#limits of human survivability

[tomorrowusa]

A news story which has not gotten the attention it deserves here in North America this week is the intense heatwave in South and Southeast Asia. While Trump chants "drill drill drill" what's really needed is to get the planet to chill chill chill.

Thailand is reeling under the grip of a severe heatwave with temperatures soaring to record highs in some areas and authorities warned of harsher weather in the coming days. More than three dozen districts across Thailand’s 77 provinces have seen record temperatures in April, generally the hottest month of the year, with new highs beating records held as far back as 1958, according to data from the Thai Meteorological Department. Temperatures have topped 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in 26 provinces this month, according to the agency. The northern province of Lampang has seen the highest temperature so far this year at 44.2 degrees, just shy of the highest temperature ever recorded in Thailand – 44.6 degrees – that was last seen in 2016 and 2023.

Thailand is roughly in the center of the affected area.

The Philippines, at the eastern end of the heatwave, is seeing a strain on its power supply.

Meanwhile, parts of the Philippines face potential disruption to electricity supplies as an intense heatwave fuels cooling demand and leaves power systems “overloaded”, according to President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr.

Schools in the Philippines have suspended in person sessions. There is talk of returning to an academic calendar which sees the school year end in March.

Students suffer in wilting heat, thwarting education efforts

In this audio report from ABC Australia, we hear how the current heatwave is closing in on the limit of human survivability in some areas.

Dangerous heatwave sweeps south east Asia

Any politician preaching increased use of fossil fuels is a danger to the planet.

The transition to sustainability may occasionally be bumpy but any other road leads to climate dystopia.

NOTE: For all you Fahrenheit fans, here's a quick way to convert temperatures mentioned in some of the links.

Celsius to Fahrenheit Conversion | (°C to °F)

BTW, Asia won't be the only place hit with adverse climate incidents this year. The 2024 Atlantic Basin hurricane season is predicted to be well above average in number of storms.

[burins]

i've seen a number of fics write clark as not knowing or understanding human limits and making either stupid or sexy mistakes about it... but honestly i think clark, who has spent about 20 years studying human limits very, very carefully so that he doesn't get nabbed by the government/outed as a hero, would have a better understanding than most people of what, exactly, the human body is capable of!

[dailypearldoodles]

Day 452

Revisiting what I've been calling the Those Left Alive AU, where the winners of the life series are cursed creatures and pets still alive by the end of the season are humans. Here we have Tilly and Froggie as humans and Pearl as a wolf!

I have been writing a little bit for these three, though anything can change as new life seasons come out hehe

[hephaestuscrew]

In Ep55 A Place for Everything, when Minkowski thinks Kepler is doubting the likelihood of Eiffel still being alive after he's floated towards the star in his spacesuit, Minkowski says "Eiffel had plenty of air left, and let's not forget he survived for -" It seems pretty likely that she was about to say that Eiffel survived nearly 200 days stranded in deep space on Lovelace's shuttle. It's interesting to me that Minkowski uses that incident as evidence that Eiffel will survive this time too, because that's not really how situations like that work.

We don't know exactly how much Minkowski knows about Eiffel's time on Lovelace's shuttle, but the reality is that he survived for those 193 days due to an extremely specific combination of impressive ingenuity, incredible perseverance, access to the right resources, a fair dose of stupidity, and an extraordinary amount of sheer luck. Without just one of those ingredients, he would never have made back to the Hephaestus alive. The ingenuity and perseverance could serve him well in this situation too, but the other factors don't exactly apply in the same way.

In my view, it isn't really that Eiffel's survival on that shuttle serves as evidence of any specific attributes that will guarantee his survival this time. I think it's more that the events with Lovelace's shuttle - Minkowski thinking Eiffel was gone forever but then being miraculously reunited with him - have given Minkowski a non-specific sense of Eiffel as a person who survives, a person who ends up in nearly inescapable peril and yet somehow always escapes, a person who makes it back alive against all the odds. It's not a piece of logical practical evidence. It's just an emotional instinct that allows her to believe that she's not going to lose him, allowing her to focus on what she can do to try and find him.

Minkowski's 'Goddamn it Eiffel' when he floats towards the star in Ep53 is so much less dramatic than the way she yells his name as the shuttle drifts away in Ep28. And that's partly about what the story calls for in those moments. And it's partly about the specific situations and the agency Eiffel has had in them. But it's also that in Ep53 she already believes that he will be okay, that he'll come back. He's done it before. He'll do it again.

[cestacruz]

Drawing the messiest sketches is actually so good for my brain

[theevilcactus]

i miss poptropica so much

[unnamed-atlas]

Finally finished sweet tooth s3. Having incredibly mixed feelings

[animalsgettingmedicalimaging]

I think this is a rattus rattus!! Correct me if I'm wrong. Maybe hand reared too. I hope he's STRONG. Info dump about this situation in the tags

[carsickcrow]

the future is really freaking me out i don’t know how i’m supposed to be in college in a year that’s so freaking scary. but! thinking about the concept of riding the bus or other form of public transportation. 👍 i can’t drive nor have i made any effort to learn how to and i am turning 18 in. 4 months and 10 days. so. y’know. i gotta love walking and buses and the like. and i do i think (i can listen to my music :). )

[wickershells]

One of the attitudes that frustrates me most about the mainstream response to art these days is the general insistence that it must impart some grand moral lesson or enlighten you to something you did not already know. Art can and very often does exist merely as a reflection or portrayal or expression of something otherwise unseen. You write a poem about grief not to illustrate how to cope with it but to write about grief. To embody the disembodied and make it solid, tangible, palpable

[pinkrabit]

I hate when I hear others use people who went through horribly traumatic experiences without therapy/mental help as a reason why depression and PTSD aren't real.

They survived, and they are alive.

But you're telling me they don't feel panic when they hear their abuser's name? That their life doesn't flash before their eyes when their plane takes off? They don't feel every fucking bruise their parents left them when someone raises their voice? They don't look for open exits when entering a new room?

If they survived and coped without therapy, then good on them. Not every person can do that, and they would probably benefit from therapy if they wanted. Therapy can only be as good as you let it.

Your pain and trauma are valid. Don't be shamed because you asked for help.

Don't let people guilt you because you feel pain. Don't let them compare you.

[coockie8]

Yeah if you need an entire board of doctors and advocates to tell the difference between two things, then the distinctions between said things are not "obvious". If they were, you'd be able to tell the difference on your own, regardless of your knowledge base, as that is sort of what "obvious" means :/

[stressedmonster101]

ok we know the space theme, we love it, but there is SO much potential now that there’s 4.

fire, earth, water, and air.

wands, pentacles, swords, and cups.

also, keeping with the space theme, our solar system is split into two groups of planets.

two groups of 4.

[daenerys-targaryen]

crazy cause this is exactly how loving dany feels like

[uranium]

i cant tell if im getting sick or if i worked myself so hard i broke my brain. its happened a few times before where i pushed myself so hard that i stopped being able to think very clearly or comprehend my assignments/lectures for the next few days and i also feel very physically drained and tired. i have a bit of a scratchy throat but i was also sick with a cold like a week ago so its probably a remnant of that.

i hope its the burnout because itll probably be easier to recover from, but i need to recover from it fast. i dont have the space to slow down now and i can do "the bare minimum" for the next few days but ill need to be going at 110% again soon

[kat-of-the-night]

I think zombie-apocalypse media has explored fatherhood and patriarchal sacrifice enough (especially when the father in question is like ex-military or something, congratulations you bring nothing new to the table)