Turkey sets new record of 50.5 degrees as Europe swelters
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50.5 degrees sounds pleasantly chilly
American spotted
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Yeah using even more energy will surely fix the climate crisis.
The amount of energy used by increasing AC usage is diminutive compared to things like, IDK, AI data centers that require an entirely new, dedicated power plant to run. Prioritize the big assholes first, before you insist that the little guys should be the ones to suffer.
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Jeebus. That's fucking wild.
This summer has been like summers when I was a kid. I'm a few hundred miles north of where I was.
(Neighbors look at us like we're crazy when working outside in the mid 90s, humidity is only like 60-70%.) Heat tolerance is a superpower, apparently.
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The amount of energy used by increasing AC usage is diminutive compared to things like, IDK, AI data centers that require an entirely new, dedicated power plant to run. Prioritize the big assholes first, before you insist that the little guys should be the ones to suffer.
One does not exclude the other.
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You know that the warmer countries usually have ways to deal with it, including many having AC, right? Talking about "Europeans" collectively doesn't make sense. Why would I waste money and resources on AC in Sweden or the UK to deal with our two weeks of warm weather? Our homes are instead built to deal with cold conditions.
Yes and the southern countries also know how to build houses that don't turn into ovens in the heat, thick walls, etc.
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Couldn't be, some places still get snow.
For now.
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If I could bet $100 million with x99 margin leverage that next year will be hotter, I'd be rich like a oil execitive; but I'm not an oil exec to have $100M in their bank.. lol who would benefit more if the world boiled to noninhabitability oh... shit.. you don't say
https://kalshi.com/?category=climate
If you can dream it punters are already betting on it.
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For now.
As long as there is 1 square meter of snow/ice anywhere on the planet, we can't tell for sure if global warming is happening.So let's do nothing until then.
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Canada just had a record winter, global warming makes extremes more extreme
wrote last edited by [email protected]No it's a warming of the planet with extreme weather events.
If you think winter is going to get colder, you're wrong.you might get more blizzards and storms, but global warming means the planet gets WARMER overall (which is part of what causes the extreme weather events).
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You know that the warmer countries usually have ways to deal with it, including many having AC, right? Talking about "Europeans" collectively doesn't make sense. Why would I waste money and resources on AC in Sweden or the UK to deal with our two weeks of warm weather? Our homes are instead built to deal with cold conditions.
Don't worry, Trump is over there to teach you how to do things the American way. See, you use the cheapest lumber, plywood and pine boards, and then you cover it all in plastic sheeting. Then you put up drywall, which is about the weakest material known to man, and cover the interior walls with no plaster or anything
Then what you want to do is really crank the plastic up to 11. Plastic siding, expanding plastic foam in the walls, just fill up the attic with it
And you want to make the designs very basic, they should all look nearly identical
And now you have a house that will require constant A/C or heating, because it's a plastic bubble with terrible air circulation. Also, you have to worry about the whole thing rotting if it gets too damp
But if you do everything right, it might last 50 whole years
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Don't worry, Trump is over there to teach you how to do things the American way. See, you use the cheapest lumber, plywood and pine boards, and then you cover it all in plastic sheeting. Then you put up drywall, which is about the weakest material known to man, and cover the interior walls with no plaster or anything
Then what you want to do is really crank the plastic up to 11. Plastic siding, expanding plastic foam in the walls, just fill up the attic with it
And you want to make the designs very basic, they should all look nearly identical
And now you have a house that will require constant A/C or heating, because it's a plastic bubble with terrible air circulation. Also, you have to worry about the whole thing rotting if it gets too damp
But if you do everything right, it might last 50 whole years
Oh how lovely that sounds! I am beginning to tire of my old brick building.. I hope this is part of that totally equal trade deal the EU just made with our saviour so we can crank up the Americanisation!
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Oh how lovely that sounds! I am beginning to tire of my old brick building.. I hope this is part of that totally equal trade deal the EU just made with our saviour so we can crank up the Americanisation!
Yep! Look forward to bleached meat and widening all your roads to accommodate pointlessly enormous trucks you currently need a CDL to drive
You're going to have to rip up everything and redo it all just for that
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Yep! Look forward to bleached meat and widening all your roads to accommodate pointlessly enormous trucks you currently need a CDL to drive
You're going to have to rip up everything and redo it all just for that
Amazing, finally I'll have space to drive the tank I've always dreamed of and I'll never have to worry about parking spots when I go to the new super mall to buy corn syrup-filled food! I hope we tear down all these old crap buildings and will have a serious building boom! Preferably mass-produced cardboard houses and glass skyscrapers!
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Amazing, finally I'll have space to drive the tank I've always dreamed of and I'll never have to worry about parking spots when I go to the new super mall to buy corn syrup-filled food! I hope we tear down all these old crap buildings and will have a serious building boom! Preferably mass-produced cardboard houses and glass skyscrapers!
Pfft, skyscrapers? In this stage of capitalism? No, you get huge office buildings, 3 floors at best, and you'll marvel when they have the exact same marble floorings in the lobby, which is just rows of elevators and hallways. They will have huge windows and be the building equivalent of a cubicle inside. They will all be grouped together on the outskirts of cities replacing green places, and there will be no public transportation between them and residential areas. If you're lucky you can get a cafe within walking distance, but you probably have to drive for lunch
Oh, and that reminds me, you really need to get more proactive about making public transportation worse. No one should use it by choice, it needs to be slow and dirty. Only the poors should use it, to motivate them to become billionaires somehow
Also, the Chunnel is now just for freight. If you want to go somewhere, you'll use cars and planes exclusively
