Days could be brutally hot ( easily over 100 F ), but there was little humidity. My transportation was a motorcycle ( with additional heat radiating off the engine ), so mid often feel a little uncomfortable, but it was definitely livable.
Interestingly, homeowners often used evaporative ‘swamp coolers’ instead of AC. A big benefit of low humidity.
Have you seen the picture of Alex Pretti kicking the taillights out of a moving vehicle carrying federal agents? The guy was not stable. Who knows what he might have done with that gun?
Protesting is one thing. Going looking for trouble is another.
Noteworthy: since the films release, we have much fewer heat related deaths, polar bear population has doubled, there are fewer hurricanes and less wildfires.
This doesn’t mean climate change isn’t real, of course. It’s just not panning out as predicted earlier.
An exotic disease breaks out right on top of a lab where disease cultivation occurs. Then government coverups begin.
Future generations will be amazed that anyone dismissed this very, very strong possibility.
Also— in a few years, when the politicization has faded, we need a comprehensive study on which countries took the right steps at the time. ( How much shutdown was beneficial. )
1) You will have technicians working for you that will earn more than you do. They will often act like prima donnas.
2) ( Advice given by a friend that was an IC, then a manager, then an IC again ): “They nip at you from the top, and they nip at you from the bottom.” Meaning that your manager will gripe at you, as well as the people under you griping at you.
Yes, this is a problem. Look at a typical truck from the 90s or so, they are tiny compared to today’s trucks.
The same thing is true of cars. Today’s civic is as big as an accord used to be. There is no Del Sol.
We need to turn the incentive knobs that worked so successfully on consumption so we now work on vehicle size.
Also, about the center of gravity discussion: I used to have an old friend that spent decades in business running a body shop. I asked him once what was the worst animal for causing vehicle damage. ( This was in rural South Dakota. I was thinking cow, horse, maybe bison. ) Nope. He said most animals would go up and over the hood, just like the people in the article. He said pigs were the worst. They stay low, going right into the car and not bouncing over. Often resulting in a total loss for that car.
Krugman. He couldn’t write a single sentence in an article about Europe without mentioning Trump.
This is the same guy that said the internet was not going to be a big thing, made wildly incorrect predictions about everything from post-Covid inflation to Obama-era growth predictions, and was oblivious to the downsides of zero interest rate policy.
At this point, Krugmans work should be considered entertainment at best, or maybe political comedy.
Days could be brutally hot ( easily over 100 F ), but there was little humidity. My transportation was a motorcycle ( with additional heat radiating off the engine ), so mid often feel a little uncomfortable, but it was definitely livable.
Interestingly, homeowners often used evaporative ‘swamp coolers’ instead of AC. A big benefit of low humidity.