What's happened is that commercially available heat pumps move about 3-4 units of heat for each one they consume, making them financially viable despite a higher upfront cost.
Photovoltaic cells plus a heat pump hot water heater is more cost effective than a solar thermal one at this point
Yep. This kind of behavior is an inherent consequence of for-profit institutions.
The not-for-profit ones aren't much better in that regard; a lot of them are run as de-facto profit centers for religious denominations.
I think they're more trying to explain why it resonates with so many people.
4.2 is tiny; other platforms are getting hundreds of thousands per day.
It's small enough that the Mastodon use stats show it as noise.
I've seen the follow-around thing a couple times. Rare because we're small. Become big, and it becomes a bigger problem
People can follow from a Mastodon instance and drop troll comments on all your posts
What it has going for it is a nuclear block; when you block somebody, their trollish response no longer shows up in the feed of your followers, and your post no longer shows up in feed of their followers. This basically kills trolling as as sport.
The fact that on Mastodon & Lemmy "block" means "I can't see their posts, but they can still summon followers to harass" makes them much less attractive as a platform.
He made the claim during the campaign...and it was utter BS as you describe
Yes — also non-native speakers of a language tend to follow similar word choice patterns as LLMs, which creates a whole set of false positives on detection.
"filter out" is an arms race, and watermarking has very real limitations when it comes to textual content.
Wealthy countries see really expensive damage too.
They don't depend on the WMO to quantify it though