By these numbers in the article, my 70s built home is apparently a real rarity. I have no idea how old it is as the plate is beyond legibility, but my wife's HVAC-company-owning in-law just said "Man, I've only heard that brand name, never seen it. It's old!"

It is an interesting concept where it really does run backwards to generate heat. In the warmer months, it removes heat from inside the building and takes it outside to that hot exterior unit. In the cold months when the heat is on, it is doing the same thing, believe it or not. It's removing heat from the chilly cold air and making the interior unit hot. This means the exterior unit's coils are going to be colder than the outside air, so it may very well develop ice on the coils. That's where the disadvantage comes in to play for me. It obviously may be at more of a disadvantage in really cold areas needing to defrost more. How does it defrost? It has to run in AC mode... in the winter. So I'm up early in the morning getting a shower and all of a sudden, seems to happen when I'm getting out, cool air starts blasting out of the vent. Wakes me right up.

This defrost mode can also make a bit of racket as things change direction. The exterior unit is by our bedroom window and one of the first nights we slept here, the defrost kicked on and woke us up. Sounded like air brakes on a bus.

But, but crypto is supposed to be free of government regulation! It's DECENTRALIZED!

This was such a pipe dream. Time to wake up.

This is true. Maybe difficult, but not impossible. It's always more difficult to get the toothpaste back in the tube.

Futurama did it.

Fuck the mouse. I'm still a keyer. Windows Key and typing that shit out.

It's in the middle now!

This could be why the Nigerian prince didn't get the money I sent him. I shouldn't have hesitated when his highness asked me to send him the $5000 again. I better get back at it and those riches will be mine!

"It's not controlled by government, it's controlled by the developers and the community!" Sounds like that guy on Futurama telling the professor "You can't OWN property, maaaan!"

Not controlled by the government for now. Remember the US government controlled the sale of gold, too. The nerve they'd control something you'd find on god's green earth and try to sell for a profit. The idea that crypto will go on evading regulation and government control is a pipe dream and anyone believing it is about to roll out of their bed and wake up to reality.

I love the idea of using crypto like cash outside of the banks. I hope it has a future as such, but it won't be without influence from the man.

In my state there is not one piece of information on REAL ID that isnâ(TM)t already on the old ID. My wife converted her ID to REAL, gathered all her paperwork, and when she went to the DMV they did not ask for one bit of it. Just handed her an ID and took her money.

Probably a drunk driver who bailed on his "friends." It freaking happens. I stopped at a fresh crash once and the late-90s model Honda Civic had no driver either... no passengers too! Was it driving itself? Fuck no it wasn't. The driver ran to avoid the cops.

Apple made something with a user replaceable battery.

Didn't Hawking say this... exact same thing?

But they do try to innovate, it's just more and more users think it's shit innovation. What would be really innovative is going back to the roots and giving us a browser that works.

That's just society now: mountains out of molehills. Someone says something racist and instead of making it a teaching moment, that person's life is utterly destroyed. It's funny how people think good-doing can be #thoughtsandprayers and hashtagging a movement, something so pointless, but say one thing and offend someone overhearing you and reading between the lines who really wants to get offended anyway and you're hosed.

But that would require her to actually do something.