nostr:npub1gcnwmugmg0898m7l787jhpsyju52rc5wpngplteg8n99g3r6zr8qt9penp nostr:npub1fky3rp8gk9pczlqtkv2zszth7w65kg66hw7u5f0wjaa9ng27ennsjxy8en People want their heating to be reliable. You can't fight off the cold with willpower alone.
The idea that a heat pump is rendered useless if temperatures go below freezing is not an attractive prospect. And somehow people can't comprehend that it's not a comforting thought to know that your HEATING solution's weakness is the cold.
Similarly, recommendations to have a backup resistive heating or burn heating system in addition to a heat pump, leads to the idea that those systems are inherently more reliable. In which case, it begs the question, why not choose resistive heating or fuel burning systems in the first place? Why pay for 2 heaters when you can get just 1?
I get that heat pumps work great in certain places around the world, where maybe it doesn't get that cold during winter. But in places where harsh winters are considered normal (and warmer winters more fit for heat pumps are abnormal), asking people to switch to heat pumps is asking them to subject themselves to an entire season of anxiety of whether their heat pump will be good enough, instead of staying with the peace of mind they had before.
People also don't seem to understand that this is not an economics problem. You can't convince people into it with "but heat pump heating is cheaper on the bill". You can't buy peace of mind with the money you save. They'd rather spend more on bills than deal with any anxiety.
If you want to convince people about heat pumps, find ways to satisfy their emotional needs. Saying things like "just buy a resistive heater too if you're concerned" does NOT alleviate anxiety, it only worsens it by confirming that you NEED a backup solution as a default state, instead of something that people would occasionally maybe get if the gas got cut off for a day that one time.
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Here's an analogy. Imagine a car breaking system that is less and less efficient the harder you try to press on the breaks, and it had a cutoff point where not only the breaks would fail completely, but the car would start to slowly accelerate again. Imagine the anxiety of driving such a car.
This is pretty much the prospect some people see in a heat pump heating system.
nostr:npub1gcnwmugmg0898m7l787jhpsyju52rc5wpngplteg8n99g3r6zr8qt9penp nostr:npub1fky3rp8gk9pczlqtkv2zszth7w65kg66hw7u5f0wjaa9ng27ennsjxy8en People want their heating to be reliable. You can't fight off the cold with willpower alone.
The idea that a heat pump is rendered useless if temperatures go below freezing is not an attractive prospect. And somehow people can't comprehend that it's not a comforting thought to know that your HEATING solution's weakness is the cold.
Similarly, recommendations to have a backup resistive heating or burn heating system in addition to a heat pump, leads to the idea that those systems are inherently more reliable. In which case, it begs the question, why not choose resistive heating or fuel burning systems in the first place? Why pay for 2 heaters when you can get just 1?
I get that heat pumps work great in certain places around the world, where maybe it doesn't get that cold during winter. But in places where harsh winters are considered normal (and warmer winters more fit for heat pumps are abnormal), asking people to switch to heat pumps is asking them to subject themselves to an entire season of anxiety of whether their heat pump will be good enough, instead of staying with the peace of mind they had before.
People also don't seem to understand that this is not an economics problem. You can't convince people into it with "but heat pump heating is cheaper on the bill". You can't buy peace of mind with the money you save. They'd rather spend more on bills than deal with any anxiety.
If you want to convince people about heat pumps, find ways to satisfy their emotional needs. Saying things like "just buy a resistive heater too if you're concerned" does NOT alleviate anxiety, it only worsens it by confirming that you NEED a backup solution as a default state, instead of something that people would occasionally maybe get if the gas got cut off for a day that one time.
nostr:npub1qaeqqznnq8lrgerdlq8a9x459ru02v0gr4vxe23kgz0g2lzd53wqwnn3xv The whole thing of genetically modified mosquitoes is to replace native mosquitoes (akin to the Great Replacement conspiracy theory) with ones that cannot spread things like malaria or dengue fever or other such diseases, because the viruses can no longer survive inside the new mosquitoes. Another strategy is to release mosquito males that out-compete the native males (they basically rape all the female mosquitoes), but the offspring that result are themselves infertile. thus collapsing the entire mosquito population.
As for what that video actually shows, I have no idea. It could be an helicopter releasing insecticide for all I know. Without even some basic shit, like an actual location where this is happening, I find it beyond moronic to put out flat statements like "this is them releasing mosquitoes".
"When in doubt, blow a woman up" - Razorfist 2023
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I'm afraid I cannot do that, Dave.
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>i don't see why there's so little support for nuclear power on the left
I'll tell you why. They're terrified about nuclear energy because they don't understand a bit of it. All they know is radiation bad, and nuclear fuels give off radiation. They'll look at Fukushima and think it proves that mankind is doomed if they continue using nuclear energy, when in fact far fewer people were harmed by the accident than people get harmed in a coal mine to produce the same amount of energy Fukushima produced.
We're dealing with ignorant people. Ignorant people have cherry picked a few bits of science here and there and they've constructed an ideology/religion for other ignorant people. They don't even know how to explain global warming/climate change. All they know is to point at a temperature graph, but that's not how we know an excess of CO2 is bad. We know that CO2 is bad because we have laboratory experiments and measurements that show us how the concentration of CO2 affects warming. For years I've wondered why scientists didn't conduct such controlled experiments and published them, only to discover they did do that, a looooong time ago in fact. I just never knew about it, because these alarmists are literally too stupid to even gather up all the evidence and present it.
Even the buzz words they use are wrong, stupid and confusing the matter. They'll say things like "carbon neutral", but it's not the element carbon we give a fuck about. It's CO2. Carbon in the atmosphere would basically be soot, and it would block out the sun. Even the mixing around the terms "global warming" and "climate change" as if they're synonyms shows their ignorance. To be closer to reality we should be saying "climate change due to global warming" each and every time. Because yes, global warming can cause paradoxical events like much stronger blizzards. Only saying "global warming" doesn't paint the whole picture, not by a long shot, because the effect is actually introducing more energy in the global weather system, which just makes things more unstable. So you get storms with more energy (aka more powerful) than expected, whether it's during the summer or winter. Then there's the moronic habit of "this devastating hurricane was clearly caused by global warming". No. We're decades off from actually being able to identify if and when a particular weather event would not have existed at all. At best, we currently can look at past storm trends, look at their average power, compare them with current storms, and conclude they're X% more powerful.
There's so much more to be said, and it all annoys me to no end. From the piss-ass way they try to "educate" people of reality, to the measures they propose, they constantly prove that they are complete ignoramuses.
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Is that an IGN 10? If you want me to be turned off from a game, show me a 10 review from IGN, Kotaku or Polygon.
I'm confused, is federation with Minds actually working or not?
nostr:npub1qq7hl5sl6z0l0ahk8f6a4uv5mkvlama7dyvucdmtwdva2zg24xnqyafedr To be fair, abusing alcohol is bad too. You can only drink in moderation and not actually get drunk.
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nostr:npub1ze5ngwt4mglwtktdlrryrdvdzjunfrj2x6re9s0h6l5j5xu8sxcsveanju imagine if the wachowski brothers never trooned out
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Any new Matrix movie was always doomed to fail. Wachowskis trying to rewrite history is not what damaged Matrix 4.
I had a dream that there was a fifth Matrix movie.
Yes, Shiori is my favorite from gen 3. How did you know?
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Pee-wee did nothing wrong.
?name=image.pngnostr:npub166nq477rqxxurwdmzyhzuj7w065xk40py5lc56dnq9zzqm3ynrpq42vnht Baldur's Gate is one of those famous franchises that I never got to play. And now I never will play. :02_shrug: