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I can't take anyone who defends these Gawker media sites seriously.

Their entire premise was to be the biggest asshole possible, justify it using bastardized social justice talking points, and then imply everyone who calls them out is some kind of deplorable.

Jezebel published article after article of extremely offensive and cruel content. I'm pretty sure at one point they published an article about how they beat their spouses. Their former owner stated in court that he would publish a sex tape if the participant was older than 4. Their former EIC talked about how it was important to bully nerds into submission.

These people are fucking psychopaths. It's a good thing they are done.

I'm also not 100 percent sure the premise of this is correct. There are tons of articles on abortion from less tabloid style news orgs.

If all the apps are in React Native I feel like they are gonna have a bad time. If you're not careful React Native apps have bad performance, and Fire TVs don't have a lot of performance to spare.

The result would be a genocide, but this time you can identify the jews by not having a star of david anywhere on their body.

Sure.

Honestly I think Google has a horrible management culture. It worked fine when they were printing money regardless but at this point the incompetence is starting to show.

Okay before I go further I need to ask the following questions:

1. How old are you?
2. What type of home do you live in?
3. Do you own your home?
4. What types of heating units have you lived with?
5. Where are you located?

I don't want to waste my time breaking down how wrong you are if you're a 19 year old posting this from a college dorm.

The worst part of it is that they are still driving up the cost by bundling YouTube music.

They know exactly what I mean. They are arguing semantics so they can dance around the fact that Heat Pumps aren't nearly as cost efficient as billed in most parts of the US.

You can argue that the savings are achieved by both not requiring a separate heating device and not having to construct a home to handle gas/oil.

However then you get into the heating issue. Most models just can't handle any sort of truly cold temperatures. Models that can are often more expensive than a gas furnace and AC unit combined.

There is a way around this: dual source heat pumps. Basically they are heat pumps with a gas furnace that kicks in if it's too cold outside. They work, and have been adopted in states like Maine, albeit with subsidies. However they aren't encouraged by traditional media sources because at the end of the day they still use gas.

Again, I feel like we've been through this with EVs. There was a narrative widespread adoption was around the corner. That once you hit seven percent you'd have runaway adoption. That by 2030 the vast majority of cars will be all electric. However at the end of the day demand slowed. While EVs worked in some places, there were huge issues (price, range, and charger availability) that prevented wider adoption. The experts were surprised because they were wealthy urbanites who didn't experience those flaws firsthand.

EVs are the future. Heat Pumps are the future. All I'm saying is that things that are billed as around the corner often take longer than you'd expect.

Honestly I feel like I'm just older than everyone else in this thread. I feel like anyone 30 or above has seen things like this play out multiple times.

Fine. Electric Furnaces are hilariously expensive. Happy?

I bought into the heat pump hype until I bought a house with a furnace. Up until then I lived in apartments with heat pumps. I was stunned about how much better it was than any place I've lived before. It was used for it taking forever to get warm and always feeling colder than the thermostat would indicate. With a furnace it got warm quick, and it truly felt warm once it reached temperature. My power+heat bill was significantly lower per sqft than my power bill in my apartment.

I've lived in the Midwest, the Mountain West, and the South. I experienced the shortcomings of heat pumps in every place.

This article, which I believe to be geared at convincing US readers that heat pumps are great, also does some things that are extremely disingenuous.

For one, most heat pumps in Norway are geothermal heat pumps. Those are extremely different units that are well known to both be more energy efficient and function at much lower temperatures than air source heat pumps that are typically pushed in the US. The example where they interview a guy with an air source heat pump seems like an almost intentional misdirection.

Second, the author uses a comparison to electric furnaces. That has been widely known for years to be hilariously inefficient. As such it's fairly rare to see in the US. The most common sources of heat in the US are air source heat pumps (in places like AZ and Texas), oil radiators, and gas furnaces. Depending on energy prices, these could be significantly cheaper depending on utility cost. I understand Norway has specific conditions that make oil and gas usage much less appealing but, again, this article is clearly targeted towards westerners.

I feel like this is EVs all over again. Heat pumps have a lot of potential. They will one day before the de facto standard almost everywhere. However they have serious shortcomings and the idea that they are ready to be a drop in replacement in the vast majority of cases is hopium.

EDIT: Since everyone is getting caught up over the word "efficient". Electric furnaces are hilariously expensive.

So, as it's been stated, Wayland is still not universally better than X. There are still bugs in places. Gaming is still an issue. Kwin's implementation still isn't complete enough to be reliably introduced as the default.

This is after years and years of work. Yes, making an entirely new display protocol is hard. However Wayland was introduced as the "eventual X replacement" when I was in high school. I'm 30 now. I've heard some variation of "Wayland is almost ready" since my senior year of college.

At some point it becomes exhausting. At this point when someone says something along the lines of "in a year or two, Wayland will reach a point where X.org will be a thing of the past" my immediate reaction is to call bullshit.

So about the same as the rest of Staten Island then.

I was thinking more the fight club with the rock or the dinosaur aliens, but sure.

Honestly I liked the vibe of Voyager. They basically went on idiotic side quests because it seemed like it would be cool.

I feel like a ton of episodes opened with one character pointing out this wasn't their business and didn't help them in any way, another character just going "...but we're explorers", and then Voyager getting into some weird shit.

