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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • One of the later more modern uses of a heat pump is a heat pump water heater where it takes the Heat out of the air and pumps it into the water.

    I installed one and it dropped my power build by almost $30 a month even though I went from a 55-gallon hot water heater to an 80-gallon water heater.

    I think the issue is finding a use for that heat energy that makes sense. Generating electricity with it doesn’t make a lot of sense, but heating water so that you spend less energy heating water does.


  • One thing that has always troubled me about that episode, ever since I went on a watch through several years ago, was he said the phrase “the buffalo is off the nickel”, and in context, I’m assuming that it meant something along the lines of believing something that isn’t true, but since we don’t use buffalo nickels anymore, that phrase has exited common parlance, and it threw me for a loop to hear old slang.



  • I mean, there is some logic to that at least.

    North Korea calls itself the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and the only part of that that is true is Korea.

    Doesn’t make them right about labeling an unassociated faction of people who oppose fascism as a fascist group though, just I can see how a splinter of logic can lock the concept into an uneducated mind.



  • I remember when people used to complain about the annoyance and difficulty inherent in keeping up with the Joneses, and yet it seems like we have learned nothing as a society.

    If you’re gonna spend $500 on a Switch 2 because you want little Billy to be able to play the newest latest games so that his friends won’t think he’s a weirdo, then you’re in for a penny, you’re in for a pound, fucking shell out.

    But if you just want little Billy to have some games to play to keep himself active and interested and, you know, not spiraling into drug addiction and depression, because apparently that’s the only alternative to being a gamer, you could buy them like a really nice 200 some odd dollar Anbernic handheld that comes pre-installed with, you know, 5,000 video games and let him play that.

    And if his friends complain about how he can’t play the latest Switch 2 Mario Kart game, you tell billy to tell them to go suck a dick while he’s 100%ing Majora’s Mask.


  • bizarroland@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    4 days ago

    If you know what I’m talking about then the specific (left/liberal/whatever) label isn’t as important. It’s that group of people who have a general idea that things should be fair and equal for everyone but have clearly defined groups of people that are more equal than others.

    Its those people who treat middle aged and older white guys like shit online and cheer when bad things happen to them as soon as they find out they are wealthy or republican. They laugh when a person gets deported because their spouse voted for trump. They dogpile on the shitty comments and hateful rhetoric as soon as someone says something that identifies that person as not being in line with the current politic and cheer when well intentioned potential allies who made an oopsie get destroyed.

    I get it, it’s revenge, its personal outrage with a good reason leaking out of people who have been hurt, but it’s too indiscriminate and unable to attempt communication before condemnation.

    Like the outrage over Hilary Clinton calling trump supporters a basket of deplorables. They are, and I hate them, each and every one of them, with a passion. I would gladly watch them all drown knowing that I am in arms reach to save them like a Phil Collins song.

    But… Hillary did not have the communication skills, the charisma, the charm, or the backing of the people to pull that off in a meaningful way. She hit a hornets nest with a stick when she should have left it alone. Now, 10 years later they still proudly call themselves deplorable and intentionally do deplorable things in part because they have accepted the moniker.

    Hillary didn’t cause the problem, but she gave it a name and a banner and a rallying cry from a position of untouchable smugness with a personal feeling of superiority and we have been paying for that one sentence for a decade now with no sign of it stopping.


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    4 days ago

    My only problem with the point this image is making, is that it doesn’t matter if we are supportive or dismissive.

    They’re still, as a whole, as a group, going to be terrible people.

    Compassion fatigue is a real thing, and while I don’t want anything bad to happen to anyone, you can only save somebody from themselves so many times before you realize they’re going to do bad things and nothing can stop them.


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    I get where you’re coming from and it’s probably one of the biggest things that alienates me from the left.

    Don’t get me wrong, I still vote for and support leftist policies, but I personally find many of the people who also vote for leftist policies to just be generally terrible people when you put them into a group.

    For some reason they tend to go crabs in a bucket and start hating on and shitting on everything and only really rejoicing when people on the right suffer, And while I can comprehend why that happens, I can’t ally myself with that portion of the left.

    For me, the most annoying thing is when something gets a little bit better.

    Inevitably, a leftist will pop out and complain how it’s not perfect, how it’s not good enough, and how stupid it is. It’s the most annoying thing on the planet.

    When things got better, and things are on the mend, like, celebrate the successes, fuck.