I live in a pretty old house in the midwest, built 1929, bought in '21, single-story, ~1300ish sqft, and with a large, spacious basement. Every time summer comes around I've had issues with the basement getting MUCH colder than the rest of the house (like >10 degrees F difference), presumably due to poorly-insulated floors and...
You can circulate the air if you want to balance it out, but the basement is going to get colder again.
If you're talking about saving energy:
At about 3pm circulate the air. That's a little before your AC is going to start experiencing it's highest workload.
At around 6pm or when ever, stop.
Try it for a couple of days with just a fan. If it's a noticeable difference and you like it, you can get a vent installed that pushes up from the basement, and another somewhere else that just goes straight to the basement. You can put the fan/blower on a timer. I'd recommend one of those "smart plug" things, they work as a timer and you can also controll locally from your phone.
But if you're circulating air 24/7, it's just making your AC cool even more air.
So you just want to use it to dump a bunch of cold air when you need it most, and then let it naturally cool down the rest of the nigh/day.
Whether or not this adds up to more than negligible benefits for energy use...
I have zero idea.
But it's essentially just an inefficient heat pump. The theory behind it is sound.
This problem is new and growing exponentially. We can't just always be reactive, we need to be proactive especially in situations with our of control interest.
It's one of those things where Republicans put people like Betsy Davros in charge, then moderates want us to clap for bread crumbs
Like, a big chunk of loan forgiveness so far, is people that qualified for PSLF, but couldn't get it because the loan servicers were in charge of it, and intentionally incompetent.
So now the feds are paying the inflated balances with interest.
We need to talk about principals forgiven, not amounts after 20 years of interest.
Sure, what we're doing now is better than nothing, that doesn't mean it's enough though.
There are many other bee species that can sting Humans and survive, but the European honeybee has a barbed stinger, so it cannot remove the stinger once it's stung. In attempting to remove the stinger the bee will rupture its lower abdomen and then die....
When the stinger gets pulled out of the bee, the sac with the venom comes out too, still attached to the singer
Attempts to remove it injects more venom.
The life of the bee is worth less than the increased deterrent to animals attacking the hive.
The life of a handful of bees really isn't worth much at all to the hive. So even when there's no longer giant ass bears going after hives, there's not a lot of pressure for the bee to lose the barb.
Edit:
It's also important to remember that evolution isn't just competing against predators/prey. It's competing against competitors too.
If one hive of bees has barbs and worse stings than the one next to it, the one without barbs is gonna get attacked.
So the barbs don't have to be enough to convince predators that honey is never worth the sting, just that this honey is more painful to get than that honey.
Overtime the less painful honey may be pushed out of the local ecosystem. At which point it's just barbed bees, and the cycle might start over again with another way stings are more painful.
A young female when given royal jelly triggers it becoming a queen and reproductive organs instead of a stinger.
The males are drones. They have male reproductive organs instead of stingers, and they just hang out and try to bone the queen.
But the worker bees are the ones that actually, you know, do the work.
So that's why European bees won't "swarm" someone and all sting them. You get a few warning shots and a chance to retreat, just moving away is enough for it to stop.
Meanwhile, African bees had to deal with shit like honey badgers. And as we're all aware, the honey badger gives very little fucks about anything.
So they don't half ass defense, they send out a shit ton of bees that won't stop until the threat is chased away and keeps running away. If they didn't the honey badger wouldnt even notice.
Then some genius decided to cross breed the species, and we get "Africanized killer bee" that treat everything they come across as a honey badger.
But they forgot that life finds a way and the hybrids wouldn't just stay where they put them.
They not only outcompete European hives, they'll straight up raid and destroy other hives stealing their young.
Because their African half evolved in a resource scarce environment. If they run across other bees they view it as a direct threat on their resources. Pretty sure it also causes them to establish new hives much further away than European bees. Which is why they keep spreading so fast.
I'm just glad no one's tried to crossbreed honey badgers with wolves to combat the hybrid bees yet.
The mom leaves them alone for like 12-18 hours a day, but it will come back.
