Olympic organizers have touted plans to cool rooms in the Athletes Village, which will house more than 15,000 Olympians and sports officials over the course of the games, using a system of cooling pipes underneath the floors.

The average high in Paris on Aug. 1 is 26 degrees Celsius (79 degrees Fahrenheit). The objective is to keep the rooms between 23-26 degrees (73-79 degrees Fahrenheit). The rooms will also be equipped with fans.

That could be a tad warm depending on sun exposure.

The pancake tortoise is a fast and agile climber, and is rarely found far from its rocky home so that, if disturbed, it can make a dash for the nearest rock crevice.[6] Since this tortoise could easily be torn apart by predators, it must rely on its speed and flexibility to escape from dangerous situations, rather than withdrawing into its shell.[10] The flexibility of its shell allows the pancake tortoise to crawl into narrow rock crevices to avoid potential predators,[6] thus exploiting an environment that no other tortoise is capable of using.[11]

Don’t see anything about heat.

Really not necessary (maybe unless you’re rural in a high snow area). I have AWD and really don’t need it, next car (sedan) will be FWD.

In 1993, a noose was left on a Black worker’s desk, and the following year he was told to “Go back to Africa.”

Oh yeah not subtle.

This worker, along with others, was consistently passed over for promotions in favor of less-qualified individuals.

In the early 2000s, another Black employee found the racial slur “removed” written on his work forms and “KKK” etched on his lunchbox. He was even ordered to submit a handwriting sample to prove he did not write it himself. The lawsuit states that one manager continued to refer to Black people as “colored” well into the 1990s, and another manager told a plaintiff that “women should be at home having kids.

Veneer!

Been a minute since I posted this:

Frame Canada: Wendell Potter spent decades scaring Americans. About Canada. He worked for the health insurance industry, and he knew that if Americans understood Canadian-style health care, they might… like it. So he helped deploy an industry playbook for protecting the health insurance agency. https://www.npr.org/2020/10/19/925354134/frame-canada

Who headbutted you?

Damn.

Albert Flick, 77, spent 25 years in jail from 1979 to 2004 for the brutal murder of his wife, the New York Post reports. Around six years later he was sentenced to further time behind bars for the assault of another woman.

According to the New York Post, the 77-year-old became obsessed with his victim and when she decided to move away he killed her, stabbing her 11 times.

Article is 2019.

https://startsat60.com/media/news/albert-flick-murders-woman-after-judge-claimed-too-old-to-be-dangerous

What happened?

I believe prey are suffocated before the snake consumes them.

I’m noticing a disturbing lack of punctuation recently.

FYI North Korea is sending balloons over because South Korea sends balloons over with pamphlets, usb drives with tv shows, etc.

Fucking terrifying.

Playing games with “it could be interpreted this way if I tried really really hard” and frankly being intentionally obtuse is how problems happen. Don’t intentionally contribute to miscommunication. You can play games online, in real life this doesn’t help anyone.

Those are such small things. Not even sure you can do some because of the way mileage is calculated - pretty sure part of it is “accelerate from this speed to this speed in this time, so many times”.

Maybe a trick question.

You’re the one feeding managers bad information.

With something like a baby, people know what’s going on and what’s meant. That’s why it’s the example. But when it comes to esoteric things, playing word games just confuses the issue and will lead to a manager thinking that indeed 9 woman can give you a baby in 1 month (I’m not jumping through your word games, you know what’s meant).

And there was much rejoicing. Yay…

When a new car model with a new engine comes out, is it all at once? Why don’t they put out the new engine in bits and pieces? Not how it works.

3 years is nothing for this kind of change. Things take way more time than you think.