Heat pumps are the most efficient heating technology ever invented.
They harvest and compress pre existing heat in the air, ground or water and transport it where it is needed.
That energy is all around us. It does not have to pass through the Strait of Hormuz or any other geopolitical chokepoint.
Yeah the ideal should be that the most serious warnings (say there's an evacuation order) aren't optional and milder warnings are opt in.
Maybe they could allow you to customize the alert sound. Seems dangerous to allow people to ignore emergencies. Normally we protect people from making foolhardy decisions they may have not fully thought through (or in this case, misclicked).
Why is there even an option to opt out of emergency warnings??
Just think of the trauma of watching 1-2 younger siblings die. That would've been a typical experience.
Ah so like how Foire du Midi in Brussels occupies some otherwise really sad surface parking lots on the boulevards that ring the centre.
Maybe we could find a less depressing use for the area in the other 11 months of the year.
It was a good bit if it got us to be indignant at the ignorant condescending scholar from the imperial core :p
And the Song dynasty took decades to be conquered! It very much wasn't inevitable. Kublai faces a nastier civil or dies in his 40s, maybe peace short of total surrender can be signed?
But not always! The Mamluks were saved mostly by a Mongol civil war, which was a major Mongol weakness after the first few Khans.
Eh, the "freak weather" was typical weather for the regions involved. For example in the 2nd Mongol invasion of Japan, they were bogged down 2 months after their first landing when the typhoon came.
I'd amend that to the Mongols usually expanding to the limit of their logistics.
The real trolley problem is how do we make car travel as safe as rail travel :)
This is a fun prompt and the replies by @himdogson.bsky.social are amazing.
Who knows what could have happened if they could've resisted the pressure from Kublai's hybrid Mongol-Northen Chinese empire.
A strong state + large internal market + serious military threat from a peer state that prevents complacency is fertile ground for economic development.
Visiting SF Bay Area shrines to experience Western mysticism. Transhumanism, AI cultism, longtermism, etc.
In practice that means a supermarket opens near the metro, converting some 2x2 km drives into walks.
2 car households with one spouse working in the city ditch their 2nd car.
And households which have only exurban destinations moving away and being replaced by car-light households.
Even in the suburb there'll slowly be modal shift. I have a hard time imagining that the average suburb served by transit has more travel-km than the average car-oriented suburb.
But the counter-argument is that more visitors to the centre make it more attractive for commercial development, which in turn makes it more attractive for visitors coming from the whole region.
It's important to make the centre a bigger destination than interchanges on the ring road.
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So if I understand correctly the argument/counter-argument:
The skeptic take is that a radial suburban metro extension will mostly induce trips in said suburb rather than directly replace car trips. The suburbanites weren't driving much to the city because of traffic, parking, etc.
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I think there's a word missing here, should be 3 DAILY public transport trips.
"If we take 10,000 v-km to be the diversion rate per 3 public transport trips"
Pedestrian Observations: Why Building Metros is Necessary for the Green Transition Away from Cars pedestrianobservations.com/2026/03/10/w...
Another common way is to mostly ignore them. Don't mention their names, describe them performing their tasks in much the same way you'd describe furniture
Different technology, same difficulty in telling apart fake from authentic experiences. And how loads of people simply don't care about the difference.
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When going to the theatres, it's unclear if they actually watch live music being performed or if security at the entrance simply passes a vial of Philarmonium under everyone's noses and sends them home.
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In these AI times, Stanislaw Lem's book "The Futurological Congress" feels relevant.
It's a future with extremely powerful psychotropics, to the point that people don't read books, they ingest pills that leave them with the memories of having read the book.
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It's a real issue how many voters maintain their antitax attitudes like it's the eternal 90s even as the population is aging.
In every country health care costs as a % of GDP keep climbing
Fernando Haddad!
(They do caution against extrapolation themselves)
"Les entreprises occupant plus de 100 travailleurs ne sont pas toujours représentatives de
l’ensemble des entreprises belges. Alors que la part des entreprises de grande taille est plus
élevée dans les villes, on trouve relativement plus de petites et moyennes entreprises dans le sud
du pays."
I think we discussed a previous iteration of this study? It's worth reading the methods in section 2. They poll only firms with 100+ employees, and they only need to mention jobsites with 30+ employees.
In the end they do reach 40% of workers which is impressive but we worried the sample is biased?
Sure, but there's presumably a paper that goes with it? And how does that fit into the wider econometric literature? A graph alone is always hard to interpret.
