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Things to note about these:

• Most models are 220V 30A. If you have an electrical already, you likely have everything you need here. If you have gas, you will need to run 10 AWG or 8 AWG wiring and install a new breaker. Depending on where you live, you'll likely need a permit and have your handy work inspected before putting the water heater to service. If you aren't sure when you'll need 10 AWG over 8 AWG, hire a professional.
• The 120V 15A models are slower at heating water and do so for a smaller volume. These models you can plug right into the wall, but they are usually a bit slower at coming to temperature for the water and for smaller volume. There's a Rheem version that's plug-in and has something like a 80 gallon store. However, it is highly recommended for use only in warm climates and installed outside in a small enclosure. Basically if you don't live in Southern California, Texas, Florida and all the states that touch those states in between them, you shouldn't try using this.
• Like all heat pumps, there is an air filter that you need to replace. Usually these devices have apps that will notify you when a filter is needing to be cleaned or replaced.
• Also like all heat pumps, there's a fan motor that will make sound. Luckily, most heat pump water heaters attempt to minimize the sound. That said, it's not zero sound and nobody should be recommending that one of these things be installed in a room adjacent to a bedroom. I mean, this is one of those things that really depends on "how well do you tolerate noise?" But these things will produce a pretty consistent hum.
• The act of cooling the air from these reduces the humidity in the air. So you must drain that water that is produced. I think this is one thing that catches most people off-guard about these. Most water heaters don't have a method for draining water because water around a water heater is usually a bad sign. So you do need to drain off the condensate. You can take a big bucket and collect the water to bail later, but how much water it'll produce is dependent on what the humidity is in your area. If you're in like Florida except something like a hint over a gallon of water per day. But most professional installations will install a drain line for you that leads to the outside, unless you're putting this thing like smack dab in the dead middle of your house and you're on a slab. That would obviously present a slightly higher challenge for that drain line installation.

But all that said, these things are super neato. It's just really important for people to have realistic expectations before installing one.

I mean, the Brits might be chomping at the bit for it. I mean with Brexit and all, I'm pretty sure it's been greyer than usual in the UK. Nothing like completely mopping up some country trying to invade your land to put on a slightly brighter disposition.

That said, I think Milei has mostly been talking about attempting to get them back diplomatically. Which I'm highly doubtful anyone remotely responsible for making that kind of decision in the UK is vaguely affable towards entertaining. Just a hunch.

Walzer said Musk and Grimes could spend months just trying to prove which state the kids actually lived in.

That's putting it lightly. Parental disputes that cross state lines is some of the messiest shit one can go through. Just ooof. Dude probably thinks evaporating $44B on Twitter was rough, he's just getting started on this shit.

Just out of curiosity have we posted about the dog leading their owner to a cat that was stuck down a well? I haven't quite got the hang of searching here yet, but we could post about that if we haven't already. Just saying.

For those wondering. The Illinois Policy Institute (IPI) who wrote this is a rabid libertarian/conservative think tank group. If you read through on this you'll see their "solution" is that government just makes it difficult for able-bodied people to work.

To which I would say, "Yes government should make it difficult for able-bodied people to be coaxed into slave labor wages that while technically gets them above the poverty line, offers no economic mobility. The entire point is that all people should have the ability to not just work but to work towards something that personally affects them in a positive manner, not just grind out 300,000 widgets to allow some CEO buy a new yacht."

This is a SLAPP with chilling effect.

And I don't disagree with you one bit there. But Texas' anti-SLAPP law is the Texas Citizens Participation Act and it used to be one of the strongest in the country. In 2019, it was modified by the Texas Assembly to introduce a lot of gray area and weaken it considerably.

So I don't disagree with the assertion that this is absolutely frivolous. But Texas' current laws on the book are likely to give Musk enough room to avoid challenges on that aspect.

and I can tell you that they followed accepted academic practice

Oh no doubt, that's the point. To sow doubt on that whole process.