Too many people think if it's alone for an hour it needs saved.
The mom leaves the fawns alone for so long, because if they're walking around they're a liability. It won't be up and moving till it's off milk and learning to forage.
I know evolution is governed by chance and it is random but does it make sense to "ruin" sleep if there's light? I mean normally, outside, you never have pure darkness, there are the moon and stars even at night. In certain zones of the Earth we also have long periods of no sunshine and long periods of only sunshine....
"Full darkness" isn't even a real thing in nature. It's hard to tell with light pollution, but even in the absolute middle of nowhere with no artificial lights, you're going to be able to see fairly well. Even with no moon, starlight isn't just an expression. And on a full moon it can be surprisingly "bright" if you're just out there for a while.
It's not like climbing into a cupboard, shutting the door, and sealing all the cracks with duct tape.
You may be used to needi g full darkness to sleep, but that's a learned habit. I guarantee if there was nothing you could do, it wouldn't take you long to adapt your "requirement" of total darkness.
I mean, my night vision was always better than most...
But growing up as kids we'd be sprinting thru the woods playing tag at like 10pm summer nights, not a single electric light in sight
You're not going to recognize someone 100 yards away, but you're not walking around with your hands in front of your face to make sure you don't run into anything.
If you're under an open sky, or even a primitive shelter, you're not in complete darkness.
That's why there's "blue light filters" on electronics these days. That wavelength isnt included with moonlight/starlight.. maybe on a big full moon there's be some.
And why people prefer soft yellowish lights when relaxing and not the bright ass LEDs.
We’re diurnal, and have eyes optimised to see maximum colour and detail instead of well in dim light (at least by mammal standards)
Human variation.
There's two main structures in our eyes.
Rods: take large amounts of any wave length of light
Cones: take in a very small amount of a specific wavelength and only that wavelength
Most of the area (like 95%) are rods. And there's a couple (usually three) types of cones.
Some people have more different types of cones, and can see more differences in color. Some have less types meaning less cones overall even.
But the eye won't just have more blank spots. So it fills in with more rods.
This is actually related to why the further away from the equator people got, the lighter their eyes got.
With longer variation in day/night cycle, it was advantages to let as much light in as possible. That outweighed the downside of too much light during the day, as that could be solved with hat brims, or that age old move where you make a visor with your palm.
By limiting the amount of light going to your rods, your cones get less "washed out" and that's how we get more detail/colors.
But even in a single population, there's going to be a lot of human variation. Rod/cone distribution has a high amount of variability even when genetics are steady. Genetics has a large effect, but it's not like the body always follows directions closely.
“Full darkness” isn’t even a real thing in nature.
And
It’s not like climbing into a cupboard, shutting the door, and sealing all the cracks with duct tape.
So I thought it was pretty clear I meant that to get "full darkness" where you really can't see, requires extra steps to intentionally make it happen. Just that for the vast majority of human evolution, we weren't really capable of it, and would have no reason to even try.
I feel like I’d definitely break an ankle if I tried sprinting otherwise
Yeah, we played paintball even, but stopped because one guy ran straight off like a 6 foot mini cliff. A couple of us were chasing him and he just disappeared. Was freaky as shit like that scene from LotRs.
I also have to account for the fact that there was some light pollution
Yeah, I'm talking really hillbilly stuff, zero light pollution.
but in the darkest conditions that happen at sea apparently you can’t see your own hands.
A ship gives off a lot of light pollution, but even without that, between the water reflecting and nothing blocking light, it's brighter out there unless there's heavy clouds cover. And even then it's gotta be a lot of clouds and rough waves or else the light would still be refracting some.
Now a watertight compartment on a ship with the light switch on the outside?
Yeah, that's complete darkness. It's not just "can't see your hand in front of your face". It's the absolute and complete absence of light. That's total darkness.
The experience of people working the night shift, who use blackout curtains to sleep during the day, would disagree.
Wow, I didn't know my own experience disagreed with me...
