Tuukka R

It doesn’t matter almost at all which instance a community is on. People could just unite the different scuba groups into one. Basically any they see fit. I’m not sure the decentralization really causes this effect. Or does it make it too difficult to find communities? I’ve been plenty able to find communities from various instances, at least.

It might be that’s because I went to India by hitchhiking, and did that through South-East Asia, and that took quite a bit of time 🙂 My body had plenty of time to incrementally adjust to the climate as I was making my way southwards. I’m guessing that you mostly spend your time in spaces with AC and your body never gets acclimated to the 40°C temperatures? Or maybe those temperatures take place so seldom where you live that you’ve has no chance to adapt? I’m not really used to AC, so I keep it off if possible even where it’s available.

Anyways, if you look at videos of everyday life of locals in Goa, they aren’t really constantly dripping sweat. At least I don’t have any memory of having sweated very much during my time in Laos, Thailand, Burma and India. Even if there was some level of constant sweating, it absolutely hasn’t been enough to disturbing in smell or visually, because otherwise I’d have a memory of it.

Nah, I don’t have anything like that against US. But out in the rest of the world it just makes sense to use standard units. Live the way you live in the US, but when you come elsewhere, including the parts of Internet not meant for US inhabitants only, do in Rome as Romans do.

Not my experience. I spent some 4 months at Goa in India, and it was usually around 40°C. I rented a bicycle there and rode it for distances of over 100 km in a day. And I did not sweat.

That temperature should not be a problem for a person living in an area where that’s a common temperature. And if it’s not a common temperature, then it’s not common, and it’s not really a problem to have to pay the taxi if you need to go to an important meeting precisely on the one scorching hot day :)

I was assuming from the context that it would translate to more like 50°C or so.

Heh.

It’s impolite to use only Fahrenheits on an international forum. Most readers won’t be able to make heads or tails of “103 degrees”, so a person posting on an international forum should definitely bother checking what that’s in Celcius. It’s much less work for the person writing the text to check that than thousand individual readers checking the same thing on Google.

If it’s somehow “okay” to ignore the 95 % of the world that has no idea of Fahrenheit, then it is similarly okay to be as if Fahrenheit didn’t exist.

I simply let the impolite person taste his own medicine. And no, I still don’t know if “103 degrees” equals 30°C, 45°C or 55°C. But the description “very uncomfortably hot” is absolutely enough to get what the person was talking about. So, some temperature that is unusual where the person writing the comment lives.

“103 degrees” means that it’s hot enough for water to boil. Water boils at 100 degrees, unless you’re deep underground.

But okay, it sounds like that’s a very rare temperature, then?

Then what does the bike have to do with it? (Also, how hot is a 103 day?)

Why would a person ride their bike so fast that they end up dripping in sweat? Is there a reason for that?

Most of politicians at least here in Europe have not started with a lot of money. You first start in communal politics, then when you’ve shown your skills in that, your party gives you more visibility among the general public. And then you might get to the national parliament, and if you’re doing your job well there, you might end up in a position where you become interesting for voting in as a MEP. Or as the president of your country.

You cannot get into the national parliament out of nowhere, but I don’t really know why you should. It’s a very tough job, and it’s good that you’ve first had to gather some experience from communal politics before that.

Though, this is of course only how it works with leftist and centrist parties. In the right wing parties the system is apparently somewhat different. But that’s one of the reasons I wouldn’t vote them anyway.

Some earlier GTA could be better for this. I tried driving around for the scenery, but there was so much random violence happening around that my kid got scared. I did manage to explain everything upside down in the end, so no harm done, but it did not feel nice.

GTA3:SA still wouldn’t have had that effect, I think(?)

At what age?

Depends on what’s meant here with “GTA”. GTA 1 was not really that bad. There’s shooting, which is not cool, but it’s not very graphic.

Then there’s GTA2 where you collect people from the street and turn them into kebab meat with a lot of screaming. And, starting from GTA3, the games start getting seriously.bad fir children.

But, the meme might mean GTA1 or GTA2.

This, of course, doesn’t mean that GTA is good for kids. It just means that something else is even worse.