• IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 day ago

    These should be mandatory around the first floor of all high rise buildings. Think about the lives it would hilariously save.

    • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
      60·
      2 days ago

      80% of the flats where I live have one above their balcony - and we are not even close to treeless.

      I was really bewildered by the idea that someone might not know what these are…

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
        201·
        2 days ago

        In some places where air conditioning is omnipresent they’re uncommon. There’s a technology connections video about them that touches on it

        • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          1·
          22 hours ago

          In some places where air conditioning is omnipresent they’re uncommon

          Not really… People don’t blast AC to their outdoor porch.

          AC is everywhere in the US, and we still have plenty of awnings

          • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
            1·
            17 hours ago

            Both of these are regional. Growing up in Ohio awnings were rare. And in some states ac is more or less common. I know in Washington’s Puget Sound region it’s more or less only in new construction because before the past decade or so it’s been mild all year.

              • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
                3·
                2 days ago

                Well, it would also help blocking sunshine from heating their south wall too, but before that, something must have gone horribly, horribly wrong…

                [Edit]
                Only slightly off topic here: I can recommend Larry Niven’s short story “Inconstant Moon” :-)

          • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
            3·
            2 days ago

            Balconies aren’t really a thing for most people in the American Midwest, which is where I’m from. You have porches and patios, but those are weather permitting structures and they’re mostly used when it’s a bit later so it’s not too bright.

      • Rooskie91@discuss.online
        2·
        2 days ago

        I mean you have trees, so they’re mostly on the balcony. I live in a large city (not many trees) of mostly row homes, and they’re on like every window of the side of the houses that face the sun. Not just patios.

        • brown567@sh.itjust.works
          4·
          1 day ago

          Heat pumps are awesome!

          I first heard about them when I was praising space heaters as a 100% efficient machine, and I was delighted to hear that there’s somehow a more efficient heater XD

          • sem@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            10·
            2 days ago

            Here’s the thing. You said a “heatpump is a A/C.”

            Is it in the same family? Yes. No one’s arguing that.

            As someone who is a scientist who studies A/C’s, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls heat pumps A/C’s. If you want to be “specific” like you said, then you shouldn’t either. They’re not the same thing.

            If you’re saying “A/C family” you’re referring to the taxonomic grouping of HVACae, which includes things from fans to swamp coolers to radiators.

            So your reasoning for calling a heat pump a A/C is because random people “call the heat exchanger thingies A/C?” Let’s get refridgerators and freezers in there, then, too.

            Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It’s not one or the other, that’s not how taxonomy works. They’re both. A heat pump is a heat pump and a member of the A/C family. But that’s not what you said. You said a heat pump is a A/C, which is not true unless you’re okay with calling all members of the heat exchanger family A/C’s, which means you’d call refridgerators, freezers, and other heat exchangers A/C’s, too. Which you said you don’t.

            It’s okay to just admit you’re wrong, you know?

            • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
              3·
              2 days ago

              Here’s the thing. You said a “heatpump is a A/C.”

              Er… No?

              I said “In this context” (using it to keep a room cool), a heat pump is AC.
              No generalization, specifically just this usecase.

              And while the rest of your rant is not wrong, it just does not apply to what I actually said…

              • sem@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                3·
                2 days ago

                Here is the context of this copy-pasta: I am referencing an old redditor named Unidan, and this post was his downfall. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/unidan

                It is fun to take the copy-pasta and modify it to fit any all X are Y but not all Y are X type situations, to reference this bit of our shared internet history in a tongue in cheek manner. I don’t actually have any problem with calling heat pumps multi-purpose A/Cs.

                • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
                  3·
                  2 days ago

                  Oh… So… LOL!

                  Thanks for the explanation, now this is actually really funny.

                  And you also did a pretty good job adapting it to the topic, thought you to be an actual ranting air conditioning nerd! :-)

      • RadioEthiopiate@lemmy.zip
        2·
        1 day ago

        I love how they show both takes back-to-back in the final cut. It makes no sense from a continuity perspective, but if he’s insane enough do that shit twice you’re damn right we want to see it.

        • D_C@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          24 hours ago

          I want to know how he still walks, let alone is still alive, after all these dangerous stunts and accidents.

          He landed wrong in a film called Armour of God, hit a ruck and crushed his skull.
          Whereas I picked up something incorrectly a few decades back and I still struggle to walk at times!! The man is/was elastic, and insane.

    • Grass@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      2 days ago

      Huh… I would have imagined a falling person would rip the rivets right out of the fabric and have part of the frame go up their ass, killing them even harder.

      • sga@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        basically any amount of energy conversion is lossy - a loose fabric stretching and pulling on frame in a “wider fashion”, and any deformation of frame will require a lot energy - all subracting from your fall. and fame up in your tushie is at worst a life long pain in sitting or in bowel moments, a direct fall is iinsta death from basically anything above, lets say, 10th floor (pulled number out of thin air, but assuming a roughly flat contact, and human not falling like a diver reducing the direct load o spine(by crushing their arms))