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[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've heard so many right wingers claim that Californians aren't real americans, and yet here they are trying to shoot their way out of the consequences of large scale systemic failures.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's still the south just without the foghorn leghorn accent.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Awesome pfp. is that the moment his wife defied him and went out in public fully clothed?

[–] Maggoty -1 points 3 months ago

Unfortunately California is flipped. Which sucks because NorCal has awesome forests. Well for now at any rate.

[–] MotoAsh 41 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Aim that thing at the fossil fuel companies that literally gaslighted the public for decades.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

If you're going to do that, may as well get Coleman first. They're still gaslighting people.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

They are just on a war against Big Oxygen. They'll stop lighting the gas after it's finished.

[–] perviouslyiner 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Kerbal players, knowing the delta-v to approach the sun: ... (completely unimpressed-face at a bullet flopping into the ground less than a km away)

[–] ProfessorProteus 3 points 3 months ago

And even if that bullet traveled at escape velocity it would only end up in a slightly more eccentric orbit. If my mental model is right, they would have to wait until a bit after sunset and shoot straight up to send it in the right direction while encountering the least atmospheric drag.

...🤓

[–] NickwithaC 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Maybe you shouldn't live in a desert that's on a massive deadly fault line then.

[–] Maggoty 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There's more water in SoCal than Central Valley. And we can always Solar->Desalination. Unlike the poor bastards in Phoenix who are just going to run out in a few years.

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What? Source that SoCal has more than the San Joaquin…unless you mean they’ve already pumped way too much water out of the valley. Hell, there’s water piped from the Valley to L.A., so if SoCal has that much water they shouldn’t need Valley water?

[–] Maggoty -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, I got my geography screwed up. So I'll just describe it from the map. There's a line of hills/mountains east of LA and SD that scrape water out of the sky for the coast. On the East side it's much drier but they've got farms all through there and a couple towns.

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I really don’t know where you’re getting your info. I grew up in CA and there’s no way SoCal gets more water of any kind unless it’s piped in. This precip map also proves that. The Sierras and Northern California get way more rain/snow than the San Gabriel or Bernardino mountains “scrape” out of the sky. The Sierras are a huge range compared to them, and when they do get snow, that water feeds into the lakes and rivers in the Valley. The precipitation map clearly shows SoCal can’t match any precipitation further up the state past Tehachapi.

[–] Maggoty -2 points 3 months ago

Yeah I was thinking about LA and SD compared to the area directly east of them. Which it strikes me now that both areas are SoCal.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Same here in Finland. Never could have I imagined that it's September and +26 outside!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fucking 33C today here in germany. I hope every climate change denier has to spend a week doing manual labor in this insanity

[–] someguy3 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I just looked at Phoenix and the night time low is 32 C. High is 44.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My condolences... do you guys like, work at night? 44C sounds completely intolerable to me lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Nope. Just keep pumping more CO2 into the atmosphere by running our air conditioners 24/7. I'm sure it'll be fine...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

A few days ago it was a refreshing 8° in Trondheim/Norway, now it's 22°.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Is SoCal short for Southern California or does it have to do with Southern Canada? I am from the rest of the world and I'm not familiar with these whatchacallits.

[Edit] Well probably not Canada because there's no L in that. I'm tired I guess.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

As a Canadian, I'm piping in to say that no, they probably don't mean me

[–] Buddahriffic 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Also as a Canadian, I started the day with shorts but switched to pants before I left the house this evening and am wondering if I'll need to switch the thermostat to heat instead of cool (because for some reason it can't handle just having a range and heating or cooling as necessary to keep it within that range).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I was thinking more that the whole pointing a pistol at the sun is awful fucking American

[–] Buddahriffic 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, and it wouldn't be a pistol if it was here. Shotgun or rifle maybe, but not a pistol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Most of our gun violence is actually pistols, but they're certainly not legally owned

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, in my neck of SoCal, it's the humidity as much as the heat. I keep going to bed in 80-90% humidity and waking up wet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Are you implying those two things are related?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Well I'm not pissing myself, so...

[–] sjkhgsi 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Juno was mad, he knew he'd been had

[–] gamenac 1 points 3 months ago

And now it's playing on a loop in my head. I'm not even mad about it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Can you imagine how bad it would be if people just took there guns and fired at the sun? It would be raining bullets

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

“Shots fired, into the sky, are now returning, where the fuck will you hide?”

Rise Against — Rumors of My Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

[–] Aielman15 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I used to listen to Rise Against a lot when I was younger. I pivoted to other genres since then, but reading their lyrics again was super nostalgic. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

They would be fighting in the shad... wait, wrong meme.

[–] Maggoty 3 points 3 months ago

The entire Southwest. Arizona has had over 100 days in a row of 100+ temperatures.

We're ready for the orbital solar power shade.

Even the Saguaros are too hot.

[–] octesian 3 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Can confirm. AAAAAAAAAAAAA (peaked 39c today)

[–] frankspurplewings 1 points 3 months ago

It was ridiculous today. The humidity suckkkkkeeed

[–] ameancow 2 points 3 months ago

Just got back from Southeast Asia, I'll take this any day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

112 AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[–] UnfortunateShort 2 points 3 months ago

Song to that picture (it's fucking awesome btw.): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rjzuejoHKQ