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@suchnerve Heat pumps are popular in Northern Europe and the trend is going up. You are more likely to get a place with A/C in Finland then France.

Two words: heat pumps. Even if you need cooling infrequently, what about the rest of the year? Most of Europe is notoriously frigid in winter, and a heat pump is objectively the superior way to warm a building. 300% efficiency, no fumes, no soot, and can do heating AND cooling.

@couleeman15 @Mr_Husky1 The story is real but the image might not be.

@Mr_Husky1 Fake. if the batteries were dead how is the bilge still pumping?

In 1921, the USS R-14 left Pearl Harbor on a straightforward mission: find a missing tugboat somewhere in the vast Pacific Ocean. About 100 miles out, the submarine ran out of fuel. The diesel engines shut down. The batteries began draining. Radio communication went silent. The vessel sat in open ocean with limited food, no mechanical power, and no realistic prospect of anyone knowing exactly where to look for them. Most crews in that situation would have done one thing: wait and hope. The crew of the R-14 decided to try something else. They looked at what they had. Mattress covers. Blankets. Spare canvas from the boat's interior. Poles. The periscope supports mounted on the deck. None of it was designed for what they were about to attempt. None of it needed to be. They were not building something elegant. They were building something that worked. They fashioned makeshift sails from the fabric, mounted them onto poles and rigged them to the periscope supports, and turned a vessel specifically engineered to operate underwater using mechanical propulsion into something that had not existed before and has not existed since: a sailing submarine. The wind caught the sails. The R-14 began to move. It was not fast. It was not graceful. A submarine is not built with hydrodynamics in mind for surface sailing, and the improvised rigging would not have impressed anyone who knew anything about seamanship. But it moved. Slowly, steadily, in the right direction. The crew took turns managing the sails and navigating their course back toward Hawaii. They did this for five days. Five days of coaxing a submarine across the Pacific using nothing but wind, ingenuity, and the stubborn refusal to accept that they were stuck. On the fifth day, the USS R-14 returned to Pearl Harbor under sail power. The mission to find the missing tugboat had not been completed. But every man on board had come home, and they had done it using mattress covers and determination in roughly equal measure. The incident was logged, reported, and largely forgotten outside of naval history circles, which is a shame, because it contains something worth remembering. The R-14 was a machine built for a specific purpose, operating in conditions it was never designed for, crewed by people who looked at what they had available and asked not whether it was adequate but whether it was enough. Mattress covers are not sails. Periscope supports are not masts. A submarine is not a sailboat. But 100 miles from Hawaii, with the engines dead and the radio silent and the ocean stretching out in every direction, close enough turned out to be exactly enough. They sailed home. Five days. One improvised rig. No fuel required. The USS R-14 remains, by any reasonable measure, the only submarine in the history of naval warfare to return to port under sail. It is unlikely to be surpassed.

@WesternAutocrat @marky_twitt @carbo_al Better thermal and noise insulation. You can install a mesh. It opens fully so you can clean both sides with ease. Rain cant get in when in tilt. More burglar proof. It's the superior design.

@marky_twitt @carbo_al My window seals the air during winters perfectly without being too small to be useful when it's hell outside... yours also has no screen to keep the bugs out...... and my window is thicker and more insulating......

My favorite Euro excuse is "our homes are too old, they're not equipped for new cooling ducts" Yeah nether are most houses in New York, that's why the Lord gave us window units & we've had them for 70 years!

@cha0s10g1c We do use them. They are popular in Northern Europe.

I'm curious, do Europeans generally not install reverse cycle heat pumps, that can do both heating and cooling?

@BottomTier4 @LambentLucien Red onion Pussy

@LambentLucien Too much onion, I have been fought over this

Finnish reindeer pizza is the greatest culinary masterstroke in human history.

@jaededbrainrot @obiwormkenobi Happy you got the full southern euro experience

@obiwormkenobi Dude when I was studying in Greece and we had a heatwave the same week the garbage collectors went on strike? I genuinely thought at one point I might die. I was taking a cold shower and laying shirtless on the tile floor every hour on the hour, beet red and SWEATING and it STANK

idk why my post about europeans not knowing how american weather works is popping off but i will say i was in England in 2018 during a heatwave and it's fucked up how many buildings don't have a/c or even fans??? 85 degrees isn't horrible until you walk into a warm stale building

@hi_im_envy You could buy the cigarets off from someone else for a market up price but you can't buy extra even if the store has them. So people would max their vodka/sigaret rations even if they dont use them. It was currency. Trade it for extra meat, money or smth