Or that during my childhood when my dad was swing shift, he was apparently a freak of nature too...
But that’s for a relatively highly regimented sleep cycle. If you slept and worked completely at your leisure, you might end up with one shorter sleep period at night, and one even shorter nap during the day. And without any day-night cycle at all, some people naturally adopt cycles of varying lengths.
Again, human variation is a big thing.
But an individual will change their sleep schedule as they age, which is another supporting point for what I'm saying.
Evolutionary biologists hypothesis that it was so out of an entire tribe of early hominds, at least some members were likely to be awake. It wasn't an inate guard duty rotation. But kids and middle age went to bed early, teens went to bed super late, and by then the elderly were waking up.
If something happened, someone screamed and everyone woke up. And the fires stayed lit all night.
Like, 1 in 200 people is colourblind, or something?
....
Again, you're talking genetics, where it is clearly broken down in 2,3,4.
However like pretty much everything else, it's not that clear cut just because the plans were.
Two people with the same amount of different types of cones are not guaranteed to have the same rod/cone ratio. Even when they have similar genetics for the ratio, things rarely go according to plan as a human develops.
Like, you know that's why facial symmetry is attractive right? It shows that things on both halves went according to plan. Which especially for women is a huge bonus for reproductive health.
Especially for something made up of a whole bunch of small things like rods/cones, it's not even perfect for identical twins.
The intensity and the wavelength of light influence entrainment.[2] Dim light can affect entrainment relative to darkness.[15] Brighter light is more effective than dim light.[12] In humans, a lower intensity short wavelength (blue/violet) light appears to be equally effective as a higher intensity of white light.[11]
If your lifespan was an hour, every generation that witnessed a sunrise or sunset would freak the fuck out and think the world was ending.
I've always thought of entropy like that, it seems one direction, but only because we're on a comparativly tiny timescale.
Used to subscribe to the "big crunch" theory that it'll just all start over. But the more Penrose and Hawking I read, the more I think the Big Bang just isn't that unique.
There's a lot of signs that the vast majority of existence is dark matter, and with how it interacts with regular matter, I don't think we have sequential big bangs like a single light slowly flashing. I think it's more like fireworks in the sky.
There's probably not anyway to travel through the dark matter to get to another "bubble", and even if we did, that bubbles laws of physics could be drastically incompatible with us.
Like, if you remember the Narnia books it's like that "main world" where it was just an infinite number of ponds and jumping into one shoots you out to some world world everything works better. I think The Magicians kind of ripped off the idea, and by now more people may be familiar with that then one of the least popular (but underrated) books in a children's series from ww2.
Entropy is functionally persistent, but only because everything we can see and interact isnt all there is. There could be multiple other bubbles of matter happening right now, it's just about what frame of reference we have.
It's rarely worth an argument. Especially for the early millennials that came up when boomers were still running around everywhere.
I don't know what the article says they're doing, but yeah, if there's a way to do something without having to talk to cranky old people about it, we're just going to do shit the quiet way.
Why give them the opportunity to turn it into an argument?
Dealing with those boomers is like dealing with toddlers.
I've tried scrubbing it several times with bar keepers friend soft cleanser and although it improves, it never goes away completely and it always comes back....
You can even fill a ziplock bag and tie it on a faucet.
If your water is really hard, pour vinegar into that little tube in your toilet too, the jets get clogged easily and that flushes them out and prevents them from blocking up. If they are blocked, the vinegar will eventually open them up if you don't regularly.
Obviously water softener if you don't have one, but depending what your waters like you may have to do more.
The future of the Royals and Chiefs in Kansas City was thrown into question Tuesday when residents of Jackson County voted down a sales tax measure that would have helped to fund a new downtown ballpark along with major renovations to Arrowhead Stadium.
The only way privately owned clubs should exist is like English football.
Where the owner pays for everything, and if you fuck up you get sent down and less money. I don’t think a team has ever moved locations, they’re that city’s team.
