Jason Manakis @Manakis_

Wer Klimaanlagen im Sommer ächtet, aber Wärmepumpen im Winter fordert, ist – um es freundlich auszudrücken – nicht ganz dicht. Technisch besteht zwischen beiden Geräten kein Unterschied: Sie nutzen denselben Kompressionskältekreislauf. Die Wärmepumpe entzieht der Außenwelt Wärme und transportiert sie nach drinnen; die Klimaanlage entzieht dem Innenraum Wärme und leitet sie nach draußen. Es handelt sich um dieselbe Technik, lediglich ein Ventil kehrt die Fließrichtung des Kältemittels um. Dieselbe Technik einerseits als Klimakiller zu verteufeln und andererseits als Klimaretter zu subventionieren, ist einfach nur irre.

Ahmad Mansour @AhmadMansour__

3 weeks ago

So eine Debatte, an so einem Tag – das gibt es nur in Deutschland. Nirgendwo sonst auf der Welt.

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It says an awful lot about France - and not in a good way - that there is "political divide" on using air conditioning when temperatures literally exceed those of the Sahara desert, and when France has one of the greenest energy mixes in the world (thanks to nuclear). And it says even more that those who oppose AC are often the same as those who oppose nuclear: the view - presumably - is that you should neither adapt to climate change (AC) nor prevent it (nuclear). Also the same people, incidentally, who oppose pesticides and fertilizers - basically modern farming - and push for all-organic: a prescription that, if universally applied, would literally starve billions of people (and, ironically, would require so much additional farmland it would devastate the world's remaining forests). It's all part of the same logical fallacy, the notion that if something causes a problem, then that thing is the problem. Yes progress and technology caused and continue to cause plenty of environmental issues. And there is indeed something seductive in saying "we've gone too far, let's change tracks, let's head towards a simpler, slower life, we used to be like that." But not only is this just not feasible without causing far greater harm to ourselves, it's also a fundamentally nihilistic and mortiferous ideology. One that rests on a profound discomfort with what's arguably the single most defining feature of humanity: our ability to shape our environment to suit us, to fight our circumstances rather than surrender to them. That's been the case ever since we discovered fire and invented farming. It is, at the end of the day, the transformation of humanity's genius - our need to create and improve our condition - into a vice. They make it sound like a humanistic project but how could it be since the core premise is fear of humans and contempt for our very nature? Conclusion: yes, 100 times yes, use AC. You'd need to be a complete moron to let yourself boil under 43C heat in order to "save the planet." If climate change is to be solved, it will be by getting the ideologues out of the way of the people who actually fix things.

BBC News (World) @BBCWorld

3 weeks ago

Air conditioning creates political divide as France records hottest day bbc.in/4eAQEpO

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Imagine if Obama said praise be to allah on Easter lmao

face ID has recognized me in moments i wouldn’t have recognized myself

It is a miraculous moment captured by Google Street View.

made my computer dramatically play BBC news music before every meeting

Marcus Aurelius wrote this over 1800 years ago: “Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what's left and live it properly.”

No debt Ideal weight 8 hours of sleep Mental health on track Right nutrition Zero Alcohol This was my peak I was 8

i regret to inform you that personal growth rarely comes from acquiring new knowledge and almost always from: - getting humiliated - showing up terrified and doing it anyway - admitting you might be the problem

I am fully convinced that 2019 was the last normal year we ever had. Ever since then, it feels like everything’s broken. Everyone is constantly anxious, time moves too fast, and nothing actually feels real anymore. The world as we knew it is just gone

Marcus Aurelius wrote this over 1800 years ago: “What are you afraid of losing, when nothing in the world actually belongs to you?”

I’m in love with this sentence: “The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.”

This story is actually insane: • dude drops $2000 on a DJI robot vacuum like a lunatic • refuses to use the normal app like a peasant • Sammy Azdoufal fires up Claude to crack the API so he can drive it with an xbox controller • Claude delivers the goods • pulls an auth token from their servers, connects successfully • except the system thinks he controls 7000 vacuums • checks again • yep, seven thousand • DJI built authentication with zero device ownership verification • any valid token works for any unit on the planet • Sammy now has eyes inside homes across 24 countries • live vacuum camera feeds everywhere • full floor plans from the mapping data • some guy in germany eating cereal at 3am, unaware his roomba is snitching • one API call away from being the most informed burglar in history • all he wanted was to steer his vacuum with a joystick • does the right thing and reports it • DJI fixes it in two days • back to normal life with his stupidly expensive floor cleaner • IoT companies stay undefeated at shipping garbage security

Trump single-handily getting an Oxford educated economist elected Prime Minister of Canada at just the perfect time for him to crest a tsunami of anti-American sentiment is probably the funniest/stupidest own goal in international geopolitical history.

POLITICOEurope @POLITICOEurope

5 months ago

EXCLUSIVE: The EU and a 12-nation Indo-Pacific bloc are opening talks to explore forming one of the largest global economic alliances, multiple people with knowledge of the talks told POLITICO. Canada's Mark Carney is spearheading the discussions. 🔗 politico.eu/article/eu-and…

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Cop: "Ma'am, is that a kilo of cocaine in your backseat?" Me: "Officer, the stock market is up 50k." Cop: "As you were."

In order to be born, you needed: 2 parents 4 grandparents 8 great-grandparents 16 second great-grandparents 32 third great-grandparents 64 fourth great-grandparents 128 fifth great-grandparents 256 sixth great-grandparents 512 seventh great-grandparents 1,024 eighth great-grandparents 2,048 ninth great-grandparents For you to be born today from 12 previous generations, you needed a total of 4.094 ancestors over the last 400 years Pause for a second and really think about this… How many hardships did they survive? How many silent battles did they fight? How many tears did they wipe away? How many moments of joy did they celebrate? How many love stories began so that yours could one day exist? How many dreams for a better future were whispered into the dark? All of it… just so you could be here, alive, in this moment

I knew Pam Bondi was dumb but I didn’t know she was *that* dumb.

i went to the doctor today. he looked concerned. he said my cholesterol numbers were still a little high i was furious at the question. so i looked him in the eye and screamed as loudly as i could: "The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000... That's what we should be talking about."

Pam Bondi, "There is no evidence that Donald Trump has committed a crime" Ted Lieu, "You just lied under oath. There is ample evidence in the Epstein files" Pam Bondi, "Don't you ever accuse me of a crime" Ted Lieu, "You just lied under oath, and this is on video tape" Ted Lieu then reads an extract from the Epstein files about a girl who says she was raped by Trump and Epstein and had her head blown off, with officer saying it couldn't have been a suicide Ted Lieu, "You have not held a single man accountable" "Shame on you" "if you had any decency, you would resign after this hearing concludes"

— Marcus Aurelius