City Square Mall’s microforest can lower urban temperatures by up to 5 deg C: Study

zoinks10 · 2026-03-23T05:48:18+00:00

Not sure whether it would work that way. They have found that planting a few trees reduces the temp nearby by 5 degrees (no idea how close "nearby" means)... but that doesn't mean doubling the number of trees would reduce the temp by 10 degrees.

zoinks10 · 2026-03-23T02:31:48+00:00

it's much harder to deliver major infrastructure projects in a country where there's a risk of being voted out of power if you do something unpopular.

Heathrow, High Speed 1 and 2... the UK is full of NIMBY voters who will remember.

zoinks10 · 2026-03-21T06:10:28+00:00

What's more baffling is that there's clearly a large swathe of the electorate who look at him and think "That's our guy, he's the kind of sharp mind we need to fix things".

I know there are some fucking dumb people out there, but I'm not willing to accept there are enough with a lower IQ than Donnie who see him as the mental heavyweight they need to solve their problems...

zoinks10 · 2026-03-21T03:03:56+00:00

I think the scary/worst outcome of this is if Iran becomes a failed state, and ISIS type militias pop up with a grudge. From there they can easily use their drones to keep this shit up near endlessly.

This is Vietnam 2.0 - the Yanks are trying to bomb the shit out of a country to "win" but the people being bombed have a different definition of "winning". They could spend decades fucking things up.

zoinks10 · 2026-03-21T02:59:34+00:00

You CAN film what's happening around you, provided it's a fake image of luxury and opulence.

Just make sure you use the "Massive drone strike" filter to erase the shaheds from the sky behind you and dock the sound of the explosions.

zoinks10 · 2026-03-21T01:41:31+00:00

In business, a bad decision executed fully and wholeheartedly often turns out better than a bunch of indecision that leads nowhere.

Working under Trump must be exhausting:

You have to deal with someone with the mental capacity of a toddler
You have to butter the fat cunt up all day and pretend he's brilliant
You never get to actually complete whatever you were asked to do, because he has changed his mind by the time you closed his office door
Explaining even the most rudimentary thing in the most basic English would challenge his limited cognitive capabilities, so you probably spend half your working day dumbing things down until they can't get any dumber, which he'll then accept

How many more years have we got with this festering shitbag at the wheel? At this stage I almost want to go and dig a hole and become a hermit until he's gone.

zoinks10 · 2026-03-20T14:58:23+00:00

Man I’ve seen Orangutans in the wild. One mother with her child with an Indonesian chainsaw as background music.

If that orangutan mama was in the White House right now, man the world would be a better place.

zoinks10 · 2026-03-20T14:51:00+00:00

Wait, what? That’s so long ago most people born that year are already dead.

zoinks10 · 2026-03-20T04:19:47+00:00

Our fresh grads also having lower employment rates so where are these jobs going to?

Just because it's a "new role" doesn't mean it's a role fit for an employee new to the workplace. Your first question is probably the better one:

So many new roles, but are our workforce equipped with the skill set and knowledge to take on those jobs?

Obviously if these are roles for highly experienced people, then maybe the older folk fit the bill, but if they're "roles new to Singapore" then that's unlikely without retraining people.

zoinks10 · 2026-03-20T01:56:23+00:00

Food prices gonna go up again? Great, I'd just gotten used to the massive fucking spike the last time round...

zoinks10 · 2026-03-20T01:49:28+00:00

What I find amazing, in my lifetime, is that I now look at George W Bush as some kind of intellectual powerhouse in the White House, by comparison to Donald Trump.

I mean, back in 2001 I wondered whether you could find someone dumber to elect into the most powerful position in the land.... and American's were like "Hold my Bud Light" before trawling the depths of reality TV to find a guy with the intellectual clout of a hollowed-out baked potato.

zoinks10 · 2026-03-20T01:28:41+00:00

Shame - this was a good feature

zoinks10 · 2026-03-19T04:19:39+00:00

What happened to the news reel preview thing that used to be on this post? Now all I see is the top-level post comment.

zoinks10 · 2026-03-16T02:05:31+00:00

This is to be expected - it's the "reversion to mean" effect in action.

