I will continue to observe gokunming's weather forecast (forwarded from wherever) and know that it sometimes will get or has got cold somewhere in Time. Fortunately, this is Kunming, I no longer have to live according to a schedule (Salvador's closes at 11PM, I remember that), and so it's all rarely much of an issue...
So it was originally forecast to be 4C at 4AM this morning, whether that happened or not; or it's forecast to go down to 4C before midnight tonight; or before sunrise tomorrow? If it's the first, it doesn't really help anybody now, does it? If it's the second, then I guess I better carry my down jacket; if the third, I'll perhaps just come home early.
Curious about gokunming's weather forecasts - right now I read "11AM, 11C", plus humidity etc. All right, but the other numbers for temperature are 15C and 4C - do these represent previous temperatures between midnight and 11AM (i.e. that it went down to 4C this morning, after midnight last night), or predictions (i.e., that it will go up to 15C between now and midnight tonight and down to 4C before midnight tonight? I'm always confused, because the coldest hour is usually around 4AM.
Now THAT is a great idea for a long trip - congratulations!
My understanding is that Xiong Brothers bike shop is a good place, but I'm not really the one to ask.
Agreed, JanJal, good comment. But I think there's a greed machine in operation that enhances these situations, although I won't claim that it produces them out of thin air. The machine is called global capitalism, "the world system", and in dealing with it, it helps to be pissed off, although that by itself is insufficient as a solution.
@Agreed, cloudtrapezer. Also strange to see what sorts the present world produces...o-oh, damn, I forgot, it's all supposed to be simply a matter of 'human nature'.
I think there's such a thing as tourism being commercially overdeveloped, especially when it is hyped as 'authentic', etc., and when 'authentic' is promoted as something deserving of sacred awe on the part of outsiders, who probably can't understand it anyway..
But then what does 'authentic' mean? I'd suggest it means not pretending to be what it is not.
And with that I suggest we all may be in trouble.
@JanJal: You mean it would drive investors to go to places where they can get away with not paying their employees if their invested money doesn't magically 'grow'?
I'm not a health foody but the few meals I've had here have been really good and, yeah, I'll be happy to go back alone to sample all the rest of them. It's also not a bad place from which to people-watch the street below.
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Migrant workers receive bricks in lieu of pay
Posted byAgreed, JanJal, good comment. But I think there's a greed machine in operation that enhances these situations, although I won't claim that it produces them out of thin air. The machine is called global capitalism, "the world system", and in dealing with it, it helps to be pissed off, although that by itself is insufficient as a solution.
Bringing a taste of Italy to Yunnan: An interview with Diego Triboli
Posted byGood interview, good place, good food, good folks.
Migrant workers receive bricks in lieu of pay
Posted by@Agreed, cloudtrapezer. Also strange to see what sorts the present world produces...o-oh, damn, I forgot, it's all supposed to be simply a matter of 'human nature'.
Weekend in Dali: A Chinese perspective
Posted byI think there's such a thing as tourism being commercially overdeveloped, especially when it is hyped as 'authentic', etc., and when 'authentic' is promoted as something deserving of sacred awe on the part of outsiders, who probably can't understand it anyway..
But then what does 'authentic' mean? I'd suggest it means not pretending to be what it is not.
And with that I suggest we all may be in trouble.
Migrant workers receive bricks in lieu of pay
Posted by@JanJal: You mean it would drive investors to go to places where they can get away with not paying their employees if their invested money doesn't magically 'grow'?