With the NFL, there is zero risk and a guaranteed return on investment thru profit sharing. 2022 was $375,000,000 to every team just for existing. And the salary cap ensures players can only get so much. You hear stories all the time about star players taking lower pay to help the team like they’re heros.
When really they should all be striking to remove the salary cap.
Hell, most of them only have a few years of good salary. Rookie contracts are a joke, and the majority never get a second. Get rid of the draft even. Let them sign where they want for whatever pay they want.
It’s all done under the guise of “fairness for the game” but who honestly thought the Lions have as good of a shot as the Chiefs?
Being drafted by the wrong team can (and has) literally ruined careers before. Trades are no better, imagine your job saying you had to move to a shit hole city or you could no longer work for any company in your industry
If the owners get all the benefits of capitalism, why are the players stuck in such a limited system?
Lots of college students don’t use bed frames, but if the mattress is directly on the floor it’s going to get moldy.
It still will with a box spring, but college students tend to move every year which helps and you’d definitely notice if it is when moving.
What would be even better is a “slat frame” that doesn’t need a box spring and lifts it off the ground. You can get good metal ones on Amazon for cheap. Probably pretty close to local price for a box spring.
You can get “flat” extension cords with or without a surge protector at the end.
Instead of coming straight out, the plug is really skinny and the cord is right next to the wall parallel to it.
They also make these little plastic things that clip onto the cord on one side, and stick to the wall on the other. So you can keep the cord nice.
I made a different comment about slat frames. But if your looking for a new mattresses and have back issues, I strongly suggest one of the latex/foam mattresses and a metal slate frame. It’s going to be cheaper than just a conventional mattress from a store and way better for your back.
If it’s a “personal” one it does whatever you or the person you pay to manage it wants it to do.
A lot of it is by “shares” for company/government 401ks though.
Depending on the economy one share might be worth $20 or $200.
Some people in multi index funds will try to time it. When the market is bad they switch to the high risk index, knowing the fund rarely sells stock and wait for prices to go up. When their up and don’t think it will last, they put it in the safe but practically no interest indes.
Most people aren’t good at that.
“Lifecycle index’s” start high risk when you’re young, and slowly shift to low risk when you get close to your chosen age.
Because at 30 a crash on your 401k doesn’t matter, if anything it’s when you should max donations. But a recession the year you’re gonna retire means you keep working till your 401k.rebounds.
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12% even if you don’t put any in should set off alarm bells.
Like, who is managing that 401k? Is it related to someone running your company?
How’s the salary compared to similar jobs? Are you making 15% less and that’s where it’s coming from?
What is mid 5 digits? 50k? That means you’d be making 56k if you got it all in pay.
It’s not a bad wage, but something crazy like 12% 401k no matter what is usually for stuff at least twice your salary for tax reasons.
I get not wanting to put details online, but you should find a coworker who’s been there a long time and ask about what’s going on. If no one’s been there more than a few years, that’s another huge red flag
Attendance had plummeted. Top-tier presidential candidates skipped the September event, and some speakers didn’t show. Guests were baffled by a scoring system that rated their ideology on a scale, from a true conservative to a so-called RINO, or Republican in name only.
Walk in and they’ll tell you a story about how $5 can save them. If you give them the money, and walk out of the store 5 minutes later, they’ll do the same thing to you
Because the story isn’t real, and they want a lot more than $5 from you, they just know $5 is likely to happen.
No, day/night is because the earth rotates. Solar flares have nothing to do with that.
Statistically tho we’re way over due for a massive solar flare. And it would pretty much blow every electrical transformer on the day side of the planet when it hits.
To replace all of them would be a massive undertaking and could potentially take years to restore electrical grids everywhere.
So they’re a concern, just no idea what you’re talking about with a 25 hour day.
There’s a good chance he’s saying that to get people to apply at where he works, and people would be told (or at least think) that exceptions to the written rule are frequent and not a big deal.
Then when the new round of (likely disposable) employees ask for something, they’re told to fuck off an to read their hiring agreement.
Usually the worst a business is, the more they make up weird stories about how cool it is to work there. Because they have to trick people into accepting positions.
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