Here in Estonia (very white folks, we’re pretty far north), the Brits lent us a few ships the first time we broke free from Russian rule. So what I meant is if you’re white, they’ll occasionally help you (probably to get back at another empire), but if you’re colored, they’ll genocide you and take your land for sure.
Hoping it’s both but we all know the big colonies were given away because of revolutions, not out of their free will.
The British literally helped my extremely white people gain independence. They don’t always genocide white people is what I meant. They only sometimes genocide white people. They always genocide non-white people.
That’s a pretty small list tbh. Should be 0, but at least it’s not half of Africa and Asia anymore.
If the British showed up, they tried to genocide, that’s just what they do
I mean only if it’s non-white people. They’ve helped white people out sometimes - of course only when it’s aligned with their interests.
Yeah, hoping we can avoid that, but it’s not looking too great. It’s a mitigation for today’s world, but not for the future unless we also manage to solve the water issue. And just global warming in general.
And both make me go with a different company next time so idk what they think they’re gaining.
I installed triple glazing and started shutting windows during the day, but since there’s little ventilation, that means the air gets really bad here eventually. There’s trees on the south side of the house and no windows on that wall. I’m further north than the majority of the UK (think between Inverness and Shetland for my latitude - except I’m at the Baltic sea).
The AC is just necessary in the last few years. A decade ago it got hot, but not unbearably. Now it’s worse. I think the increased insulation is actually making AC-less, windows-closed situation heat worse since there are no shutters. I do wonder if polarizing film would be an effective alternative, as I don’t want it to be dark 24/7 and I’d forget to re-open the shutters when the summer is over lol
Does that work for ground source heat pumps too? Like could I literally cool my floor with one? For summer and light winter, my air to air unit is fine and air to water is great too, but when it’s like -25 or -30 out, the air source units start getting pretty inefficient.
I live in Estonia, temperatures don’t ever get to 39C but they do get up to 33-34 and for some reason my house gets pretty humid even at high temps, so it’s worse inside than outside, even if it’s hotter outside. I got a heat pump installed about 2 years ago, cost around 2k installed, but then again I went for a beefy Mitsubishi unit (big house and only one unit for now). It’s an absolute game changer in the summer, and in the winter when it gets cold, it saves me effort as well - I have to load the furnace less.
I figure it’s already earned its keep via the heating, but also if I do 2 extra hours of productive work 2 days a week, that’s 10 weeks of summertime heat till it’s paid off in full and while most summers don’t come with 10 weeks of heat, every summer has at least 4-5 hot weeks here.
For detached houses, you can do split systems with multiple indoor units per one outdoor unit. In a flat, you’re a bit more fucked because you might need permission from other people in the building, etc.
It’s possible to protect against heatwaves on a city level. Increase the albedo value of the city by doing the following: Incentivize lighter colored roofing and walls, grow leafy trees for shade, cover parking lots with solar roofing (and add EV chargers). Basically do whatever possible to reduce the amount of asphalt and darkish materials in general, being hit by sunshine.
No it won’t save your ass when ambient temperature is 50C, but considering that cities are by their very nature hotter than the ambient temperature out side of the city, these things would help reduce that gap.
Well that’s the ambient temperature graph I think. Wonder how the CPU temperature is affected. Is it also just a 0.7C increase or maybe more?
Here in northern Europe dairy and meat industry go hand in hand, that is, when a dairy cow stops being productive it gets ground to beef.
For regions where beef as food is more valued than here (beef’s so expensive, few people buy it in Estonia), meat moos are entirely different breeds and fed differently. Milk moos might end up as mince, but probably not a quality steak. You don’t need nearly as many moos if you’re only producing milk, and then maybe some meat products from cows, compared to when you’re raising a bunch specifically to be eaten.
Chickens raised for meat also don’t lay eggs. So if you only eat eggs and not chicken, way fewer chickens are needed. Also, if you’re not even willing to go vegetarian, switch out beef and pork for chicken. Per kilogram of meat, chicken is way less carbon intensive (pork is also less intensive than beef). It’s still a lot compared to eating potatoes from your own garden of course.
Stepson. Not a born royal, nor one that the royal family accepts as one of their own. Nobody seems to like him.
Yes. But it used to be free to watch remotely. It’s 99% your own hardware doing everything. Their services get used for discovery, not as proxies for the connection itself, AFAIK.
You already had to pay them to allow transcoding with your own GPU, etc.
Right now it’s still not too bad, but just watch, enshittification will affect paid users too. For one, I expect the lifetime pass to go away, and go away retroactively eventually.
Is it? Comment above mine says that if the Brits showed up, they definitely genocided you. Mine says that it was only guaranteed to be genocide if you’re not white. The “might still be genocided if you’re white” part was left for the reader to infer, that was an error on my part, as it was a bit too subtle for no reason.