Setting aside the notion that a site presenting live-editability as its entire core premise is "pretending to be static", do the actual folks at Wikimedia, who have been running a top 10 website successfully for many years, and who have a caching system that worked well in the environment it was designed for, and who found that that system did not, in fact, trivialize the load of AI scraping, have any standing to complain? Or must they all just be bad at their jobs?
Not in all theory - Modern Monetary Theory[1] posits that if you control a mint, your money is effectively infinite and cannot be meaningfully increased. As such, some taxation truly does serve only as a money sink (but a necessary one that prevents runaway inflation in the face of government spending, as well as being a vehicle for incentivization).
I've no horse in this race (not a homeowner), but Technology Connections has made a series of videos advocating heat pumps, most recently this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVLLNjSLJTQ
The gist is that heat pump technology is continuously getting better at working in cold conditions, so if the horror stories are more than 5-10 years old they may not reflect the current state of things, and in extreme situations resistive heating can always be used as a backup.
Heat pumps are "just" air conditioners that point the other way, and AC is extremely common in the USA, so I'd doubt that the competency required is exceptional.
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