under 50
owning a house
once again, and i cannot stress this enough: :agony-shivering:
here in the northeast we have the coolest June in years. Consistently 70s-80s.
In other words, we have a normal 1980s June. And NPCs will ignore the fact that 95F summers have been normalized here within only this decade
I sure do love living in fucking Norway and suddenly having 35+ celsius every summer.
Very normal.
95 degree Fahrenheit.
that seems pretty dang hot for Norway. :walter:
I moved into an area with lakes, but holy shit does 35c+ suck in places covered in concrete and roads.
Yeah I can't wait for them to try blackening the sky ala the Matrix.
God why is that every time temperature rises a little bit American and europeans begging to drop like flies? i live in a city that daily has 35 degrees, and I've never met a single person who has ever had a heat stroke, yet a bunch of people fucking die when london reaches 23º
I used to work in a home automation company, fixing thermostats, and I once got a lady who threaten to sue because we didn't fix her broken thermostat, saying that her baby was going to get a heat stroke and die (it was 22ºC). can't believe
Like that time I had room temp gezpacho soup, and it burned my lips because I was expecting cooled gezpacho soup.
But I think you may be right, that there is a physiological adaptation to hotter weather, where blood vessels are abundant either closer or farther away from the skin outside. But I might also be wrong.
I wonder if diet can affect the adaptation as well. I grew up eating bland scandinavian food and could tolerate the cold to the point where I'd wear shorts and short-sleeved shirts all year round, go out in the snow barefoot and in shorts without discomfort (not for prolonged periods, obviously, just going out to check mail or get something from the family car), swim in water that only Russians thought was comfortable (actual anecdote, as a kid on some trip to the beach in the spring or fall the water was so cold that the only other people there who were swimming were some Russians, even my scandinavian family thought the water was too cold lol), etc, then as an adult went without AC in the south for over a decade and started living off extremely spicy food with lots of the hottest peppers I could get and now ~80+ is pleasantly warm, 90+ is tolerable in the shade with a fan going, and when it gets down to 70 I'm starting to be cold and dressing warmly or huddling under a blanket as my extremities start to go stiff and numb (well, that's more around 60 and below, but still).
Acclimation is a huge thing. You can easily get heatstroke in the 80s if you aren't acclimated.
God why is that every time temperature rises a little bit American and europeans begging to drop like flies?
Global warming is Gaia's fever and crackers are the virus.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
I've mentioned this before but I've abstained from reading much climate science and news in the last year now and it has helped me mentally. I've been so depressed about this shit for so long, but there is just nothing I can do really.. Global unfettered capitalism is the root cause of so much fucked up, so I just focus on pushing others I'm around to better understanding how climate and capitalism are intertwined and if you truly want a better planet we need to end capitalism. It has helped but I also live in a place deeply effected by this shit so it's impossible to ignore it.
It sucks to care so much about something like this but having to force yourself to be less and less informed about it. It really did mentally fuck me up for so long, but limiting my intake of it all was the solution to helping me feel generally happier. Shits fucked up
I can't imagine electricity going away. It's way too easy to make a turbine to generate power from wind or the flow of water.
My guess is that there's going to be a lot of local, smaller-scale, more distributed generation on the neighbourhood level based on smaller and easier to construct generators like stirling engines or turbines or something weird as hell, and some people with know-how are going to continue to run larger scale power plants at reduced capacity. Shoring up of old infrastructure can happen, and will likely result in a lot of communities building up around old infrastructure that wasn't as dilapidated. Power plant towns and the like.
