Tak
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- Comment on I hate the term "Boomer Shooter" 8 months ago:
Boomer doesn’t have to be literal boomers but old, like it is a joke in the WoW community to call it a boomer game because most of the people playing it (especially classic) are 30+ years old.
In the same way, people will talk about boomers in politics but Obama was the last baby boomer in the presidency.
- Comment on Ewwwwwwwww 10 months ago:
It is. Personally I love the suppressed version that don’t get too loud when I cock them, work their safety, and work their oiled parts tenderly.
- Comment on Ewwwwwwwww 10 months ago:
That’s why I like to stuck the butt up against me and reach around working the trigger till it blasts.
- Comment on iPhone sideloading seems a certainty for European users - here's the latest development 10 months ago:
I agree with you but they’re not going to see sales go down and decide to make less profitable decisions. Like Netflix, people said they were going to stop paying for it because the price hikes and the account sharing but they’re making better margins now.
We need to stop only boycotting and seek legal action. Antitrust Apple.
- Comment on Fortnite has changed 10 months ago:
Lol we dropping boys all over
- Comment on Fortnite has changed 10 months ago:
“Where we dropping boys”
Epstein player- “I don’t drop, that’s what the noose is for”
- Comment on Why did we give up on insulation? 10 months ago:
I wouldn’t doubt if it’s just good enough and it’s expensive to add the insulation to old buildings let alone stone/brick ones. But I’m not going to pretend I understand what life in Britain is like or what homes are generally like when I’ve never been. I was going to say that buildings might be substantially older but honestly I don’t know how old the average home is in Britain, most people could live in something made in the 70’s or newer like here in the US.
- Comment on Why did we give up on insulation? 10 months ago:
A lot of that also comes down to how far the tech for windows has improved over the years. I feel like more American homes are much newer and therefore more inclined to have newer windows than many British homes.
I personally don’t much care for stick built homes and would prefer ICFs for most situations but mostly for water and fire resistance. Stick framed houses have so much thermal bridging so I can totally see why a layer of insulation between two brick walls would be quite good.
- Comment on Why did we give up on insulation? 10 months ago:
I’ve lived in Phoenix, Arizona where it gets above 35 degrees every single day for most of the year (last year they hit 46 degrees for about a week straight) and it would commonly be 30 degrees or warmer in the middle of the night. Some months we’d have a power bill of about ~235 pounds a month just trying to keep the house cool (~25 degrees).
Do not recommend lol
- Comment on Why did we give up on insulation? 10 months ago:
Oh I’m sorry, I just assumed because really old houses were just wood and gypsum with no insulation lol
- Comment on Why did we give up on insulation? 10 months ago:
Ideally the best insulation is the least dense as density typically relates to thermal conductivity. Where stone/brick really helps is in raw mass, if you’ve ever been in a basement you’ll kinda know what I mean. It’ll flatten the temperature changes and make it more stable but if it’s always hot or always cold it’s not great.
The US has mostly rock wool or fiberglass insulation and not just wood clad in gypsum. But much of the US can go from -26 in the winter to 35 in the summer. I used to live in a city with a latitude about the same as Madrid that would get to almost -30 and as high as 41. The house was made of brick but past that outer layer it had a wood frame with insulation to maintain heating or cooling.