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[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 137 points 10 months ago
[-] Guntrigger@feddit.ch 37 points 10 months ago

It can't be that cold, they're naked except for the hats!

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[-] uphillbothways@kbin.social 113 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

My kids won't have this problem. Given the circumstances that have been obvious for 40-50 years I made the best and most responsible parenting decision possible. I didn't have any.

[-] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Your kids warm and safe and comfortable in your balls bro, Im getting real jealous rn fr fe

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[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 91 points 10 months ago

70 degrees of what? Freedom?

[-] waigl@lemmy.world 39 points 10 months ago

Temperature translation for non-Americans:

70°F ≈ 21.1°C
50°F = 10°C
20°F ≈ -6.7°C

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[-] Zorque@kbin.social 38 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Separation. Kevin Bacon wanted nothing to do with this.

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[-] finkrat@lemmy.world 82 points 10 months ago

YOU'RE IN THE JUNGLE BABY

YOU'RE GONNA DIIIIIIE

[-] magnetosphere@kbin.social 21 points 10 months ago

This will be especially true once Alaska becomes warm enough to support a jungle.

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[-] GluWu@lemm.ee 75 points 10 months ago

Have fun in the water wars, kids!

[-] Lesrid@lemm.ee 15 points 10 months ago

I can't remember where I first read it but I've agreed with it ever since: "My retirement plan is dying in the potable water riots."

[-] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Where's the water going to go? It's in the water cycle, if anything is going to rain a lot more and a lot more violently, and in areas it shouldn't be raining.

If it's contaminated we should be fine collecting and stiling rain water.

"Water is a rare and precious resource" when not talking about habitats, is a silly hyper capitalist argument meant to stoke fear and panic purchases.

[-] TheKingBee@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It is in the water cycle true, but where it is in that cycle and where it ends up are both critical to our long term industrial agricultural water use.

Our water (in the US) comes from aquifers and like the proverbial milk shake, we're drinking it all up and pouring it on alfalfa.

We need far far more water than collecting it from the rain would provide.

The coming water wars will be fought over the rights to the dwindling supplies...

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[-] ericbomb@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

A lot of water used in agriculture is actually from underground water sources that refill very slowly. Once we run out of those, many of the things we do can't work anymore.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

About 10 years ago it didn't rain in Central California for 2 straight years. Imagine that, but with the ground water gone, and places water is traditionally piped from saying "no more". Millions of people would die.

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[-] Tbird83ii@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 10 months ago

Great. Thanks. Now I can't get the image of Kevin Costner pissing into a funnel out of my head.

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[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 65 points 10 months ago

70 degrees in Dezember around here would kill most people, since it's only 30 degrees below the boiling point of water.

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[-] cheeseblintzes@lemmy.world 63 points 10 months ago

This shit is exactly why despite having hated growing up in the frozen tundra... I'm now staying. Its not worth giving up at this point in society.

Been a....something... guys. Best of luck to you in the climate wars.

May the odds be ever in your favor.

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[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 63 points 10 months ago

That's ~21 degrees in non-freedom units from someone who has to do this conversion a lot.

Also, that's pretty normal summer temperature if you are from the Southern hemisphere.

[-] YoorWeb@lemmy.world 54 points 10 months ago
[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

If we are being really pedantic, the freezing and boiling part of first paragraph is only true under sea level atmospheric pressure, so technically, you can't really relate these quantities with the given information in the first paragraph either.

But I don't think that's the point this exerpt is trying to make.

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[-] splicerslicer@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago

But this is clearly written from the perspective of someone who lives in a climate that used to be solidly below freezing all through the winter months in the northern hemisphere. Now snow seems like a distant memory from childhood.

[-] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 10 months ago

21°C/70°F is a normal winter temperature where I'm from in the southern hemisphere 🥲

And right now it's summer... let's put it this way, lately it's been over 40°C/104°F for so many weeks in a row that, when temperatures dipped to 33°C/91°F, it felt cold... and to think it's only going to get worse going forward @_@

[-] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 61 points 10 months ago

I call them Generation Last

[-] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 40 points 10 months ago

The crazy part is I have friends who are well aware that the world is completely fucked and they are still making new children.

[-] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The cute smile, hugs and sex are pretty convincing 😪

EDIT: of my girlfriend, you sick psychos

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 32 points 10 months ago

Don’t have sex with children

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[-] lugal@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

The German equivalent of JustStopOil is called the Last Generation (or letzte Generation). The official name is like the last generation that can hold up climate crises, but the implication is clear

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[-] TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works 49 points 10 months ago

I live near the arctic circle.. it's usually -40° right now.. it's actually +5°C today.

T-shirt weather in late December.. wtf humanity

[-] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 15 points 10 months ago

Yeah I never expected a nice day in December to bring such existential dread.

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[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 24 points 10 months ago

"That unapparent summer air in early fall"

  • "That funny feeling" by Bo Burnham
[-] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 13 points 10 months ago

"The slowly comprehending of the ending of it all."

[-] GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

That's pretty normal for the southern US. I've had several Christmases that were 85 degrees even.

[-] urda@lebowski.social 13 points 10 months ago

It was good while it lasted.

[-] Chobbes@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago

It was okay at best lol.

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