IBM and Apple know pretty well how Internet advertising works

Oh yeah, the notion that they're indicating that Apple pulled their revenue because of "THIS REPORT" is just them grasping. But Musk is absolutely banking that IBM and Apple won't file brief with the Judge to provide more motivation to stick to the broad questions put forward by Media Matters. Business wise, this case isn't bringing dollars back to the platform, it is just being vindictive. Musk had his feels hurt and now he wants to hurt something else.

he’s got full blown narcissistic rage

I'm going to guess that one. Just the way Musk's been talking about this case, it feels like this one got deep under his skin.

That's how Tesla won their most recent case with an autopilot failure. They acknowledge that the car did indeed drive itself into a tree. But that the company did not knowingly sell a defective product as they routinely update the vehicle.

That wasn't the argument that won the day for them, but it was the argument that allowed them to start on a way more technical footing that would allow them to misdirect the court to focus more on any driver impairments.

Musk's lawyers are insanely good at misdirection, they are some of the best at this one particular thing. Additionally, the case was file in an incredibly friendly court to Musk, so it's likely the Judge will be willing to go down the rabbit hole of insanely technical arguments while losing sight of the more broad questions.

There is a lot stacked up against Media Matters here.

You think Apple & Disney didn't verify this for themselves before ditching Twitter?

They might have. It would be great if they file a brief with the court to support the argument. I'm pretty sure that Musk is absolutely going to tear through Media Matter's search history and say some bullshit like "Yeah, if you search for Nazi 10,000 times and Apple 10,000 times, we're absolutely going to do the thing you asked. But the number of people who actually do that is few and Media Matters made it sound like it was everyone."

Media Matter's is going to absolutely need others joining in to provide other sources of information independent of them. That'll make the almost inevitable argument from Musk that "Nazi + Apple is a rare thing" incredibly weak.

as if they were what typical X users experience on the platform

The thing is that it looks like Musk is going to mount a technical defense. There's likely to be an admission that there's all kinds of Nazi crap on Twitter and that they allow it to roam free, within it's own little echo chamber. The whole "it's not what the average user experiences" tells me is that what they're going to do is cover the keywords that unlock the Nazi echo chamber and how that sequence of required words aren't in some top 5,000 search terms on the site.

I'm pretty sure the entire point will be to sow some distrust on Media Matter's manner by which they got those screenshots. Basically an argument of "Well, yeah, if you search Nazi 100,000 times and then Apple 100,000 times, we're going to absolutely show you Nazi + Apple stuff. But the number of users who have that as their search history, we here at Twitter, can count on one hand."

The idea is to not deny that it is possible to get Nazi + Apple, but to indicate that the chances of getting it are so rare that Media Matters had to know that their research was contrived. I don't think they're going to deny one ounce of what Media Matters presents to the court, I think what they're going to try and do is shift what the underlying question is on the matter. Basically, shifting it to "this happens to rarely that you just have to go out of your way to get it to happen."

Media Matters will need to keep focus on their broader topic. "X admits that such a combination can happen, they indicate that it is super rare, but there is no way that X could have calculated every permutation. Because of that, the arguments of Media Matter stand firm in that such CAN absolutely happen and X has no idea the frequency of it."

And the fact that X has filed in a very friendly to them courtroom, it's likely that the court is going to entertain the more technical merits of the case rather than the broad questions. It'll absolutely put Media Matters in a very hard position.

There is no way Musk can prevail.

First rule of any kind of litigation. Don't ever say never. Law is black and white but the people who enforce it and judge it are still fleshy emotion pods.

Musk is clearly doing it to shut down public disclosure and discussion

Oh yeah, he's absolutely doing that.

That naturally involves wear and tear

Houses have wear and tear as well, they unsurprisingly do not suffer the same evaluation by the market as cars do. That doesn't tell the whole story because a lot of the depreciation of cars is how the market itself views that asset. Some cars even lose up to 20% their value once driven off the lot for pretty much the same reason an iPhone loses value so quickly when a new model comes out or isn't fresh out of the box.

