Saturday, July 12, 2025

What to be done to cool your city!

In the summer you ever notice the difference from rural temperatures vs a bigger city in how it just holds the heat more. Or even how hot things are when a parking lot is covered in black tar to it holds in heat more. Something needs to be done a bit of effort! White is prime for a swimming pool for suntanning like in the days. More trees in more locations would help anyway. Overall we need a solution than not!

~~~~"Heat islands" occur when cities replace natural land cover with dense concentrations of pavement, buildings, and other surfaces that absorb and retain heat. The heat island effect increases energy costs (e.g., for air conditioning), air pollution levels, and heat-related illness and mortality. Extreme heat events often affect certain populations first, with factors like age, race, income, and location playing a role in who is most at risk from extreme heat. By adding natural surfaces like vegetation back into communities, green infrastructure can mitigate the heat island effect and provide cooling.

Rising temperatures are expected to lead to more frequent, more intense, and longer heat waves during summer months. As heat waves and rising temperatures occur, green infrastructure can be a crucial tool for communities to improve health, safety, and comfort. https://www.epa.gov/green-infrastructure/reduce-heat-islands

Friday, July 11, 2025

Polyamory like, who pays in what rent


Whatever relationship you make there is a point to have power in numbers regardless! Just a matter of that talk. Why are we here, who is who to who, safety net, what is the responsibilities. Life is looking to be bad so it's best to add than subtract!

~~~~There’s no run-of-the-mill financial playbook for a polycule; just as the relationship structure itself is totally different for each individual iteration, so are the economics. In other words, there are a lot of ways to do things, and polyamory is fundamentally about a belief that One Size Doesn’t Fit All.

The three split their rent evenly and take care of their personal bills (like car payments, insurance, and school tuition) individually. Right now, Daniel’s job is the most lucrative, so he contributes a little more to shared resources like groceries and the power bill. “We haven’t had to have hard conversations about our finances as a house, because it's natural for us to take turns supporting each other when needed,” Daniel said.

For them, being in a polycule actually makes dealing with finances a little easier. “Having an extra working adult doesn’t mean that we are safe from the heavy weight of inflation, but it does give us a little extra room to breathe and a strong sense of security. I trust our family to take care of each other, and the privilege of that is undeniable,” Jade said. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sophielucidoj/polyamory-finances

~~~~In today's fast-paced world, relationships come in all shapes and sizes. https://www.paigebond.com/blog/polyamory-what-is-nesting-partner-polyamory

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Things to expect are some bad things, don't be surprised!

 

This is bad also for the labor force many living badly. Higher electric heating bills. They like high prices but a social decline is not workers succeeding. Or added to the labor force the workers showing up to work looking like Amish on horses lawnmowers or anyway because they are barely living. Any cuts or hardships to the labor force makes more bad things. Taking it easy at work not wanting to be hurt at work because of no healthcare! In a time of high cost beforehand. Does effect the labor force. Low going lower is a bad thing!

Also concerned Medicaid issues kids not getting their psychiatric medicines, no cell phones in class being forced to live Amish problems!

Things to expect are some bad things, don't be surprised!

Wet bulb temp and stupid hot!

Don't need global wind power just use natural gas and coal to drive up the cost of powering your home so the poor can't afford it. Or like just let the power grid fail with global warming heat. The human body can only take so much heat at different ages you know right? It's just a matter of the wet bulb temp.

~~~~Thermoregulation is the maintenance of physiologic core body temperature by balancing heat generation with heat loss. A healthy individual will have a core body temperature of 37 +/- 0.5°C (98.6 +/- 0.9°F), the temperature range needed for the body's metabolic processes to function correctly. 

The human body's thermostat is the hypothalamic thermoregulatory center, which, more specifically, is located in the preoptic area of the hypothalamus. This center sets the body's set point and regulates temperature homeostasis. The hypothalamus contains temperature sensors, which receive information via nerve cells called thermoreceptors. The body has peripheral and central thermoreceptors. The peripheral thermoreceptors are located in the skin and sense surface temperatures, while central thermoreceptors are found in the viscera, spinal cord, and hypothalamus and sense the core temperature. Variations in body temperature activate these thermoreceptors, which inform the preoptic area of the hypothalamus. This area then activates heat regulation mechanisms to increase or decrease body temperature and return it to baseline. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK507838

~~~~Raymond noted that people die of heat stress at wet-bulb temperatures much lower than 95 degrees Fahrenheit (35 degrees Celsius). For example, the wet-bulb temperature during the June 2021 Pacific Northwest heatwave was closer to 77 degrees Fahrenheit (25 degrees Celsius). https://science.nasa.gov/earth/climate-change/too-hot-to-handle-how-climate-change-may-make-some-places-too-hot-to-live