We design and build to the best of our knowledge, so did they.
Maria Soklo, “How We Live in the World’s Coldest City — Yakutsk, Siberia ( – 64°C / – 83°F)”: https://youtu.be/ikUSFU7TlYc
Brrrrrrrr
Interesting that no one has mentioned Marjorie Taylor Green’s resignation from Congress, effective Jan. 5 2026.
I find it hard to believe this is over the Epstein files. President Trump calling her a traitor was pretty harsh, even for him.
Is there no limit to human’s ability to compete?
I thought a streaming Cornhole channel and national Cornhole championships was the limit, but no.
Turn on the tv this am and here’s underwater chess championship. No need for clocks. Your turn is only limited by your ability to hold your breath.
Are there too many streaming channels with need to fill time slots? Is there a limit to how much time we’re willing to waste on commercials?
“Federal transportation officials want people to dress better for flights”
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy launched the “The Golden Age of Travel Starts with You” campaign, calling on passengers to help the elderly and pregnant with luggage, say thanks to flight attendants and other personnel, keep their kids in line and dress better.
[…]
Neither the Department of Transportation nor Mr. Duffy specified what types of clothing they want people to avoid or what clothes people should be wearing to the airport.
Then and and now at -40 below if you are homeless it is likey that you will freeze to death.
The classic Norwegian wisdom:
“There is no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing.”
Or the old Russian story about the man who burned up all his furniture and eventually all of his house to feed his house’s stove.
Cold kills.
Friedrich Nietzsche first stated, “Out of life’s school of war—what doesn’t kill me, makes me stronger.
Only the strong survive.
Sure am glad I have central heat, and air conditioning.
My anthropology Prof in college, circa 1976, told his class a story of a dig he had organized a few years earlier. It was Alaska, I think.
The team was going to camp on-site for a couple of months. It was summer, but still cold up there.
Freeze-dried camping food was a big deal back then, so that’s what they took to eat.
They were spending all their time outdoors except when in the tents sleeping.
They discovered that they were perpetually cold and hungry eating solely the freeze-dried stuff, and they risked running out of food.
The next year they ditched the freeze-dried and took food that was heavy on the fat content.
No complaints after that.
In 1800 there were about950 million people on Earth. That was the beginning of the use of coal for heating homes. The energy produced by using fossil fuels allowed improvement in heating and scientific advances in health. A better life for humans.
The result: The world’s population has grown to about 7.9 billion people in225 years.
Central A/C changed the world. Before everyone was outside and knew a lot about the neighbors, with central a/c people went inside and covered the windows neighbors became strangers.
Far more people die from cold than from heat.
There are still snakes in the FIB.
Several employees in the Internal Counterespionage Cell attempted to persuade a second senior counterintelligence official of the Global Operation Section “to open the investigation against the retired SES executive who illegally stole and possessed the classified information,” the disclosure said. The second senior counterintelligence official refused to proceed with the investigation.
The second senior counterintelligence official was one of the FBI executives responsible for the Mar-a-Lago raid, when the FBI searched Mr. Trump’s Florida estate in August 2022 to investigate the alleged improper removal and storage of classified government documents, the whistleblower said.
The disclosure said the second senior counterintelligence official was involved in an off-the-books operation targeting the first Trump campaign. FBI Director James B. Comey launched the operation in 2015
“Far more people die from cold than from heat.” – FOAF
Makes sense. According to AI:
Body temperature drops below 75* or above 109* death is likely within hours.
Time at the extreme temperature is often more important than the exact number, but the hard physiological walls are roughly 56–57 °F on the cold side and 115–117 °F on the hot side.
Shivering can raise core body temperature by +3 °F to +9 °F (1.7–5 °C) per hour in a cold-exposed, lightly clothed adult — but only temporarily and at a huge energy cost.
Sweating (with full evaporation) can lower core body temperature by ?1.8 °F to ?3.6 °F (?1 °C to ?2 °C) per hour in very hot, dry conditions — sometimes more if you add wind or fanning. In humid conditions it can drop to almost zero cooling.
Shivering is a powerful but short-lived emergency heater (can add several degrees per hour temporarily).
Sweating is a powerful but environment-dependent cooler (can remove 1–4 °F per hour only when sweat actually evaporates).
Neither mechanism can fully compensate once environmental stress becomes extreme — that’s why hypothermia and heat stroke still kill people every year.
