Historically yes. But plenty of things that are perfectly safe to consume taste terrible and plenty of stuff that will kill you won't even register. So this is not a reliable indicator.
I don’t think comparing only mortality rates is accurate. I can’t say « you are much more likely to die by falling into a volcano than to die because of the flu » just because the mortality rate of falling into a volcano is much higher than getting the flu.
I think one also has to factor in the likelihood of the event, in the case of diseases we might look at how contagious the diseases are.
Wouldn’t have been a good memory if you were _running_ through the midwest. A good chunk of the summer, they dive-bomb anyone who looks at their bush funny. Those birds are my personal nemeses - but they’re winning.
In the upper st lawrence / great lakes basin it's really becoming more and more erratic. More ice storms, more drastic swings in the winter, lower snowfall some years, more droughts in some summers, more record rainfalls in others, etc. It's a recognizable change even in the 25 years I've lived here.
Maybe, but last year was wet and cool, this year heat wave and drought. The great lakes are still up near their record water levels though (after last year and the year before), whereas a few years ago they were at record lows.
i mean, at least where I live many records about average and max temperature have been broken 3 years in a row now. I suppose if this continues it will actually start to be not unusual for this to happen.
Well, this year we for one don't, in fact we're having the exact opposite, but last year we did have a hot year and everyone said it's definitely climate change. I think we're not yet at the point where we can feel it, we're just projecting.
The personal subjective feeling at this point is fewer places having snowy winters and more frequent and severe heatwaves — the phrase “9 of the hottest years on record were in the last decade” being in the news most (or all?) years since the late 1990s.
Most individual people won’t feel the change that’s happened over their lifetime unless they’re wondering why it doesn’t snow any more or how they ever managed without air conditioning; it shows up in higher costs for national-scale-multi-year weather damage or crop and fishing productivity.
And of course, this is a global rather than local effect, so some places have more change than others. My first trip to the USA was the 2014/15 winter when there was simultaneously record cold on the Atlantic coast and record warm on the Pacific coast.
Those of us into winter sports are keenly conscious of the winter weather patterns, in a way the bulk of the population is not. Snow in southern Ontario for example has always been unreliable, with rain and snow mixes common, but snowfall is getting much much less reliable.
Solar and wind are still not good at providing a baseline load, especially in winter where the power consumption is higher.
France slows down some reactors during heat waves due to environmental regulations not allowing power plants to heat the river past a certain threshold, not because disposing excess heat is inherently difficult.
Why is baseline supply an issue? The only power supplies that are needed in a system are dispatchable aka peak. If your peaker plants can handle the entire load then you don't need any other type of power. You may want to have supplies that are cheaper and/or greener, but you don't need them.
So until Nuclear plants can provide dispatchable power, they're competing against the much cheaper solar/wind power, not against natural gas or batteries where the cost disadvantage isn't as bad. Nuclear theoretically could be dispatchable, but current designs aren't.
Because ultimately as a company you need workers past the current generation. If women stop making babies due to having to bear a financial and occupational burden, then your company will quickly disappear due to a lack of workers and customers.
Honestly can we stop saying these type of claims that men are « biologically » made to be breadwinners and woman « biologically » made to do house work? Not only the claims are dubious, but even if they were true doesn’t mean everyone is the same.
For a lot of people including women housework is actually boring and they would rather have a fulfilling career.
Perpetuating the idea that men should work outside and women should work inside really makes life really hard for men and women that don’t think that way.
> For a lot of people including women housework is actually boring and they would rather have a fulfilling career.
For the vast vast majority of people there is no fulfillment in a career either.
> Perpetuating the idea that men should work outside and women should work inside really makes life really hard for men and women that don’t think that way.
I'm making an observation - I don't like it either.
If you struggle with bad sleep I encourage you to get tested by a sleep doctor. I was diagnosed with delayed sleep phase disorder (DSPD) and honestly reading the Wikipedia page made me cry.
All my life I thought I was just a lazy person because I couldn’t achieve anything in the morning (even if working at night is perfectly fine for me).
Lockdown really changed my life for the better. I was lucky enough in my job to be able to set no alarm at all in the morning and I was able to follow my internal sleep schedule. I began to have dreams again, and I feel actually alive during the day. It’s wonderful but now I worry a lot about the time when I won’t be able to wfh.