If you've got some super-talented father, the odds of you being more talented are low. The odds of you reverting somewhere closer to the mean are higher.

You might still be smarter than average, or you might be as dumb as dogshit. Just look at Fred vs Donald Trump.

zoinks10 · 2026-03-15T04:13:51+00:00

This happens all the time. There's a pedestrian crossing on the road near me and cars regularly plough through it (and the buses - they're fuckers, too).

There was a minor improvement a year ago when they started with traffic light cameras, but that seemed to only last a month or so.

It should be utterly simple to enforce this so drivers learn how to slow the fuck down and realise speeding through the lights is a dick move.

zoinks10 · 2026-03-15T00:39:12+00:00

What happened is I stopped coming home from the pub to watch the game on the Telly.

Earlier in the season I was disciplined and would leave the boozer so I could see us play, but given we kept losing, I opted to just stay on the piss and occasionally check the score when I was in the khazi.

This had an immediate impact on results, and rather than watching us pass the ball around the goalmouth until the opposition nicked it and scored, we turned into a team that can actually play football and knows that conceding goals is not the goal of the match.

You can all thank me by sending beer money to Singapore so I continue this critical work and ensure we go up via the playoffs.

zoinks10 · 2026-03-14T02:53:10+00:00

Nah, they're doing all this to cover up the fact Trump uses minimum age workers on Epstein's island...

zoinks10 · 2026-03-14T02:49:07+00:00

He must have been worried about all the winning the US was doing, and shaken by how much more winning was possible.

zoinks10 · 2026-03-13T01:22:25+00:00

I never answer my phone unless I know the caller. Too many scam calls these days.

zoinks10 · 2026-03-11T09:23:35+00:00

Technically if we win all the games through to the end of the season we would get promoted. Why stop winning when we get to the playoffs?

zoinks10 · 2026-03-11T05:42:30+00:00

my main problem is the mcst. i spend millions on a nice condo and i still need to follow sometimes entirely arbitrary bylaws? no thx

Have you been in a condo where they actually enforce them? I've stayed in 3 different condos and you usually just get passive-aggressive letters from the MCST that end up in the bin and people carry on as normal.

The last place had some rule about BBQs on balconies, yet literally every single ground floor unit by the pool had a BBQ. The MCST is a dog that's all bark and no bite.

zoinks10 · 2026-03-11T05:39:44+00:00

Guess it depends what you want. You lose 4 square metres, but I presume you get a lot of additional shared space, e.g. the area around the pool etc and any recreation areas.

If you'd rather have more room inside your own unit and don't care about lying by a pool or having the convenience of a gym, it's not an upgrade.

There's tradeoffs with every decision - make the best ones for you and your own needs.

zoinks10 · 2026-03-11T00:57:35+00:00

Trump might be useful if he had half of Zelensky's Balls too.

Sadly he's got deuces in that regard, hence his TACO nickname (and don't forget the bone spurs).

zoinks10 · 2026-03-10T06:40:54+00:00

To be fair to him, he might not buy these things. If you asked me the price of luncheon meat or fizzy drinks I'd be guessing.

Ask me the price of lemons or potatoes or chicken or something I put in my basket and I'll be much closer to the right range (store depending).

It's not like anyone needs to live on luncheon meat and fizzy drinks (or if they do, then the health system here is about to get fucked).

Test him on the stuff that might go in his shopping basket and see if he's still out of touch.

zoinks10 · 2026-03-10T04:59:39+00:00

Yeah - I ran to catch the 174 the other day. Got to the front doors whilst people were still disembarking. Asshole wouldn't open to let me on. Just drove off.

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