hypna

Do I upvote because it's true, or do I downvote because of clap spaces. I'm torn.

This smells like social media feminism. The kind of thing that a few people will tweet about voluminously for a while, and news/culture publications will write articles about for clicks, but which has little to no existence in the real world.

I can't help but think a person would be justified in permanently disabling these aircraft.

Of all the reasons I've seen for why people struggle to unionize, I have never seen anyone suggest that unions don't want members.

I just had a mini-revelation that this looks weird because the "pupil" is on the surface of the contact instead of under the lens of the eye. These aren't bad contacts; contacts are just bad like that. Seems that post processing is really the only option.

I'm a little worried about the level of critical thinking around here if people really feel that "great" arguments can be expressed in a four panel comic.

The world is not simple, and memes can not make a valid worldview.

I don't think either PBS or NPR has been "bought" by anyone. They're both still non-profits owned by their member stations.

Why would this make PBS and NPR sad?

Actually a lot of them don't. It's weird but a lot of polling has found that a big chunk of Trump supporters somehow believe that all the outrageous things Trump says are somehow just for show, or are sarcasm, or just a joke. I'm not talking about the maga hat, rally goers, but the more average Trump voter who says "the economy" is their top voting issue.

Trump couldn't win a national election with just maga. Somehow getting the more normal Trump voters to believe he might actually do what he likes to talk about doing, might really help.

Short answer is yes.

I got curious and dug up the spec sheet. https://budgetheating.com/v/vspfiles/downloadables/BOVA36-60HDN1-M20G%20Technical%20Specifications.pdf So I overstated my particular unit. It's rated to -4F.

I live in a climate that gets under -4F a few times a year, so I also have an auxiliary furnace. I set the cutover temp very conservatively at 20F for last winter as it was the first winter using the heat pump, and I also heard people telling horror stories about $1000 electric bills in January.

While my winter electric bill is now larger than my summer bill, the increase in electricity spending is about half the decrease in gas spending. Looking back at the temperature record, my furnace turned on about 10 days last winter.

I've got the cutover set to 0F this year and we'll see how that impacts the balance.

It's also worth noting that my home was built in the early 70s and still has the original windows and insulation, so it's a long way from the ideal case.

As for your experience with HVAC technicians, I also met a few who clearly still thought heat pumps didn't work well enough, and others who basically recommended them to everyone. It really seemed to be a generational thing.

I am looking out my window at a heat pump in my back yard which is effective down to -15F. Your info is I think about 10 years out of date.

It becomes useless as evidence unless you can establish authenticity. It just makes audio recordings more in a class with text documents; perfectly fakeable, but admissible with the right supporting information. So I agree it's a change, but it's not the end of audio evidence, and it's a change in a direction which courts already have experience.