This is the strat. They aren’t even any more expensive than a “cheap” smoke detector once you factor in the cost of batteries (not to mention the cost of all the sleepless nights when the infernal thing is beeping because the battery is low)

My dad bought two houses on a government typists salary. Try doing that today.

You’re getting thermal radiation and convection confused. The ISS has giant radiators because it’s a right pain in the ass to turn heat into thermal radiation, and it cannot rely on convection to cool things like you can here on earth. Turning thermal radiation into heat on the other hand is pretty trivial. Just don’t reflect it and it’ll turn into heat. These things aren’t transporting heat across distances. They are transporting thermal radiation across distances. That works as well in a vacuum – if not better – as it does on earth.

If thermal radiation doesn’t work in a vacuum, how is the sun heating anything up?

Never mind that surely a big company doesn’t explode the second someone calls in sick. The whole sign makes no sense at all.

While what you say is true of course, I’d still rather be in a world where pandering to LGBTQ+ is profitable than one where it is not. It says something about culture at large, even if the act itself is a bald-faced money grab.

Visibility is the first step to acceptance.

Easier to pick up that way I’d guess.

Yeah but then they still aren’t very good

any sane language has == behave that way. Javascript == is just completely bonkers.