Driving cars releases tons of CO2 into the atmosphere (per car). There are 300 million cars on the road in the States. CO2 is a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change.
75% of U.S. adults are considered overweight, I would think that walking would first help this problem, as well as be a catalyst to other beneficial habits, including eating less meat and more vegetables, which would further reduce the amount of CO2 released from agriculture, as well as slim people's waistlines.
It would probably be better in the long run if we all drove less and walked more, then built a 1,000 mile aqueduct from the ocean to (and I can't believe I'm typing this) replenish the Great Salt Lake.
I remember I was gunna drive out to see Spiral Jetty, but it's not a jetty right now, so what's the point, you know? And it's not like it's close to the shore or anything -- it's a mile away
I can't but agree. Either the Gerald Ford was not in shape for a conflict, or it was taken out. Our navy kept a good distance from the conflict and it seems pretty obvious why: these ships are expensive and the drones that could come in en-mass are cheap. Iran never showed the medium range ballistic missiles that were one of the given excuses to start a war.
I would point the finger at the head of the DOD, who does not seem to be qualified for the job. After his massive gathering of the top brass and the messaging shared therein, I'm seeing a dissonance of action promised and action shown. Piss Poor Planning.
I am under the opinion that this war should never have started, just to be clear. This is a mis-use of all our military resources, and insulting to our service men and women.
If you will remember from a few months ago, many of our actions was apparrently to cause a revolution from within. That didn't happen.
We can't just change our strategy to "nvrmd: kill 'em all" and think we'll have any allies after this. Iran would once again not just attack us, but practically every country near it, causing even more causalities and infrastructure damage.
And this doesn't get into the problem that this would eventually require a land invasion, which would be impossible. We couldn't even get an actual war ship close to Iran.
There is a "Sunk Cost Fallacy" that someone in our Administration should listen to. Times up with this complete disaster.
Haha, fair enough. Perhaps a more insightful take from me is that the app makes you understand the underlying process a little more than many other options. For example, color space, color correcting. It gets complicated quickly and since the internet is the source of most of the guidance for noobs about it, there are opinions.
The only thing wrong with Resolve is there is no "just get out of my way and let me get something done" mode. No easy/beginner mode. This is a very sizable, complicated piece of a software that has little bounds on what you can do with it. The learning curve is as steep and tall as the granite walls of El Capitan.
That's not really a critique on the software -- it's not trying to be what it's not. But the criticism of the software is painted by the fact that it's hard to get good at it. Well ok I will critique it: the user interface is garbage. Like they studied old versions of Gimp and thought, "let's do even worse".
The metaphor isn't perfect, but it's got some of that ol' TIMTOWTDI Perl feeling to it.
You are correct re: Shakedry. What's interesting to me is that it used the now discontinued ePTFE which manufacturing used PFAS in production, but there is still no alternative PFAS-free Shakedry, despite now having an advantage of not requiring a DWR at all.
I would agree that even with the delicateness of Shakedry, or Shakedry-like product, there would still a use case and market.
No. The newer GoreTex jackets work worse than previous ones. Much of it has to do with the DWR. The previous DWR that has now been banned for its inclusion of PFAS (forever chemicals) which did a much, much better job than the newer, non-PFAS DWR. This switch happened in the States last year I believe.
Gore-Tex these days is not made out of Teflon itself (as the fine article talks about) and its replacement is fine. As the article also points out the patent has been expired for some time and replacements have cropped up. The direct replacements are all fine too.
But without a DWR that works really well, you never have the right conditions to allow water vapor to escape from inside the jacket. Again as the article points out Gore-Tex performs well in the lab, which does not transfer to real world conditions.
So you have a problem where GoreTex kind of just acts like a much cheaper material, at a much greater expense. For those situations (most) you may as well just use a simpler, impermeable material (siliconed-coated nylon, for example) and vent it mechanically (open up a zipper).
The exception is actual alpine conditions, where precipitation is falling as something frozen (snow). There's really no need for the DWR to work perfectly to bead up the water on the surface, as it's not actually liquid.
But even then, much of a layer system for conditions is about control how much moisture you trap within your clothing. You climb a mountain, you sweat. What are you gunna do about it? Wearing a waterproof jacket is sometimes not what you wanna do at all, to keep your layers as dry as possible, and only put the jacket on when conditions require it (it's snowing, or it's so cold you need to trap the warmth in, even though that traps perspiration in too).
And if you don't like PFAS and forever chemicals, you're not going to like microplastics, the majority of which are from rubber car and truck tires. Electric cars -- being heavier -- wear out tires faster and are more of a problem in this respect. We don't talk about this much because we can't live in a world without cars.
75% of U.S. adults are considered overweight, I would think that walking would first help this problem, as well as be a catalyst to other beneficial habits, including eating less meat and more vegetables, which would further reduce the amount of CO2 released from agriculture, as well as slim people's waistlines.