No I’m saying you told your family to stop turning off the dehumidifier and they haven’t stopped doing that. No amount of home automation or smart devices is going to change your family turning the dehumidifier off. You don’t have a dumb system problem, you have a dumb people problem. And unfortunately a dumb people problem doesn’t get solved by a smarter system.

Dehumidifiers are already automatic. Black mold isn’t going to take over your bathroom in 10 minutes.

It sounds to me like your problem is human error, not the lack of a smarter machine. You can’t engineer your way around people being morons. The greatest engineering minds have figured that out years ago.

But dehumidification doesn’t need to be proactive, it’s entire point is to kick on when there’s too much humidity and turn off once it gets to where it’s set to. This is the kind of building a solution to a problem that doesn’t actually exist.

And you’re vastly underestimating how quickly diffusion works, especiallu for water vapor in air. When I take my shower in the morning the air very quickly saturates with humidity. I don’t have a very dry half of the room and a very humid half of the room. The entire room is humid. It doesn’t take 10 minutes for the humidity to diffuse into the dehumidifier. And then I leave the bathroom door open after which the humidity very quickly dissipates and equalizes the relatively high humidity of the very small bathroom into the comfortable humidity of the very large everywhere else that the small amount of humidity will have a negligible impact on.

I’m failing to see how putting more unnecessary stuff between the hygrometer and the cooling loop of a dehumidifier makes it better.

And how does a well designed automation system measure how much moisture in the air? There must be some kind of measuring device that measures moisture, a moisture scope! Ooh wait let’s latinize it to make it sound more impressive and sophisticated a hygro…me…ter… oh… uh… this is embarrassing.

Authoritarians gonna authoritarian regardless of economic model.

Dehumidifiers already do that. They’re equipped with hygrometers that kick the machine on or off depending on the relative humidity. It’s old tech and it’s pretty reliable, wifi isn’t really necessary for it.

It can be all 3 simultaneously. It virtue signals to the phobes, it hurts foreigners and keeps Americans from being exposed to other cultures.

They scraped everything, how many AI apocalypse fanfics do you think exist on AO3 or Fanfiction.net? How many Hollywood movies and scripts featuring the AI apocalypse do you think have been scraped? How many novels and books google has scanned and put into their dataset?

It’s already there, they scraped everything with no forethought or filter.

2 expansions, 6 Frontier Pass Packs, 6 leader packs, scenario DLCs, leader DLCs. There’s a lot more than just Gathering Storm and Rise & Fall.

Domination victory is literally one of the victoru conditions of Civ 6. You’re allowed to go full steamroll and go to war with everyone. Some of the civs are focused on going to war and expanding quickly through warfare like the Aztecs. Just don’t be surprised when you keep attacking other civs and the other players use the other diplomatic strategies to their advantage.

I’m Civ it’s also important to know how the other players perceive you and how to manipulate that perception to your advantage. Manufacture Casus Belli, poke and prod until others make the first attack and you “defend” yourself by taking their cities. You’ll be less of a warmonger.

Make due with the tools you have at hand.

Historically far right authoritarians have been surprisngly good at aesthetics and wrapping their shit ideology in aesthetics. The nazis had Hugo Boss for designing their uniforms. Their propagandists created visual language for films we still use today. They were evil bastards who made it look appealing to the regular citizen.

They’re not particularly complicated. you basically need a sturdy bowl and a stick to crush and grind stuff in said bowl.

Breast milk and mortar and pestles have existed for a long time too to make food into a mush.

So a lightyear is an acceptable non-cancelation of units [(m/s)*year] but kilowatt hours [(j/s)*s] isnt. Got it.

It definitely does provide information as my 50 watt lightbulb will run for an absurd number of years when hooked up to a nuclear generator and will be completely vaporized by the nuclear bomb.

Also keep in mind your average person likely doesn’t remember their physics classes and how joules, time, and watts all relate to each other and that introducing new names to something just creates more confusion and headache and dumbasses phoning into their electric companies about how “my lightbulbs don’t take joules they take watts and why am I paying for joules when I want watts.”

kWh conveys the relevant information without introducing other names that can create confusion among the stupidest and most karen-like people you know.

The important thing is that leaving units uncanceled is a valid way to communicate the relevant factors of what a number represents.

Yes technically kWh cancels down to joules, but that doesn’t communicate the relevant info of how a device uses that energy during a period of time. In other words Work (Watts) multiplied by Time (hours).

Uranium has 2x10¹³ joules of energy stored. You can use all that energy at once in a bomb and explode a city in a second, a lot of Work done very quickly, ooooor you could put it into a reactor and power a city and do a lot of Work during a much longer time period.

Glad to see reading comprehension is at an all time high and I definitely didn’t explain how total joules doesn’t actually mean anything for something drawing power in relation to the time its drawing power. And I didn’t make any comparison about how a 2lb lump of uranium contains the same energy whether it’s detonated in a bomb or slowly released in a reactor.

Because the power draw of appliances is measured in watts, so a 60 watt light bulb when lit draws 60 watts of power over the course of one hour. So if I have roughly 100 lightbulbs at 60 watts hooked up to my house, then I’ll be using 6 kW of power each hour.

It tells us more information about the rate of use of that energy. It’s like the difference between a 2 lb sphere of uranium being exploded in a fraction of a second vs 2 lb lf uranium fuel in a reactor operating for however long that much fuel lasts for. Both contain the same amount of joules of energy at the end of the process, one just uses all of those joules in one go and the other slowly releases that energy over a longer period of time.

I could imagine a scenario where gal/ft² is useful. Like with grocery store shelving figuring shelving and product stacking. If liquid storage containers are stackable then you have have more gallons per square footage of shelf space. Or of they’re not stackable, then taller containers would hold more liquid in the same shelf space than shorter containers with the same footprint.

Yeah it seems odd to represent something as a volume/area, but that is the relevant information you’re comparing and it’s intuitive how that number changes based on changes to volume as projected onto an area. Bigger number points toward a more efficient use of shelving.