@hazardwarning Most newer buildings have it (like my office), but not all older ones do, and in Ventura many homes and buildings don't have it as it traditionally hasn't been needed there due to our being on the coast with the lovely ocean breezes. We have it at home, but it's not working at the moment. ?
// @indigo
@hazardwarning It's currently 37°C here, and is supposed to be like this most of the week.
// @indigo
@jussipekonen As Mark Twain famously said, the coldest winter he ever spent was summer in San Francisco. ?
I see where Japan has recorded its highest temperature since records began (41.1°C / 106°F).
Or, as we call it around here, August.
@matigo I could be wrong, but my impression is that Japan is highly protectionist when it comes to food, which is an indirect subsidy of Japanese farmers. Given the shortage of land and the high cost of everything in Japan, a free market would probably decimate Japanese agriculture.
// @jussipekonen @hazardwarning
@matigo I'm going to go out on a limb here and speculate that the reason watermelon is so expensive in Japan is because there's some kind of protectionist tariff or inspection rules in place that make it impractical to import them from somewhere else, and the lack of competition drives up the price.
// @jussipekonen @hazardwarning
@phoneboy That happened to me in 1999. Best thing that ever happened to me, frankly.
Ripping an unprotected DVD to my wife's MacBook Air with Handbrake. Really surprising to me that Apple hasn't made this easier to do yet. Apparently Disk Utility no longer does it.
@phoneboy LAX has the same issue, assuming that "low clouds" is a code word for "fog."