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First a fact, then a staw poll of 1 my observations. It is known that the body does not respond directly to the environmental temperatureby feeling hot or cold. Don't forget that your temperature is regulated quite closely. The feeling of hot or cold is most closely related to the rate of heat loss (or gain) and therfore theefoort the body has to put in to counteract that to maintain its temperature. Having noted that fact, I have noticed a few things. In colder times, you do not need to lift the temperature much above ambient to fell warmer and much more comfortable. I to 2 dgrees is enough for this effect. I agree with your comment. My experience is that when the temperature dropped from 20 most people say it's getting sold and bump up the temperature more than the difference. After a period of acclimatisation they no longer do this until the pattern is repeated at 18, 16, 14, 12 etc, as the ambient steadily falls with the season. Yet I find lifting from 12 to 14, 14 to 16, 16 -18 easily enough. Secondly I find that people (myself included) suddenly say it is getting cold on a falling thermometer but are perfectly happy with their preferred temperature (be it 15, 16 , 18 or whatever) on a rising thermometer. This is consistent with the fact that heat loss determines our 'temperature' sense. I also think that raising the temperature 1 to 2 degress must lower the humidity a bit, even if it does not always show on my insensitive meter. Hopefully this is of some help

It's complicated but for most people (unless they are doing a lot of physical work, 10 degrees will be too cold. And that will be the case regardless of humidity. If you just heat up the air the relative humidity will fall and that will also add to comfort. The "wasted" energy from a dehumidifier will warm the room and be beneficial anyway. But a heater is cheaper to buy. There are books about this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_comfort

From what I’ve read, desiccant dehumidifiers are less energy-efficient than refrigerator types.

I last studied comfort zones in environmental engineering in 1973 and have long since thrown all those old notes on the bonfire (to keep warm ?😀) I'm sure the graphs of comfort zones, plotted on temperature - Humidity charts are on the net nowadays. In the UK the Office, Shops and Railway Premises Act 1963 presribes a minimum work temperature of 16oC But 10oC is rather cold., so I do't remember if this temperature is covered. The current temperature in this home office room of mine is 14oC and the humidity is 73%. Since the outside temp was 1oC last night and has been 3oC all day, lifting it only 1 or 2 degrees certainly makes it fell better but doesn't really affect the RH meter much. I'm sure I have seen a more recent stress tesing reasearch, and I think it was from the University of Bristol. However BigG can only find this from November last year on the BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-63602501 I saw that programme as well. sorry about the rushed spelling.

Depends on what’s comfortable. 90% relative humidity at 10 C will be 50% at 20 C. There’s about 9g/m^3 water; it takes 4.18 J/g to heat the water. Still, 50% isn’t particularly comfortable. If you want to reduce the humidity, you will have to condense water out of it. That means cooling it a few degrees and having the water condense, the reheating the air. Condensation takes 2259 J per gram. Removing the water takes a lot of energy.

I think humid air has two benefits in the cool season, one is comfort for skin and upper respiratory tract, the other is that humider air would have a bit more thermal capacity and reduce the number of heating cycles (I think most systems work more efficiently with longer spaced out cycles). That's a guess, needs fact checking. And I'm writing from a locale with distressingly dry winter air, where upping humidity is always desirable.

An OP that basically says you are going to ignore anyone that disagrees with your idea is not a good start for a discussion.

If you keep it simple, by ignoring ripples and waves, then the force on each particle is effectively the force of gravity, so each particle tries to get as low as possible. That's what gives you a flat horizontal surface. Tilt the bottle, and the same thing applies. Any particle that's higher than the one next to it will sink a little, so you still end up with a flat horizontal surface. (relative to the Earth) When the car is just rolling, without braking or accelerating, the same applies. But when you brake or accelerate, you add an effective sideways force to the pull of gravity, so you still get a flat surface but it's tilted. It's as if you've tilted the pull of gravity, by adding the sideways force. Turning left or right has the same effect.

Yes

What you call "the act of measurement", although I prefer a less exalted term: "interaction with the detector". To be more precise: An interaction that is amplified, so that the carrier of the piece of information "the particle was detected here" is a collectivity of quantum particles, each one with its own particular quantum phase, all of them decohering and making the entire universe decohere with respect to the teeny tiny coherent quantum state that you prepared. You can explain this with entanglement with the rest of the universe. It can be explained away in terms of entanglement. But not a two-particle entanglement. It's a super-dooper super mega entanglement with millions and billions of thermal states. That entanglement, if you will.

