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agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

the air conditioners and filters in the cabin have an express purpose of manipulating the temperature and climate, that is their only purpose.

I think you’ve accidentally uncovered a better example. Regular home A/Cs work by releasing hot air into the atmosphere:

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To make the inside cool, they have to disperse hot air (which is definitely a chemical or substance) into the atmosphere. That is their express purpose.

So by this law, A/C in Florida is banned.

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partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The “have to” is the side effect though. The “express purpose” is still to produce cool inside air.

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- agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  That’s like saying the express purpose of hunting isn’t to kill something, it’s to acquire meat. The express purpose is to move heat from inside to outside. You can’t “produce” cool air, you can only move heat.
  
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  - partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    That’s like saying the express purpose of hunting isn’t to kill something, it’s to acquire meat.
    
    If you’re hunting to eat, the express purpose of hunting is to acquire meat. If you’re hunting for sport, then you may not care about the meat the express purpose would be the desire to the kill or the resulting trophy.
    
    You can’t “produce” cool air, you can only move heat.
    
    You’re focusing on the mechanism. The definition of “express purpose” is focusing on the result.
    
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    agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    If you’re hunting to eat, the express purpose of hunting is to acquire meat.
    
    Then go to the store. If you’re hunting, assuming it’s not for sport, your express purpose is to kill something to eat. You don’t get meat without the death. Likewise, the express purpose of A/C is to move heat outside. You don’t get the heat out of the inside without releasing it to the outside.
    
    The definition of “express purpose” is focusing on the result.
    
    The laws of thermodynamics are not a side effect. Again, you cannot “produce” cold air, it cannot be the purpose because it is not physically possible. The result is transporting heat from inside your house to the outside atmosphere. That is the express purpose of the air conditioner.
    
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- snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The express purpose is to affect the temperature within the state borders (inside a building, which is still in the borders).
  
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  - partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    … (inside a building, which is still in the borders).
    
    …but may be hard to argue it meets the other clause of “in the atmosphere”. Yes, there is air in the building, but unless the building isn’t well sealed (which it would be generally well sealed to keep the cold in) then the cold isn’t expressly being released into the atmosphere.
    
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