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givesomefucks , to Home Improvement in Options for equalizing temperature between the basement and the rest of the house in summer?

Yeah, the basement is going to be colder...

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.

givesomefucks , to Work Reform in Student Debt Has Reached $1.3 Trillion, compared to just $243 billion in 2003

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.

givesomefucks , to Work Reform in Student Debt Has Reached $1.3 Trillion, compared to just $243 billion in 2003

This is why "most relief ever" isn't enough.

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.

givesomefucks , to LinkedinLunatics in Leave some degrees for the rest of us

What's crazier is the Twitter guy acting like he was taking a risk...

If I was the applicant and I found out about this, I'd 100% start applying to a new company.

You might get the job, but no one is going to listen to you.

Edit:

Or does LinkedIn look like Twitter now? I never used it so assumed it was Twitter and the screenshot was linked in profile

givesomefucks , to Ask Science in Why are honeybee stingers barbed?

Yeah, I think that was the reasoning.

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.

givesomefucks , to Ask Science in Why are honeybee stingers barbed?

Workers and queens are female.

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.

givesomefucks , (edited ) to Ask Science in Why are honeybee stingers barbed?

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.

givesomefucks , to aww in I spy with my little eye...

When people talk about generations, absolutely no one is ever going to mean 100% of people in that generation.

givesomefucks , to aww in I spy with my little eye...

How is Gen X getting blamed for that?

Helicopter parenting was just something boomers did because they tend to like micromanaging and assume they're the smartest ever.

Pretty much every generation (in America at least) that wasn't raised by boomers was "free range".

givesomefucks , to aww in I spy with my little eye...

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.

givesomefucks , to Work Reform in Why ‘poly-employment’ may be 2024’s next big work trend, working more than one job is getting a re-brand

Indentured service paid for your food and housing...

givesomefucks , to Ask Science in Regarding sleep quality, why did humans evolve to require full darkness?

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]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_effects_on_circadian_rhythm

For anyone else, I won't try to change your mind.

givesomefucks , to Ask Science in Regarding sleep quality, why did humans evolve to require full darkness?

You're talking genetic variation, I'm talking phenotype variation...

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.

givesomefucks , to Ask Science in Regarding sleep quality, why did humans evolve to require full darkness?

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A specific wavelength may effect you..

That wavelength is not present in moonlight/starlight, which is not "full darkness".

For the vast majority of human evolution, "full darkness" wasn't safe, and wasn't even really possible.

I understand what you and OP are trying to say. And you both kind of have the general idea but none of the details.

Like how you got taught basic things in 6th grade, but by 12 grade you're learning what you thought was the whole truth, was just a general overview.

Which wouldn't be bad if you recognized it, but loads of people want to insist the short summary the learned as a child is as deep as it gets

givesomefucks , to Ask Science in Regarding sleep quality, why did humans evolve to require full darkness?

Cats are traditionally thought to be dichromats, as well.

And humans usually have three, but sometimes it's two, and even rarely 4...

With that much variations (including other ways) it's hard to say human eyes are optimized for any condition.

There are very few examples of things in nature that are truly optimized for all of its environment.

Humans are just too widespread with too much variation to say we're optimized for anything.

We just have too much in species variation.

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