I managed to convince my mom to invest in a heat pump after showing her the costs for keeping my apartment at a steady 22c through all of February this year.

My heat pump had cost me ~8eur to run all through February, for about a 40 square meter living room, kitchen, and hallway.

In the same time period, the electric resistive heater in my bedroom, set to 15c had cost me 22eur to run. My bedroom is about 11 square meters. 1/4th the area, a significantly lower set temperature, and 3 times the cost.

And no, there isn’t a significant bigger heat droop or something for my bedroom, same type of walls, insulation, window, etc.

Sneakernet is gonna be back with a vengeance

If we remove NOAA, there won’t be any more hurricanes.

Really taking a pounding.

From what I understand it wasn’t actually mastercard and visa?

Itch statements made it very clear the issue was PayPal and Stripe.

Steam even disabled PayPal payments for a while, a couple days before the purge. While direct card payments with Visa/Mastercard still worked fine.

The uselessness was probably why neither country actually cared and just had fun, turning the uselessness into a useful fun thing to tie their servicemen in the far north together!

Canada and Denmark had a very long territorial dispute (1973-2022) over Hans Island: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Island

It was obviously a friendly dispute, but they did lower the other countries flag and raise their own, which could be considered a war declaration. They both left liquor every time they went to Hans Island to raise their flags. (Canada left whiskey, Denmark left snaps)

It has its own wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky_War

Can’t wait for him to see this and claim it was his plan the entire time

That looks like a nice 3am around my parts at this time of year. (I’m north of the arctic circle)