"Heat pumps don't work in the cold"

Context: This is data from my mom and dad's new cold climate heat pump. While the system has been calling for heat continuously during this time, it has only needed to kick on the backup resistive heating in the deepest of cold, and even then only for a couple of hours overnight.

For those of you who speak metric, -13°F is -25°C, and their desired setpoint is 21°C

"A street in Glasgow was redesigned to include segregated cycle lanes, larger sidewalks, seating and trees in a pilot project part of wider plans to redesign several streets in favour of people first urban design"

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#fuckcars

an elderly lady using a walker in the protected bike lane, because it's plowed vs the sidewalk.
#accessibility #seniors #bikelanes #snow #mtl #montreal

don't forget that bike lanes are only for yOuNg wHiTe MaLeS!

Have you heard that almond milk uses loads of water, so is really bad for the environment?

Or that rainforests get chopped down to grow your soy beans for that soy milk?

These are distortions of the truth, designed to make cow’s milk sound better without actually using evidence. See the photo, and read on, a thread 🧵 #vegan

"If different strains of flu have infected the same person simultaneously, the strains can swap gene segments and give rise to new, more transmissible ones. If a mink farmworker with the flu also gets infected by H5N1, that may be all it takes to ignite a pandemic.

The mink outbreak in Spain is a signal that we might be moving along exactly that path.

It’s hard to imagine clearer and more alarming warning signs of a potentially horrific pandemic."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/opinion/bird-flu-h5n1-pandemic.html?unlocked_article_code=jR1oLEiokQqtTP0Mai1NvU6njwCgmak7rEBHjy92ogVc2jcnt2jPwtVtwbzxol0DZ0rpDg63vlupyzgnqhAjh8-T2iUk85DAmTx0BS3cPTpmu-NrTaZEJ-CdVLGszZlSU17FImNvoyyk3d6GsI3d_pSlkAZbtan8dyDimT6JJiyFHc8v2K6E2JtL37DEi3Go3NGA9zvTu22jpVc69o1nSoiA_6fU_cOjT1ywayVHeikAg0K5XLJpPQML8KqkJbeEm-Tv9IRElQZhPaeZ3Z6tthdURTtDbIyMTPOgP0OTTspIagbgirK0qonzOUyyt_Z9fO6-oUGxSmlegRZHfZg&smid=share-url #H5N1 #BirdFlu