GammaGlobulin

So, a few months ago I bought this office chair which is both padded and made in China. The material is PU. The problem, as best as I can determine, is that there is relatively less padding in the center of the seat, and the biggest offender is that there seems to be some sort of hard padded ridge at the front of the seat. This raised ridge, which is also padded, cause diminished blood flow passing through the circulatory system at the bottom of both thighs. And, this restricted or diminished blood flow has led to edema in both feet. True, the swelling is reduced after a few hours. However, repeated swelling can stretch the blood vessels so that they will probably lose their elasticity, after many days, months perhaps. This is why I would like to nip this in the bud. a. I do not want to discard the chair, it being new. b. Anyway to make this chair very comfortable and ergonomically healthy with minor modifications? Also, how do other more expensive chairs circumvent this potential problem though better design? When I was younger, much younger, maybe four decades ago, I would buy real leather chairs that were extremely comfortable. Now, chair manufacturers seem to be creating tools of torture fit for the use of a medieval Catholic tribunal, or maybe.... A chair designed using a copy of one of Edgar Poe's stories. I will not be able to continue using this chair until I find a good solution. What modifications might work? Regards, Gamma

Welcome to the High Heel Club! There is a chapter of this club in Hong Kong, too....! Or, was.

Such a nice story. This Farang is probably one in a million. And, this is the way to go, if you gotta go.

Women seem to have a bad sense of direction. Always have. Always will. The cause is due to Evolution. We evolved as hunters. Men are the HUNTERS. Women are the COOKERS. Women stay home at the campsite, and rarely leave. So... Women did not evolve with a sense of direction.

Yes, and I must agree with you. If only we could write down the views of movie stars on scraps of paper, put them in a hat, together with the views of dullards on the same Topics, and then pull them out of the adz, and read them to a committee, we would see what we would see.

Referring to me, I suppose?

Chinese students: a. Very respectful, with great respect for learning. b. They are driven. They excel in the Natural Sciences at IVY Schools in the US for this reason. c. Chinese students, especially the more serious ones, are such a pleasure to teach. (Why teach non-Chinese students, for that matter, these days?) d. Many are brainwashed, but easily recover once outside of the Chinese bubble. e. Amazing parental support for their children's academic success. f. One could go on, gushing, for another ten pages, probably.

What? Are you, then, intending to pass away and leave us tomorrow? I, for one, will miss you.

I ordered the same cheap instrument from Lazada, produced in China. Seems to work well. But, the sensor is very slow at registering the actual ambient temps. Good purchase because of its very LOW cost. I might buy another one, in fact.

Terrible. The THING that makes this terrible beyond terribleness is that it is farmers like this who break their backs every day providing food for the rest of us. They deal with drought and heat and floods. They get paid too little, and it is the operators of Big Box food chains, around the world, who are raking in record profits during this post-pandemic period (alliteration intended.) If I were GOD, I would change this inequity today, this minute.

WAIT.... Wait one cotton-pickin' MINUTE! There is something FISHY in the State of Denmark, around here. I KNOW I typed rely upon. But, for some reason, the site added relay on. If THIS is not a blatant indication of AI gumming up the works, then I do not know what might be! Apparently, though I cannot prove it.... The providers of forum software, maybe such as the one we are now using, seem to have added an AI-governed spelling algorithm to guess intended spellings, as they are being typed! How ELSE can you explain rely upon being changed to relay on???? This has had me fightin' mad for the past few months, when I first noticed this.

Americans, as you and I know, being Americans, have been... Boors from the Beginning, and... Always will be boorish. This is part of our heritage given to us by ancestors raised on the frontiers of places like The Klondike in Alaska, and the Oil Fields of Oklahoma. We are....OAKIES, all of us, when you scratch off a bit of veneer of semi-civilization which coats most of us.

Yes. However, this seems to have zero impact on the image as it appears AFTER being copied and pasted into the TV Comment one is composing, at least USING THE SOFTWARE that I use. So solly, Fella. Note: Why do you guys always feel the need to DEBATE everything? I have already told you the way reality works. Sort of like overgrown teenagers, IMHO, because teenagers never accept anything, not ANYTHING when their parent try to tell them nothing.

I am still on the fence about it....

