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@TheWARmonger_ Do they both lose almost a full OAA, or just the guy with the highest probability?

@vse_oche_ploho @kyhron @RBPundit Brick is a bad choice in the very humid South, the earthquake prone west, and tornado prone Midwest. Brick houses are common in the deserts and the East Coast, but ultimately, the insulation on wooden houses is so good that the extra cost if brick is rarely worth it.

@kyhron @hackerjay @RBPundit Yeah, the map is very average. The most common argument why Americans can't build thermal battery housing are tornadoes. But do you really have those risks in every state?

Wait. They think homes in the US have uninsulated walls?

@LunarPledge It’s two things, one, it really isn’t that warm compared to large parts of the US, so it’s confusing why it’s such a big deal, and two, we go through this every year now, at some point you just need to get the AC.

why are americans so surprised a lot of europeans don't have ac ya'll do realise these kinds of temps are like. not supposed to be normal for us right. right????

@vse_oche_ploho @RBPundit That’s the hyperbole I’ve been seeing them claim. I know it isn’t actually all that hot, because I’ve been in Europe during a record heat wave and it was annoying, but nothing particularly notable. I still went out and did my sight seeing.

@hackerjay @RBPundit Why do you think they turn into ovens? Heatwave outside means a discomfort inside, not oven. A lot of Londoners go outside and don't use a car. What exactly you think they whine?

@vse_oche_ploho @RBPundit London was breaking records today with a high of 95°, 75% humidity, and a dew point of 60°. New Orleans’ average high in May is 94°, 74% humidity, and a dew point around 60°-70°. Tampa, Miami, Houston, etc. are all similar.

@vse_oche_ploho @RBPundit No, the problem I’m trying to solve is having to listen to Europeans talk shit about our “cardboard” houses that stay perfectly comfortable from -20°-120°, while their “superior” brick houses turn into ovens when it gets mildly warm.

@hackerjay @RBPundit Ok. So you want to solve the problem that doesn't exist in UK, heat deaths. Then go and lecture British the American way. The'll obviously respect you more.

@atinygun @MattZeitlin New Orleans is obviously ahead of all of them in terms of deeply rooted traditions.

@MattZeitlin They’ll always exist in the major markets like NY/LA/CHI. The tradition is so deeply rooted in those places. They already don’t really exist in most other American cities, at least not in a demographically significant way.

feels like the "jazz guy" will be basically extinct within a generation (even if the music itself persists)

@vse_oche_ploho @RBPundit But if these stone houses are so good at keeping the inside cool/warm as needed, why do we go through this every year when a European city gets about as hot and humid as an average spring day in the US South? My wood and fiberglass house has no problem keeping me comfy year-round

@RBPundit US homes are wood and fiberglass. They cannot accumulate a night cold to ease hot days. Stone and brick houses can, because stone is a thermal battery.

@TheWARmonger_ @ScoringChanges What was the catch probability for Pinango?

@ScoringChanges We can measure quite precisely that he got a poor jump. Here's a VERY similar play, almost the exact same distance, time and direction:

Additionally, Pinango's sprint speed on this play was his 14th fastest. He didn't get a bad jump at all. He slows ever so briefly when he thinks the shortstop might be there for it, but this isn't a situation of miscommunication where the ball falls between two fielders looking at each other. This was a soft fly ball that was hit in the perfect spot. It's 205 feet from home, and Pinango started 292 feet from home. This was never going to be an easy catch, so the whole argument that this should have been caught is silly. This is a difficult play, and the best way this gets caught is on a dive, or if the fielder was playing in about eight more feet at the start. Everything evens out in the end. Pitchers get breaks, too. You walk a guy, so now he's being held on and a 107 MPH screamer that would be a sure double down the line is snagged by the first baseman who was holding the guy he walked on for a double play. The more you play, the more these things even out.

@Brozone_Sports @KasperStats Washington I agree, but almost every city’s official name has “The City of” or something similar, so I don’t think New York needs it.

@KasperStats I might also argue the Washington and New York are only parts of the names of cities and not their entire name and therefore add them to the list.