@SammyVult only 30% of women smoked so you could definitely buy more

i love this image becayse do you know how much food this is??? do you know how much bread a kilogram and a half of flour makes???? 2.5kg of meat is more meat than my entire family ate per week growing up im sure its enough for one person a month lmfaooo

@hi_im_envy You can't buy "more of" Thats your whole limit and you have to pay for every item on that table. Items not on that table you can buy "unlimited" amount of - like eggs, potatoes. You can also go on a black market for items on that table and probably pay massive mark up.

the only two questionable things are vodka and cigarettes which you could still buy more of. and honestly 12 packs of cigs is fine too

@AydinPaladin @sourpatchlyds Hold up Why do we have different windows again 🤨

Window units like those common in the US won't fit in most UK windows, as they tend to swing or tilt open rather than slide up. So instead, you have to get one of these floor units. They're more expensive (£200~ [$260~] vs £40~[$50]), unwieldy, and typically, you'd only need them a few days a year. The houses are built to be cheap and easy to keep warm, so its a trade-off. But when it gets hot, because of the humidity, it really is the worst type of hot, but also the worst kind of cold and it's cold more often, so instead it's just kinda tradition to complain about the heat for the few weeks its hot enough to complain about lol. It is also record-breaking hot this year, to be fair.

There's actually not a law prohibiting Brits from having air conditioning. They could, they just... Don't

@Random832 @Allar990 @AkkadSecretary One "county" did. Some didn't regulate it at all. The irony is that you can still get low efficiency portable units.

@Allar990 @AkkadSecretary Switzerland made air conditioning illegal to install without a doctor's note.

British people responding these magic boxes all confused as why you would buy it when its only really hot for 2 weeks and cold the rest of the time. Guys, it can heat up the room too.

@ReptilianLvl94 @EuroWynner There are 5 Nordic countries. So by default Brits don't make the cut.

@EuroWynner The "British food" meme have broken people's brains. There is so much worse. I am not sure Britain even makes the 5 worst in Europe.

Here’s a selection of images from the “Dutch Cuisine” Wikipedia article.

@MichaelAArouet 83g of meat/day 2 or 3 meals At this point meat is more of a seasoning

Can someone plead explain why so many people still take socialism seriously? It has always failed badly, every single time leading to bitter misery and poverty. No exceptions. Why is it still so popular? Don’t people pay attention in history classes?

@gummibear737 Who will hoste the ground invasion? It took 5 months for US troop buildup for the Gulf War. Iran can just slap a shitting nuke together in that time and you are now at war against a nuclear state.

The only thing that Iran ultimately fears is a ground invasion because that’s gameover for the regime But they know there is no will by America to do so, at the moment However, if Iran were to escalate to large scale destruction of GCC oil/gas infrastructure then that would quickly change…and would also bring allies as it then becomes a global crisis So, Iran is also bluffing in threatening to do this. Closing the Strait is still really their only main leverage vis-a-vis the US but the US also has the blockade of Iran If the US were to resume attacks, Iran would not really have much additional leverage unless they’re suicidal…and if they are indeed suicidal then we have no choice but to deny them nuclear weapons at any cost

@ComputerSageJAB 5 of that 20 is refined products. There are no piplines for those. We are missing about 8..9 mbpd of crude and 5 mbpd of refined products. Also LNG, aluminium, fertilizers etc.

What has and is happening around a strait under threat for 47 years is a welcome long term benefit. The supply chains are rapidly adjusting which is a good thing and benefits not the GGC countries but globally. A choke point for 20 mbpd has already redirected (or had replaced) about half. By the end of 2026, early 2027 about 14 mbpd of 20 will not be dependent on the strait. I’m also goes downstream… it hits Indonesia’s use of sulfuric acid processes for processing nickel for batteries ( they thought they could do it cheaper via this means, tariffs on phosphates from Morocco. It enhances long term development of Venezuela high sulfur oil which is coming online and even Exxon returning. The world is waking up except most were too scared or unable to participate as they were compliant in kicking the same can down the road.

While we await for the deal, I think we can already highlight a few oil lessons: 1) Although we don’t yet understand how, China can reduce oil imports massively (>5m b/d cut) 2) Saudi/UAE bypass pipelines work 3) OECD nations can release their SPR at flow rates of >2.5m b/d

@Midhache Lmfo Can you use it as a breath freshner atleast?

