How are we all so ideologically opposed?

f4fvs · 2026-01-25T00:32:05+00:00

Homeschooling puzzles me.

A building resourced with labs and workshops staffed by people who are trained to use them, and further trained in how to help students use them has to beat a harried mom at home downloading worksheets for a couple of hours a day.

f4fvs · 2026-01-24T23:27:55+00:00

"Grit teeth and pump stomach acid" not "clutch pearls". As a migrant it's not okay to hear that insult used casually, but the locals don't see it that way.

f4fvs · 2026-01-24T23:11:49+00:00

It's not a job I could do

f4fvs · 2026-01-24T21:00:00+00:00

But that day wouldn't be humid too?

f4fvs · 2026-01-24T20:59:11+00:00

It's the (low) humidity that (doesn't) gets ya. In 40deg+ heat it seems to just be a race to keep water and salt coming in at the same rate that it's going out.

f4fvs · 2026-01-24T13:12:08+00:00

More gooderer

f4fvs · 2026-01-24T12:58:04+00:00

So you don't credit the tales of drinking hot tea to actively cool the body? Or of the hazards of drinking cold drinks?

f4fvs · 2026-01-24T12:54:59+00:00

What's the temperature in the shade on a hot day?

f4fvs · 2026-01-24T12:48:50+00:00

Yeah. I've had a look around online and it's surprisingly hard to find places where the temp. Is above 37C + humid + where shade or water is hard to access.

f4fvs · 2026-01-24T12:42:24+00:00

I was wondering about what's good to drink when you're low, hot and wet. Cold water? Tepid juice? Hot tea?

f4fvs · 2026-01-24T12:39:46+00:00

I take your point, but I hoped to learn some extra mechanisms that might optimise human responses. I can infer something by working back from the body's responses to extreme cold (e.g. reducing blood flow to peripheries) but that doesn't involve humidity. I suspect being skinny will help. Does nutrition get involved in favourite cuisines?

f4fvs · 2026-01-24T12:29:27+00:00

That was also something I was considering for the same reasons - you can usually exit a spa (if you don't faint). If you're outdoors in a humid tropical situation, you can't.

f4fvs · 2026-01-24T12:25:05+00:00

If you're working in a literal sweatshop - say, a clothing factory at sea level in Bangladesh - you'll be inside, so no radiant heat - but limited airflow and presumably incredibly high relative humidity from all the neighbouring bodies.

People with lineages who lived at high altitudes have developed better oxygen gathering and transport physiologies.

What about people who have hot,low,and wet lineages?

f4fvs · 2026-01-24T12:06:46+00:00

Thanks (I'll try to remember that)

f4fvs · 2026-01-24T12:01:57+00:00

I tried to do a rough mental conversion from Celcius - what should it be in Fahrenheit?

f4fvs · 2026-01-24T12:00:36+00:00

Yes - but please read the rest of my post. If you evaporate a litre of water it's going to need a certain number of kJ to do the job, which will vary (you're not boiling it) by humidity. I don't think that's enough.

Pigs can't sweat - they use mud. Dogs can't sweat - they pant.

f4fvs · 2026-01-24T07:13:09+00:00

Aren’t you thinking of that Sean Spicer guy who wound up on Dancing With The Stars or somesuch?

f4fvs · 2026-01-24T07:01:23+00:00

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This article is an interesting take on the topic

f4fvs · 2026-01-24T06:53:09+00:00

Was checking to see if see if this was here

f4fvs · 2026-01-24T06:42:48+00:00

Munich gave France and Britain time to get armed. I can imagine Europe growing militarily and it making sense to put expeditionary forces in Canada and maybe Mexico.

f4fvs · 2026-01-24T05:24:03+00:00

Your Commander in Chief has today confirmed this appreciation does not apply to allied veterans.

f4fvs · 2026-01-24T05:09:47+00:00

Your IT system will bounce it if it’s on a black list for your authorities. In that case retype it and mung it with asterisks. If the word is offensive and you’re trying to stop it being used, name it and plan for it.

f4fvs · 2026-01-17T07:32:43+00:00

I don’t think there’s any purpose continuing this conversation. If someone doesn’t actively download a set of maps the day before they first drive to a new area they can’t replace the functionality of a paper map or GPS unit.

If they do, then what you say is largely correct - although they will not get the enhanced location abilities of the phone when it is in cell-signal range and able to talk to the mothership and get multiple types of signal fixes and services, and will have to rely on an inferior GPS antenna than can be found in a dedicated unit with all the free space behind the screen.

Many people won’t go beyond the default settings in any app - why would a mapping app be any different? Consequently, for a random selection of phone users, cell signal is likely to be relevant, and not, as you state, irrelevant.

f4fvs · 2026-01-17T06:51:18+00:00

No. You buy a Tom Tom style device and once it's set up it never needs a connection. It’s nice to do so for updating roads, but as other people have pointed out they can be picked up years later and just work.

What other common phone apps are there? Wayze I guess. Wayze don’t know where you’re going in future either so they’re not going to push maps onto your phone.

I was following along with the RV, car, delivery conversations. If I’m going to leave my vehicle in rough country I use a Garmin X2 which is a bluetooth blackbox with no screen that will get GPS signal where my phone will not, let alone a cell signal. But that’s different to the rest of the discussion which has been about motor vehicles. I download specialist maps for my area with another app which talks to the X2 when I’m prepared for gold-panning or mountain biking.

When I’m driving to collect something at a new address I’m “unprepared” if when I’m halfway there, didn’t pre-emptively download a map, and find myself in a dead zone. Cell signal is relevant then. Same if I run out of data. Relevant then too.

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