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/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!

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  • I think Biden inherited a lot of long running material forces that have lead to a faster decline of the empire, it's hard to say how much the president really matters. Trump is embarrassing, though, and that does a lot to undermine public trust in the government.

    ... although Biden wandering off during public events is also embarrassing so I dunno lol


  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.mltochapotraphouse79°F "Heat Wave"
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    21 days ago

    I work in a factory in Iowa, anything above 70 and I sweat tons because I'm doing physical labor in a humid environment. Yes, if I don't dress appropriately and have fans pointed at me and drink lots of water (which I do!), I could get very sick.


  • There's actually different kinds of carnivores! Cats are hypercarnivores, which means they need more than 70% meat in their diet and can easily survive solely off of meat. Wolves and coyotes are mesocarnivores and need more than 50% meat in their diet, but need some roughage for digestion.

    Dogs are hypocarnivores like bears (and so, while they are most healthy when 30% of their diet is meat, they can supplement easily with plants and survive a long time that way). Dogs can derive nutrition from grain and starches, have molars for grinding fibrous plant material, have a long small intestine that allows them to break down plant matter, and can metabolize betacarotene from plants into Vitamin A. They're descended from mesocarnivores, but the tens of thousands of years living with omnivorous humans has lead to them developing all these semi-omnivorous traits that enable them to survive off of plants.

    That said? I wouldn't feel comfortable forcing them onto a starvation plant diet. That 30% meat requirement is still real, even if a dog could probably be kept alive for a long time on a strictly vegan diet. I think we just need to wait for lab grown stuff to supplement dog food (and that seems like it'll happen a lot sooner than lab grown meat for humans).



  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.mltochapotraphouse79°F "Heat Wave"
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    22 days ago

    Your air conditioned room has no humidity and isn't in direct sunlight. This is why I brought up wet bulb temperatures! That's why I keep pointing out radiation in addition to convection! And you're just sitting around in your room and probably dressed comfortably! All of that adds up and you're just ignoring all of it.


  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.mltochapotraphouse79°F "Heat Wave"
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    "If you're able to do x y and z to mitigate the heat then this is a cool and pleasant temperature" is not a sound argument either.

    Public health warnings are not about naked people sitting perfectly still in the shade in front of a fan. Try doing manual labor in the Sun while wearing PPE and your boss will fire you if he catches you sitting down or taking too many water breaks. Warnings like this give workers the power they need to stand up to their boss because, if they are injured, liability falls back on the boss. We aren't just talking about people "passively" having trouble, we're talking about the entire population.


  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.mltochapotraphouse79°F "Heat Wave"
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    I'm aware, but you're ignoring solar gain. A dry bulb in shade will read differently than a dry bulb in direct Sun; sunlight can easily add enough heat to raise the dry bulb from 79°F to 88°F because you're getting heat from radiation in addition to convection.

    Then add in physical activity and poor air flow, add in people unprepared to dress appropriately and poor hot-climate infrastructure, it's entirely possible for 79°F to become dangerous - especially to vulnerable populations.