We Just Lived Through Two of the Hottest Days Ever. Does Anyone Care?

1. 2024-07-27 at 1:27 PM UTC

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   Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
   We Just Lived Through Two of the Hottest Days Ever. Does Anyone Care?
   
   No, nobody cares:
   
   

   First, nobody cares about numbers. They care about stories. They care about emotion. They care about life, death, hope, dreams. And money. A heat statistic is not a visceral thing. It is a data point. And thanks to years of strategic targeting of trusted media and scientific institutions by far-right autocrats everywhere, we live in a world that increasingly distrusts data points. Where is the line between fake news and fake data? On social media platforms, it’s easy to find climate deniers claiming that temperature monitoring stations are all located in hot places on airport runways or in sun-baked parking lots, suggesting that there is some grand conspiracy to crank up the temperature readings so that George Soros can control the world and force you to sell your jacked-up 4-wheeler and grill crickets instead of hamburgers at your next summer BBQ.
   
   …
   
   Instead of being shocked by a brutal heat dome, or a devastating wildfire, we just accept that is what world is like now. I live in Austin, which had 42 days last summer above 105 degrees. It was shocking and brutal. But the response from many Texans was, “Yeah, it’s always hot in Texas.” No statistic was going to change their view about that. People come to believe that that heat waves that cook cities are just the way that nature works. In some ways, this is the dark side of climate adaptation. We adapt by learning to live with it. Air pollution from fossil fuels kills about five million people every year. But those deaths are largely (and tragically) background noise. It has just become part of life in the 21st century.

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2. 2024-07-27 at 1:29 PM UTC

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   Fonaplats victim of incest [daylong jump-start that nome]
   Did MSNBC tell you that?
   Vegan trash.
3. 2024-07-27 at 1:34 PM UTC

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   Speedy Parker Black Hole [my absentmindedly lachrymatory gazania]
   Nobody cares
4. 2024-07-27 at 2:39 PM UTC

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   the man who put it in my hood Black Hole [miraculously counterclaim my golf]
   the heat has been making me feel physically unwell. I care
5. 2024-07-27 at 2:43 PM UTC

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   Speedy Parker Black Hole [my absentmindedly lachrymatory gazania]

   Originally posted by the man who put it in my hood the heat has been making me feel how physically unwell Ilmy lifestyle has made me. I care

   
   FTFY
6. 2024-07-27 at 2:46 PM UTC

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   the man who put it in my hood Black Hole [miraculously counterclaim my golf]
   the heat has fried this one ^
7. 2024-07-27 at 2:47 PM UTC

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   Bradley Florida Man
   I would have described them as the two warmest days so far.
8. 2024-07-27 at 2:59 PM UTC

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   the man who put it in my hood Black Hole [miraculously counterclaim my golf]
   this is why my eyes are all fucked up
9. 2024-07-27 at 4:25 PM UTC

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   Instigator Naturally Camouflaged [the staring tame crusher]
10. 2024-07-29 at 5:08 AM UTC

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    Lanny Lanny African Astronaut
    I used to live in East County (County east of Oakland) which got 116 one September day (which is usually our "Indian Summer") tree collapse outside from the heat.
    
    the average summers usually got over 100. 90s was most common. not as hot as Arizona or Las Vegas etc.. but a hell of a lot hotter than San Francisco and Oakland get. but even San Francisco saw 106 in 2017 and like 103 a year before that. not been that hot since. so it feels like it's getting cooler now for us.
    
    It hit 90 I think in Oakland last week but only a couple of days when it was 121 in Las Vegas.
    
    but it only hit like 64 today. it was really hot in 2016 and 2017. blue skies all summer which is unusual for San Francisco that has fog from July 1st to like Late August before we get blue skies.
11. 2024-07-29 at 3:15 PM UTC

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    Jiggaboo_Johnson Black Hole
    I don't, I have my A/C set to 74 and wear cotton shirts mostly when I'm out and about.
12. 2024-07-29 at 6:17 PM UTC

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    the man who put it in my hood Black Hole [miraculously counterclaim my golf]
    I invented a cold suit that keeps me very cool throughout the day. The only problem is it uses a planet killing amount of electricity
13. 2024-07-29 at 6:21 PM UTC

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    Lanny Lanny African Astronaut

    Originally posted by the man who put it in my hood I invented a cold suit that keeps me very cool throughout the day. The only problem is it uses a planet killing amount of electricity

    
    
    
    they make shit like that. water cooled with circulating fluid stitched in. they make hats like that that keep the brim nice and cool.
    
    the problem is regulating it because you might suddenly get cold and have to take off your shirt?
14. 2024-07-29 at 6:26 PM UTC

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    Lanny Lanny African Astronaut
    also why not have solar panels patterned on the shoulders and upper front and back. like a cowboy style shirt but instead of leather or suede.
    
    
15. 2024-07-29 at 6:33 PM UTC

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    Bradley Florida Man
    ^ wears assless chaps when he takes selfies to put on GayFarmersOnly.com
16. 2024-07-29 at 7:01 PM UTC

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    the man who put it in my hood Black Hole [miraculously counterclaim my golf]

    Originally posted by Lanny Lanny also why not have solar panels patterned on the shoulders and upper front and back. like a cowboy style shirt but instead of leather or suede.
    
    

    
    It's just a refirdgerant pump sewn into a jumpsuit. It needs to be plugged into the wall. I refuse to make it more efficient unless a silicon valley venture capitalist gives me millions of dollars first
17. 2024-08-01 at 8:46 AM UTC

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    Lanny Lanny African Astronaut

    Originally posted by the man who put it in my hood It's just a refirdgerant pump sewn into a jumpsuit. It needs to be plugged into the wall. I refuse to make it more efficient unless a silicon valley venture capitalist gives me millions of dollars first

    
    place a power bank in it. sew it in the bottom of the very back-center of the shirt.
    
    and his flexable solar panels on the shoulder pads in place of the suede
18. 2024-08-01 at 12:56 PM UTC

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    Speedy Parker Black Hole [my absentmindedly lachrymatory gazania]

    Originally posted by Lanny Lanny place a power bank in it. sew it in the bottom of the very back-center of the shirt.
    
    and his flexable solar panels on the shoulder pads in place of the suede

    
    A jacket you can sweat in and never wash
19. 2024-08-01 at 5:05 PM UTC

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    Jiggaboo_Johnson Black Hole

    Originally posted by Lanny Lanny also why not have solar panels patterned on the shoulders and upper front and back. like a cowboy style shirt but instead of leather or suede.
    
    

    
    The human body is quite the "solar panel" without solar panels.
20. 2024-08-01 at 9:45 PM UTC

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    Lanny Lanny African Astronaut

    Originally posted by Speedy Parker A jacket you can sweat in and never wash

    
    lose water weight
    
    good idea. for boxers before a match.