Notices by clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de), page 37

Peace
Is cheaper

#TShirtSpotting

@Hypolite Petovan I think it may be that red rain is treated as a corner case and not worth modeling for.

Amber rain happens pretty frequently, everything stays open, people are out and about. Black rains or typhoons don't happen every month, but when they do, most things close, and the rain is heavy enough that whatever you do, streets will be flooded. You're out at your own risk.

Red rain is that in-between state that happens once or twice a year, most things stay open, schools stay open if they already opened, but they close if it happens before the schoolday starts.

"Voting isn’t marriage - it’s public transport. You are not waiting for “the one” who is absolutely perfect."

With this metric, is even marriage like marriage? Do people believe there is exactly one person out of seven billion that is your soulmate and you have to find them?

Tangent from:

mstdn.social/users/sandlapper3… @ebbtide

Apparently this is considered an official English pronunciation??

"Yaoi (/ˈjaʊi/ YOW-ee ..."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaoi

The company that employs me is today 160 years old!

This is pretty cool, but also highlights one of the problems with corporate personhood.

There are people in the city who have decades of experience with civil engineering in this rainy region, but I guess nobody asked them to have a look at the plans before investing billions in construction?

Compared to building entire malls and bridges, making sure this skylight is properly sealed and this walkway is five centimetres higher at that point over there doesn't seem like a huge expense.

All of this is very impressive, but then it also makes it all the more surprising when you encounter the gaps.

Today is just red rain, but some pretty recently built and nice-looking malls have dripping leakage from the roofs and put out security tape and rubbish bins to block off the affected area and contain the leak.

Some recently built and nice-looking walkways are flooded by several centimetres because they weren't built with the appropriate tilt and drainage.

#hongkong has a well-oiled machinery when it comes to weather events.

HK Observatory issues weather warnings: Amber rain, red rain, black rain, monsoon, typhoon T1, T3, T8, T10

Schools, employers, government and private services have well-documented standards for when they'll be open, be closed, offer limited service etc, depending on weather signal and timing.

The city thankfully made a decision relatively early on, before adding millions of people, to invest in separate systems for rain drainage and waste sewage. The drainage has margins for even the most extreme weather events.

A beautiful video essay on the ubiquitous phenomenon of kung fu cooking in HK cinema:

Accented Cinema: "Kung Fu Cooking Movies | Video Essay"

farside.link/invidious/z-tQUzZ…

youtu.be/z-tQUzZTVCw

#hongkong #kungfu #film

Wow, US has turned into HK 2019.

Except, because it's the US police, I expect deaths.

Aaagh, stop causing long email threads because you:
1) Don't understand each other's business processes and can't tell that the no big deal little exception you made is going to cause an issue in the other department
2) Don't explain clearly the issue the first department caused for yours

As much as I hate to see the thread, I'm glad when I end up in the middle and can explain to them why they don't understand each other.

It makes me feel useful when my professional curiosity and all the asking and listening I've been doing for years pays off. 😁