The entire point is that while the argument of "They're meant to be driven" and "wear and tear" are valid arguments they are valid because of how the market views that "wear and tear" as a massive negative. Some of that is spurred by the difference between rehabilitation of a used house versus rehabilitation of a used car, that's including the logistics of how a motor for an early 2000 model vehicle is much harder to find than say a replacement HVAC system. There's a bit of the logistics of how cars are made and how you cannot just drop XYZ transmission into a random car unlike say how you can just drop ABC model hot water heater into your plumbing.

There's a deeper reason why that wear and tear on a car is so vastly different and thus treated differently than wear and tear on other more repairable things.

Kavanaugh and Barrett only joined the majority opinion on a super specific technicality just FYI. There is no way they did not want this to go ahead and be enforced in Florida.

Hey what y'all talking about?

I am so sorry this got so long. I'm absolutely horrible at brevity.

Applications use things called libraries to provide particular functions rather than implement those functions themselves. So like "handle HTTP request" as an example, you can just use a HTTP library to handle it for you so you can focus on developing your application.

As time progresses, libraries change and release new versions. Most of the time one version is compatible with the other. Sometimes, especially when there is a major version change, the two version are incompatible. If an application relied on that library and a major incompatible change was made, the application also needs to be changed for the new version of the library.

A Linux distro usually selects the version of each library that they are going to ship with their release and maintain it via updates. However, your distro provider and some neat program you might use are usually two different people. So the neat program you use might have change their application to be compatible with a library that might not make it into your distro until next release.

At that point you have one of two options. Wait until your distro provides the updated library or the go it alone route of you updating your own library (which libraries can depend on other libraries, which means you could be opening a whole Pandora's box here). The go it alone route also means that you have to turn off your distro's updates because they'll just overwrite everything you've done library wise.

This is where snaps, flatpaks, and appimages come into play. In a very basic sense, they provide a means for a program to include all the libraries it'll need to run, without those libraries conflicting with your current setup from the distro. You might hear them as "containerized programs", however, they're not exactly the Docker style "container", but from an isolating perspective, that's mostly correct. So your neat application that relies on the newest libraries, they can be put into a snap, flatpak, or appimage and you can run that program with those new libraries no need for your distro to provide them or for you to go it alone.

I won't bore you on the technical difference between the formats, but just mostly focus on what I usually hear is the objectionable issue with snaps. Snaps is a format that is developed by Canonical. All of these formats have a means of distribution, that is how do you get the program to install and how it is updated. Because you know, getting regular updates of your program is still really important. With snaps, Canonical uses a cryptographic signature to indicate that the distribution of the program has come from their "Snaps Store". And that's the main issue folks have taken with snaps.

So unlike the other kinds of formats, snaps are only really useful when they are acquired from the Canonical Snaps Store. You can bypass the checking of the cryptographic signature via the command line, but Ubuntu will not automatically check for updates on software installed via that method, you must check for updates manually. In contrast, anyone can build and maintain their own flatpak "store" or central repository. Only Canonical can distribute snaps and provide all of the nice features of distribution like automatic updates.

So that's the main gripe, there's technical issues as well between the formats which I won't get into. But the main high level argument is the conflicting ideas of "open and free to all" that is usually associated with the Linux group (and FOSS [Free and open-source software] in general) and the "only Canonical can distribute" that comes with snaps. So as @sederx indicated, if that's not an argument that resonates with you, the debate is pretty moot.

There's some user level difference like some snaps can run a bit slower than a native program, but Canonical has updated things with snaps to address some of that. Flatpak sandboxing can make it difficult to access files on your system, but flatpak permissions can be edited with things like Flatseal. Etc. It's what I would file into the "papercut" box of problems. But for some, those papercuts matter and ultimately turn people off from the whole Linux thing. So there's arguments that come from that as well, but that's so universal "just different in how the papercut happens" that I just file that as a debate between container and native applications, rather a debate about formats.

