Oh the irony! Last night I was reading your book (so far so good!) & had to come into the house for a while as a neighbour was smoking. Reading this post while sitting on my deck having a cup of tea, & then had to come into the house because neighbour is smoking. Sigh!
Air is so important. The forest fire smoke ai have been living with most of the summer highlights that. Thankfully my home has healthy air systems...but it it sad to tell your kids it's too smoky, come inside.
the fires put a completely different spin on it, the solution used to be "open the window and let the fresh air in" now it is the opposite, you want to keep it out!
As an immigrant from China, what always struck me as odd about North American homes was how many had no range hoods, or a tiny undersized range hood, or a recirculating range hood. Even with induction cooktops the air in kitchens can get pretty nasty!
In my opinion all new builds should have either an externally vented range hood or a recirculating hood with an HRV/ERV exhaust nearby, and in either case the capture area should be at least the size of the cooktop.
Chinese range hoods are indeed fantastic! I especially like the oil separators that relieve you from having to wash baffles or mesh filters every few days. One issue using them in North American homes is that most Chinese cooktops are only one burner deep, so they're not so good at extracting smoke from the front burners of North American cooktops. I think the best way to go is a North American commercial style range hood with Chinese style oil separators.
So Lloyd, somebody has to ask the question - at what cost? Who is going to pay the $$ cost of the additional regulations? Who is going to pay the social cost when people cannot afford to buy a home of their own BECAUSE of the extra costs mandated by government by special interest advocacy (which may only concern a paltry percentage of the population - or directly are enriched as government has now anointed their cute little (or ginormous) industry for financial gain they otherwise wouldn't have?
Our discussion on Lloyd's note about fine particulate matter was sensibly closed for comment by Lloyd or substack after your early morning barrage (your idea of taking me out to the woodshed I presume).
We had strayed off the original topic so far I never got a chance to call out your misleading use of statistics to argue against policy directed at addressing problems that, in your learned opinion, cause only rounding error amounts of harm (a thousand plus deaths annually in Toronto and Montreal).
You were not impressed with my Kumbaya word salad nonsense so I will be more concrete here.
By your logic your and VB's cases for demonizing illegal immigrants gets kind of soft (huge understatement):
-number of homicides committed by illegal immigrants in the US in 2021 -60 (Fox News)
-number of illegal immigrants in US - 20-30 million (not really but a made up number tossed about by people like Mark Rubio to support arguments for tightening the border)
-percentage of illegal immigrants committing murder based on those numbers .0002%
-real number of illegals in US is probably closer to 11,000,000
-percentage committing homicide annually based on actual number .00055%
-total US population -about 335 million
-number of homicides in US annually -21156 in 2022
-percentage of general population committing homicide-.0063%
That is a factor of 10 difference.
You will find similar results for other crime statistics.
Conclusion: US citizens are way more dangerous to public safety than illegal immigrants.
The "stealing our jobs' line for closing the border and tossing illegals out doesn't stand up any better.
Why then are you and your friend VB not supporting a policy of randomly expelling actual citizens and replacing them with immigrants in order to Make America Safe Again.
I am sure you can cobble together some numbers to try to paint a different picture but I expect they will just emphasize my point. To borrow words made popular by Mr. Twain "Lies damned lies and statistics".
I should have done a bit of homework before engaging with you. I was just hoping to have a friendly discussion about how people might work together to make the world a better place. Thought I should start from the basics, like trying to get you to agree that the person on the other side of the planet is a fellow human being with the same basic rights as you (Kumbaya nonsense?) before attempting to get to concrete, actionable ideas about how to address some human problems (to be clear I don't disagree that the US has an immigration problem. Just not the same one your ilk invented).
I didn't realize at the time that your stock and trade was peddling and amplifying misinformation, disinformation, half truth's, complete nonsense, dangerous inflammatory rhetoric, etc. in support of a dystopian future based on a infantile concept of what freedom means in world of more than 1 person. My bad. I should do a bit more homework before assuming the person on the other end is interested in having a rational conversation.
Btw, I love your little fairy tale stories about how your were saved from your horrible liberal upbringing.
William Morris and most historical ideas of health from doctors and botanists often involved walking and being outdoors en plein aire for "cures" ... vs indoor stationary advise such as blood letting and leeches ..
Oh the irony! Last night I was reading your book (so far so good!) & had to come into the house for a while as a neighbour was smoking. Reading this post while sitting on my deck having a cup of tea, & then had to come into the house because neighbour is smoking. Sigh!
