gruntbuggly

gruntbuggly t1_j1ce9ue wrote

Reply to Can our bodies tolerate environments without oxygen? by purvel

As long as you have oxygen in the air supply to breathe, you would survive a no oxygen atmosphere. For example if you made an atmosphere that replaced all of the oxygen with more carbon dioxide, argon, and helium, you could walk around in that all day long, with a scuba tank and a regulator. Your skin doesn’t need the oxygen in the atmosphere, but all the metabolic processes in your body require you to be able to breathe in oxygen.

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gruntbuggly t1_itq6u5d wrote

Reply to Rather than heralding a new era of prosperity for rural and remote regions, remote working, inspired by the pandemic, is exacerbating the global urban-rural divide in the digital platform labour market by giuliomagnifico

Is anyone actually surprised by this? The new era of prosperity for rural areas was never touted as a new era of prosperity for the folks who were rural already. The new era of prosperity for rural areas was always predicated upon having high educated or skilled knowledge workers leaving urban areas to go to rural areas. And in rural exurbs of large cities, we see this happening. Where knowledge workers are moving to rural areas for land and peace, but staying close enough to urban/suburban areas to maintain access to restaurants, medical facilities, and even job markets.

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