Well, what often happens is that one person's rights impacts adversely on another's. I would interpret the centrist view as trying to find a fair balance between the two.

Ohm's law for a capacitor??? Are you really designing microprocessors? Not my topic, but capacitors build up voltage until it is the same as the voltage in the circuit. Then it behaves just like a insulator, so the current stops (unless you overload it...) As the capacities you mention, the 4.7 μF is slightly bigger, so it would take a tiny bit longer before the current ceases.

100% of 200 plus 25% of 200 is 250 There's no reason why 100% of 250 minus 25% of 250 should produce 200 They are %'s of different quantities. Goverments and oligopolies sometimes use these maths to raise the prices a little more than it would appear to people untrained in maths. (1.01)10 is more than 1.1 (it's 1.1046), so ten increases of 1% increase more than 1 increase of 10%

Use this pic if you have trouble remembering Ohm's law

Why do you assume that?

Sure. Also look for decoherence.

Pain is there to notify you that you are being damaged. Without it, you wouldn't notice when a thorn jabs into your flesh, or you are standing on a burning ember. Suffering is inevitable, because most animals produce many offspring, to cover for natural hazards. They can't all survive. If every individual frog spawn lived to old age, there would be a plague of frogs, and there would be no food to feed them. A human couple can have ten kids. Some have to die, to prevent overpopulation. In the natural world, most will die before they get to sexual maturity.

Stopped feeding them - seriously? You make them sound like stray cats. If you didn't intend a racist slur on these people, then perhaps you should learn some of their history. These people owned and ran farms and grew olives and dates and other cash crops. They sustained themselves for generations and then were driven off their lands and shoved into a tiny space without consent or due process of law. They didn't go there because Israel "made it nice." The Naqba ravaged their lives and means of economic autonomy and created a misery and anger that comes from that genuine condition and is amped up by each new round of brutality and heavy civilian casualties that Israel's many attacks have brought, and the ongoing degradation of being shoved into horrible conditions of overcrowding and restricted rights and various embargos. It's rather like someone knocking you down, putting their boot on your face and whenever you punch at their leg they cry, Look! Look how awful a person he is! He is a vicious leg puncher! No wonder I have to keep this boot here! Oy!

It’s not the same $100. At the very least, it’s $94 after the first purchase. You’re adding an extra $6 in each step. But yes, more transactions means more tax. But it also means more income for the business in each step, and more income for the workers. The government is not the only beneficiary of a robust economy. $100 spent does not generally turn into $100 profit, that can be spent in the same fashion. The item purchased had some wholesale cost, and there is value added by labor. Not all money that is spent is subject to sales tax

I don't think that's a valid way of looking at it as you neglect to include where the $6 comes from. It's from income (e.g. the money you spent minus the tax), and isn't infinite. Start with the $106 that you got from somewhere. You buy that $100 thing and $6 goes to tax. In your next step, that 2nd person starts with the $100 they got from you. They might buy something for $94.50 + $5.50 going to tax. The third person spends that $94.50 as $89.50 with $5.00 going to tax. ... it's not generating infinite tax. All that taxed money still had to come from income somewhere. (I'm tired, I'm making up the specific numbers.)

It plays very well with the established scientific theories, e.g. Eric Kandel - Wikipedia

The only argument is there is no real evidence on whether we have free will or is the future already determined. Based on the lack of any evidence to guide us I will have to go with gut instincts. It feels like I have free will so that's what I'm going with.

stuck your post into an LLM and it spat back the following paragraph, which I wouldn't trust since the solution sounds expensive... But hey I tried just as hard as you did!

