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Some things you don't have to can right away. For example, we found that we can pick strawberries in-season, wash and top them, freeze them in gallon ziplocs, and then make jam later in the fall and it comes out the same as if you jam them same-day.

Gas/Oil Furnaces/Boilers still need electricity to run the blower (air into the firebox) and circulator (hot air/water from the unit to the rooms) motors.

> The batteries would need to somehow be kept warm though.

If I were buying such a setup, I'd just put the batteries in the basement. Plenty of space, and it stays 40-50°ish year-round here.

And for every day of most years in Maine, the heat pump alone "just works". Cold this cold is very rare. Usually, the heat pump only goes out when the power goes out, in which case oil and gas heat goes out, too -- no power means no blower and circulator motors. Woodstoves have always been popular (though by no means ubiquitous) up here because the power does go out, because they're cheaper than fossil fuels, and because they're cozy. Lots of people have them even with oil and gas heat. Growing up, we used wood day-to-day and oil as a backup; many more people use the easier heat day-to-day and light the fire on occasions when they want to gather 'round it.

There was a thread [0] on /r/Maine in the aftermath of the extreme cold snap last weekend, when outdoor temps dropped into the negative double digits, where people chimed in on how their heat pumps held up. By and large, they confirmed that the manufacturers' claims are correct -- they do keep working (albeit less efficiently) down to the rated temperatures and in some cases even below. The winning strategy, at least up here, seems to be a cold-weather heat pump (commonly rated to -10F) for normal baseline heat and a woodstove to fill in when it gets really cold or the power goes out.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/Maine/comments/10t0yd9/heat_pumps_i...

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A 737-900, fully loaded and fueled for a transatlantic flight, weighs 70 - 80 tons and takes off at 150 - 180 mph. That's a lot of energy to dissipate in a hurry.

"'Real' socialism hasn't been tried, so you can't say it doesn't work."

It really depends... I'm sure they're not going to be using one single key for everybody; it'll be 802.1X, which a lot of devices don't support.

For me, what worked was switching to a new layout (QWERTY -> Colemak) which made looking down entirely useless. Tape a printout of the new layout to the top of your monitor for the first few days until you've got it, no matter how slowly you're typing, then go cold turkey. Some time later I went back to QWERTY in the office and was able to pick up touch-typing that layout without much thought or trouble; now I can jump back and forth between the two. Colemak feels a lot more ergonomic, too, as an added benefit.

I still can't believe they gave it a nipple mouse without a middle button.

Biden has been "in charge" since January 2021. Waiting until August 2022 was not the right move.

... unless that religion is Christianity, in which case, fire away!

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Dialectically, "pizza" is an uncountable and "pie(s)" is the unit.

And they were right then, too. I despise the television.

There are other ways to socialize that don't involve being a cog in the machine for half their waking day. Extracurriculars can fill that same need: boy scouts, sports teams, music lessons, whatever the kid's into.

Nobody's mentioned Touhou yet? Not only does Zun do all the programming, he also does all the graphics, music, and scriptwriting.

Or as few as two cats, depending on the breed.

On a chip with integrated graphics, though, throughput starts to matter a bit more.

Does the file picker show thumbnails yet?

> People made this very argument about tv.

And they were right then, too. I despise the television.

Such as?

> non-NSFW

...yet my W's web filter still blocks it.

I simply do not care about other peoples' biases; they do not affect me nearly enough to be worth navigating against. I care about my own (in)ability to sit down and get something done. That inability is far and away the prime detractor from my quality of life.

Even if stigma gets in the way, it's not something about which I can do anything. Reading about it is not useful to me.

What an unfortunate name, though... 18/F/USA totes legit

Imgur is breaking the internet by requiring JavaScript, too. Oh the irony.

and the 100% mortgage rate hike of the past year