My problem 15 years ago was the NHS, which is not fond of what they deemed 'sports medicine'. Maybe that's changed. I found a surgeon in Germany that did a dual inguinal repair and it's hanging in there great. I had to wait about a month to do much, so definitely take it easy!
I would say this headline is misleading. The first paragraph reads,
"A court in Paris ruled on Thursday that energy company TotalEnergies must account for its consumers’ greenhouse gas emissions, giving the French oil giant six months to report the environmental risks caused by the consumption of its gas and oil products."
Also, further down,
"TotalEnergies expressed “satisfaction” that the court didn’t ban it from pursuing new oil and gas projects or force it to reduce oil and gas production."
I'm not trying to be rhetorical here, but genuinely curious. How can NDAs apply when a crime has been committed? If they can apply, shouldn't that loophole be closed?
There are legitimate complaints from the anti-immigration camp, resources reaching their limits and dwindling government support are real problems. I don't see this as a factor of immigration, but rather the endgame of a system that feeds on more.
In the case of the UK, virtually every 'anti-immigration' Conservative government actually increased immigration more than the Labour opposition. I suppose no one knows the 'benefits' of cheap labour and infinite growth better.
My feeling is, until a balanced steady-state economic system is acheived, or even desired, immigration will remain a side-show. The proposed Swiss law says it all. When the population reaches 9.5 million, the government must 'do something'.
It will never not astonish me how something as basic as trying to stop infinite growth on a finite planet has been politically transformed into let's get rid of the brown people.
I'm genuinely surprised by the negative reaction to this post, so I'm going to try to explain why I made it.
I'm aware of microclimates, and changes in local temperature, and shade and sun and so on. I took the temperature in the shade just now, away from structures, in the garden, and it was 33°. I should have done that initially, but this was not meant to be about my being crazy. This was meant to be about the future of how we can expect temperatures to be measured and then delivered to the public.
Recently, we have had a heatwave in the EU, the 'heat dome’. You probably heard that before. Once rare, now rather common, it inverts the traditional climate where the coast is temperate and the inland is warmer.
If we are using models that ignore these new conditions, there is a risk of under-reporting actual temperatures and not taking the very serious climate emergency more seriously. The use of AI, and its documented nature of trying to please the user, concerns me in the face of gathering data for any government body trying to accurately document what is happening.
So measured at a specific location, under very precise conditions, but also time delayed, from a different weather station, averaged over a different period with any number of variations.
This app is very popular with people, it's where a lot of Apple users get their information. I guess it doesn't bother you people giving out information that is this wrong.
Just going to add two tidbits here, because I'm a bit fan of Paine having spent many years in Lewes.
The first is more incredible, in the sense it's actually hard to believe: he escaped execution during The Terror because of what amounted to clerical error (obligatory fuck Robespierre)
A chalk mark was supposed to be left by the jailer on the door of a cell to denote that the prisoner inside was due to be removed for execution. In Paine's case, the mark had accidentally been made on the inside of his door rather than the outside because the door had been left open when the jailer was making his rounds that day, since Paine had been receiving official visitors. But for this quirk of fate, Paine would have been executed the following morning. He thus survived the few vital days needed to be spared by the fall of Robespierre on 9 Thermidor (July 27, 1794).
Second tidbit: in escaping execution, Paine finished The Rights of Man which, among other things, is one of the few texts explicitly about Deism.
I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel.
I'm a Deist myself, thanks to him and the film Breaker Morant. Thanks again, Wikipedia! We're doing everything to keep you going!
I think that's the point though, that the app can be misleading as to the needs of the people using it, especially in regards health.
Or, “What’s the right mix of things that will actually reduce the likelihood of heat-related illnesses?”
My problem 15 years ago was the NHS, which is not fond of what they deemed 'sports medicine'. Maybe that's changed. I found a surgeon in Germany that did a dual inguinal repair and it's hanging in there great. I had to wait about a month to do much, so definitely take it easy!
I would say this headline is misleading. The first paragraph reads,
"A court in Paris ruled on Thursday that energy company TotalEnergies must account for its consumers’ greenhouse gas emissions, giving the French oil giant six months to report the environmental risks caused by the consumption of its gas and oil products."
Also, further down,
"TotalEnergies expressed “satisfaction” that the court didn’t ban it from pursuing new oil and gas projects or force it to reduce oil and gas production."
I'm skeptical they'll even write the report.
I'm not trying to be rhetorical here, but genuinely curious. How can NDAs apply when a crime has been committed? If they can apply, shouldn't that loophole be closed?
I never heard that one. Yikes.
There are legitimate complaints from the anti-immigration camp, resources reaching their limits and dwindling government support are real problems. I don't see this as a factor of immigration, but rather the endgame of a system that feeds on more.
In the case of the UK, virtually every 'anti-immigration' Conservative government actually increased immigration more than the Labour opposition. I suppose no one knows the 'benefits' of cheap labour and infinite growth better.
My feeling is, until a balanced steady-state economic system is acheived, or even desired, immigration will remain a side-show. The proposed Swiss law says it all. When the population reaches 9.5 million, the government must 'do something'.
Good luck.
It will never not astonish me how something as basic as trying to stop infinite growth on a finite planet has been politically transformed into let's get rid of the brown people.
Knowing nothing about the hierachies in the PRC government ...
That's the 'problem' with renewables. And making products that last, and having software that won't run in old products, etc., etc.
I'm genuinely surprised by the negative reaction to this post, so I'm going to try to explain why I made it.
I'm aware of microclimates, and changes in local temperature, and shade and sun and so on. I took the temperature in the shade just now, away from structures, in the garden, and it was 33°. I should have done that initially, but this was not meant to be about my being crazy. This was meant to be about the future of how we can expect temperatures to be measured and then delivered to the public.
Recently, we have had a heatwave in the EU, the 'heat dome’. You probably heard that before. Once rare, now rather common, it inverts the traditional climate where the coast is temperate and the inland is warmer.
If we are using models that ignore these new conditions, there is a risk of under-reporting actual temperatures and not taking the very serious climate emergency more seriously. The use of AI, and its documented nature of trying to please the user, concerns me in the face of gathering data for any government body trying to accurately document what is happening.
I'm sorry if I seemed crazy. I'm just concerned.
So measured at a specific location, under very precise conditions, but also time delayed, from a different weather station, averaged over a different period with any number of variations.
This app is very popular with people, it's where a lot of Apple users get their information. I guess it doesn't bother you people giving out information that is this wrong.
It bothers me.
I'm aware the phone does not have a thermometer. It doesn't seem strange to you that it's underreporting by that much?
If that's true, why is it different across so many platforms? France Météo is 29°, BBC Weather is 30°?
France Météo is reporting 29°. I guess I should have said that.
I'm fairly sure they try to model weather as the France Météo service reported 29°, and it changed by 5° as I got closer to the coast.
The Kestral 2000 measures air temperature. I measured it in both, but took the photo in the sun.
A Kestral 2000 is a live thermometer. Doesn't it seem weird that Apple is off by this much.
Yes, but undereporting by 10° is a lot.
Just going to add two tidbits here, because I'm a bit fan of Paine having spent many years in Lewes.
The first is more incredible, in the sense it's actually hard to believe: he escaped execution during The Terror because of what amounted to clerical error (obligatory fuck Robespierre)
Second tidbit: in escaping execution, Paine finished The Rights of Man which, among other things, is one of the few texts explicitly about Deism.
I'm a Deist myself, thanks to him and the film Breaker Morant. Thanks again, Wikipedia! We're doing everything to keep you going!
As someone saw the first 25 minutes of the film, I can say ... I hate nepotism.