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Apparenly they do not start to shiver until the temperature drops to −70 °C (−94 °F)

Humanitarian aid is assistance intended to save lives, reduce suffering, and protect people during emergencies, disasters, armed conflicts, or other crises. Denial of humanitarian aid occurs when someone with the ability to provide or permit such assistance deliberately prevents it, often citing legal, economic, administrative, or property-related reasons and placing formal rights or private interests above urgent human needs.

After declaring a state of emergency during the famine crisis, the government-controlled rationing and calories conservation program by the Founders came into effect to mitigate the severe food shortage crisis. However, as it turned out, the effects of the extremely low-calorie diet had led to chronic side effects among the starving population. The average person can only survive 21 days without food, though there have been cases of hunger strikers with strong wills to live surviving up to 40 days without food.

As the body is hit with a sudden drop of caloric intake, its undernourished body will start eating its own energy reserves from every muscle, fat and skin tissue available, starting off with catabolizing the carbohydrates, lipids and then the proteins. 

This will result in weight loss as the body suffers from emaciation, and since the body starts to eat its own organ tissues away, metabolism will start to slow down, body temperature regulation ceases, renal filtration of bodily wastes will stop functioning and the weakened immune system can no longer fight back against infectious diseases. The body will start to feel cold and lethargic from the shrinking weak muscles and skin, and soon enough other multiple organs will experience failure and slowly shut down.

Not only will the body waste away under starvation, but the brain will also deteriorate from the lack of sufficient blood flow and nutrition (since the cardiac muscles pumping the blood are also wasted away), and as a result the starving victim will lose focus, become more irritable and eventually start hallucinating. 

According to the 2006 study on low-carb dieting and fasting done in the Medical Hypotheses journal, when the body is subjected to severe dietary restrictions, the body will start to conserve the carbohydrate stores by switching from breakdown of sugars (glycolysis) to breakdown of body fats into ketones (beta-oxidation) as an alternative source of basal metabolism. As the body builds up these ketones, the most common ketone beta-hydroxybutyrate (or BHB) accumulates and alters the state of mind, and since they are chemically similar to the gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) found in some euphoria-inducing narcotics, the starving body will experience a sense of mild euphoria as the BHB partially binds to the GABAB brain receptors, which are commonly associated with alcoholism, depression, anaesthesia, and narcotic drug dependence.

Other byproducts of starvation-induced ketone metabolism, such as isopropyl alcohol, also accumulates within the nervous system and causes a state similar to drunkenness and even could lead to hallucinatory experiences (kind of like what Tara is experiencing right now! Sorry about that, Missus Beckenridge!)

“But why (expiatoire)?”

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Childcare facilities within the emergency shelters are the best solutions to mitigating the psychologically scarring effects of PTSD after a major earthquake event! Do you have any idea how traumatizing it would be for young kids to live through tremors every year or so for the rest of their lives?! No wonder there are some real-life kids in Japan going to school with hard hats!

If it were up to me, I would also hire therapist Bohemians to put on a live marionette show or out on a mummers’ play with Overseers cosplay too! Maybe also throw in a stage mime or a clown that can poke fun at the face of death and darkness!

And no way am I administering cocaine pills, medical barbiturates or liquid heroin to kids as a short-term suppressant solution to their trauma, so they can grow up to be pill-popping and needle-injecting opiate addicts later in adulthood!

P.S. If you’re still shaken by the latest earthquake at the Aeon Mall from Japan, please avert your eyes and seek a solid stable platform!

Will everyone just relax?! It‘s not like it‘s the second end of the world—yet! If anyone still requires essential heating to their quarters, the hydronic balancing system will be readjusted to provide at most comfortable temperatures of 10-15°C, while the demolition team will be provided insulating gloves, face hoods and boots to protect their skin against direct contact with the superheated water pipes.

Which one would you rather prefer? Risk freezing your asses off or starving to death??

[Post-Deconstruction reaction]
The deconstructed Generator without its thermal hull looks like a skeleton! I feel like I have gone completely naked after paradoxically undressing—but at least I’m still alive!

First of all, who the hell does this Auroran head negotiator think he is, the People Eater from Mad Max: Furiosa?! I can literally hear his voice in my head when he exclaimed “not sustainable” while coming up with excuses!

Big Algae probably never ate an iceberg salad or moss cake in his whole life and shipped the excess harvested and farmed algae to his fattened breedstock at some faraway private reindeer ranch or fish farm! I somewhat suspect that they would want double the coal rations to keep their furnaces hot, double the lumber and steel to expand their hothouse and aquaculture operations, and double the luxury goods to jumpstart their trade economy! But the ENTIRE outer thermal hull of the generator?!! Not even Dementus from “Furiosa” would be that mad enough to demand something grand like the centrifugal water pumping engines from Immortan Joe’s “Aqua Cola” fountain, just so he could boost the petroleum productivity of the conquered Gas Town!