Det går omkring en "svart vältränad man på 180" i vårt bostadsområde och har flers gånger attackerat barn, inklusive bebisar i barnvagnar. Min fru vågar nu inte gå ut ensam med barnet och undrade vad hon kan göra om han attackerar dem. Svaret är att hon inte kan göra någonting utöver att skrika, vifta vilt och hoppas han inte är särskilt motiverad, för oavsett hur mycket självförsvar hon tränar är det inte mycket som hon på 160cm och 45kg kan göra mot en så mycket större man ifall han är motiverad. Pistol för självförsvar är tekniskt sett laglig men anonyma tyckare på polisen har sett till att det är snudd på omöjligt att få licens. Kniv är olagligt det med och farligt för självförsvar ifall man saknar muskler och kompetens. Pepparsprej går under samma lag som knivlagen och är jätteolagligt, även om det så används för att undgå att ens bebis mördas. Svaret blir således: hoppas du inte drabbas av mångkulturen, för gör du det är staten inte på din sida.

@cryptorover The content of the tanker itself is most likely paid for in dollars tho.

BREAKING: 🇮🇷 In the last 72 hours, Iran's IRGC waved ~100 tankers through the Strait of Hormuz. All under the new "Persian Gulf Strait Authority." The toll? Up to $2M per Tanker. Paid in $BTC. That's ~$100M in 3 days. From one chokepoint. Settled outside the dollar system. Is the petrodollar dead?

@Crchrth Taasiseseisvus*

@NoShitSatoshi @aj_geo_analysis US force buildup for Gulf War lasted 5 months. Iran is a more difficult target so it would be longer. Such decision would certainly trigger Iran nuclear breakout and the time table is such that US would likely be invading a nuclear armed country. It's a dead end

@aj_geo_analysis Absolutely no other way for us to go forward except boots on the ground?