Acting like you have the intellectual capacity to negotiate the legislative process is, contrary to this Senator's belief, not political correctness.

It's a combination of things and to just simply blame MAGA is doing a disservice. Before we had MAGA we had antivax on the rise. We did after all have Andrew Wakefield and Jenny McCarthy.

But more importantly what fuels a lot of this is ignorance. Some willful, some that cannot be helped, and some just not an easy thing for one to wrap one's head around. That ignorance fuels fear, uncertainty, and doubt something that's sometimes referred to as FUD. And that can manifest into all kinds of things, chief among them is outrage which MAGA acolytes feed into for political gain. Because that's how the MAGA crew keeps fuel in it's tank, feeding into outrage.

And for a moment, I'd ask everyone to take a look around. Look at the world we are in. Plenty to be outraged about, right? But while you might find specific things to be outraged about, the MAGA crowd keeps it unfocused. What's woke? It's whatever it needs to be for the time and place. Who is in the Soros Cabal? Whoever needs to be for the particular discussion at the moment.

But it's important to remember that the MAGA crowd feeds into something that can be traced even further back. There's an ongoing dogma about vaccines that's roughly the equal to the myth of the Inuit having 400 words for snow. Note, the Inuit DO NOT have 400 words for snow. But like anything, once something gets started, it becomes really hard to shake. The dogma of antivaxxers relies on three components:

• An uncertainty about the makeup of a vaccine — Which may be heard as folks citing the Tuskegee experiments or the CIA experiments.
• A lack of widespread evidence showing what a lack of vaccines looks like — At one point everyone knew what Polio looked like and now through the success of the vaccine, almost nobody has any real understanding of what Polio actually looks like or what it can do.
• A lack of real risk analysis — Actual death from Childhood vaccines is almost unheard of at this point, compared to the 0.12 ‰
  who will die from measles. A lot of folks don't even know what ‰ means. Additionally, a lot of people do not know the history behind the VAERS database, nor are aware that the funding allocation from Congress to arrest anyone who makes a false report is currently $0 and has been that rate since it's inception.

These things sow a level of distrust and when paired with the rapacious nature that is the American healthcare system, there is massive amounts of gasoline being poured by folks who are interested in profits, that contrarians, shysters, and grifters are more than happy to ignite to further their agenda. We didn't just get here by ignorance, we got here by a bunch of folks who would use that ignorance for their own gains. Like Andrew Wakefield, so many antivaxers I know indicate his research while casually omitting that he had published that paper in order to enact an elaborate fraud. The idea was to get people to select his "safe" version of the MMR vaccines that would have made him a ton of profit. Nor do people speak about Brian Deer who did the investigative research and reporting that eventually undid, at least in a legal sense and brought about his removal as a licensed doctor, Andrew Wakefield's report. No what most people remember is that Wakefield published a report and there's been this sorting of those who bought into it and those who didn't. And all of that was on the background of Autism, a disease that initially no one had any idea existed which feeds into that whole FUD.

The MAGA crowd has made it political. Lots of people are wondering about that "medical record" and why tax payer money can only be unlocked by the public on condition that they take a shot. That latter part was predicated on the notion that everyone at one point knew that they did NOT want to catch any disease that the MMR shot protected against. And if you've ever talked to any "sovereign citizen" type, you can just take that mentality and extend it to say "roads". Why predicate having a license on the ability to use a road one paid for? Why pay for it? Why think taxes are legal? It's road for sure, but there's lot of similarities along the way.

There's a level of contempt for our Government. I mean just look around, one wouldn't be hard pressed to find a clear example. There's been a lot of failure globally in Democratic order because quite a few are more interested in profit to be made than benefit to society. The thing with the antivaxxers is they've taken that contempt and made choices and commitments that are dangerous for themselves, their children, and their locality. They've allow that contempt to be woven into an identity and there are all kinds of agents out there that will validate that identity in exchange for profit or power. But we should remember that if we are going to simplify it, those are the true drivers.

