funkyfarmington

joined 11 months ago
[–] funkyfarmington@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We DO have double pane windows. Just not in areas that have middling weather. Or construction before 1990 or so. Or in older mobile homes, which we have a lot of. And the houses with double pane windows are often poorly constructed, sometimes in the homes, sometimes in the windows, and often both.

Energy has historically been very cheap here, so efficiency has never been a priority. That is changing now.

The videos I've seen of northern European windows just seem to have a ton more features than ours.

[–] funkyfarmington@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

You should see the difference in available windows in the states vs Europe. Its like you are in the 23rd century and we are still in the 19th. Our boomer class raced all the way to the bottom to increase profits, so many things are just cheap plastic here. We can special order windows like you have, if you want to spend $4000 per window.

What you consider normal is exotic here.

[–] funkyfarmington@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

If Ukraine wins it will become one of the strongest battle tested nations in the world. THAT will change geopolitics for decades.

[–] funkyfarmington@lemmy.world 66 points 2 weeks ago (16 children)

Tim Walz is the Captain Picard we've needed for a long time.

[–] funkyfarmington@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

In the before before times...

[–] funkyfarmington@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Would you look at that, a actually functioning government!

[–] funkyfarmington@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The problem is that FB is the "core forum" for tons of niche hobbies. Irts the only reason I still have a account. They successfully killed off the old php forums.

[–] funkyfarmington@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Cool. Now revoke QI!

[–] funkyfarmington@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

It is, in a idiocracy kind of way.

[–] funkyfarmington@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I would love to see Homeworld 3. I know we have HW3, but what we got isn't Homeworld.

[–] funkyfarmington@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Replace "trains" with "amateur radio" and the entire paragraph fits perfectly.

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