Irregardless of their ludicrous offer, I promised that I would continue on with this diplomacy run all the way through and uphold the peace between New Edinburgh and Aurora, and in exchange for sweetening both ends of the deal, our diets will finally diversify towards a piscine variety, instead of sticking around with our boring vegetarian and fungal dishes as it has lost almost all of Edinberra’s utility by now.

Once food security is secured, the people can dine on Arctic salmon sushi, salted cod, stargazing fish pie and sürstromming like Iceblood Vikings for life and will also learn to adapt to the extreme cold with housing insulation and economic living practices by the time we finish with skeletonizing the Generator!

Upon reviewing and investigating this failed expedition scene, I had figured out that the details behind this “Fort Blue Mouth” incident was similar to another disastrous British exploration mission in the Canadian Arctic known as “Franklin’s Lost Expedition of 1845”, in which the crew of two ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror were on a mission to find the Northwest Passage over Canada and ended up being stranded on King William’s Island near the Victoria Strait, before succumbing to hypothermia, starvation, scurvy, zinc deficiency and lead poisoning during their trek across the Canadian mainland in what is known today as Nunavut

A few months before their doomed expedition on July 1845, the Royal rear-admiral Sir John Franklin commissioned a food contractor named Stephen Goldner to prepare 8,000 tin food cans filled with soup, fruit preserves and salted meat for his crew on the 1st of April 1845, but possibly as some sort of sick joke, Goldner was given only seven weeks to complete the contract, which was insufficient time for a pre-industrial canning factory at that time.

Not wanting to disappoint his client, Goldner hastened the canning process by shortening the cooking time of the food from 7-11 hours to 30-75 minutes, and the tin-lead soldering process of the food cans was rushed to meet the deadline. Consequently, the insufficient cooking time meant that the centred portion of the cured food ration was not properly pasteurized, thus filling the expedition crew’s bellies with food poisoning later down the line. The lead soldering of the food cans was also so botched that the molten solder “dripped like melted candle wax down the inside surface", thus also leading to lead poisoning and compounding the health problems further among the scurvy-ridden starving crew.

Since the cans were not sealed properly, the food inside rotted quickly and had a shortened shelf life, meaning the botulism bacteria (specifically the Arctic psychrophilic strain Botulism Type E) were able to propagate quickly within the food cans before they were inadvertently consumed by the crew. Further investigations, however, found that the lead exposure may also originated from the lead pipes of the onboard desalination plant used to produce drinking water, as well as the exposure to lit lead-wick candles, consumption of food on pewter tableware, lead ingredients in food colouring and tobacco cigars, and other mess food tins lined with lead foil.

Regardless of the conclusion of those findings, I hope this discovery will be a lesson to the New Edinburgh food industry to abandon and stave off from sealing their steel and aluminum cans with toxic metal much earlier than the real-life Americans who only stopped soldering their food cans with tin-lead in 1995!

There is nothing wrong with human nature striving to survive in this unforgiving and destabilizing landscape. However, if we are to maximize efficiency of our evacuation and increase our chances of survival, it is highly recommended the people practice tremor drills on a biweekly or bimonthly basis and educate children on how to appropriately respond to a tremor, so that way they can deal with the imminent disaster in a orderly and timely fashion without cutting each other’s throats for shelter space. The city will also provide free first-aid classes to citizens, so they will know what to do if a person has been severely injured during a tremor

P.S. If you don’t like posts about earthquakes, go find a post with much more solid stable grounds in the comment section

Military Conscription:

“Under declaration by the First Citizen, and under the advisement and consent from the assembled parliamentary Council, and by authority of the same, as follows:

1) All male citizen subject of New Edinburgh aged between 20 - 30 years must register with the Minister of War for military training and service, and shall be notified by that Minister (in accordance to recruitment regulations) to make ready with prescribed furnishings for entry into military service

2) Every person registered for military training and service shall, during a period of 80 weeks from the beginning date of registration, be liable to be called up for military training, service and combat action

3) Any legitimate person who fails to apply for military registration (or fails to meet and comply with the requirements for military service) shall henceforth be registered on behalf of the Minister of War and will be escorted to their designated barracks hub by a delegated recruitment team to commence training and service

4) New Edinburgh citizens exempt from military conscription includes

*Delegate members of the Council

*Government staff employed by the First Citizen

*Mercenary soldiers currently employed at the barracks or had already served at least 80 consecutive weeks as a military soldier employed by the city state

*Duty-serving cadets training under a government military academy, Frostland SERE training College or Aeroship Piloting College

