It's wild how any vet or conservationist will tell you stress kills animals but when it comes to humans we're all Calvin's Dad about it and like "haha it's good for you it builds character"
@SirTapTap higher order intelligence is a factor in this
yes, stress will kill you, but also, you can reason about it and find a way to avoid it
the "builds character" is a bad reduction, but no stress just means you won't have the tools to be ready for when it is inevitable
@SirTapTap i read that completely wrong and thought the vet kills animals out of stress.
My brain went "wtf does stress kills mean? So they use killing animals to cope with stress?" :hhHHHAAAH:
Guess I'm not yet awake enough
@SirTapTap Probably more true than you intended: Calvin is Dad's boy through and through, and the older I get, the more I sympathise with his dad being the product of all his own trauma.
We're all Calvin's Dad. I just want to be Stacy's Mom instead :)
@SirTapTap while stress is killing us slowly, part of what sets us apart from other animals is how adaptive our brains are. Our babies are less independent than most other mammalian babies but the rate at which their brains process new info and learn things is unfathomable to even other primates
Its wiser to ask your local health department, rather than your local politician.
Local health departments devote whole sections to heat-related health issues and how to avoid/first aid them.
Local health department websites are a treasure trove for timely information on local health issues, and, I suspect, underutilized by the community that would benefit.
@SirTapTap
Reminds me of a forum post I read a while back. Someone pointed out dogs and cats aren't supposed to spend nearly 24h inside a home, another pointed out that neither are humans.
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