The study of incompetent design disputes the idea that there is a god of superintelligence. Intelligent design is a hoax (see the origin of the word hoax); what began as a comic book drew the world's most popular fan fiction movement, most popular in cultures that didn't start it. Most of their claimants find their sect concordant with their parent (same god, goal, moral, etc.) but they're not; otherwise they'd be the same religion. Kristism believes in resurrection and Culdifaith believes in reincarnation and both believe that evil can't come from good, but Ecclesiastes disclaims both resurrection and reincarnation and in many OT verses j·hveh admits he makes, does, and sends evil [but that word was covered up with another in most translations]. j·hveh is defined as fire and his anghels as fiery whereas -allàh and his anghels are defined as liht and dzhinn as fire. Hagarism claims Islam is a spin-off of Judaism whereas Hagarene Teaching claims it's a spin-off of Mandaeism. All of the Abrahamisms are spin-offs/plagiarisms of the henotheistic Zoroastrianism (fire-worship, dualism, superhuman messengers and demigods) and polýtheistic Ugaritic religion (weather-worship, cosmogony/creationism, superhuman gods). The denial by the mainline religions of many gods comes down to semanticly failed propaganda, and denial by Raëlism of its superhumans as gods aligns with the revisionism of each past religion but spells the end of theism. Theists like to point to the Golden Ratio, Fibonacci spirals, or pi as proof of design by their god (whichever of the 1000s). Within the microenvironment (barbarism) recursive addition is one mode of reproduction beside recursive multiplication. Sundry bases are the default: Sn+1/Sn (proper time), S2n+3/S2n+1 (orbital multiplicity),(n+1/2) (flux), Fn+1/Fn (auxins), ϕϕ (galactic arms*), 2 (Bode's orbits**, mitosis), [0,8] (neutròn multiplicity), [0,O(106)] (free charge avalanche), [0,∞) (anything that multiplies with arbitrary or continval timescale, but e makes the analýtic coefficient disappear), ℵ3 (rational explosion, such as this kind of premise). *Some counterclaim that spiral arms vary beside the golden spiral, like nautilus shells; however unlike the shells the arms' mean does fall within the golden ratio with error. A golden spiral pitches over 17°; the average of 49 datorum blue arms pitch at 19° and infrared arms pitch at 21°; with a six-degree error the equivalent ratios are between 1·53, 1·80, 1·83, and 2·01. The infrared arms lead the compression wave but most of the mass condenses into stars later. Arms are steeper near the bar and slihter near the rim, which could be the effects of Hill shear. What could confound the arm steepness is that the environment isn't in equilibrium. If net gravity gradient, gravity rate, and viscosity approach none I suspect that the ratio goldens. **Likewise, if people would include the error of significant digits in the initial condition they should find the Titius-Bode law to be more accurate and predictive of Kuiper Belt orbits. pi comes from arithmetic, namely exponentiation (a power series) that can circumscribe a scaffold of radicals (Pýttagorean doublets) that afford dimensions beyond one. pi is bounded by two nested six-sided perimeters with ratios of 6/2 and 6/2 2/√3 on the first iteration. (***Formatting is fvcked on this site; the "rich editor" isn't very "rich.") All of the above are derived from the princeps of 0, 1, and 2. 1 and 2 are derived from the succession operator. Succession is derived from aliudpotent self-cardinality. 0 and 1 are derived from the law of noncontradiction. Any intelligent designer must take these as inputs and therefore come after them. Here is another argument that rules out god on a defunct extheist page.

Right. I was talking about trying to find holes in my own argumentation, and someone decides to talk that down, including you. This is what I get from an anonymous forum. Oh, and someone who forgot to take their meds chiming in after your reply.

I think they are. I see I got a down vote. I guess someone didn't like my WAG at an unanswerable question. Do we have freewill? I don't know, nor do I care and there is no real answer the question anyway. We can only go in circles arguing. Very boring for me. I'm out but you guys have fun.

That means you are repeating what you heard from other people. Unless you did investigate in person. Let's go further back. The Palestinians moved back from Egypt. They fought some other tribes and took over the land. They were later called Israelites. The history of that part of the world shows so many different peoples conquering and losing the area that it's a lie for any group to claim it as "our" land. Plus the times when all tribes had to abandon the area because of years of drought. I agree. It doesn't have to be binary. The people currently calling themselves "Palestinians" have no more ancestral claim to the territory than the Egyptians or the British. Winners of wars make rules and losers whine. When it comes to nations, "Might makes Right," is definitely a thing. World war 2 changed a lot of countries. The Israelis would have been wiser to refuse to build up the Gaza strip at all. They made it nice so Arafat decided to steal it. If Israel had left it undeveloped and stopped feeding them, the "Palestinians" would have moved away long ago.