“How to Survive Liberal Thanksgiving”
When the conversation turns to politics, because, see, your other cousin read this article in the Atlantic, it is time for the strategic nod. Don’t worry when she is staring directly at you and muttering “and that is how democracy dies until we get a woman president”; just nod, like “I heard you and I am chewing. A lot of chewing.” This is your Marvel move: engaged, even thoughtful, and open-minded. You chew. You think of Rush lyrics from 2112. You imagine what you’d reply on X. Think judo, not boxing. Keep in mind this hack works better with some gnarly leg meat in your mouth than with a forkful of mashed potatoes, so eat strategically. Remember, your cousin probably thinks she is saving democracy between bites.
Friedrich Nietzsche first stated, “Out of life’s school of war—what doesn’t kill me, makes me stronger.
Only the strong survive.
— fullmoon
Or the lucky. Darwinian selection is as much about chance as it is fitness.
And of course sometimes that which fails to kill you leaves you permanently maimed or weakened, too.
Sure am glad I have central heat, and air conditioning.
— fullmoon
Same here.
Central A/C changed the world. Before everyone was outside and knew a lot about the neighbors, with central a/c people went inside and covered the windows neighbors became strangers.
–Sennacherib
Not all by itself. TV contributed, so (even more so) did the car.
In fact, I would say the high-mobility society was a more important factor than AC or TV or much of anything else.
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We design and build to the best of our knowledge, so did they.
Maria Soklo, “How We Live in the World’s Coldest City — Yakutsk, Siberia ( – 64°C / – 83°F)”: https://youtu.be/ikUSFU7TlYc
Brrrrrrrr
Interesting that no one has mentioned Marjorie Taylor Green’s resignation from Congress, effective Jan. 5 2026.
I find it hard to believe this is over the Epstein files. President Trump calling her a traitor was pretty harsh, even for him.
Is there no limit to human’s ability to compete?
I thought a streaming Cornhole channel and national Cornhole championships was the limit, but no.
Turn on the tv this am and here’s underwater chess championship. No need for clocks. Your turn is only limited by your ability to hold your breath.
Are there too many streaming channels with need to fill time slots? Is there a limit to how much time we’re willing to waste on commercials?
“Federal transportation officials want people to dress better for flights”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/21/federal-transportation-officials-want-people-dress-better-flights/
= = = = = = = = = = = =
In addition to the harshness, Trump did say about MTG:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/22/marjorie-went-bad-trump-keeps-ripping-mtg-resigns/
Mr Beast Video – World’s Fastest Man Vs Robot
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2025/11/mr-beast-video-worlds-fastest-man-vs.html
Then and and now at -40 below if you are homeless it is likey that you will freeze to death.
The classic Norwegian wisdom:
“There is no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing.”
Or the old Russian story about the man who burned up all his furniture and eventually all of his house to feed his house’s stove.
Cold kills.
Friedrich Nietzsche first stated, “Out of life’s school of war—what doesn’t kill me, makes me stronger.
Only the strong survive.
Sure am glad I have central heat, and air conditioning.
My anthropology Prof in college, circa 1976, told his class a story of a dig he had organized a few years earlier. It was Alaska, I think.
The team was going to camp on-site for a couple of months. It was summer, but still cold up there.
Freeze-dried camping food was a big deal back then, so that’s what they took to eat.
They were spending all their time outdoors except when in the tents sleeping.
They discovered that they were perpetually cold and hungry eating solely the freeze-dried stuff, and they risked running out of food.
The next year they ditched the freeze-dried and took food that was heavy on the fat content.
No complaints after that.
In 1800 there were about950 million people on Earth. That was the beginning of the use of coal for heating homes. The energy produced by using fossil fuels allowed improvement in heating and scientific advances in health. A better life for humans.
The result: The world’s population has grown to about 7.9 billion people in225 years.
Here’s a video that depicts population growth from 10,000BC to today and beyond.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnJsnJDYUq4
Central A/C changed the world. Before everyone was outside and knew a lot about the neighbors, with central a/c people went inside and covered the windows neighbors became strangers.
Far more people die from cold than from heat.
There are still snakes in the FIB.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/nov/20/whistleblower-fbi-top-brass-shielded-scrutiny-bureaus-internal/
“Far more people die from cold than from heat.” – FOAF
Makes sense. According to AI:
Body temperature drops below 75* or above 109* death is likely within hours.
“How to Survive Liberal Thanksgiving”
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/how-to-survive-liberal-thanksgiving/
— fullmoon
Or the lucky. Darwinian selection is as much about chance as it is fitness.
And of course sometimes that which fails to kill you leaves you permanently maimed or weakened, too.
— fullmoon
Same here.
–Sennacherib
Not all by itself. TV contributed, so (even more so) did the car.
In fact, I would say the high-mobility society was a more important factor than AC or TV or much of anything else.