Re: What Made My Day Today :-)

God damn... So much work just to get things ready again at square zero for next day of life! Fuck..
Right now it is 8:30 pm and other than just a few catching breath short periods at the computer, I've been busy the whole god damn day doing chores. Didn't even go walking today. Didn't even eat, cook. That's for tomorrow. Cooking for cats is an every day matter though.
The impact of multiple cats is really something to experience. My alcoholic cro-magnon neighbor warned me of that a few times. She's been struggling with that also. And heck she does more chores in there than I ever do. But I do the repairs here also, so...
- My day today was already made this morning while finishing my coffee (black, no sugar) when I read Pezeshkian introduced his government's first achievements :) I didn't know in advance it was coming. I had begone worrying what the fuck they were doing in there. It was only talk and talk and nothing else but talk for several months.
He spoke of two results, one in the matter of water and the other the matter of energy of course.
Some of the projects that Raisi had started in providing water to dry areas in Iran, Pezeshkian's government promptly finished, and as of the beginning of this week a large number of villages now have ample access to water. Not 5 and not 10 of them! Not even a 100. Do you know how many villages? 1500 villages!...
Imagine the impact on agricultural products both directly and indirectly via change of the environment, and on those people's general welfare. It affects more than one million and three hundred thousand people. Attracts more people from other areas to them also. Now their agricultural activity is not limited to like one month a year. It is now added, full scale, to other forms of productivity those people are engaged with to make a living.
And of course many such projects are still being worked on and have not taken effect yet.
In the matter of energy, 46 new power plants started working in 11 different provinces. Just last week. All such news as, "Iranians must lower the temperatures inside their homes by 2 degrees Celsius so factories can keep running" have now disappeared. It was a huge issue a few months back. A critical one two. Even Raisi had yielded to people's demand during Winters and stopped many factories for a few months each year so people would have enough fuel/electric power to keep homes warm.
Under Pezeshkian's incessant encouragement of people, a lot of them (as far as I know via folks) abided by it, even the Leader's home stayed cold. And these projects got the chance to get finished. I don't think lowering of temperature is necessary anymore, so the rest of the Winter which in many areas of Iran is quite harsh is going to be much more comfortable for people.
946 additional power plants are right now being created and as of yet aren't operational yet.
So they got some stuff done. They had to!
- A serious plan is also underway to move the Capital (presently Tehran) of the country to other areas of Iran. The support that Tehran's environment provides for it has reached, and passed, the hard limits imposed by nature. Tehran is too big for that now.
The brainstormings were all done last year and they know what they'll do by all probability. My sister is involved in this (she's an architect) and tells me they want to create three "Capitals", so to speak, out of Tehran, placed at Tehran, and two other spots in Iran. One will be the governmental Capital, One the business Capital, and one the cultural Capital. This shows no other environment in Iran could handle even two of the three together the way they're all handled in Tehran.
Tehran, will be reduced to the cultural Capital of Iran. Government will go closer to Caspian Sea, and business will go to an area that's temperature wise more stable than in Tehran, kind of like what Texas is. Texas attracts all sorts of businesses from across USA because every day of the year is a fully functional day and businesses don't have to lose time by the elements from nature.
But what in this contributed in making my day today is that the cultural centers will remain in Tehran :-) Tehran is an amazing place in that respect. Your "New York City" is like a thug house compared. Millions upon Millions of best minds live in Tehran and enjoy each other's company. Even the nastiest of enemies of Iran who happened to be Iranian, without even one exception, have expressed, abundantly, how they miss Tehran :) There are songs created for that. Books written about that. Movies made on such theme, etc..
You have no idea what you're dealing with in Tehran. So the best of Tehran will stay in Tehran :) ..