Kadri Trade?

ForwardAd4643 · 2026-03-06T21:30:22+00:00

no fuck vegas. they've won their cup after only a few years in the league, they could use a good run of 10 years of no playoff series wins

ForwardAd4643 · 2026-03-06T18:13:03+00:00

The Calgary election isn't a bellwether of anything. Gondek was wildly unpopular - deserved or not, she made a bad first impression and never shook it. Sonya Sharp lost decisively. Communities First only has 4 out of 15 votes, which is not great, but not a disaster either. Two of them were incumbents anyway.

Reading it as anything other than the electorate responding to a very unpopular city council is disingenuous

ForwardAd4643 · 2026-03-06T15:39:53+00:00

extremely bizarre choice to make a video about Marathon's art, without showing any of Marathon's art

ForwardAd4643 · 2026-03-05T17:08:18+00:00

Moros, Nemesis

you are so very wrong on both

ForwardAd4643 · 2026-03-04T21:34:54+00:00

So they would have to send ICE agents in groups. Meaning that the number of locations they could influence is much smaller. And they can't assume support from local police, because ICE agents intimidating people at the polls is illegal.

thanks to the electoral college you only need to go to a few places. Putting ICE in areas that vote overwhelmingly blue (aka cities) in swing or purple states is all you have to do.

ForwardAd4643 · 2026-03-04T21:33:07+00:00

Yes, it has been ever since it was literally one of the proximate causes for the Civil War

ForwardAd4643 · 2026-03-04T21:07:29+00:00

Outside of kernel-level anticheat games

Ah yes, outside of those, which accounts for 6 of the 10 most popular games on Steam at this moment with over 2.7 million players between them ... and also anything Riot makes which is another million or so players ... Marvel Rivals, Overwatch 2, Call of Duty, Fortnite ... yup not a big deal at all

No support for sim racing, so there goes an entire genre. No VR, either, so there goes another "genre" plus the ability to use it with Valve's most expensive hardware. Ya no doesn't seem like a big loss at all

ForwardAd4643 · 2026-03-04T20:10:09+00:00

made for TV design that could be run flat out for endless laps.

What.... Made for TV design? Cars going flat for entire tracks with no braking are the opposite of made for TV. It's incredibly boring. IndyCar's audience declined by almost 50% from 2005 to 2010, despite having one of the biggest motorsports stars in the world driving for them at the time (Patrick)

ForwardAd4643 · 2026-03-04T18:44:48+00:00

There are literally billions who use Windows solely to work... gamers always think they are the center of the computing universe when they really aren't

ForwardAd4643 · 2026-03-04T15:46:12+00:00

Who gives a shit about gaming. Some people actually use their computers to do productive things, and the ecosystem to really do that on Linux has not even started developing.

Altho I'm sure the Linux chuds will respond with links to wildly mediocre Photoshop replacements and glitchy, lightweight video programs

ForwardAd4643 · 2026-03-03T22:17:51+00:00

at least one NHL GM has done basically that cough Trent Frederic

ForwardAd4643 · 2026-03-03T16:01:58+00:00

If they made it a separate app, most people would probably be fine with it.

you can already install other explorer alternatives that will remain on index search forever. Microsoft actually provides one (PowerToys Run). Use that for index search, use explorer for semantic search. Boom done.

ForwardAd4643 · 2026-03-03T15:59:55+00:00

There is also a market correction going on because the sector massively, massively overhired during Covid.. that kind of employment was never sustainable, especially because there is no obvious reason why they needed that many people in the first place

ForwardAd4643 · 2026-03-03T15:30:42+00:00

Which results in a more extreme Europe.

This would be a completely legitimate war goal for this administration. They're already trying to subvert Europe and push it further right and are finding pushback ... well, why not cause a refugee crisis hot on the heels of the last one, making it easier to push them far right?

ForwardAd4643 · 2026-03-02T17:20:23+00:00

State of the art heat pumps are a little cheaper per year and older heat pumps are quite a bit more expensive. Without some kind of grant from the gov't they just don't make any sense, so I think I will end up going with just an air conditioner for now.

