• sem@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    5·
    6 hours ago

    Here’s the thing. You said a “heatpump is a A/C.”

    Is it in the same family? Yes. No one’s arguing that.

    As someone who is a scientist who studies A/C’s, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls heat pumps A/C’s. If you want to be “specific” like you said, then you shouldn’t either. They’re not the same thing.

    If you’re saying “A/C family” you’re referring to the taxonomic grouping of HVACae, which includes things from fans to swamp coolers to radiators.

    So your reasoning for calling a heat pump a A/C is because random people “call the heat exchanger thingies A/C?” Let’s get refridgerators and freezers in there, then, too.

    Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It’s not one or the other, that’s not how taxonomy works. They’re both. A heat pump is a heat pump and a member of the A/C family. But that’s not what you said. You said a heat pump is a A/C, which is not true unless you’re okay with calling all members of the heat exchanger family A/C’s, which means you’d call refridgerators, freezers, and other heat exchangers A/C’s, too. Which you said you don’t.

    It’s okay to just admit you’re wrong, you know?

    • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
      3·
      4 hours ago

      Here’s the thing. You said a “heatpump is a A/C.”

      Er… No?

      I said “In this context” (using it to keep a room cool), a heat pump is AC.
      No generalization, specifically just this usecase.

      And while the rest of your rant is not wrong, it just does not apply to what I actually said…

      • sem@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        Here is the context of this copy-pasta: I am referencing an old redditor named Unidan, and this post was his downfall. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/unidan

        It is fun to take the copy-pasta and modify it to fit any all X are Y but not all Y are X type situations, to reference this bit of our shared internet history in a tongue in cheek manner. I don’t actually have any problem with calling heat pumps multi-purpose A/Cs.