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Northern Hemisphere people talking about the heat is making me a bit anxious (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's selfish I know, but just seeing all people from the North complaining about how horribly hot it is right now makes me quite scared of how things will be looking down south later in the year. I'm enjoying my ~15º C right now but it can get stupidly hot where I live in the summer and I'm really not looking forward to seeing shopping mall Santa Clauses melting into puddles come Christmas.

There's very little official talk of preparing for the summer here and I bet most people will just become surprised airfried pikachu if we also get our heat records.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yea it has gotten a lot hotter in the Midwest USA in summer. 10-15 yrs ago, 85 degrees (30) was pretty rare for us to reach, now 90-ish degrees (33) is sorta the highest temp we get in a given summer month. I work outside so I’ve definitely noticed a difference in the past 4 years or so

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

What scares me is the wet bulb temperature. I'm in a wetland area, so that's 90ish with extremely high humidity. Sweat does nothing, airflow does nothing, shade does nothing, you just suffer until your cell's proteins denature lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

50 Celsius here currently in a region that hasn’t seen such temperatures since a cataclysmic weather phenomenon in the 1870’s.

Historically we should have 27 weather and maybe a handful of 30-35 days.

We haven’t had one day under 50, and it’s been torrential down pouring every night.

I’m terrified, I’m in the northern hemisphere in a COLD REGION. The global south is fucked this coming southern summer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Hmm, where I live is not the hottest summer in recent years. It's barely reached 30 degrees Celsius one time, and then dropped to 18-25.

[+] TokenBoomer -12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Trust me bro. If you don’t know about collapse, don’t look into it. Just remember to wear sunscreen. There’s nothing we can do now. Just love one another for as long as we can.

[+] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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[+] TokenBoomer -6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes it is. The research is… not good.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

There are lots of things we can still do even at a local level. In this specific case even just providing relief from the heat waves with water, shades and in some cases air conditioning can literally save lives. The issue is that liberals think only in terms of today's news cycles and so in the case of my local government there is no measure being taken now to prevent heatstroke deaths in 6 months.

Shit is bad, and it's no doubt gonna get worse, but if we embrace defeatism and refuse to act even locally it's just gonna get worse even faster. We're not even some deprived starving city/country, we have the resources to act. All that remains is to think in the long term and force the government to do it or implement something ourselves. Bet it would suck to be a mayor in a stuffy suit if the AC mysteriously breaks in a 40° day.

If you personally can't do much it's completely fine, but don't encourage others who can to just lie down and die too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Isn't "ride the kali yuga" a Nazi dog whistle?

[–] zaph 1 points 1 year ago

From my quick search apparently "surf" is the dog whistle and "ride" is the normal phrase.

[–] TokenBoomer 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is. Sometimes the irony in my head doesn’t translate. The tech libertarians use it. It was originally Hindu, I believe. It was what came to mind when trying to describe the sentiment. Can’t say “enjoy the show,” that’s Qanon. Maybe “wear sunscreen?”

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not specific to tech libertarians. It is mostly used by right wing traditionalists who are also often just straight up nazis. It's related to an imagined cycle of birth, death and rebirth.

[–] TokenBoomer 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s almost comical how Nazis will reach way back in time to find some obscure text or occult symbol to justify racism. Their reasoning becomes so convoluted and cryptic. To deconstruct it becomes difficult and I think that’s the point. It seems as if because it’s so complicated and old, it must be true. Like King Arthur.

Note to Nazis: If you use King Arthur to justify racism , I want residuals.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Going back to a "glorious past" is part of fascism. But those hindu mythologisms are also deeply rooted in nazism itself. That is how they got a swastika and the word "aryan"