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Cake day: July 21st, 2023

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  • You’re absolutely right, I’m sorry. Let me try that again without mentioning race, in a discussion about race inequality.

    White America is People who benefit from an injust system are the problem. Sure, moderate white Americans people who benefit from an injust system are so much less terrible than outright racists, but a complacent majority that is happy to reap the benefits of an unjust system, simply because it is the comfortable path, is one of the major reasons why it’s so hard to make movement against those racists.

    Now, let me check my notes on who benefits from an injust system of racism in America…


  • Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

    I’m not going to say it any better than MLK, so I’ll just leave the link here.

    White America is the problem. Sure, moderate white Americans are so much less terrible than outright racists, but a complacent majority that is happy to reap the benefits of an unjust system, simply because it is the comfortable path, is one of the major reasons why it’s so hard to make movement against those racists.





  • When you have to run resistive heaters the electrical usage skyrockets and makes a heat pump system vastly more expensive to operate.

    More expensive than a heat pump without a backup/additional electrical resistance heater. Not more expensive than an electrical resistance heater on its own.

    That’s what’s so strange about this, in most cases a heat pump would be replacing a non-reversible AC and an electrical resistance heater or gas-fueled furnace. And in nearly every case, even with the need for a backup/additional resistance heater, you’re still saving money. And it’s not like any of this is new technology, it just took forever for it to become popular in the US.