Are you ever going to actually present a relevant argument? Shit or get off the pot, pretty please... 🙏 I love dogging too... 😇 A neg, lol, I guess someone doesn't get the joke... 🙄

If conscioseness is a material (biologhic, not "biologically," redundant) state, arising from a fýsic stem, pop scientists would say that solid, liquid, gas, and plasma are the relevant states of matter, but the problem with that is those are really groups of states. Then there are also fluid, ionic, and populations that other scientists mistake for states like spin condensates, Boltzmann inversion, spin glasses. So instead I will introduce here a complete distinction between the states that I wrote up many years ago: wetstuff matrix, 11 of 66 states k_4 (i, ionic) seth, split: ZYX ΘΩΔ 7 (r, radical) dreft, fitt: zyx δ 6 (d, dissociate) loof, splint: zyx ωδ Z 5 (g, gaseose) welk, blast: zyx θωδ Z 4 (v, vapid) steam, gust: zyx θωδ ZY 3 (l, liqvid) dew, burst: zyx ωδ ZY Θ 2 (lc, l. crýstallic) slush, spit: yx ωδ ZY ΘΩ 1 (m, maghmatic) snow, clot: x δ ZYX ΘΩΔ 0 (a, amorfic) ise, brunt: [ZYX] [ΘΩΔ] i (f, fibrillar) hoarf, straiht: Z[YX] Θ[ΩΔ] j (hx, hecsaghònic) frost, dint: ZY[X] ΘΩ[Δ] k_3 (c, cubic) quenk, splat: ZYX ΘΩΔ n_6 nuclea, protonium-meside n_5 nuclei, fissilium-meside n_4 plasmata, nuclium-elèctride n_3 molecula, compostium-elèctride n_2 neutria, neutronium-neutrinide n_1 neutra, pentaquarkonium-neutrinide The solid states are usually called allotropes, but I combined the several allotropes into the few primitives. Tetragonal and orthorhombic are really polýcubic. Monoclinic I renamed fibrillar. The variables after the states represent linear and angular free and bound dimensions, degrees of freedom, that I think each state has. Note that I distinguish between gas and vapor, where the latter is bound by gravity and van der Waals fields. The name for the dust or powder state, mag[h]matic, I found on Dictionary.com, not the colloid or suspension it lists alongside for magma. The conventional solid-fluid-plasma divisions they teach in high school are somewhat useful but they aren’t unique or modern (nor do the kingdoms of life perfectly work)—the conduction band of metals can be called a plasma, as can the solvated-to-free iòns of a solution. Solidity and fluidity arbitrarily depend on spatial and temporal scale. The mind, when in the brain, depends on dew-salt-wax sap in flesh-dye-fat skin quickened by wax-dye-breath blood. The active bodies trace 0D (radical), 1D (dissociate, liqvid, fibrillar), 2D (hecsaghònic, l. crýstallic), and 3D (maghmatic) molecular shapes and 0D, 1D, and 2D plasmatic shapes, at least. Which stage is active depends on whether the charges are bound or free. All of the nonmolecular stage names repeat; ionic and cubic are equivalent 3D names for the same state. The wax includes sterols and amines—neurotransmitters. The salt shifts and steers these neurotransmitters. Awareness is afforded by the neural anharmonic-current pilot-wave reservoir as in OrchOR and de Broglie-Bohm theory. The mind, when umbe the brain, depends on the same matter but displaced yesterward and afterward by its bipolar-complex mass, vis, charge, and celerity in TIQM. (1D: on:off, 2D: at:out, 3D: in:umbe.) This matter when time-shifted also redshifts and blueshifts such that it usually interacts only in the DC-limit—that is, by touch—but may overload camera equipment that relies on semiconductors too in the UV. Maybe brains that aren’t fully myelinized like of toddlers, kids, and livestock thus easilier see and remember gosts and past lives—as they report—than of adults. This lack of insulator increases the induced dipole moments and the range of signal reception. A similar experiment you can do is wet your trackpad then see you can control the cursor inches above it, but this relies on more of the capacitative-inductive conductor. Humans are consciose because they are material and animals (sentient and sapient; remember that sapiens means man, a being with a mind). Animal by definition as well is a being with a soul (animus). Spirit is material, whether it means breath or booze. It was a Vulgate mistranslation of pneýma which in Latin is vis and English wit; pneýma itself was the reflex or counterpart of ŕuax which means wind and should be understanden as a female god (actually the mother and wife of the heavenly father). This animative material of the mind, as it's still material, was supplanted in medieval times by humors and in modern times by hormones and neurotransmitters. Hormone itself is cognate with serum.