Thinking about heat pumps, since there's been waffle on the radio about them recently. My mental model of a heat pump is that you have unit(s) outside, and aircon unit(s) indoors which you can run either to cool or heat your preferred rooms.
However, what's being talked about on the radio seems to consist of hooking a heat pump up to replace your gas boiler and warm your radiators. Is this more effective or efficient? It seems to me that as the chances of hot weather increase you'll want to cool your house for some of the year, and this doesn't do that.
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Netflix: 12 euros
Disney+: 9 euros
HBO Max: 7 euros
Sky Showtime: 7 euros
Not including Amazon or Apple because you get other stuff with that
Total = 35 euros per month.
NordVPN = 9 euros per month
Just saying.
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(Like the way I can never get behind-the-head straps to work properly, on anything from VR headsets to masks.)
Oh right! Either early phases you've not got enough thigh, or nobody's telling you to use tape.
(I can imagine you in cat ears though. Looking somewhat bemused.)
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Experiment. What do you see if youโre reading this from Mastodon or one of its clones?
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Oooh, if youโre fully saturated, does that mean we can add seed particles to initiate crystal precipitation?
Who doesnโt love some fresh brain crystals?
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Reddit can be a useful knowledge base, but there are certain subject areas where the consensus voice will confidently, clearly, emphatically state something that is simply wrong.
My current irritation is r/sailing, which has a large number of people who have clearly never sailed beyond the yacht club bar, or maybe a small lake, and have precisely zero clue about the interplay between wind and current (because they never experience the latter), spouting off bullshit with authority.
And thereโs no point arguing with them, but my god, the extent to which they are smug about being wrong is irritating as fuck.
Just looked at M&S Per Una for the first time in a decade and, OMG you guys, itโs got really really gay.
Utterly, profoundly, homosexual.
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@Maria Karlsen When I say none of it makes any difference, I'm specifically talking about the effect individual actions have on climate change. To a first approximation, this is zero, and has little scope for it to be any other number.
I agree that we can very definitely make a difference in how people feel, and this is the source of my complaint: the constant stream of "we are all going to die, because we are filthy eco-sinners" articles just make people feel like shit.
It's basically doom and gloom protestantism, but with the climate playing the role of their god.
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But maybe this is just laziness; remembering a set of things to CW is probably significantly easier than getting individualsโ pronouns right, which I regard as mandatory brain work.
Moving into new flat. Tried the hob today for the first time. Smoke started coming out from under it and I could smell burning insulation.
Discussions with the builder will be had tomorrow.
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Looking forward to how insufferable the British will be after the gulf stream collapses, and we're having tropical summers and Arctic winters!
We're obsessed enough with the weather, already. ๐
So turns out Zuckerberg owns X as a trademark in so far as it relates to social media?
Dear god, if you put this in a novel, people would not believe it.
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To be honest it's such a simple marque it does not surprise me that it's already in use. I would have expected some social media business to have used it by now. Trying to find even complex names that are unique is very challenging.
It's almost like Twitter was actually a valuable brand . . .
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Oh right! Musk is trying to show Thiel that he was right all along for a 20 year old grudge.
FFS. Billionaires grow the fuck up 2023
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@Viking Chieftain Musk says a lot of stuff, but is basically a clown with a poor attention span.
Competent evil is much scarier.
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Hi from bsky. You need an invitation to get here. The website link is published through telepathy. We have twelve active users and a nightly circular firing squad. You canโt link to posts anywhere, but you can verify yourself by visiting your favourite domain registrar with your compsci degree.
Today we will be talking about why fediverse is so hard to use and why it will never be popular with its fifteen million users.
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Extreme right politicians: Immigrants are the reason for everything thatโs wrong! Elect us!
European public: Makes sense. We will elect you.
Narrator: Immigrants were not, in fact, the reason.
Tune in for the next episode to see who the next scapegoats are going to be (the answer will shock you!)
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Typo of the day: diuretic debit.
Kind of appropriate I guess, since apparently donating to Stonewall was pissing money away.
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Looks like the work we did with Stonewall was a bust. Reporting here that they now think itโs ok to stop us using toilets.
What an utter travesty.
news.sky.com/story/lower-the-tโฆ
'Lower the temperature': Stonewall chair calls for end to 'megaphone diplomacy' around trans rights debate
The LGBTQ+ charity also appears to have softened its stance on the issue of single-sex spaces, as Mr Anderson said he supports exemptions that can be used to exclude transgender people from women's prisons and toilets.Sky News
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@Pyroรฉaon ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ @Essjay (she / her) ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ It was Ruth Hunt who made them openly advocate for trans people.
I think it took a very heavy toll on her. I have a great deal of respect for Ruth, and I think her force of will was maybe more important than any of us (her included) realised.
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However, it's unobtrusive, no radiators on walls, warm floors are lovely in winter and the house stays pretty much constant temperature.
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