@actromantic Do you use heaters? That's worse for the climate than AC.
My wind and solar powered AC is probably better for the environment (and certainly better for society) than a German's russian-gas powered heat
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Jack 🇺🇲🇺🇦
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Jack 🇺🇲🇺🇦
@e_oreo
Normie Lib 'There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant'
Austin, TX شامل ہوئے Aralık 2013
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@rationally_urs @rohitshinde121 Most of the US south is 40-50c in summers and more humid than the UK. Just get air conditioning.
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@rohitshinde121 Not just that. It's an island country. Way too much humidity. 30-40 degrees in humid region is worst than 40-50 in dry region.
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Temperature is not the only way to look at these things.
If peak temperature is 45 degrees, but in the night it cools down to 20 degrees, it is bearable.
If you look at the latitudes of the European countries, most of them are situated north of mainland US. That basically means 18 hour days in most parts of Europe.
Now imagine 33-35 degrees for most of the day without nighttime relief. Nighttime temperatures don't get time to dip more than a few degrees. So you are getting a low intensity burn for a few days continuously!
Northern Europe also experiences quite low Winter temperatures which necessitates home construction to at least trap some heat. That is obviously undesirable in summers.
vir sanghvi@virsanghvi
It’s 34 degrees in London & Brits are burning; rail tracks melting,restaurants turning off fryers etc. As my wife asked : how did these wimps manage to rule super hot India for so long in their heavy uniforms & elaborate tailcoats? This is cooler than Indian summers
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@TassiloMariano @nabeelqu Just a question, do you use a heater? Or does this performative temperature stuff only work in one direction?
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94F (34.4C) in London today, hotter than Texas, train, everyone on the verge of fainting, table of people nearby discussing how they’d love more air conditioning but it’s “just a shame it’d destroy the environment”. Environmentalist anti-growth memes really did a number on Europe
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@Doggonitagain @ReubenJones1 Yes, I support western democracies like Ukraine, you support aristocratic slave states like the CSA
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I stopped by the North Carolina booth at the "Great American State Fair" on the National Mall today.
The state decided not to participate because of the high costs so the booth is sponsored by private orgs.
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@gkmcahill @BoltsJolts @Salttown So these things are down to the half second or whatever. It's a bit retarded to compare that slight objectivity to the ref deciding when the entire game ends while the ball is in play in soccer
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@e_oreo @BoltsJolts @Salttown isn't super sick how the coach or qb always gets the timeout off before the delay of game or how when the play clock clearly says 0 the refs have to look up to see in order to call a delay of game? It's all so exact!
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The World Cup is fun but soccer will NEVER really catch on in the states because of this bullshit make believe random additional time and the ref deciding when he feels like stopping the game on top of that.
All Fútbol MX 🇲🇽@AllFutbolMX
🤯🇹🇷🇺🇸 TURKEY SCORES A LAST MINUTE WINNER TO BEAT THE USMNT AT THE WORLD CUP!
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@gkmcahill @BoltsJolts @Salttown All of those are things the team can control. And when a throw away hits out of bounds is reviewable to the second. Forward progress is the only slightly arbitrary one but the ref isn't deciding the clock, the clock decision is based on the whistle which is based on play
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@e_oreo @BoltsJolts @Salttown the entire thing is arbitrary. when a guys knees down in college to stop the clock for a first down, when forward progress is stopped so a team is allowed to call a timeout, when a throw away hits out of bounds or really any incompletion. none of that is exact
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@BoltsJolts The important thing is - in American football the teams control the clock. Everyone knows exactly why and when the clock is stopping or running. There can be no allegations of bias with clock management.
In soccer it's just up to the ref, feeling out of control which sucks
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@BlakeR2025 @BoltsJolts Wow, a field sport has bigger crowds than sports that are in indoor arenas?
GIF
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@BoltsJolts It’s “caught on”. MLS has teams worth over $1B. Bigger average crowds than NBA or NHL. Soccer people got interested in MLS in mid 90s after MLS de~Americanized. We love all the bullshit.
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@gkmcahill @BoltsJolts @Salttown The clock doesn't stop arbitrarily in American football. There's specifically designed rules for when the clock stops. This introduces deep strategy around clock management that a well coached team capitalizes on. The clock is controlled by the teams, not the ref making it up
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@BoltsJolts @Salttown they stop matches on corners you just aren't watching footy like that. But sure every other sport where refs arbitrarily stop and start the clock whenever are so much better lol 60 min game for the ball to be live for 12 of them.