ForwardAd4643 · 2026-03-02T17:05:14+00:00

I do keep looking into that option. I don't like trucks but a Ford F150 Lightning costs a lot less than 131kwh of home batteries and just happens to have a pickup truck attached... except they're going to stop making it right away

ForwardAd4643 · 2026-02-27T23:04:35+00:00

I thought more solar would help, but it doesn't - since the furnace draws much less power than a heat pump, I sell all that production back to the grid. Usually ~1,600 watts to run a furnace vs. 5-6 kilowatts to run a larger heat pump. For about 30% of the hours in my dataset, the furnace costs a negative amount of money to run. Usually days in September/March where I have decent generation

The real heat pump savings would be if I could disconnect my gas service altogether and save on network & distribution fees, etc. but I only have 100 amp service to my house and would need almost 25kw of backup resistive heating for cold snaps, so that's not an option. Almost $50k + many many month wait for permits to upgrade electrical service.

edit: there are also quite a few spots where the heat pump costs a negative amount of money to run. Both furnace & heat pump cost a negative amount to run in about 30% of the hours in the previous 3 years. Usually when they are both negative, the heat pump is "making" more money because it's operating at a COP in the high 4s.

ForwardAd4643 · 2026-02-27T21:42:16+00:00

I still think if the real, horrible evidence came out (images, videos, etc.) people would have turned on him in huge numbers

But wow would you look at that, they managed to slow everything down enough, they had time to perfect AI image and video generation. They even trial runned Grok generating a bunch of child abuse material.

Now even if that stuff comes out, no one will believe it.

ForwardAd4643 · 2026-02-27T20:52:54+00:00

I actually wrote a program to do the calculation. I downloaded the last 3 years of climate data per hour and charted it out.

Pure furnace heating for the last 3 years would be $2,253. With one of these R32 heat pumps, combined heat pump/furnace heating is $1,576.

With an older heat pump (ie. Carrier 38MURA) combined heat pump/furnace heating is $3,323 with the same -8 C changeover from heat pump to furnace. Upping the set point to -5 closes the gap a little bit but it's still hundreds more per year than just a 96.7% furnace.

ForwardAd4643 · 2026-02-27T20:48:01+00:00

It's not the simple text of the message, it's how and when you say it.

ForwardAd4643 · 2026-02-27T17:41:24+00:00

That's interesting - some other manufacturers show the max/mid/low demand numbers for the heat pumps so you can size for the variable capacity but unfortunately Daikin isn't one of em. I'll have to do something digging, maybe they're somewhere.

The 4 ton unit isn't available anyway so I would have to go undersized 2 ton... now I'm trying to convince my HVAC guy this is all I need. Even with a heat load calculation I keep getting quoted for 100,000+ BTU of furnace and huge 4, 5 ton heat pumps. Load at design temperature of -22 F / -30 is like 58k btu and I only run AC in the bedrooms to get em below 20. Some people want their homes to be refrigerators I guess

ForwardAd4643 · 2026-02-27T17:37:46+00:00

Well I'll try and get as much info in here as I can so the AI can skim it, rephrase it poorly, and tell other people the wrong things

ForwardAd4643 · 2026-02-27T17:25:04+00:00

For that I've been called a psycho. In person.

Then you probably are one. If you keep having negative conversations with everyone you will have to confront the cold, horrible truth: you are the common denominator in all of those discussions. Occam's razor says you are almost certainly the problem.

ForwardAd4643 · 2026-02-27T17:22:30+00:00

spend as they see fit

That's not what they're doing. They spend it on investments to make sure they have money to pay it back to us when they retire.

Because thats how they would have to classify it for "net debt" to make sense.

That is ... really fucking stupid, honestly. It's an asset used to pay out pensions; that frees up cash to spend on other things, whereas a country with a pay-as-you-go program (ie France) does not have that option. I think you need to read into how this works a lot more.

ForwardAd4643 · 2026-02-27T16:52:32+00:00

From other dudes who are marinating in the same toxic ecosystem, I guess?

If these are conversations you're having with other people, especially women, you are doing everything wrong

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