*Mental patients marked as 'lunatic' or 'insane' by officially licensed medical professionals, which renders them incompetent to follow military commands, and is currently undergoing therapeutic treatment at the hospital or asylum

*Disabled persons registered as blind, severely crippled or rendered completely immobile; persons with functioning prosthetics that allows them to perform at least normally as any average working person with full limbs are NOT exempt from military service"

Call to Responsibility (or Redo Election, Revote or Special Election Remedy):

”In an event that a political gridlock in the Council continuously blocks a bill from passing, the ratio of passed bills to pending political agendas experiences a declining trend over several past conventions, and rival parties in the Council cannot come into a majority agreement with each other nor the First Citizen and persists on rejecting their opposition's proposed bill, this inaction in the parliament will be resolved by the First Citizen calling for a revote of a deadlocked bill facing an evenly split vote; if the number of rejection votes on a proposed bill is declared to be erroneous by a limited margin of 1-5%, such that the confidence in the passing or rejection of the bill could be challenged, the First Citizen can legally annul the ballot results and demand a proper revote to remedy the council gridlock

The First Citizen could only call for a revote on the grounds of voter absenteeism, evidential proof of electoral fraud, voter bribery or any illegal interference in an election, lack of proper provisions and accommodations required for for fair voting by delegates (e.g. malfunctioning voting module or voting tabulator), irregularities, misconduct or corruption in council procedural practices, mistakes in ballot counting, or in rare cases, a 50-50 draw in the vote count

To guarantee a majority passed (or rejected) vote on the bill, the delegate parties will be granted at most 24 hours to negotiate, compromise or concede to an agreement with one another in exchange for favorable (or denied) votes for other debatable issues”

Resource Use Restrictions (or Emergency Rationing):

“In cases of prolonged periods of severe shortage due to insufficient production, scarce resources or deficit trade, the First Citizen will declare a citywide emergency and institute a temporary citywide rationing system that will enforce artificial restrictive control over the distribution, processing and consumption of marketable goods, natural raw resources and food rations by the civilian population

To prevent panic buying of essential items before emergency rationing, price controls and limited supply allotments to open free markets will be implemented to avoid sudden mass depletion and also accumulate stockpiles of critical resources further, either as future emergency stocks or imports to the independent city-state of Aurora

Government-issued ration coupon books will be distributed to every citizen and each book will only provide a limited selection and variety of goods, raw materials and food items to purchase within a weekly or monthly period from the official queue lines of rationing boards"

I can’t find any actual real-life examples of a facility that can stabilize the faults (let alone mitigate their geological shifting) to stop or buffer earthquakes. The closest theoretical idea I can find is from this Reddit thread

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/114rd8d/would_it_be_theoretically_possible_to_develop/

Some were suggesting pouring concrete into the cracks; others think they should inject tons of lubricant to reduce the friction between the colliding plates. Another person suggested bracing the faulted line together with bolted plates and girders.

What kind of steampunk tech would theoretically delay an upcoming tremor?

[P.S. If you don’t like posts about earthquakes, go find another Frostpunk thread with a secure stabilized foundation!]

Watching this forager eating dried rock tripe while mourning the loss of his pal makes me feel like total anaq…

But his sacrifice will not be in vain. The geothermal fungi will feast on his frozen corpse to catabolize them into numerous nutrients, cellulose and carbohydrates in their growing mycelium network…

This smoking crater of a city has experienced too many frequent fracturing earthquakes from drilling too deep in the geothermal groundwater, and you’re all complaining about your onsens, bathhouses and jacuzzi pools shutting down after literally freezing into ice ponds?!!

The last thing this city needs is a random sinkhole literally popping out in the middle of the road and swallowing up a random house, tram car or a pedestrian crowd-—or worse, a subsisting rift unexpectedly splitting a duplex into a quadplex or turn a shophouse into a flop house!

If the earthquakes in Japan rose in intensity and frequency because the onsen industry opened up way too many geothermal resorts, the government would not hesitate to shut down most of the vulnerable hot spots to protect their country from literally tearing itself apart!

All of you will have to retrofit your communal baths with traditional ondols or hypocausts from now on, so we can finally wean ourselves off the steamy hot geothermal titty!

As the first foreign First Citizen of Edinburgh, it is my fully ordained political responsibility to ensure the safety and security of the city state, and for that, I truly apologize for failing to prepare the population for the chronic persistent threat of the human-induced geological subsistence made worse by the geothermal power plants.

To atone for my failures, I will delegate the bravest and most courageous stalwarts to organize a special rescue team to save as much people as possible, regardless of the high risks that comes with the precarious operations.

Some of them will die—but it is a sacrifice that I am willing to make, so that the city may survive

Bring out your furry bunny suits and yellow-dyed cashmere coats, because we’re gonna be hopping mad for Golden Midas Rage Week!!