It’s a gift link; few people need that.

And in Canada in 1917

4.2 is tiny; other platforms are getting hundreds of thousands per day.

It’s small enough that the Mastodon use stats show it as noise.

I’ve seen the follow-around thing a couple times. Rare because we’re small. Become big, and it becomes a bigger problem

People can follow from a Mastodon instance and drop troll comments on all your posts

What it has going for it is a nuclear block; when you block somebody, their trollish response no longer shows up in the feed of your followers, and your post no longer shows up in feed of their followers. This basically kills trolling as as sport.

The fact that on Mastodon & Lemmy “block” means “I can’t see their posts, but they can still summon followers to harass” makes them much less attractive as a platform.

However heat pumps just don’t seem to make any sense, and the more marketing materials I read critically, the less convinced I am of their practicality, nor the integrity of the vendors - if they work similarly to air conditioning units or refrigerators why do they cost 20x as much as those devices?

A refrigerator cools a fairly small volume with excellent insulation, which allows it to use a fairly small compressor running at a single speed. This is cheap.

The big differences between typical air conditioning units and heat pumps are:

• they’re set up to move heat both ways (eg: both heating and cooling) which requires a tiny bit of additional hardware
• They often have a more substantial compressor to handle the larger temperature difference associated with colder temperatures
• They’re a lot more likely to be a system intended to support the whole home instead of a single room
• People care about efficiency, which has variable-speed systems getting installed
• There’s a lot of demand for them right now, and limited supply

I can see how that could happen for some homes. Worth doing the calculation though, since it can be cheaper if the pipes are adequate.

The big reason somebody might want air to water is that it enables a low-cost retrofit of an existing heating system which uses water to distribute heat. Definitely not what I’d choose if designing from scratch, but I can see how it makes financial sense in a lot of homes.

And yes, induction is amazing, but there are a whole bunch of people who have been marketed into treating gas stoves as their personal identity.

Depending on tree species, most of the carbon can be above-ground. This is really common in the tropics

It doesn’t have to be that way.

The answer likely varies by model. Check.

Yes, but it’s a system that is designed to sync with the frequency of whatever other electricity is out there, and it shuts of if the main shuts off. Almost all rooftop systems without a battery in the US are set up the same way.

Still, it’s important to check that things you think are disconnected do not have current flowing through them. And this makes it more important.

Historically, the answer on this has involved charging very different amounts in different countries. This both enables some level of access by the poor and maximizes profits.

That Saudi. The plan there seems to be to sell off all the oil, and then have the royal family decamp to a more northern latitude with their harems while the rest of the population cooks to death.

He’s not mentioned of being one of them; just all the people around him. I figure he types in the address by hand to check in.

They cut the size, but not the price. Then they increase the price six months later.

Bloomberg (the news outlet) has a bunch of rather competent reporters who regularly cover climate, and Michael Bloomberg (who owns a controlling interest in it) was one of the major funders of the Sierra Club’s campaign to phase out coal use in the US.

The NYT is also very clear that it’s not cloud seeding:

Although some have speculated that recent cloud seeding efforts by the U.A.E. — using chemicals to increase the chances of clouds producing rain — could have contributed to the extreme weather, scientists said this was very unlikely.

“Rainfall enhancement could not cause that kind of increase in rainfall,” said Steven Siems, an expert in cloud seeding at Monash University in Australia, adding that any effects from cloud seeding would have been “marginal” at most.

It’s not impossible; it just requires building a whole lot of expensive infrastructure which is used very infrequently. People usually don’t choose to do that.