See as a nerd and pedant, I would absolutely argue that the name "Tampa Bay Rays" contains the name of the city "Tampa" even though "Tampa Bay" is not the city name.

@KasperStats See, I would go the other way and argue that the Nationals also don’t have the proper city name in their name.

@powerbottomdad1 Western Virginia/Eastern Tennessee is the most beautiful geography I’ve seen in the world, and it isn’t particularly close. Nothing I saw in Alaska came close.

Prettiest States S - Alaska A - California, Utah, Montana B - Wyoming, Hawaii, Idaho C - Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Colorado D - New Hampshire, Vermont, Michigan, Maine, Arizona, Tennessee, Pennsylvania E - verywhere else

@axel_kolp @whozgrimez The dew point at my house at midnight today was higher than London’s record high.

@whozgrimez There’s this online trope that the UK is so damp and wet and humid And when it’s 72 degrees in the summer the humidity is so brutal and that’s why the heat is just so much different And then you look at what’s considered a very high dew point and it’s like 63 degrees lmfao

the southern US is the wettest part of the country and it literally gets more rain than the UK does lol

@anais_mrzk @Nugethenugget93 @intothecrevasse Victor Wembanyama, the basketball player. Not sure he’s the right answer, but he is fairly well known outside of France.

@Nugethenugget93 @intothecrevasse Je suis française, qui est wemby ??

One of my favorite games is “Who’s the Most Famous Person in the World,” where you pick a country and guess who the most famous person from there is. Some are easy (Barbados—Rihanna), but I’m now wondering about France. Probably some footballer, right

@annotated888 @v3n0msnake @NoContextBrits My friend, at my house it is midnight, 26°C, 90% humidity, and 23° dew point. Once it gets hot there it doesn’t cool down until October. My dew point right now would be a record for London.

@v3n0msnake @NoContextBrits You’re wrong, donkey. Buildings in Europe are designed to retain heat, have very thick walls, little to no air conditioning, a lot of European cities are further north which provides more heat/longer sunlit hours with less overnight cooling, etc. Research pls.

Americans explaining to Brits how 26 °C (79 °F) isn’t hot while living in air conditioned detached houses made of wood.

@BasOMatic @HereticArtwork @jamesdoe1912 In practice, yes, the end result is pretty much the same, but in a lien theory state you hold the deed to your house, it is 100% under your ownership, you just agree to allow the bank to take it if you don’t pay your mortgage.

@Spelt_D_o_n_a_l @bryanculbertson @dilanesper Would it being fully funded have sped up the environmental lawsuits that dragged on until 2023?

@hackerjay @bryanculbertson @dilanesper It has NEVER been fully funded. They’ve spent less in 18 years than CalTrans spends in a year of highway building. They’ve bought land and built hundreds of structures up and down the Valley. If they’d been given $30Bn from the start, they’d be running trains by now.

The truly sad and farcical thing about the $200 billion high speed rail cost estimate is that the opponents of the ballot measure originally said "the costs are lowballed, this will cost $90 billion". Even the opponents weren't able to imagine what a boondoggle it was.

@ViKnightbooks @RandomSprint There’s lots of things you need flour for that you wouldn’t want self rising for, like a roux, breading, pasta, or thickening, so most people keep AP on hand because it can be used for anything, so recipes assume that’s what you have.

@ViKnightbooks @RandomSprint You’re thinking of self rising flour. All purpose flour’s whole point is that it can be used for anything, hence the name “all purpose”.

@RandomSprint >all purpose flour >Add baking powder >Add salt

Welcome to my baking tutorial! Step one, use unsalted butter. If you use salted butter, you're an amateur. An animal. Less than human. I'm furious at you for even owning salted butter. Step two, add salt.

@bryanculbertson @dilanesper What about this project at this point would make you think more funding would get it finished?

@dilanesper The estimate is $128B in year of expenditure dollars The estimates keep going up due to inflation because the year of expenditure keeps increasing due to lack of funding Just a small portion of highway funding would finish HSR at the original estimate