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@canncon @WMGotscha @hullender1113 @BadlandsMedia_ @xAlphaWarriorx Pretty big miss when the 1984 income is real but the home price is nominal
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@WMGotscha @hullender1113 @BadlandsMedia_ @xAlphaWarriorx It’s Real Median income, a word missed in the post. The source FRED.
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Was just listening to a podcast…
1984 average home cost $94,000 with average household income $63,000
2025 average home cost $514,000
With average household income $83,000
If that’s hard to swallow- add this to the chaos: 1984 only 1 adult brought in the income, in 2025 2 adults.
More people need to ask why! Why and how did this happen
GIF
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@ShitlibSupreme This is the dream of socialists everywhere. With Republicans having this much power they would have so much to critique.
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@Andy_Dyer_NOVA @thunderbay63 @Wilson__Valdez The second one is great. We would be equally franchising everyone with a popular vote. Will never happen but it would be far better than letting the 50,000 dumbest Pennsylvanians decide our president
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@thunderbay63 @Wilson__Valdez You forgot packing the court and disenfranchising flyover country by abolishing the electoral college.
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This is the only race that is a real bummer to me. This lady is a lunatic. Not only is she completely unqualified but she holds caricature-ly bad views on pretty much every subject.
She will be a massive anchor on the party.
Decision Desk HQ@DecisionDeskHQ
Decision Desk HQ projects Darializa Chevalier wins the NY US House 13 Democratic Primary #DecisionMade: 9:49 PM EDT
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Jake Paul says he wants to play slot receiver in the NFL after boxing, starting at Stanford
“I do have NFL aspirations after boxing. I want to play slot receiver, and so I think to get that experience, college first would be good so I could walk onto the Stanford team”
“I'm being serious. I was originally thinking I'll just go straight to the Cleveland Browns or Dallas Cowboys, but they're probably going to want to see me play first”
“So, it might be better if I start off in college and have a little bit of an advantage over the younger, not as big kids before going into the NFL”
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@toonarmytx @datsderrick But you, like all soccer fans in the US, are a complete dweeb that tries to LARP as European.
"Embarrassing shit, that". You're not English, nobody talks like that here.
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@datsderrick I'm American you limpdick. Shove your college football up your ass.
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For our knockout stage… fly an HBCU marching band to Santa Clara. Whiteout like Penn State. Play Neck. Come out to Enter Sandman in the first half and 2001/Sandstorm in the second half. Play Mo Bamba at the second half hydration break.
College football it up. #USMNT
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@Ahhhhh576697 @MK_Foxbat Plus, the US vaporized Middle Eastern conventional militaries in weeks like four different times, the casualties were mostly counter insurgency. Russia is still struggling with the conventional military, hasn't even gotten to occupying the entire place.
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@MK_Foxbat 24,000 casualties over 20 years vs 1.2 million in 4. Kinda pathetic comparison, no?
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Not even a year before the Russian SMO launched, the US lost a 20 year long war.
The US launched, and then lost its own SMO in February of this year.
With all due respect (none) shut the fuck up. You have less than no room to talk.
SlangusCC@SlangusCC
@RuslanLosberg92 @MK_Foxbat I didn’t even need to translate that to k ie it’s some cope shit about Iran- you faggots are the last the day anything about a war these days
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@Valistryingg I see America on here twice as much as Brazil, seems like we have more World Cup success
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Why do you guys have to be so annoying about everything? Brazil has won the World Cup 5 times, and even they don’t talk like this. You are playing well and have won a few games, just celebrate with your team and country normally like everyone else. My goodness.
Christian@cbwritescopy
The United States will be the best soccer team in the world in 8 years Every kid in the states is watching the World Cup and picking up a soccer ball after this tournament
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@ECOuteSvp @anselm_io You Euros use Russian or American gas to heat your homes, which is very selfish when you could just use blankets. My AC is over 50% wind and solar powered.
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My German parents religiously turn off LED lamps. I think their heads would explode if I told them that my American friends turn their AC to 65°F/18°C so they can snuggle on the sofa under a blanket *in summer*
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@Dankscop4r_420 @noahalyx @KodakCoyote Don't cheap out on the power supply. Make sure the motherboard you get has WiFi capability (most do now, I think) if you're not gonna have it on ethernet, or get a wifi card that's good.
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@noahalyx @KodakCoyote any advice for ppl that have never built one?
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