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10:14:31
Colleen
www.reddit.com/r/AnimalsBei... Website (HTML), Title: Cockatiel vibing to a new friend : AnimalsBeingDerps
10:14:31
Colleen
www.reddit.com/r/AnimalsBei... Website (HTML), Title: Cockatiel vibing to a new friend : AnimalsBeingDerps
11:10:11
isoraqathedh
I've become very interested in paper and the strange markings that some of them have.
11:11:50
isoraqathedh
You have your typical lined and gridded paper, but I also found some interested combinations of dots and lines, and also dots and lines and a lot of small dots to help you draw accurate diagrams, and also dots and lines with extra margin for ruby notes.
11:49:53
Colleen
Weather for gingerale in Vantaa: few clouds at 25°C, 55% humidity, 9km/h wind, 1016hPa pressure.
11:49:53
Colleen
Weather for gingerale in Vantaa: few clouds at 25°C, 55% humidity, 9km/h wind, 1016hPa pressure.
12:07:35
isoraqathedh
You know, with climate change being what it is, I think it might be a good shout for you to get a heat pump.
12:08:04
isoraqathedh
Heat pumps are basically the only thing that you can get with >400% efficiency.
12:09:08
isoraqathedh
(This is a cheat, because we're not measuring the same thing as compared to all other measures of efficiency. Essentially, heat pumps use energy to move other lumps of energy around, rather than directly converting energy from one form to another.)
12:24:03
shinmera
even better: if you own property you can bury the heat pump in the ground, which gives you much better efficiency all year.
16:45:26
gingerale
They've been doing that here recently a lot. Heat of the summer goes down underground and comes back up to heat the house during winter. Works great, even.
16:46:03
shinmera
Mostly just turns out if you go a metre or two into the ground the temperature hardly cares about the surface anymore.
16:46:59
gingerale
I've considered an air source heat pump, but I'd have to get a portable model with a tube rather. I'm not going to start upgrading a single room flat I'm renting with expensive equipment.
16:47:36
gingerale
Yeah, they do. I'd have to get some sort of a bug net for the balcony door that allows me to keep it open.
16:51:31
gingerale
I spent three hours listening to a guy ramble about esports and where all the money in them comes from. And dear goodness that's a lot of venture capital and gambling organisations.
16:53:08
shinmera
There's also a healthy dash of child exploitation in there what with marketing products and "lifestyle" to kids specifically.
16:54:26
gingerale
The cleanests organisations were just grassroots stuff who try to keep it sustainable but they seem to mostly go broke because the more exploitative orgs just raise the bar so much.
16:58:11
gingerale
I decided to look how it's in Finland, and thankfully it's just electronics stores doing it for clout and advertisement space. Those are easier to keep accountable.
16:59:08
gingerale
Nothing much to understand. People like watching people be good at things and this brings attention that can be used as ad space.
16:59:30
shinmera
It's a miracle speedrunners somehow dodged that bullet and instead went full charity.
16:59:57
gingerale
In regular sports you also have the whole "this is my team because it's from my hometown" thing and shun people from the other town that has the rival team.
17:00:40
shinmera
Yeah, it's tribalism at its finest. People with a lack of an identity of their own building one out of belonging to some arbitrary group.
17:00:51
gingerale
Those have some history to them because those big teams also have the lower league teams of the same name and the junior teams as well that the sports people's kids play in.
17:02:40
gingerale
But shin, I watch it ironically to the point of sincerity. Also I mostly enjoy the stuff around it rather than the show itself.
17:04:21
gingerale
On real sports, I honestly don't mind track and field stuff and other individual sports. They don't have that whole team thing and "being part of it."
17:13:40
shinmera
gingerale: PincerAttack: you guys up for more dice rolling before the dice rolling tonight?