A huge part of why I love Star Trek is because the galaxy seems vast and mysterious, with the Federation only truly understanding a small part of it. Voyager was the king of that shit. There are a ton of Voyager episodes that give us a glimpse into characters and concepts that could be their own series. It really made them feel like drops in a vast ocean.

Honestly I feel like most of NuTrek is overseen by people who never really liked star trek in the first place and were tasked with watering down the IP into lowest common denominator mass market schlock instead of expanding on the series.

It didn't help that when Discovery came out the majority of reviewers clearly knew extremely little about the Star Trek as a whole. I remember reading an article on how Discovery breaks ground for female characters in Star Trek, who previously have been stereotyped to caregiving roles.

I was not a fan of SNW season 1. It felt like it focused on visuals and recycled a bunch of low effort cliches for the plot. They also seemed to try to rush character development in a way that felt completely unearned.

However, I loved SNW season 2. It's the first show I felt was a true modern successor for Star Trek. While not perfect, it managed to do a great job taking classic themes of star trek and updating them to the modern era. I consider "Under the Cloak of War" an all time Star Trek great. Also season 1 being bad actually makes it feel more like Star Trek.

So to answer your question: No. This is incredibly stupid. While the words were by a villain, it implied that there was a lot of truth to them. There are many ways to lead a fulfilling life without (romantic) love. There are many things in the galaxy beyond coldness. This has been well established by Star Trek and demonstrated by multiple characters in multiple series.

Also, they should give whoever writes lower decks a serious show. They clearly have an extremely deep understanding of Star Trek and have done a good job developing characters.

The Risa episode with Worf was awful. It made him look like an asshole. The part that explained it was because of the trauma he suffered was so poorly executed it was kinda just brushed off. Also the very idea of trying to enforce morality on a planet dedicated to hedonism is extremely stupid.

The only redeeming part of the entire thing is when Leeta reveals she broke up with Julian because she was into Rom.

Man you confirm a stereotype.

The post was about how the south sucks. I talked about how I currently live in the south, and how much better it is than the environment I grew up in. I specifically said NYC METRO AREA. This is because I don't want to reveal my specific hometown.

However, I know plenty of people living in NYC. My siblings live in NYC, my uncle lives in NYC, my cousins live in NYC, and whenever I go home a good half the people I meet are living in NYC.

There's another thing I didn't mention about what I hated their: the pure unbridled arrogance.

There's this belief that NYC is the center of the universe and the best place to be. They constantly talk down any place outside of NYC. They'll say shit implying anything outside the top three metro areas in the US is some cultural backwater. They're straight up incapable of acknowledging the inherent toxicity of their environment. If they do acknowledge it, they'll insist that every single place is just as bad and they're just more honest about it. They'll also act like it's okay to be casual assholes all the time because they're really great deep down.

So just to go in order

• You have never lived in the south. You don't seem to know any southerners. You certainly do not know me. I have plenty of friends here. The kind of casual cruelty that flies in the NYC metro doesn't fly here.
• I live in a metro area of over two million people. That is not a small town. There's more to America than NYC, LA, and Chicago.
• People from the NYC metro were not kind to me. They were judgmental assholes. Extremely so. They did so freely and without any sort of concern.
• That whole "oh they're good people, they just are blunt and without basic human decency" schtick isn't nearly as cute as you think it is. It's extremely toxic.

Yes.

I grew up in the suburbs. The entire culture was extremely judgemental and harsh to people who didn't conform to social standards. There was this mentality that if you weren't of value in some way, you didn't deserve decency.

This continued beyond high school. My adult siblings live in NYC. My cousins also live in NYC, as well as several family friends. They are hyper judgemental when it comes to social conformity, and don't seem to believe that people have any intrinsic value if they aren't up to standard.

In NC, that isn't the case. There seems to be a lot more basic human decency. If someone doesn't like me, they don't treat me with utter contempt and disgust. They don't (as far as I can tell) talk shit behind my back and try to shame people who do like me. Instead they are nice to me in person, and then just don't hang out with me.

There is also a lot lower a standard of conformity. My siblings will talk shit about absolutely petty shit like wearing the wrong outfit or not using an iPhone. They'll go on rants that boil down to "this person was mildly socially awkward, or behaved in a way that made it clear they didn't understand the extreme nuances of my social circle" and act like the person in question is an absolute idiot that deserves ridicule. Family friends have done similar things. Meanwhile in NC the bar is low enough that someone who means well and has a basic understanding of social cues can live function without any issues.

I have Autism. I've managed to grow into a person that can function pretty well. I have friends. I have an SO. I have a good job. However, none of that would have happened if I stayed in the NYC metro. Even after all my growth, I would be torn apart in the culture there. The social expectations (and cruelty if you can't manage it) are simply too high.

There is more to oppression than skin tone. I'm never more aware of my Autism than when I'm in that environment.

I grew up in the NYC metro area.

I now live in North Carolina.

I can tell you where I feel more welcome and accepted. You won't like the answer.

Honestly I blame the news orgs for this.

There are a ton of videos floating around that ARE credible. They simply aren't getting reported on in a meaningful way. If they do get mentioned, it's often in an extremely watered down manner that almost feels intentionally misleading.

You also have videos that are 100 percent verifiable (or the protest videos) that are only being reported on by a few organizations, often leaving out important context.

If the mainstream media refuses to truly engage in the situation, then people will turn to dubious sources.