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That’s not what I said though. I said people would opt for a heatpump that is also capable of cooling, in other words and air conditioner.

Airconditioners are (air-to-air) heatpumps

The specific solution for heating/cooling a home might be different for different types of housing. But air-to-air heatpumps are a very interesting way to replace the water boiler as the main method of heating your home.

And as a bonus you can use it to cool your home in summer.

I live in an apartment, and I installed airconditioning

An apartment is just a house where you also happen to have neighbours above and below you as well. There is no reason why an AC shouldn’t work in an apartment.

The biggest struggle is updating the rules of your home-owners association to allow for the installation of an external unit, but once that exists all tenants can freely install ACs as they please.

(In my case the rules specify that the external unit needs to be placed on the balcony on the east side of the building)

A heatpump to heat the home (which is commonly referred to as a heatpump) and a heatpump to cool the home (which is commonly referred to as airconditioning) are effectively the same thing but run in reverse.

All a heatpump does is move heat from one place to another. For heating you move heat from the outside to the inside, and for cooling you move it in reverse.

Airconditioners (which are just heatpumps) often have a valve which allow you to reverse the flow. That is why most air conditioners can be used for both heating and cooling without the need for any significant amount of extra hardware.

As a bonus, because a heatpump moves heat rather than generating heat, they heat the home by 4-6 kWh of heat energy for 1 kWh of electricity they consume. (This ratio is the referred to as the COP-value, and you can look it up for all ACs. They usually list separate COP values for heating and cooling)

This makes them significantly cheaper to run than gas boilers, even if gas is significantly cheaper per kWh than electricity is.

Europe is in the process of replacing it’s gas boilers with heatpumps. I wouldn’t be surprised if many people will take the opportunity to install a heatpump that is also capable of cooling the house (i.e. an airconditioner) during a heatwave.

That’s what I did in my house earlier this year, and given that we are approaching our third heatwave already I don’t regret that decision.

They only have three models of laptop. The Framework 12, 13, and 16

Within each model they might upgrade the specs, or change some things around, but there is no break in compatibility from generation to generation. If you buy a Framework today, (assuming they don’t go bust) you will be able to buy the upgraded parts a few years down the line and slot them into your existing laptop.

Recently I accepted a new job, and it will come with a new company car.

If I happen to get a model that was sold after this rule goes into effect, I’m planning to tape off the camera.
Hopefully that should be enough to “fool” the systems in question

A bunch of politicians and government institutions for some reason…

Edit: That is also why the journalists are there

That’s not exactly surprising. Europe has a dispropotionally high prevelance of lactose-tolerance.
In most other places around the world lactose-intolerance is a lot more common.

India has always embraced their third world status (in the original meaning of the word) by trading with both the Western and Eastern block.

They’ll work with whomever benefits them the most at that moment. If they can buy cheap Russian oil, or in this case sell oil back to a desperate Russian president, they’re going to jump on that.

Just keep in mind that India is not an ally to the West. They merely are a partner as long as it benefits them, and they won’t let it keep them from trading with countries who you might not want them to trade with.

I did a quick Google, and apparently GTA 1 came out on PC before it was released on PlayStation, and GTA 2 was released on PlayStation five days before it was released on PC (according to Wikipedia)

I guess I should have specified every release since GTA III

Did anyone expect this game to be released at the same time for consoles and PCs?

Rockstar has literally never released a GTA game simultaneously on both platforms. The PC release has always been delayed by several months if not years.

The simplest explanation to me is that this way they get to double dip, since there will be people who buy it on Playstation, who will then also buy the PC version.

It’s not like the state media will honestly report on all the war crimes being committed.
I’d chalk it down to the majority of that 19% simply not being aware of what is going on Ukraine