taken today

https://mobile.twitter.com/CherisseDuPreez/status/1409270228207370241

  • coeliacmccarthy [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Hope everyone in the PNW is staying alive ok, looks like north of 110 in Portland rn

    edit: temps of around 114 throughout northern CA and OR, plz don't die folks

    • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      I'll be real with you I have no idea how anyone here is alive right now. I thought this would be a good place to live because it's usually moderately cool with plentiful water and rain and that global warming wouldn't really make much of a dent in habitability but no, we're about 5 degrees from reaching 95F wetbulb temperature and we've barely started the 2020s. Got to start figuring out where north to move now. Maybe Whitehorse would be nice

      • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        the new american normal: living in a vehicle and moving with the seasons

        the fact that amazon already has a whole mobile peasant program for their warehouses suggests they concur

        edit: i am jumping the shark by building out an RV to be my first "owned" home. I am nearly forty. Sorry ya'll, buckle down for misery.

          • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            hell, the majority of the people in that movie were actual nomads whose retirement couldn't sustain living in a fixed location - it's not a prophecy of the future it's already here

      • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        The theoretical limit to human survival for more than a few hours in the shade, even with unlimited water, is 35 °C (95 °F) – theoretically equivalent to a heat index of 70 °C (160 °F), though the heat index does not go that high.

        What the fuck