Everyone is asking WHY IRAN won't make a deal. They are asking the wrong question. The real question is WHY AMERICA CANNOT AFFORD TO. I have been documenting this since the start of the war. Here is the complete list. 𝟭. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝘇𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺. Iran wants $100 to $173 billion in frozen assets plus interest before any nuclear discussion. Trump built his ENTIRE political identity attacking Obama for releasing $1.7 billion to Iran under the JCPOA. He called it disgraceful. He cannot now release 100 times that amount to the same country he just spent $50 billion bombing. Not before midterms. Not with a MAGA base already fracturing. The transaction Iran requires is the transaction that ends Trump politically. 𝟮. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝘂𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺. America demands zero enrichment BEFORE sanctions relief. Iran demands sanctions relief before nuclear discussion. This week Iran's Supreme Leader released a decree banning any nuclear-related content from leaving Iran. Both positions are irreconcilable. Iran watched Gaddafi surrender his nuclear program in 2003 and die in a ditch in 2011. Iran signed the JCPOA in 2015, complied with every term per IAEA assessments, and watched Trump tear it up in 2018 and bomb them in 2026. Asking Iran to disarm before receiving guarantees is asking it to repeat history's two worst strategic decisions simultaneously. 𝟯. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 "𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗮𝘀" 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺. Any deal requires Iran to abandon Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Iraqi militias. Iran's Unity of Arenas doctrine makes ALL THREE non-negotiable. These are 44-year blood alliances, not transactional relationships. Abandoning an ally under military pressure in Middle Eastern political culture is NOT a concession. It is a betrayal that no leader survives domestically. Iran cannot sign it and survive institutionally. 𝟰. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗮𝗵𝘂 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺. Netanyahu is NOT at any peace table. He started this war and forced the hand of the USA. He cannot be bound by what others sign. He has Israeli elections by October 27 with 93% of Israelis demanding regime change. Israel demonstrated what it thinks of any deal by striking at least 10 cities across Syria, Lebanon and Gaza the same day the framework was announced. Any deal Washington signs without Netanyahu being bound by it is a deal Israel can break the following morning. And will. 𝟱. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗮𝗿 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺. The Senate voted 50 to 49 to block the War Powers Resolution. Hegseth told senators BEFORE the vote that the administration already has ALL authorities necessary to restart combat operations regardless of Congress. Rubio called the War Powers Act unconstitutional. An administration that does NOT recognise congressional authority to end the war has no mechanism to make a deal that Congress would ratify as binding. This is one of the most overlooked aspects of this entire war. 𝟲. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗩𝗶𝗲𝘁𝗻𝗮𝗺 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺. Trump said "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER only" on March 6. That public commitment CANNOT be walked back without destroying his political identity and by all accounts it may have already been destroyed. If Iran receives anything less than full nuclear dismantlement, Iran wins the strategic argument regardless of the military outcome. Trump built that trap himself. No deal closes it. Iran will not surrender. It will likely fight to the last IRGC soldier because Iran is not Iraq or Afghanistan. 𝟳. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺. Trump is bringing his real estate playbook to a civilizational conflict. LOI, MOU, urgency, closing dates, pressure. In real estate you take the deal or you walk. Civilizations do not close escrow. Iran has outlasted the Greeks, the Arabs, the Mongols, the British, and the Soviets. It does not read term sheets or act under timelines shorter than 50 or 100 years. This regime has outlasted American maximum pressure for nearly 50 years. It can likely last another 50. 𝟴. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗮𝘄 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺. There is no international legal forum where a ceasefire can be enforced even if signed. Iran is not party to the Rome Statute. ICC has zero jurisdiction over Iranian commanders. Iran is not party to UNCLOS. The maritime law framework does not apply to Hormuz in Iran's view. No UN forum. No bilateral framework. No enforcement mechanism. Every ceasefire in this war has been announced, violated, and renamed at least 7 or 8 times without legal consequence to either party. That architecture does not change with a new signature. 𝟵. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺. Iran's $770 billion in mineral reserves, world's second largest lithium deposit, and fourth largest oil reserves are NOT the subject of any negotiation currently on the table. They are the reason the war started and likely why a ground invasion will eventually occur. A deal that leaves those resources under Iranian governance leaves the strategic objective unachieved. Washington cannot sign that and call it victory. Iran knows this. So does China. 𝟭𝟬. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗯𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗰𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺. America has $38 trillion in debt and a dollar losing reserve currency share. The only mechanism available to a declining empire to address an unpayable balance sheet is physical asset acquisition. Venezuela was step one. Iran is step two. A negotiated settlement that leaves Iranian resources in Iranian hands and priced in yuan does not just fail to solve the problem. It permanently closes the door on the only remaining solution. Without the prize the balance sheet has no resolution that does not end in dollar collapse. 𝟭𝟭. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗥𝗜 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗧𝗖 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺. A deal does not just leave the resources. It leaves the roads. China's Belt and Road Initiative. A $1 trillion network across 150 countries. Iran is its central land bridge. A deal rebuilds the China-Iran Railway that Israel bombed and reconnects the entire Eurasian connectivity architecture this war was specifically designed to fracture. The International North-South Transportation Corridor. Russia, Iran and India through the Caspian Sea. 7,200 kilometres connecting Moscow to Mumbai without touching a single American-controlled chokepoint. The US Navy cannot legally enter the Caspian Sea. Iran is the geographic spine. Leave Iran intact and Russia, China, and India have a permanent sanctions-proof trade corridor that makes American maritime dominance strategically irrelevant. Washington cannot sign a deal that leaves the resources AND the roads. Because both together are the architecture of a world that no longer needs the dollar. 𝟭𝟮. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺. The most honest reason. A deal that does not achieve Hormuz under American enforcement, nuclear dismantlement, and Iran's mineral resources in the dollar supply chain does not solve America's $38+ trillion debt problem. It does not restore the petrodollar enforcement credibility that Iran's 88-day Hormuz closure already damaged permanently. It does not break China's mineral processing monopoly. America needs this war to produce decisive outcomes. Anything less leaves the structural problem intact and hands the next century to Beijing. Iran does not need to win this war. America cannot afford to not win it. Those two realities produce one outcome. The war continues... 𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗡𝗔𝗟, 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗡𝗢𝗜𝗦𝗘!! I look beyond the headlines and make sense of the nuances. If this gave you signal worth keeping, like and consider following

@kodkod87 @12manhawksfan @james_acton32 @Dr_Ulrichsen Iranian strikes took 7% production offline at its peak. Not destroyed

@SammyVult @12manhawksfan @james_acton32 @Dr_Ulrichsen The oil infrastructure was physically destroyed, good Lord you people are fucking dumb.

Total misreading. The war was a strategic failure. Because of the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, fighting was intolerably costly for Trump, despite Israel and U.S.’s many tactical successes. That’s why he ended fighting when he did and lacks diplomatic leverage now. (1/n)

@kodkod87 @12manhawksfan @james_acton32 @Dr_Ulrichsen Lmfo Solid plan

@SammyVult @12manhawksfan @james_acton32 @Dr_Ulrichsen FINISH THE WAR.