Quick pro tip for people in this place who haven't had to deal with cold like this before: be careful with your layering of clothing, especially if you're expecting to move around a lot. If you layer up a shitload and then start exercising (walking long distances, lifting lots of heavy stuff, etc) you will sweat so much that your clothes get wet, and then when you stop moving you will freeze. If you're expecting to do exercise try to strip your layers down to just whatever keeps the windchill off, or at least have dry base layer replacements on hand.
man I should just become one of these morons and get my bag. it seems like it wouldn't even be hard, just write a shitty essay where you espouse your terrible beliefs and then start a gofundme.
BF has a long way to go in some respects of its social development but watching them build up their productive forces and take control of their destiny has been truly inspiring
This was always the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard of in my life and I'm still surprised they made it as far as they did into the construction. Just goes to show that if you show a whole bunch of relatively 'qualified' engineers/architects/scientists a pile of infinite money they will go along with whatever you say as long as you pay them.
"Thanks to this capacity—and a tendency to set itself easy targets—China has exceeded, or is on course to exceed, most of the pledges it has made under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change since signing the Paris agreement ten years ago. The politicians, negotiators, lobby groups and hangers-on gathering in Brazil for the 30th UNFCCC’s COP summit will do so in a context shaped by China’s latest pledges to more than double the country’s renewable-energy capacity and make a modest but quantified cut in emissions by 2035. (Both targets may well be exceeded.)"
This paragraph is so fucking funny
Edit: holy shit it gets funnier: " This anti-emissions machine is powered by self-interest. More clean tech elsewhere lowers China’s own climate risks by reducing global emissions."
Quick pro tip for people in this place who haven't had to deal with cold like this before: be careful with your layering of clothing, especially if you're expecting to move around a lot. If you layer up a shitload and then start exercising (walking long distances, lifting lots of heavy stuff, etc) you will sweat so much that your clothes get wet, and then when you stop moving you will freeze. If you're expecting to do exercise try to strip your layers down to just whatever keeps the windchill off, or at least have dry base layer replacements on hand.