If for example it takes you 300kJ to heat your room one degree, gas will get you to that degree with about 380kJ whereas it will take an electric heater well over 500kJ.

This just remotely is not how physics work. Exsctly what do you think happens to that 200 kJ delta with electric energy ? Where does the extra 200 go ?

It’s not necessarily about 100% being the best possible heating efficiency¹, but rather that the exact method is irrelevant. Any two pure electric heating methods will always, by definition, be equally efficient at heating a space.

Also, not dispering the heat isn’t really an issue in continuous long term operation. Free convection and radiation will eventually disperse the heat for you (heat in = heat out in the long term equilibrium is a fundamental law of physics, and for a given (mostly) matter tight space in given exterior conditions, the heat out is determined exclusively by the average interior temperature. Same amount of heat in must always lead to the same average internal temperature in the long term equilibrium), in fact the vast majority of european homes, which often lack central ducting, rely entirely on passive heat distribution in their most common heating methods, under floor and radiators.

1: And using the term efficiency (useful work out/total work in) isn’t really accurate for heat pumps, the correct term is coefficient of performance (cop = total heat moved/total work in). Calling a heat pump 400% efficient is a bit like calling a fuel truck 1000% efficient, because it used the energy in 10 liters of diesel to move the energy contained in 1000 liters of diesel down the road) The useful work a heat pump is doing is the act of moving heat, not the amount of heat moved, and since the act of moving heat theoretically takes zero energy in the ideal case, see maxwells demon, technically heat pumps all have zero efficiency

If your regular heating is electric anyway, then yes obviously.

Electrically heating a small space uses less energy than electrically heating a big space, that’s fairly trivial.

How much less energy depends on how big your entire home is vs. the areas you’d heat with space heaters.

The most efficient solution would probably be IR heaters, as those heat you directly, as opposed to the air, meaning you can keep them off and let the room cool when you’re not using it, and turn them on to make you feel warm almost immediate when entering a room, without the need to heat/keep warm the entire room, but that only works when you’re staying in more or less the same spot for long periods of time, if you’re moving around a lot an IR heater won’t do much.

All phones can, and all networks in the US and EU at least are legally required to accept emergency calls from any phone, if it’s in their network or not, or if it has a simcard or not.

The SIM card only acts to identify you, it is not technically necessary to place any call

Billionaires choose to be billionaires. Poor people don’t choose to be poor.

It’s ok to fundamentally disagree with someone and still be civil and polite when speaking with them.

Depends on whar you disagree about. Economic policy, art, media, normal politics ? Sure.

But if the fundamental disagreement is whether certain groups of people deserve basic human rights, then no. Fuck them and everything they stand for, I fucking refuse to be polite or cordial towards people who fundamentally think my girlfriend doesn’t deserve the right to exist just because of her innate identity.

Lemmy, and the fediverse, is stronger with diverse people, opinions, communities - even if you disagree with them. Even normies of mainstream political parties you disagree with.

Again, depends on what opinions they are disagreeing on

Downvotes are not a disagree button. Lemmy is not training a personal algorithm to provide a echo chamber, downvotes should mean content is harmful to the community its in.

Yes they are, that’s the literal fucking point of upvotes and downvotes, to signal whether you like or dislike something, the appropriate tool to deal with actual harmful content is reporting and blocking.

I have never heard of PIC roles being changed/swapped, unless the Flight Crew itself changes, especially not mid flight.

That sounds like a terrible idea, that is going to utterly fuck the cockpit authority gradient and command structure

And yet it is also still lesser

Generally co-pilot refers to the pilot not in command, as opposed to the pilot in command (pic), the roles of pilot flying and pilot monitoring usually change from flight to flight even if the same flight crew sticks together, and occasionally even during a single flight (especially during emergencies, since almost all airlines require the PIC to become the pilot flying, if not already, during an emergency).

Pilot in command never changes during a flight, so co-pilot generally refers to that role split, as opposed to whatever the duties of monitoring and flying happen to be at a given time.

Yeah, laugh at the death of innocent people.

No matter how much you hate the rich wankers who were on board as PAX, the pilots were just working their jobs, and didn’t deserve this, and you’re a disgusting fucking pos

Because cockpits have ranks, there is generally a captain and a first officer, but even in a dual captain cockpit, there is ALWAYS a pilot in command (colloquialy pilot, always a CPT) and a pilot (colloquial co-pilot, usually an FO). She was not the pilot in command on this flight, and therefore, in colloquial terminology the co pilot.

These roles are also completely independent from the duties of “pilot flying” (at the controls) and “pilot monitoring” (in charge of communication and instrument monitoring).

This wasn’t remotely the first crash where an aircraft hit the ground at similar angles and descent rates, you’re talking out of your ass about something you clearly have zero knowledge in

Why the fuck else did these utter idiots think one of the least Christian men on Planet earth would invite them for a prayer meeting ?

That would be a density of over 750 g/cm³, more than 20 times denser than Osmium, the denset known material (outside extreme gravity wells)

How about not punish people who did nothing wrong, just because we can’t reliably prove it with those who did ?

Severe sleep deprivation can be significantly more impairing than being high, and no one ever gives a shit about us being unable to test for that. Should we just start punishing everyone who ever makes a mistake at the wheel for driving impaired, because we can’t definitively prove they weren’t ?

If you can’t reliably prove someone acted in an incorrect way, the solution is not to just punish everyone to make sure you catch them.

Yeah, let’s make the legal penalty for driving sober, but after having consumed THC in the last few days the exact same as just driving high as a kite. I’m sure there’s no perverse incentives there at all

It’s pronounced as in “sis”. It’s an existing prefix, that has been used in technical terms to mean “on the same side” long before it came colloquial for AFAB Women/AMAB Men, and that is the correct pronunciation (same goes for the prefix trans, which is the antonym to cis, e.g. trans-fats and cis-fats)

People who pronounce it kiss do so because they were introduced to the word in written form, and had to guess/intuit how it’s pronounced based on spelling.

I AM a guy, genius, and what the everloving fuck does that have to do with literally anything and how the fuck would it be a hypocrite ? Believing Knowing that rape is a horrific crime with potentially life long traumatic consequences, regardless of how long or short it lasts, and making fun of guys for cuming quickly, even that were a thing I did, which it isn’t, wouldn’t be hypocritical. Those two things have nothing to do with each other

What’re the chances of convincing them to take back up Radium as cure all, since the cancer they’ll get will totally be cuted hy AI anyway ? We might be able to solve this whole AI issue in a few years

You literally used the fact that rape only lasts a short time to downplay it’s effects on victims, you’re a disgusting piece of crap and a genuinely terrible fucking person.

And judging by the vote totals, most people agree with me on that.