A Chinese programmer died in hospital after fainting while working at home late last year.Gao Guanghui (transliterated), 32, allegedly died of cardiac arrest, leading his family to believe that he died from overwork.According to Chinese media, he was promoted to department manager recently and had consistently been working long hours prior to his death.In addition to programming tasks, he was...
  • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    7·
    1 day ago

    Americans just don’t understand how good they have it

    Yes.

    Air conditioning? practically unheard of for more than half the world mostly living much closer to the equator where heat is literally killing people.

    Well, not unheard of, but the way you over there use it is. Slight correction - yes. Turning it full on to have temperature 10 Celsius degrees lower than on the outside - no.

    It’s not like latin america where starvation is much of an issue almost everywhere if you don’t have a job. No idea how the food situation is in China, but I can’t imagine them handing out free food to anybody.

    Honestly almost everywhere outside of the golden billion countries starvation is an issue if you don’t have a job.

    • Prove_your_argument@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      Regarding AC

      Well, not unheard of, but the way you over there use it is. Slight correction - yes. Turning it full on to have temperature 10 Celsius degrees lower than on the outside - no.

      I said half of the world, which is completely accurate. It is completely unheard of for a huge swath of humanity. The energy costs are INSANE to run a heat pump in 2026 prices outside of the wealthy elite globally. Let’s arbitrarily say top 10% or so of earners, which is something between 35k and 47k… hardly a princely sum in the US, given that the US median is something like 62k.

      There are places in latin america that have air conditioning, obviously. It’s exceptionally uncommon based on my firsthand experience though outside of tourist areas like hotels and high end restaurants. There are wealthy areas in nearly every country on earth that are exceptions to the rule.

      • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        1·
        18 hours ago

        I know, I know. Another reason it’s uncommon is because the risks of catching serious cold at summer are not worth it.

        • Prove_your_argument@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          7 hours ago

          lol, what? You have to maintain filters, but if maintained properly it isn’t going to be causing all kinds of colds. If you’re immunocompromised and it’s an unmaintained system then perhaps. Filtering the air should be a net positive.

          Most of the colds I get are september to may, aligning with kids going to school and parents bringing in their illnesses to work and social meetups (in US this is thanksgiving, christmas - i’m sure these things depend on the place.)

          • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            1·
            6 hours ago

            I meant the quick change from hot weather outside under sun to conditioned weather inside.

            That kinda happens. It’s not about maintenance of systems. Similarly to cold drinks at summer.