Interior blinds create a convection current around them. They catch the sunlight that makes it through the window, get hotter, cause the air between the blinds and glass to rise, and pull in cooler room air from underneath.

Most modern windows have infrared-reflecting coatings, but it works both ways. If it reflects 90% of the infrared away, 10% gets in. Say you have polished aluminum blinds for 95% reflection, it’s reflecting 9.5% of the original light back to the window. But then the window reflects 90% back again, or 8.5%. Then the blinds reflect again… All the while, it’s finding any gap and heating the materials and air. So yes, blinds help, but it’s best if you can keep the heat outside entirely.

I watch outside air temp closely and do open windows once ambient swings past what I want inside. Problem is, outside hasn’t dropped below 75f/24c in about 5 weeks here. Most of the inhabited world has this issue in the summer unless it’s a desert. Hell, that range is about what I saw in India during winter.

A. I could definitely have this kind of thought when showering after an argument

Your grammatical arrangement makes it a question. The period is a grammatical error. Spoken tone doesn’t change it. We knew the intent, but if you’re going to be pedantic, I’m going to be pedantic right back at you

That’s what actually brought me to the comments. The fuck? OK, so now NYC pop is about 10mil, non-NYC NY is about 10 mil, and non-NYC NYC metro is about 10 mil. How do you get even 30 mil to represent 30% of 350mil? Confuse it with the Iranian population of 92mil? And 30% is the average of the responses!

Do you read any social media with Gen z? Shorthand is alive and well, it just changed how it’s shortened.

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bro rq wyd tn finna slide by in min fr fr ong v gd story

Brother real quick what’re you doing tonight, fixing to slide by in a minute for real, for real, on god very good story

I was already keeping them on because ei paid $100 and stated my name to tsa once to get the mickey mouse fast pass*

*except every time I fly through Texas where, just like the McDonald’s ice cream machine, multipass is closed today

Three buttplug-shaped men walk into a room stroking each other

Is he gonna smoke the kids in his Hokas or is he gonna smoke with the other kids behind the bleachers with his hookah?

Remember when Harley Davidson had one foot in the gravidson and got daddy Reagan to put a tariff on imported motorcycles over 750cc? And everyone just built better 650s? I guess this is to one-up that.

It’s fucking asinine that tariffs still “play well in politics”. We’re footing the fucking bill to no benefit in domestic production.

I’m in manufacturing/engineering. There’s no political definition for who takes the jobs, but I do believe their political leanings very closely align with their office personalities. There’s the type that complains when someone takes some _liber_ties in the process, and then there’s the type that sits for a minute trying to understand that alternate thought process (although usually met with the initial disapproval). There’s the type that writes processes the way they think it should work, then there’s the type that will convene with and cooperate with the actual affected workers before and after writing it. But at the same time, despite being rooted in science and hard evidence, compartmentalization is widely available. My household PhD is the most religious person in the office. The person is nice, smart, and competent to the point we filter our profanity around the PhD. Potentially the most creative engineer in the office (or most cocky with expenditure risk) is also one of the most obvious conservatives. Sort of like everyone must follow the social rules except for his design ideas.

The redneck engineers you’re talking about are probably people who didn’t get the formal education or don’t have the corporate bankroll to take their work further

“Nobody wants to work anymore” is a fast track to identifying their news/political commentary sources. As if Janet in accounting dreamt of sending “month end inventory call” emails when she was a girl.

For music, I’d venture that the conservative stars are generally making their version of pop. It’s not a rule itself, but a core of conservatism is following a set of existing rules because deviation is ostracized

Empathy. Understanding what causes emotional reactions and building on that rather than doing your own routine and being mad others won’t agree with you.

Conservative comedians continually get “canceled” because their act only punches down and makes fun of other people, so their content only resonates with their own demographic. They lose audience because their content goes stale. There’s a difference between the punchline being that the target is gay vs the punchline being what a gay person does and capturing that nuance. Adam Corolla had the same boring complaints about society, about economy cars, about not seeing enough tits, about sucking dick, over and over. Robin Williams was the full spectrum of range from Good Will Hunting to his stand up to his Genie and Doubtfire and Birdcage (separating from acting because of his amount of successful adlib).

Conservative actors only know one role: their idealized selves. I bet you they’re a tough guy with no emotional range, shadowing John Wayne pretending to be a cowboy. Joe Pesci is a real NYC tough guy. That’s his act, condescending tough guy. Even with his peak of comedic performance, Vinny, he was just the same character but brought hilarity by being woefully out of place for the plot. Robert De Niro was a theater kid. He makes bank as a mobster but imagine trying to watch Pesci play Captain Shakespeare in Stardust.

