Solution: A Faraday cage for your thermostat. Snap it over Build it around the thermostat to prevent the clowns from making changes.
A better solution, of course, involves the Second Amendment.
How is shooting your thermostat an alternative solution?
;-)
Question is, who is willing?
The article offends me on several levels. The biggest one is that the author seems to think the other provisions mentioned in the first couple of chapters are “reasonable”. Like the water pipes and roof covering color.
They are not. They are fascism.
This particular frog is not being slowly boiled alive. Either this article is a joke, like the Onion articles, or it really IS time to start shooting the Ba$tards.
First it was toilets, then shower heads, light bulbs, and now this?
Seriously, this is becoming an incredibly fascist state. Good news is that with the coming economic collapse, the government will either lose its power (or will) to take on this stuff, or they will be concerned about armed uprising over a myriad of things.
The times they are a changin’.