There are now more than 90 people dead. You can bitch and whine that’s it’s hotter where you are, but you have to understand that it’s the elderly, homeless and small children who don’t have air conditioning and are susceptible to health problems. How fucking despicable can you be to just laugh at people dying because temperatures are hotter where you are. Our infrastructure was built to withstand -30 C°, not the heat. It’s not about how Canadians are “weak”, it’s literally just shitty circumstances.
Not to mention that people who are accustomed to cold climates have a physically more difficult time coping with temperatures that their bodies aren’t used to. Also a lot of people who have never had to cope with hotter temperatures aren’t as familiar with heat exhaustion or heat stroke, don’t know how to manage the heat safely , etc!
That last point.
Denmark is currently in its hottest summer ever recorded, and the number of people I’ve talked to who have only now discovered what a heat stroke is amazes me, because I grew up in the South of France where summers are hot as fuck every year – my brother-in-law went out for a bike ride without a hat and with a half a liter of water for three hours and came back and was sick because of it.
The idea that he’d get sick because of the sun didn’t even OCCUR to him, because in his 30+ years on this green ball swirling through space, it’s never been an issue for him.
In the South of France, most cafés have mist sprayers and all shops / malls are air-conditioned. In Denmark, most cafés do NOT have mist sprayers (but heat lights!) and the shops are not always air-conditioned.
Most of the warehouses have been out of portable air-conditioners and fans on an off since May because people are hot and have no air-condition installed. The buildings are built to keep heat IN. Not out.
No air con, buildings designed to keep heat in, not even ceiling fans, no drinking fountains, windows that don’t open in buildings, and we expect people to work in those buildings, in their full uniform which has no ‘hot weather’ option – I mean what employer is going to provide short sleeves and shorts for that one week every three years where it gets above 25/80 degrees? – windows that don’t open on public transport, and often no shade while waiting for said public transport, we have heaters and insulation and draft excluders, we buy black cars and dark clothes, we buy sunscreen for our holidays in Spain, then forget where we put it, when we find it and apply it we sweat it off again because we’re not used to the heat, we walk places rather than drive and even if we drove, our cars don’t have proper air con and we don’t have covered parking, school playgrounds and public parks have no shade, people don’t have pools so kids play out all summer in the heat. We don’t have ‘American style’ large fridges or freezers with ice makers and they break down when competing with hotter than usual ambient temperature, most of us don’t even own cool boxes – or if we do it’s at the back of the shed full of spiders.
So yes, we have to be told it’s going to be hot. And we have to be warned to check our elderly neighbours and to help them take the blankets off their bed or to swap to a summer duvet, to suggest they have a cold drink instead of a pot of tea and take off their cardigan.
Because we only know people who got sunstroke on their holidays abroad.
And we have never in our lives known anyone who died from the heat.
To anybody who thinks it’s funny when people die, you can go fuck off a tall bridge.
I live in Phoenix. It’s going to be 115F/46C degrees today. This is nothing unusual for this time of year. And yet every year we lose people to the heat. I can’t imagine what super temps must be like when you are not used to it. England, Quebec, and most of Europe’s home were designed to keep heat in. Not let it out. So instead of giggling like evil children over someone else’s horror, try being a little more understanding at the very least of what they are going through.
Frosting is akin to a sauce or seasoning. You use it to add flavor and texture. It should not be the ONLY source of flavor and texture.
Also, some of that flavor should be something other than “SUGAR”, except when we’re talking about donut/pound cake glaze. Sugar glazes like that are intended to add moisture and sweetness and not really anything else. Frosting should have at least a note of another flavor.
1. You are responsible for your own media experience.
2. There is such a thing as a healthy level of avoidance towards topics that make you feel unwell or even (in a real-life clinical definition of the term) trigger you – but you are the one to actively take care of what you view.
3. Avoiding does not mean policing others.
4. You have no right to tell artists to censor themselves – you may criticize what others do, you may dislike it, that’s fine – but actively asking for censorship when you could easily unfollow or block a person just makes you look incompetent in your use of the internet.
5. Do not give people on tumblr or /any/ website the responsibility for your emotional well-being. Because these people do not even know you so no, you have no right to ask them to take care of you.
If the door says “spider convention”, you’re afraid of spiders, and you go inside anyway and get freaked out, that’s your problem.
If the door says nothing and you go in and get freaked out, that’s a problem, but only the lack of a sign. That doesn’t mean people can’t have spider conventions, they just gotta label the damn things.
If the building is a convention center for people who really like creepy-crawly pets, maybe just don’t go in there in the first place.
A large portable dog carrier would do the trick if it hasn’t hit its full plumage, but alternatively a large sack or towel wrapped around the body might do, letting the head and tail out, so long as someone can hold it.
I’d suggest a towel wrapped around the body and loosely tied with some ropes, being sure not to squeeze the ribcage (birds can’t breathe if you squeeze them), then a loose sack over the head to calm it. People transport chickens that way. Alternately, one of those long, thin plastic boxes that people store plastic Christmas trees in, with holes in the lid for air, would probably neatly contain an entire peacock and its fancy tail. It’d be bulky to carry, but easier to wrangle than a peacock.
Heya so I ordered a buncha various leaves from Tannin Aquatics a few months back meaning to use them as snail food. Most botanicals release tannins and have some degree of effect on pH and KH. But since my snails are hard water, high pH kiddos, I wanted to check and see what sort of effects each one had on the water before I went chucking them in my tank so I knew how much was safe to use and how often.
So I did some scIENCE and tested a piece of each leaf (tried to weigh em but it was too light for my scale so I just tried to get them roughly the same size), microwaved 4 minutes so they’d sink, then left in a glass with 1 cup of fresh tap water, plus a control of plain water, for uhhh four days? Tested pH before and after and boom bing bam voila I know which Leaf is Strong like Russian Winter.
Anyway it was useful for me but also may be useful for you guys if you’re considering botanicals and want to know how they’ll affect your water.
Start pH: *** —————–Test results——————
Control: 8.1
Artocarpus: 8.0
Catappa: 7.2
Loquat: 6.3
Guava: 7.9
Jackfruit: 7.8
***The start pH was 7.2, but my tap always comes out lower and stabilizes up around 8-8.2 within about a day of going into any of my tanks, I figure it’s dissolved gasses since I’m in an apartment with pressurized pumps. I decided to make my judgements comparing each one to the final control result of 8.1 instead of a net change from 7.2, since I really wanted to know how it would affect my tank water not fresh-from-the-tap water
********** I also got mulberry leaves! But those are fragile and decompose fast so don’t really make good long term botanicals. And my snails and shrimp devour them in like 3 hours flat 😛
As far as yard leaves, I don’t have any official measurements, but oak leaves have a lot of tannins. If you’re looking for leaves that won’t affect your water too much, pecan leaves break down relatively fast but don’t release a significant amount of tannins. Tannins are good for calming stressed or light-sensitive fish, some fish won’t do well without them, and they add a level of realism to your tank, but most species of fish don’t really need water that looks like iced tea.
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