Google is measuring water use by a different standard than everyone else:

https://www.theregister.com/20...

"Hello, Ecuadorian embassy? Yes, I heard about the weird shit with the cat, but listen..."

While we haven't fully documented a person dying from wet-bulb heat specifically, it's basic thermodynamics, we shouldn't have to conduct some kind of Josef Mengele experiment to prove that if you massively reduce the effectiveness of a human body's only cooling system, evaporation, through high humidity (a crucial factor, it's not just a matter of 35C+ alone) and turn the temperature up high enough they'll die. Do you have any hypothesis on how a person might survive this? Hundreds of people have likely died this way in heat waves in India over the last few years, they just didn't do it while scientists were monitoring them the whole time as would be required to attribute it to wet-bulb heat in particular.

Dinosaurs were not exactly warm blooded so I don't know why you'd suggest that humans should be able to survive anywhere dinosaurs did. Also modern humans have not even been around for a half-million years. Not that we would have any way of knowing if a large fraction of the Homo Erectus that ever lived died from wet bulb heat anyway.

Personally I've experienced these conditions when moving stuff into an enclosed crawlspace under a building in the Caribbean. Underneath the building was over 35C and the humidity was close to 100%. Sweat would just build up and drip off the bottom of my shirt under there with increasing speed. It was a clearly unsurvivable environment. The only way to stop getting hotter was to get out.

Some science you should have a look at: https://www.uottawa.ca/about-u...

That's by a small margin over the rich and not enough to sway national-level demographic trends.

This. According to current estimates, somewhere between 2050~2100 India will become so hot and humid that a human stuck unprotected outdoors might ordinarily suffer a wet-bulb heat death. It would become like a reverse Alaska, where for most of the year survival means living inside of cooled and dehumidified buildings. Unfortunately unlike for cold, you can't deal with potentially deadly levels of extreme heat just by adding insulation, something like a spacesuit with a powered cooling system would be needed.

It would have to be a wildly different form of capitalism with investment greatly reduced or eliminated, to the point that it arguably shouldn't be called capitalism anymore. Capitalists want to be able to turn their money into more money without doing any work at any time, and the Money Multiplier Vending Machine is only operational for them to stick their $1 in and get $1.10 out while the economy is growing. And they want that shit available 24/7/365.

I think you're massively overestimating the damage done by population alone. The problems we face are more caused by using the wrong kinds of resources than too many resources. Well under 5 billion people using the wrong kinds of resources caused the bulk of the damage that got us into this mess. A reduced population alone wouldn't help much.

Poor people have a lot of kids in societies where they need kids for labor on the farm etc and don't have access to birth control. In the first world where there's no farm for kids to help on and poor people can access birth control, they don't do that. A more specific driver of population decrease is inequality. HTH.

It's GM, this is OnStar-related.

Yum! Ownership-class tears, delicious, give me more! Cry that we humans are banding together to fight an anti-life economic system that endlessly impoverishes and overworks most of humanity while destroying nature all to build giant pointless wealth hoards for a few, that's sending children to work in slaughterhouses already since there are so few coal mines left! CRY HARDER!

NZ actually seems like a fun place to live with a good variety of outdoor sports, if you can afford it...

Just as Australia is full of venomous nightmare creatures, New Zealand is full of goofy flightless birds.

Maybe once all the workers have left New Zealand it could accidentally become a workable billionaire's bug-out location after all...as long as they bring their own workers with Suicide Squad bomb collars or whatever, since they only know how to pay other people to actually do things...

Also possible. OpenAI's models do love their bullet points, and especially having exactly three examples in a list. The catchphrase "math magic" at the end also reeks of GPT-4's didactic blandishment.

Yeah, there aren't a lot of popular map projections that fail that test, unless you perhaps count the polar projection used for the UN logo. I'm guessing that sentence is there as a result of editing; perhaps it originally said equally-spaced parallels (which is true of the Robinson projection) but someone math-savvy was consulted to correct the claim to its current form (without seeing the context) and the maintainer of the page wasn't knowledgeable enough to realise it should just be removed.