I did NOT say "main", I said "stronger". Water vapor is not the strongest greenhouse gas, which is why I did not say this. Methane, per molecule, might be considered a stronger greenhouse gas. And, there are other greenhouse gasses which persist a long time in the atmosphere and have far more potential to cause global warming. It's always best to not just parrot some statement read on the internet without first understanding the CONTEXT.

If fact, Columbia should be much higher on a more objective list. Each of these "lists" uses different criteria, and they are biased. And, many relay on students' reporting, or on number of research papers published. Therefore, for example, if one criterion is numbers of paper published, there is no mention of what journals have published the papers. In the case of some universities around here, the grad students seem to publish their articles/papers in lesser known GARBAGE publications, like Boy's Life, or something, IDK....

Take a BETTER Look, FELLA.... The huge print you object to is just an image posted from the title of a research paper. This is an IMAGE and there is no way to adjust the font pitch. You DO know what the pitch of a font is, right? Anyway, as I say, since this is an IMAGE, the size and type of fonts cannot be adjusted. Capisce?

We need some easier way to automate italicization. Anyway, being a genius, I like to use BIG WORDS, you know. Just adjust your entire screen smaller, or hold it farther away from your face, and you will be fine. No worries, Buddy.

Here is your list: I would choose a school only from the top 20 (U. Singapore might be OK. But, I think Hong Kong University once was better, before the Commies came marching in.) https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2024/world-ranking

NOBODY here is talking about LOCAL Climate change. Where have you been during the past 40 or 50 years? We are destabilizing what has, for over 10,000 years, been a stable climate system. Instabilities such as this can easily lead to famine when crops lose productivity at temperatures only slightly warmer than they are now. We are already losing productivity due to rising mean temperatures....

Wow. A DIY cremation! I will have to keep this in mind as a lower-cost final solution.

I just hope that everybody here is paying attention to: INCREASING Water Vapor levels in the atmosphere due to Global Warming. Water vapor is one of the stronger greenhouse gasses. Therefore, it, by itself, might be thought of as a positive feedback loop. The hotter the temperature, the more water vapor in the atmosphere, and the more water vapor, the hotter the atmosphere will become due to water vapor being a greenhouse gas. Then, of course, higher Relative Humidity leads to heat stress when it becomes less easy to evaporate sweat from skin, causing overheating of the body. Obviously, society must do more to adjust to a world of 2 degrees C above 1850 baseline. When will we hit 2 degrees C? Well, the rate of change, the intensity, is increasing. Let's all choose the most dire scenario, the worst-case model, and then we can see that it might be just one decade before we hit 2 degrees C, when we all agreed to 1.5 degrees C. We need to insulate our houses. And, we need to plant trees like crazy. And, we need to remove inefficient buildings. Doing this, we can reduce the heat-island effect. And, we might be able to live in a world of 2 degrees above, for a short period of time, until.... We hit 2.5 degrees above, and then... We reach 3.0 degrees above, and so on. Soon, fairly soon, where we live will no longer be inhabitable. (It's not IF, but WHEN.)

Really? Because, there are so many of them, that it is difficult to decide on the worst, or even the worst of the worst. What disturbs me is this strange phrase: worst of the worst. This never sounds logical. If one is the worst, then there is only one. And that one is the worst. However, it might seem more logical to have "the worst of the worse", simply because you might have many of something that was worse than something else. You might think of having 10 balls. Ball A is bad. Ball B, C, D, are worse than ball A. And then you have another Blue Ball E which is the worst, ie, THE worst, one. And so then, you would have a group of four Blue Balls, B, C, D, E, that were all worse than ball A. Therefore, you could logically state that Ball E was the worst of the balls in the worse group: ie the WORST of the WORSE. But, you could not logically say that Ball E was the worst of the worst, because Balls B, C, D, E are not the worst balls. And so, logically speaking.... E is the worse of the worse. E is also the worst of the worse. BUT, you cannot logically state that Ball E is the worst of the worst! It is incongruencies such as this which make our lives less than worth living. But, what do you say, anyway? Worst of the worst? Even if it might not be logically pleasing? And what is the worst of the worse?: Have a Good One!

Well, I am perfectly OK with facetiousness, satire, irony, and parody, and understatement, etc. I just worry that others here might get the wrong idea. Note: Concerning the term 'Orientals", I think this is now frowned upon. As is Orientalism, too. But, I am OK with it, of course.