Drugs, pornography, war — yikes.

I’m trying to move from that just a little and have been writing a ‘green technology’ piece on what is happening in China.  This thing does not want to finish – If I have to do it right, it will be like AHH’s Lineaments and never stop.

Anyway, AHH posted an old method to cool air from the dry middle-eastern climes.  I said it won’t work for us as it works well in dry air, but not moist air.  So, this Chinese designer made a continuous airflow thing work by changing the shape of the flow – and this is for moist air.  I was entranced and now I’m looking for the details.

Summers in Chengdu are hot and humid with little wind. To keep the buildings cool amid the heatwaves while maintaining low carbon emissions, architects designed hourglass-shaped alleys inside buildings, which can increase air flow and thus take the heat away.

https://english.news.cn/20230726/902bca9846c147e5acfd4f457b750222/c.html

Oh dear, we’re in tropical climate.  If it gets too humid, we have to do something, if only to rescue all computers and similar technology because equipment rusts very quickly.  It is cheaper to deal with a little aircon, than with buying computers every year.  And I tend to love my computers, so, I don’t always want to replace them.

This season .. well, its hot!  We have two rooms airconned.  One is the office one, and we use both of them to full ability of any machine this year.  Things are just strange.

But the rice dish?  Oh boy .. pilafs, swedish rice puddin’ which is what it reminds me of, risotto – etc etc..  Flied Lice .. for those that do not say the R.  It is like the pancakes that I wrote up!  Goes around the world and feeds people.   We have a family rice dish that has never failed to impress … I’ll write it up.

In the mean time we had a soft tropical downpour today.  I hope for another tomorrow or in a day or two.  Doors, windows and anything are open for the fresh air and we will sleep well tonight.  If all goes according to plan, about middle August this heat will dissipate.  If it is a weird heat phenomena, all bets are off and we have to nurse our basic aircons.

But back to rice.  I did a course in Cuban Cooking years ago, and they have 28 (don’t call me a fibber but it is thereabouts?) methods to prepare rice.  I was true to my course but halfway through, the family was kinda saying .. well, are we ever going to eat anything different than rice in this house?

Rice has such a history.  We were on some Caribbean Spanish Island and husband flew in from somewhere else, having bought a good container of black rice as a gift to me .. rice actually is seed.  So, they wanted to know at the import department what this was?  He screwed up, and said it was Oro .. which is gold!  Instead he needed to say Aroz which is rice.  That is a crazy story.

Anyway, you talk rice, I talk paella … the king of food!

I’m not sure about Medvedev .. I think he was giving a warning.

Got a 2nd source for India.  Site is a bit messy!

BRICS: India Might Back Out From Launching The New Currency

The Ancient Cooling systems are great for their climate.  When we lived in the desert, we had one of these evaporative coolers (electrical) and it was fine up to a certain temperature and then it was just hot!  They’re called swamp coolers.    For us, tropics, they are not effective whatsoever as the air is moisture-laden anyways.  We have air conditioners running around the clock now because it is just hot!  If it does not rain regularly, we get baked into the earth and the cool tiles in the house are hot under my feet.   A little rain, and the earth cools down.  I’m gasping for the end of August and then we will have decent and lovely weather again.   I usually step out first thing in the mornings to get a look at what the outside looks like, and these days, first look is up to see if we have cloud cover between us and the sun.  Today, it is whispy – oh boy.

Major disengagement of minds.

I’m always too late to add my comments here.  Stupid stupid question.  We have an example already.  See what happened to Macron (before the current meltdown) and angled for a BRICS invitation.  NO, NYET, FU Smartly!  was the answer.

That answers my question.

Do read this … planning, or rather not planning but leaving space, for evolution, fast evolution.

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202306/1292788.shtml

Also, punishment comes:

Eivor Vågslid

@Eivor_Koy

In order to safeguard national security and economic interests, China’s Ministry of Commerce and General Administration of Customs announced export restrictions on gallium and germanium-related goods on July 3.

This statement goes into effect on August 1, 2023. Gallium and germanium are both critical elements for #chip manufacturing. China produces 96% of the world’s raw #gallium, a soft, bluish metal used in making chipsets, while no US domestic gallium has been recovered since 1987.

The US depends on imports for 100 percent of its gallium supply – and on China for 53 percent of those imports.

Gallium is also one of 35 elements that the #US government calls a national security concern.

The announcement came just before US Treasury Secretary #Yellen was scheduled to travel to China. After the chip prohibitions imposed by the #Biden administration and #Blinken’s pompous trip to China, the Chinese have concluded that the United States is not to be trusted.

This sends a clear message to the United States that imposing chip bans or other sanctions on #China will only result in the downfall of the United States.

In order to safeguard national security and economic interests, China's Ministry of Commerce and General Administration of Customs announced export restrictions on gallium and germanium-related goods on July 3. This statement goes into effect on August 1, 2023.

Gallium and… pic.twitter.com/6RwtOneWvx

— Eivor Vågslid (@Eivor_Koy) July 3, 2023

We’ve seen the start of the Great Losing this past week!  Big Time!   Even Ukrainian Zalushni (reconstituted) says so.  He has no more military.  Stick a fork in it, its done!   Little fat ladies singing everywhere, still hiding under the furniture, but they be singing!