Man, what’s heart breaking is congenital syphilis. A disease that’s passed to an infant at birth. In 2012, it was almost gone from the US.

In 2021 it has surged by 201% nationally and quadruple digit percentage in some States.

And given the antibiotic resistance that’s quickly building up, we may never be able to get rid of it now without some new advancement.

And the vast majority of the surge has been due to people either not being able to have a prenatal screening or not wanting it.

It is one of the most depressing defeats. Especially considering the damage the disease does to the child brain and heart. It’s just an unspeakable L humanity has had to take on this.

Maybe I'm not Rusting enough.

Part of the problem here is that Bezos, who is and always will be a dork who became rich by selling books

Bezos is not rich because of the shit he sells on his website, that shit is just a bonfire for cash. Bozos is rich because a hint over 40% of the entire fucking Internet runs on Amazon Web Services.

This is why if AWS and Amazon were ever split by the Federal government, Amazon and all the warehouse shit would be bankrupt faster than the morals of a newly elected politician.

The thing is these idiots play dumb games.

One of the reasons we did that whole war thing for independence was specifically because there was this King guy who was head of the Church and State. And the big problemo with the King being that way was when say Religious cult group A had their King, Religious cult group B would get persecuted. And then of course round and round we go with that.

Not to mention that our Country was already pretty aware of what "just a little bit of mixing religion and legislation" would ultimately end up as. For a concrete example, if anyone is wondering, the notion behind Members of Congress buying stocks is so that they could reap the economy they created win or lose. And we all see how awesome and not completely off the rails that went. So, imagine how that's working for us all with Stocks, and then just replace stocks with INSERT ONE OF THOSE RELIGIONS HERE. It'll be F-U-N times for sure.

But here's the bigger catch. All of them already know that. They think that their Religious cult group will be the one that comes out on top and if not, they'll be able to just slide on into whatever religious cult group takes over. Sorta how all the Republicans were against crazy ass politics until they saw that they could fucking cash in on it. But then they can only cash in on it until they can no longer cash in on it and the crazy party turns on them.

That's the fun thing about bombastic politics. At some point, someone WAY MORE BOMBASTIC than you comes around and drinks your milkshake. And surprise, the Founding Fathers already knew all of this, the USA distinctly does not have a monopoly on crazy ass shit going on in official government business. And so Speaker Johnson is sitting there acting like "Oh yeah, I'm totally not going to be some mindless jerk who'll be the first against the wall when the religious revolution comes." And the thing is, is he's a stepping stone like many of the dumb ass bombastic Republicans. He will absolutely be "some mindless jerk who was the first against the wall when the religious revolution came." They will absolutely Mike Pence his ass.

That's the ignorance of these fuckers. They think they'll somehow bubble up into the winner's circle, and in reality he's just breakfast for some even bigger fish that's looking for Speaker Johnson to open the box and let loose. You all saw it. Second shit got real on January 6th, all those true Trumpers started getting into "mad dash for the door" mode. You saw them right after when they came back to debate votes, everyone's voice cracking, nerves frayed, folks aren't coming to the lectern with the same kind of passion. About to be literally ripped apart by a hundred hands pulling you in every direction does that to a person. They talk big game, they want to open doors that shouldn't be open, but suddenly when they realize they're not going to make it to the glorious nation they were trying to make… Oh I think enough is enough suddenly.

Which by the way, you can tell by the way Graham is talking there and how he was talking earlier before he almost became a Senator hamburger, he was fucking spooked. Shame that lesson only lasted him about a week. They all don't know it, but they all are going to get themselves killed by the very people they were trying to empower. They ain't powerful men, they're pawns.

Remember. He is a felon. That means he cannot vote in an election, but he absolutely can be elected to created laws. It's so weird thinking about that out loud.