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there are far more wasteful things than airing out your house when the external temperature is below the house internal temperature
the thermal mass of the air is negligible compared to the thermal mass of the house itself and items inside
so "never" is a bit of an overreaction. now, if you left them open all the time so you were just constantly bleeding heat, different story
Thats whataboutism.
no, it isn't.
You saying "there are far more wasteful things than airing out your house when the external temperature is below the house internal temperature" is whataboutism. I'm not saying all other wasteful things are permitted just because I take a stance on this one in topical conversation.
alright, let's say for a second that we just remove that line.
the rest of the comment holds up just fine.
You just had thermodynamics explained to you and called it whataboutism.
They said "there are far more wasteful things than airing out your house when the external temperature is below the house internal temperature" and thats where I stopped reading because that IS whataboutism.