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False Claims that Heatwave is Bogus Spread Online
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So we've actually gotten to the point where these idiots will argue whether or not it's hot outside. I knew people could be stupid/crazy, I just didn't realize how many of them there are.
Seen quite literally during the pandemic.
Yep, with the future in store for the earth the pandemic was basically a social test and the results weren't promising.
I look at the bright side. Many idiots won the Darwin award during the pandemic.
The problem with these new idiots is that they won't get to experience their idiocy because they live in a place that's not affected yet.
Not enough won that award to make a big difference or convince those that believe dumb shit otherwise.
I know people who literally came close to being dead from COVID who still have a lot of stupid ass opinions about the pandemic. Hell, my FIL suffered permanent lung damage to the point that he can't handle being at high elevations for very long. He struggles to breathe with any physical exertion whatsoever. Still a skeptic. Some people just kind of go all "sunk cost falacy" on their own idiocy.
Or a place that is getting affected, but not in a way that looks like what they think global warming means.
More intense storms and more extreme weather of all types are still symptoms of the same problem, even if a local area isn't hotter today than last summer.
Absolutely, now these fools can Darwin award the whole planet! For a couple of people to be really rich!
Nah. Earth will be fine. We and any species that won't adapt to the shit we did, not so much.
The pandemic officially retired the phrase "avoid it like the plague" for at least a third of the USA population.