I live in northern BC. They have advertisements for heat pumps on our local radio. When I was looking to upgrade our home furnace and install an air conditioner, I investigated the heat pump as an option.

The research I did found that I would need a secondary unit (gas furnace) for when the temperature went below -20°C when the efficiency would drop. And after -25°C it would not be able to keep up to heating the house.

As much as I would have liked to use one unit to heat and cool my home, the tech wasn’t there to get my family through the winter. We have weeks of -30 during the day and it is consistently -20 over night for 5 months a year.

Fingers crossed when the time comes to replace my furnace and AC units something else has been figured out.

I know a lot of people feel that they require new subscribers, and interaction to feel like they are achieving their goals on YouTube. It has the same feedback loop as Facebook.

The children, the children yearn for the mines.

It looks like a glorified ‘developer mode’ switch that has the 1 day wait to prevent someone from grabbing your phone, turning on sideloading, installing some hazardous app, and then having their way with your info. This appears to be the best of both worlds.

Like when unlocking your bootloader wiped your info. Just do it first. not a year in to using your device, if thats your plan.

According to your stats, by population Russia is over 3x the size of Ukraine. According to land mass Russia’s 17 million km² vs Ukraine’s .6 million km² is 28x larger.

Regardless of the metric, it’s a big difference.

Climate change is real. I don’t need to believe in it. It has done terrible things to the world. There needs tie be serious substantial changes in how the government’s and big business act. There needs to be real pressure put on the elite jet setters.

The fact that the country spans from the arctic circle, down to damn near the equator is the reason there are such different weather patterns. The problem isnt the variety, it’s the location. There is an expectation to have heat on Florida, tornadoes in the alley, cold in the north. The problem is that they sensationalized the news to the point where you have to be a damn scientist to know wether this is a shift from the expected or bonkers off the wall.

Our systems have been overloaded for years and we have groups that do not know how to critical think or check for bias in the news articles they read, and that leads to panic.

To see a headline and immediately jump to a conclusion is the wrong thing. It has to be read and questioned. Before it can be understood and reacted to.

Yeah, but as a person playing a game, that is a good place to stop and assess whether to restart/continue.

It’s a big place. Lots of opportunity for different weather patterns.

Excellent options. I can say for sure that neir is a great game and it can be short if you only do one playthrough. I did play on my steamdeck as well. Ni no kuni is fantastic but I still haven’t beat it. You really can’t go wrong.

Absolutely. Performance or safety metrics. But it can’t be based on age.

Yes, there is no maximum age for a job, no mandatory retirement age, that’s age discrimination.

In a row?

I’ve been struggling with similar systems in BC. Temporary foreign workers come in. Pay in to ei and other benefits. As soon as their job ends they have to leave the country. Where does that ei money go? There is no timeline for them to move to another employer and get another work visa while collecting any ei benefit.

Seems rigged.

Because this is for a primary, and the guy is already red, the only opposing political candidate is some other red guy. Not like a democrat can run in the republican primary. It was a stupid position to take. But now that CBS has been put on notice, they should plan their scheduling a bit more in advance around their programming.

Insomnia was the first book from King that I read and had a real emotional connection to a story.

Even if you haven’t connected on other stories. That one was so good on a human level.

I love that book. Ive only read it twice, and decided to skip the uncomfortable part on the second read through. Overall its near the top of my Stephen King list.

I read the first one over my Christmas downtime. Moved on to the second one in the new year. I have a large collection of Stephen King, and Joe Hill books. Ive had a love of reading for a long time. These books have been like eating popcorn or chips. They feel like fanfiction of all my favourite games mashed together, but then had the quality increased about 10%. They arent bad. But they arent… Amazing. Like… I have bought 5 of them now, with the intention of supporting the author and finishing the series as I can. But I wouldnt say… Man you need to read this book. The Martian? Operation Hail Mary? Gotta read. Ready Player One? Yeah, that was solid. You should read.

Dungeon Crawler Carl? Its like a bathtub book. Or what I would consider a bathtub book if you weren’t interested in anything ‘spicy’ or vampires. So far solid 8/10

With their space lasers!

Depends where you live. I’m up in Canada and there are lots of products that are manufactured, sourced from, built or grown in the USA.

Lots of tv shows, online stores and even web hosts that. More about making the best choices when options are available.

I wonder if they still have the EDGE network up there. No 5g towers on the moon…