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Note that wet heat is only truly unpleasant if you are not acclimated to it. Much like cold, for that matter. I only get the "cooking alive" feeling past 40C (and especially past 45C), while Sergarr feels that at 27, which, to me, is an extremely pleasant temperature.

However, since I am used to high humidity, dry climates of any kind are pure undiluted hell to me.

Not even remotely true, heh. Least not necessarily. I've been in florida almost all my life, and similar temps but dry air is comparatively heaven. Have about as much trouble going out in shorts and t-shirt when it's 100+F as I do when it's around 0, ha. Cooking alive feeling starts somewhere in the mid seventies, heh, though the mild end of it (stuff's a gradient, kinda' like the thing claiming alaskans have a metaphorical billion different words for snow). "I will kill you if it stops this" shows up somewhere in the upper nineties. That one's mostly a binary thing, though, that continues up to the point there's no response because I've stroked out and am now unconscious. Goddamn florida.

Mostly I just wish the air would stay around sixty five. If it took ritual murder to do that, I would unfortunately be enjoying the weather in a jail cell. Half sure I'm not even joking. I'm dubious I'd stop at much if it made the air quit trying to kill me. _{hell, maybe that could be spun as a self-defense claim? "I murdered those fifty people because they were collaborating with the atmosphere to try to kill me."}

Mattis isn't even at work right now. Dude's on vacation, apparently. Likelihood is high the mentions of consulting military higher ups is a flat fucking lie.

Interesting to see Heller and Moran there, and not McCain or Capito. Still, these are now the "Usual suspects" of the Republican Caucus, and I bet you'll be seeing their names more soon. Next votes coming in the next few days I think.

Any case, it's from yesterday, but it probably bears to be mentioned that there's absolutely jack all unusual about mccain voting like that. Pretty much regardless of what comes out of his mouth, his vote is straight party line no matter the level of acidic shit it's pushing. His reputation of being someone more inclined towards opposition to the GOP agenda than your normal senator is pure and near complete bullshit.

Actually never really paid much attention to the guy until recently, and jesus christ what vague inclinations towards a sliver of respect that might have been there are very, very gone now that I have. Guy's had a good talking game but his actions and whatnot have been about as vile and craven as any of your more malicious GOP congresscritters. Dude just kinda' ain't good people.

E: Heh, and vis a vis the trans stupidity there's apparently reports rolling in that the pentagon's basically saying, "We have no idea what the hell that guy's talking about." in response to inquiries. Standard trump administration, I guess.

You would be shocked to learn how rarely this bites. Much more often, every company hurtles over the same cliff out of fear that they are missing out of a competitive advantage.

I really wouldn't be

Still, at least at the moment I'm pretty sure the difference is both egregious enough and new enough you wouldn't see the effect. Another twenty, thirty years and the technology matures and cheapens and I wouldn't be quite as close to approaching confident, heh.

And it may be, desc. Don't have a smart phone and only half-way pay attention to app junk due to having a tablet, so it's entirely possible I just haven't noticed that kind of thing starting the chug forward full steam ahead.

Eh, generally the chips considered here aren't even remotely near high level tracking mechanisms, nor will they be any time soon. They're mostly just fancy security cards at this point, except you don't have to dig it out of your pocket or whatev' when it's time to go through a check. Roughly the same shit we put in chip enabled credit cards and junk.

We have a lot of the tech needed for a subdermal chip able to track basically everything, up to and including geolocation and health readings and shopping habits and whatnot, but that shit is hella' more expensive than anyone is going to spend to keep track of some schlep down in marketing. Or at least anyone sane and/or intending to stay in business, because doing so would be a notable competitive disadvantage vis a vis employee costs and mean your less stupid fellow companies will pull ahead of you, bit by bit.

It's possible that'll change at some point in the future, but that point in the future is pretty solidly guaranteed to not come until someone figures out a way to make high function subdermal chips and their installation and maintenance cheaper than the same thing except not stuck in fleshy bits.

... won't lie, I'd rather imagine what's going to happen faster is an app (template) of some sort that does all of the stuff HR/upper admin/marketing wants done, except the employee shoulders the cost of installation (i.e. buys and keeps running an applicable smart phone) if they want to get and stay hired.

I'unno, generally if it more or less necessarily takes bleeding to remove somethin' you've gone pretty far past clothing. Like, I can sorta' see what you're saying, but generally folks tend to take something of a red line approach where things go piecemeal up unto a point and then the shanks come out if you keep going. Even relatively minor surgery tends to be in the knifing zone.

Doc check check doc? Could be a lot of thing (sinuses come to mind, ferex), could be nothing, hard to tell. Probably not major, but at the same time head pains and notable cognitive shifts can be indicative of the proverbial Bad Things.

Similar sad, the (non-visual snow) hallucinations seem to be getting somewhat more common/insistent. Waking up from a nap to find the far wall looked like carpet instead of wall kinda' hammered that in a little harder than normal. Fortunately still largely harmless and minor, but it's a bit unfortunate given it had been pretty steady since they started happening.

All things considered I'd be happier knowing if the unidentifiable insect critter occasionally digging through the wall is or is not actually there. Wall staying the same shape and all, all the time instead of most of the time, would be nice, too, really.

On the plus (?) side, I guess I have a better idea of whether I would particularly enjoy hallucinogens, now. As with opioids, the answer is apparently "No, not really." The snow's alright and dreaming isn't too bad, but anything beyond that looks to be a bit of sensory fuckery I would really prefer to not deal with.

Today, a good one, maybe two or more, hundred or so staples (and an indefinite but smaller number of nails, screws, and similar such objects) later, I now viscerally understand the (very literal) pain of the dorm managers that first decided to forbid college students from hanging anything on the walls that would leave a mark.

There was a point (yesterday) where my soul was naive enough to think no one could be so amazingly goddamn stupid as to consider a nail gun and construction staples to be appropriate choices for sticking any and every thing desired to the walls of a residence they didn't own.

I have been disabused of that notion, this day.