Conservative painters/physical media artists… I can’t think of any. Maybe I’m just uninformed. Closest I can think of are some photographers that produce images I call “informational” rather than artistic. Capturing a moment in time as if the street view car just drove by, not capturing a mood or feeling.

Anyway, I wonder if the handedness is actually rooted in which kids were tormented in a strict Christian school vs who had a more explorative and welcoming upbringing. Not that people don’t come out as lefties alter, but that’s gotta hamper their skill-honing years for art.

I’ve never read the book. Never heard of it actually. The early claim of “stars being infected except one” paired with comments in this thread made it clear there was an alien encounter. Nothing really seems spoiled to me. It maintains a comedic element throughout.

If anything, I’m somewhat more interested in it for not being like the trilo/quadrilogy (1) I was going to jokingly put it in: the unofficial Warhammer origin movies. Event Horizon (1997), Sunshine (2007), and Pandorum (2009). Namely, a remake of Sunshine. These 3 movies introduce demonic beings brought on by space travel which is more or less accomplished by traveling through/near hell. A flaw, to me, is their late-plot reliance on downright supernatural abilities. I enjoyed the relatively solid scifi aspect (2) a lot until things used a godly deus ex machina to wrap it up. Maybe that’s my fault for not actually being into 40K.

(1) the 4th reference movie is Black Hole (1979), the Disney Star Wars before Disney Star Warred. As far as I’m concerned, Event Horizon is a remake.

(2) the solar shield on the 2nd ship in Pandorum should have absolutely roasted the back of the first ship upon rendezvous. The movie established reflections could slice metal. The convex shape of the shield would diminish the strength, but the much larger size should have done the trick. I know it was hot before and Mark Strong was naked, but I don’t think he would’ve been strong enough. Complete the nuke mission. God plot closed.

Edit: sorry to put yall through weird superscript formatting. It didn’t isolate the 1/2 like it did in reddit. Paranthesized instead

That’s if it’s specifying aquatic vs other elemental gulls. Perhaps it’s specifying what type of body of water it’s from instead. That’d imply oceangulls, rivergulls, bagels, pondgulls, lakegulls, etc

Gerard’s geriatric generator image format

“Cuomo is a good strong family, true New Yorkers. They have a bridge, don’t they?”

They can tappan zees nuts.

Looks like the lower income is the Bronx and a bit of Brooklyn. Higher income is Manhattan and the Brooklyn/queens riverfront. The middle income map is more like what I’d expect to see overall based on the neighborhoods. More Cuomo for Staten Island/False New Jersey as well as east Brooklyn/Queens/Don’t call it Long Island (even though they act like Nassau county is out in the country). There’s a bunch of conservative, racist pricks that insist on NYC being the greatest (so they’re definitely part of it) but off in homeowning urban areas pissed that they’re making suburb money but paying urban prices. All while refusing to enjoy the fun parts of the city because they don’t like the people there.

I hate being at my inlaws’ for an extended period of time (hours). My spouse hates being at my parents’ in the same time period. You can both have totally normal, comfortable nights at your own parents’ place but find the experience entirely foreign and unsettling at the others’. The type of soap, the number of towels, the default amount of noise, the temperature, the forced formal interactions, the TV shows, the time of dinner, the existence of any activity other than your usual quiet night in, everything. Not wanting to be a disturbance in someone else’s place. Being under a foreign set of rules. Just everything.

Do you feel normal sleeping over an aunt/uncle’s place? A friend’s parents’ place? A hotel? A hostel?

I lived WITH my inlaws for a year. Still can’t stand it. Grateful for the financial relief at the time, but still uncomfortable enough to keep me driven to in debt myself with my own place ASAP.

You think you’re doing the right thing
You think you’re doing the right thing
You think you’re doing the right thing
You think you’re doing the right thing
You think you’re doing the right thing
You think you’re doing the right thing
But they just won’t listen.

How can you blame someone for doing what should be universally understood as a positive and still having nonstop trolling? Quitting YouTube wasn’t going to stop the harassment. Quitting YouTube wasn’t going to make her unsee the harassment. Quitting YouTube wasn’t going to promote advocacy for the animals. But you think it’s her fault for putting herself in a place that is both a primary media location and collection point for a bunch of toxic people?

Are they taking turns? In 6 hours, Israel will stop for 12 hours, and then Iran will stop for 12 hours? And everyone is allowed to just continue their in-progress missions?

Dudes fighting hard to slap his nicknames on shit. Fuckin little 4th grader acting like he’s in charge of the playground. Go back to striving for control of failed businesses.

<shoots iran>

<Iran shoots back>

STOP STOP MY MOM SAID I CAN’T GET WET!!
-that one fuck face neighbor of yours every time the water guns come out.