Air is so important. The forest fire smoke ai have been living with most of the summer highlights that. Thankfully my home has healthy air systems...but it it sad to tell your kids it's too smoky, come inside.
the fires put a completely different spin on it, the solution used to be "open the window and let the fresh air in" now it is the opposite, you want to keep it out!
As an immigrant from China, what always struck me as odd about North American homes was how many had no range hoods, or a tiny undersized range hood, or a recirculating range hood. Even with induction cooktops the air in kitchens can get pretty nasty!
In my opinion all new builds should have either an externally vented range hood or a recirculating hood with an HRV/ERV exhaust nearby, and in either case the capture area should be at least the size of the cooktop.
Chinese exhaust hoods are fantastic! They have to be to deal with the cooking style. they should be bigger than the cooktop but never are. I wrote about one brand that came to Canada: https://www.treehugger.com/chinese-manufacturer-fotile-designs-exhaust-hood-actually-exhausts-4857743
Chinese range hoods are indeed fantastic! I especially like the oil separators that relieve you from having to wash baffles or mesh filters every few days. One issue using them in North American homes is that most Chinese cooktops are only one burner deep, so they're not so good at extracting smoke from the front burners of North American cooktops. I think the best way to go is a North American commercial style range hood with Chinese style oil separators.
So Lloyd, somebody has to ask the question - at what cost? Who is going to pay the $$ cost of the additional regulations? Who is going to pay the social cost when people cannot afford to buy a home of their own BECAUSE of the extra costs mandated by government by special interest advocacy (which may only concern a paltry percentage of the population - or directly are enriched as government has now anointed their cute little (or ginormous) industry for financial gain they otherwise wouldn't have?
Our discussion on Lloyd's note about fine particulate matter was sensibly closed for comment by Lloyd or substack after your early morning barrage (your idea of taking me out to the woodshed I presume).
We had strayed off the original topic so far I never got a chance to call out your misleading use of statistics to argue against policy directed at addressing problems that, in your learned opinion, cause only rounding error amounts of harm (a thousand plus deaths annually in Toronto and Montreal).
You were not impressed with my Kumbaya word salad nonsense so I will be more concrete here.
By your logic your and VB's cases for demonizing illegal immigrants gets kind of soft (huge understatement):
-number of homicides committed by illegal immigrants in the US in 2021 -60 (Fox News)
-number of illegal immigrants in US - 20-30 million (not really but a made up number tossed about by people like Mark Rubio to support arguments for tightening the border)
-percentage of illegal immigrants committing murder based on those numbers .0002%
-real number of illegals in US is probably closer to 11,000,000
-percentage committing homicide annually based on actual number .00055%
-total US population -about 335 million
-number of homicides in US annually -21156 in 2022
-percentage of general population committing homicide-.0063%
That is a factor of 10 difference.
You will find similar results for other crime statistics.
Conclusion: US citizens are way more dangerous to public safety than illegal immigrants.
The "stealing our jobs' line for closing the border and tossing illegals out doesn't stand up any better.
Why then are you and your friend VB not supporting a policy of randomly expelling actual citizens and replacing them with immigrants in order to Make America Safe Again.
I am sure you can cobble together some numbers to try to paint a different picture but I expect they will just emphasize my point. To borrow words made popular by Mr. Twain "Lies damned lies and statistics".
I should have done a bit of homework before engaging with you. I was just hoping to have a friendly discussion about how people might work together to make the world a better place. Thought I should start from the basics, like trying to get you to agree that the person on the other side of the planet is a fellow human being with the same basic rights as you (Kumbaya nonsense?) before attempting to get to concrete, actionable ideas about how to address some human problems (to be clear I don't disagree that the US has an immigration problem. Just not the same one your ilk invented).
I didn't realize at the time that your stock and trade was peddling and amplifying misinformation, disinformation, half truth's, complete nonsense, dangerous inflammatory rhetoric, etc. in support of a dystopian future based on a infantile concept of what freedom means in world of more than 1 person. My bad. I should do a bit more homework before assuming the person on the other end is interested in having a rational conversation.
Btw, I love your little fairy tale stories about how your were saved from your horrible liberal upbringing.
William Morris and most historical ideas of health from doctors and botanists often involved walking and being outdoors en plein aire for "cures" ... vs indoor stationary advise such as blood letting and leeches ..