Today I learned about wet bulb temperature:
It’s the lowest temperature in a given environment that can be reached by evaporating water (e.g. sweating). At 100% relative air humidity the regular ambient temperature and wet bulb are the same. At lower humidity wet bulb is lower because the air can still absorb additional vapor. Humans generally can’t survive for long at wet bulb temperatures of 35°C (95°F) and higher.
This measurement might become much more widely used as dangerous heat conditions become more common.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature
Edit: there’s newer studies that indicate the wet-bulb limit for humans to be a lot lower even https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/japplphysiol.00738.2021
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Get in fedizens, we’re doing Sunday.
So this weekend’s been interesting. On Friday afternoon we got a very severe thunderstorm which seemed to come from nowhere, which resulted in a five-hour power outage. So I started the reboot all the things process Friday night since I was already up, and continued it yesterday morning. At least for my stuff. John’s computer still hasn’t gotten the treatment, and I’ll do that when he decides he wants it. Then, we had thunderstorms again last night, and fortunately I got my computer shut down in time. I’d like to put some UPSs in here, but this is an old building, and I have concerns about UPS batteries, specifically what’s been done since 2010 to ensure they don’t catch on fire when paired with older electrical infrastructure, because let me tell you UPS battery fires are fucking bad and I’d rather we not experience one of those. So I need to do some looking and then figure out which stuff should be on a UPS. Probably just the computers and router/modem.
In sportsball, the Rays won yesterday, both games, which is awesome. And we get baseball in the afternoon today.
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“Why do you use Signal and all this Encryption!
Do you have anything to hide? 😡“Yes! I do!
– The color of my underwear
– My friends’ cats photos
– My failed gym class grades
– My first attempt at “portrait”
– The outcome of my last meal
– The weird mole on my left toe
– How much I cried watching Star Trek
– How much cheese there is in my fridge
– My failed knitting experiment
– The horrible poem I just wrote
– My bank card pin number
– My social security number
– My main password
– The web search history for your birthday giftPrivacy is a Human Right! ✊
Not sharing publicly what you do not wish to share is your right! 🔒✨
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“Glitch” is a fun word.
Glitch glitch glitch glitch..
glitch glitch..
glitch! glitch!
glitch glitch glitch glitch!!
Hmm. now it doesn’t look like a real word anymore. Must be a weird brain glitch.
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I am slightly confused how we’ve gone from US Congress and other governments constantly calling Facebook and Instagram bosses into public hearings to berate them about contention moderation and extremism..
to Elon Musk directly paying and promoting alt right people on Twitter.. and no government is interested.
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I’m definitely going to change my life tomorrow. Or Wednesday. This week, for sure. Next week’s good too
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You can ask me to act normal or act natural but please understand these are two entirely different things
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One time I was hiking and some guy yelled to his young son “Stay out of the cave Aryan, there’s snakes and queers down there!”
I think about that a lot. That cave must have the craziest parties.
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WE HAVE SMOL BUNN IN THE FRONT GARDEN.
REPEAT
SMOL BUNN IN FRONT GARDEN.
SO SMOL. SO BUNN.