The heat is internally generated. It happens in the shade too.

I don't know about the opinions of groups, but personally I see the UN as a toothless organization that has political power and very little physical power. When push comes to shove they are useless. There have been instances in which they were on tbe ground near a massacre and could do nothing about it.

Historically they have allowed Israel to get away with war crimes because of US voting in the UN. I can't recall any specifics, but there have been numerous votes where everyone except Israel and the US voted on the other side of a resolution.

Ultimately I am unsure that any global organization can maintain legitimacy over the long run.

A lot of American right-wingers dis on the United Nations, consider the whole thing a joke. I'm starting to think this is because they call out Israel. Is that correct? Was all the anti-UN rhetoric planted by Israel in order to make it acceptible to ignore the U.N. callouts of what Israel does?

Of course the administration of the U.N. (the administration of any organisation) is full of woke idiots. That's just how administrators are.

But primarily the U.N. is a major means for all of the countries of the world to negotiate. And if all the countries of the world vote to pass some resolution, except for two of them, that has nothing to do with the woke nonsense of the administrators.

Don't be fooled.

A lot of American right-wingers dis on the United Nations, consider the whole thing a joke. I'm starting to think this is because they call out Israel. Is that correct? Was all the anti-UN rhetoric planted by Israel in order to make it acceptible to ignore the U.N. callouts of what Israel does?

Of course the administration of the U.N. (the administration of any organisation) is full of woke idiots. That's just how administrators are.

But primarily the U.N. is a major means for all of the countries of the world to negotiate. And if all the countries of the world vote to pass some resolution, except for two of them, that has nothing to do with the woke nonsense of the administrators.

Don't be fooled.

I am primarily limited by heat dissipation.

If I'm outside working in the yard at 17C in the sun, I have about an 85% duty cycle, where 15% of the time I have to get into the shade and wait for the body heat to dissipate. By 23C my duty cycle drops to about 50%.

This is partially due to being overweight, but at 100kg and nearly 6ft I'm not morbidly overweight. It is partially due to the seasons changing and my body not yet having adapted to working in hot weather (These figures were measured over the last 3 days).

But there is a third reason I find more interesting. My blood vessels are barely on the surface. You can see them on the backs of my hands and the tops of my feet and that is about it. Phlebotomists have a hard time finding my blood vessels to draw blood. This is a genetic adaptation to my ancestors living in very cold weather, keeping the blood warm by having the blood vessels run deeper. The downside is that I can't dissipate heat very well when I need to, but apparently my ancestor's problems were primarily freezing to death, not so much laboring under the summer sun.

Unfortunately when working with others, people don't understand this and think I'm lazy, always wanting to take a break. But put me in 8C weather and I can go at max VO2 for many hours. And once in pain, give me some alcohol and I'll go for another few of hours.

As an aside, the fact that my body wants to carry more fat than modern medicine considers healthy is also probably genetically selected as a way to stay warm in the winter.

Maybe I should move somewhere colder.

Woodrow Wilson also brought in the income tax, prohibition, and got the U.S. into WWI. What a swell fellow.

Being a "state", a government, a nation, is a PRIVILEGE granted by the people. It is NOT a right. No state has a right to exist. It is a privilege that can and should be revoked once a state fails to serve it's people.

Today, I had a work meeting with a young but eager fellow. We had a chat, I explained a few things, and he agreed with the technical choices I suggested. However, the issue arose when I mentioned writing a few lines of a "tutorial" on how to do certain things. His response: "Can't you make a video?" Surprised (but not too much), I argued that in my opinion, a concise written tutorial is more practical than a pointless video. His reply: "We only watch videos now, even my colleagues look up solutions on YouTube." This is despite the wealth of excellent tutorials on StackExchange and various blogs. I wonder: why waste half an hour watching a video that could be summarized in a few lines of text (saving time for both the producer and the user)?

#WorkCulture #Technology #Tutorials #LearningPreferences #StackExchange #Productivity #TextVsVideo

finally got tor-browser running on freebsd with the tiny tradeoff that firefox no longer works because it is unhappy about libraries. i love computer