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America's ultra racists crying in tears

Could they squeeze it until janaury 21st? Even January 20th actually. It'd be hilarious to see the goverment shut down on inauguration day so Trump's special moment is taken away.

We can't hire Americans **because they expect to be paid properly

I always go back to the original Age of Empires as a classic.

Yes, but less frequently and on the gentlest cycle my washer can do. Also hang dry if possible then air tumble for 10min before folding and storing; heated dryers are the hardest things on clothes.

Fuck you I'm gonna donate even harder

They do exist! Units like this have started to become more prevalent in the market, although they are still too expensive for most people to consider for energy savings alone. Heat pumps are magic.

Alternatively, you could take your existing windows ac and flip it around.... that won't work very well though haha

Overall, the mortality (death) rate for bird flu in humans is high — historically, about half of all people with known infections have died. But most recent cases in the U.S. have been mild.

This is a good thing in immunology, actually. Diseases with extremely high severity rates tend to not spread through a population because it incapacitates their host too quickly- Ebola is a classic example. Fucking insane severity, but bad to the point where it hasn't ever spread to epidemic proportions because it's super easy to recognize then isolate. Ebola outbreaks have been (mostly, sans 2014) limited to small geographic areas of small populations.

I've finally made a meme to repost-worthiness! My Lemmy career has peaked!

What’s more interesting is that gas and electricity are charged in such a way that you cannot actually properly compare them

You can, though, with a little bit of engineering math. The goal is to get to an amount of end user energy per $, counting your appliance efficiency. (I'm about to mix ISO and Imperial units here, please nobody murder me)

Nat.gas is a variable mixture for sure, but it is required to fall within a "reasonable range" of producible heat energy per cubic foot of gas at atmospheric pressure and 60F. In the US this typically ranges from 1,000 to 1,100 BTU per cubic foot, and the accepted industry average is 1,038 BTU/cu.f (1095.15 kJ /cu.f)

US bulk gas deliveries are priced in $ per thousand cubic feet, using the standard cubic foot described above. In December 2023 this was $12.94/kcu.f, but has varied between $8 and $24/kcu.f in the last few years. And your furnace is typically between 80 and 90% efficient at getting the heat out of the gas and into your home; the rest is lost up the flue. Plugging these values into a unit conversion equation:

If we do the same for electricity using resistance heating its much easier, as resistance heaters are 100% efficient; all wattage put in comes right out as heat. (Heat pumps actually improve efficiency to above 100% but i'm not worrying about those, as those are not practical for an oven.)
The average cost of a kWh of electricity was 12.38 cents in the US for 2023.. counting for delivery charges this was likely closer to 16c/kwh based off my own bill, so I'll use that.
Where a kWh is 1000 watts for 1 hour, a watt is 1 joule per second, and there are 3600 seconds in an hour, you get:

Even counting for furnace efficiency, it's still more than 3x the cost to get the same heat from electricity than from gas. YMMV with different input costs of course.

Oh yes, when you get to use "free" heat it's great. It's how I justify running computers that contribute compute power to science projects via BOINC at the house I moved into- the house uses exclusively electric resistance heat (shitty rental), so if I'm burning the same amount of kWh running a computer instead of a heater, it's a net benefit.

Unfortunately, heat joules are heat joules regardless of source; the total cost to your electric bill was probably about 3x what it would have cost to run the gas furnace, as resistive heating electric kWh are almost exclusively more expensive than heat via gas.