“Heat pumps are just air conditioners that go in both directions”

Statements like that probably paint an inaccurate picture of what modern monobloc enhanced vapor-injection (EVI) heat pumps with variable-speed compressors are capable of particularly in regard to efficient heating in cold climates.

Owners of such heat pumps, particularly ones which reduce or eliminate defrost cycles, frequently report desired temperatures being maintained in extreme cold temperatures with no additional heat.

Tech companies defeat bill as AI drains local water supplies https://www.theolympus.net/13531/

Washington House Bill 2515, which aimed to make data centers pay for their own grid infrastructure and use clean energy, failed in March 2026. Despite passing the House, the bill was defeated in the Senate following heavy lobbying from tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon. They will keep using clean water and electricity but bill needs to be paid by locals.

Microsoft bought 93% of all the carbon removal credits globally last year. This is absurd, and no way to determine which method might actually work and scale. Carbon dioxide removal research and development should be government-funded and government-led.

https://www.latitudemedia.com/news/microsoft-is-the-carbon-removal-market/

This may shock some folks, but it is OK to simultaneously say that Khomeini had it coming and is a piece of shit who deserved what he got, and to say that a US president shouldn’t be assassinating foreign leaders without authorization from Congress. We can do that. We can have complex discussions. It is possible.

Edit ** as many have pointed out, the guy I was posting about here is Khameini (perils of late night posting). Khomeini died of cardiovascular disease in 1989.