a more egalitarian society, while having some of the wild of the 70’s and trying to recover from Reaganism of the 80’s. And not having the daily threat of nuclear annihilation. While allowing the rise of unbridled corporatism.

    While Clinton did a lot of work to balance the budget and had the debt paid off, he also passed the telecommunications act of 93 that allowed consolidation of media. Namely I heart radio.

    Before him cable providers were required to allow public access, and only 1 owner of a single am/fm (pick one.) station with 1 television station in a market.

    Now you have Sinclair as a direct result.





  • No. You have a semi (mostly) closed loop system. The user failure is the lack of knowledge of not properly sealing the loop or insulating it.

    Think of it this way, if your external door is cracked a little and opened of its own accord with another open open window causing it to open that is negative pressure. Now imagine it on a lower airflow restriction pulling air into the area you are trying to cool through all of the natural air leaks in your dwelling. You will end up heating the air you are trying to cool causing the single hose to work harder while pulling more hot air to cool.

    With dual hose you are localizing both input and exhaust air in a smaller area. With proper insulation or even just a blanket wrapped around both hoses, it makes it easier to maintain ambient air temps.


  • To anyone considering a portable single hose unit. Don’t.

    Spend the extra on a dual hose portable and wrap the hoses with a blanket.

    Single hose pulls hot air from the outside to cool the compressor which kind of defeats it’s purpose. Dual hose is a somewhat closed loop system where it pulls outside air with one hose to cool the compressor while exhausting the hot air out from another hose.

    Seriously they are like $100 more and will save that in electricity bills over 1 hot summer easily.