Tak
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- Comment on Big Tech passkey implementations are a trap | Proton 8 months ago:
That’s capitalism for you. They’re not interested in making things better, they’re interested in making more profit.
- Comment on Biden Administration Is Said to Slow Early Stage of Shift to Electric Cars 10 months ago:
Li-ion cells, computers, solar panels… all of these are american inventions that capitalist entities moved to China to maximize profits.
- Comment on Biden Administration Is Said to Slow Early Stage of Shift to Electric Cars 10 months ago:
It’s really just a matter of time till Chinese manufacturers set up in Mexico and the US will have to accept Chinese EVs because of NAFTA. The US also has lots of range anxiety about EVs that I don’t see as much in other markets. Being 120v and sprawling with limited government willingness to build infrastructure, with no requirements for rentals to add chargers makes a perfect storm for that fear.
- Comment on Biden Administration Is Said to Slow Early Stage of Shift to Electric Cars 10 months ago:
It’s technically a heat pump but it only cools and can’t switch to heating the space. It’s a fucked up way the American HVAC system has done things for decades.
- Comment on YouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wave 11 months ago:
What boils my blood the most is how manipulative marketing is. The number of worthless ass jingles I remember from the 90’s from companies I’ve never purchased anything from is ridiculous.
- Comment on Fortnite has changed 11 months ago:
Lol we dropping boys all over
- Comment on Fortnite has changed 11 months ago:
“Where we dropping boys”
Epstein player- “I don’t drop, that’s what the noose is for”
- Comment on Why did we give up on insulation? 11 months ago:
I wouldn’t doubt if it’s just good enough and it’s expensive to add the insulation to old buildings let alone stone/brick ones. But I’m not going to pretend I understand what life in Britain is like or what homes are generally like when I’ve never been. I was going to say that buildings might be substantially older but honestly I don’t know how old the average home is in Britain, most people could live in something made in the 70’s or newer like here in the US.
- Comment on Why did we give up on insulation? 11 months ago:
A lot of that also comes down to how far the tech for windows has improved over the years. I feel like more American homes are much newer and therefore more inclined to have newer windows than many British homes.
I personally don’t much care for stick built homes and would prefer ICFs for most situations but mostly for water and fire resistance. Stick framed houses have so much thermal bridging so I can totally see why a layer of insulation between two brick walls would be quite good.
- Comment on Why did we give up on insulation? 11 months ago:
I’ve lived in Phoenix, Arizona where it gets above 35 degrees every single day for most of the year (last year they hit 46 degrees for about a week straight) and it would commonly be 30 degrees or warmer in the middle of the night. Some months we’d have a power bill of about ~235 pounds a month just trying to keep the house cool (~25 degrees).
Do not recommend lol
- Comment on Why did we give up on insulation? 11 months ago:
Oh I’m sorry, I just assumed because really old houses were just wood and gypsum with no insulation lol
- Comment on Why did we give up on insulation? 11 months ago:
Ideally the best insulation is the least dense as density typically relates to thermal conductivity. Where stone/brick really helps is in raw mass, if you’ve ever been in a basement you’ll kinda know what I mean. It’ll flatten the temperature changes and make it more stable but if it’s always hot or always cold it’s not great.
The US has mostly rock wool or fiberglass insulation and not just wood clad in gypsum. But much of the US can go from -26 in the winter to 35 in the summer. I used to live in a city with a latitude about the same as Madrid that would get to almost -30 and as high as 41. The house was made of brick but past that outer layer it had a wood frame with insulation to maintain heating or cooling.