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Fun fact: 52 degrees Celsius for 3 hours makes a great medium rare steak in a sous vide cooker.
Jesus. Anything over 20c is too much for me. I can't even fathom what 50c feels like and I hope I never have to experience that.
Man, you really like your steak rare.
Edit: Does this show as a gif for anyone else? I'm using sync and that just shows a static picture unless I click on it.
Comes through as a gif for me on Voyager app fwiw
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20 is my good spot too, like 24 and I'm dying. We had a heat wave in BC, Canada last couple of yeara and it hit 38-40 most days during the 2 weeks. The amount of sweating and fatique were exhausting. 52 would have killed me.
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My family: We should save the planet!
Me: great, let’s all eat less meat!
My family: . . . No
This one bugs me so much. Like I'm not even aiming for full veganism. Just... less meat.
No.
"But I like it!" Irrelevant to the problem.
"Other people are worse". Irrelevant to the problem unless you want to go start doing vigilante justice.
"Other people are worse". Irrelevant to the problem unless you want to go start doing vigilante justice.
I wouldn't say irrelevant to the problem... Most of the stuff we as individuals can do, amount to trying to put out a tire fire by clapping... Even millions of us won't make almost any difference, specially when you have 10 assholes who, instead of clapping are actively pouring gas on the fire
I'm 100% on board with the clapping... But I'm not kidding myselft that we are going to save ourselves until we eliminate the firebugs
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First step: just eat less beef.
Even that alone is enough to make a quite decent impact.
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Well, according to kissmyOSfeddit, we don’t even need to eat less meat. We can sous-vide it on the sidewalk now! Sounds like a serious win-win to me.
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Greenpeace: we should save the planet!
Me: great, let's build nuclear power so we can shut down fossile fuels
Greenpeace: ....No
Too late. Somewhere so sunny can get a lot of solor quickly. Building nuclear power plants takes time and releases a lot of CO2. Batteries and solor now now. Cheapest power too.
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Those nuclear power plants won't come online for a decade at least. It's better to spend the money on renewables and storage.
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Hey look, that FO stage of FAFO is well underway. Hold onto your butts people, there's going to be some serious self punishment for our generations of polluting the world for personal convenience and money.
The poor and low-polluting people of the world are being punished for the actions of the wealthy and highly polluting.
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The Pakistanis who can't afford air conditioning and have to do manual labor outside weren't the ones who FA.
Percentage wise, Pakistanis and other peoples living in equatorial regions definitely aren't the major contributors to this catastrophe, but they're going to be the spearhead of the FA phase. It's going to be one of the most unjust repercussions of the actions by the most industrialized and wealthy nations upon the less wealthy ever in the history of mankind (and maybe the end of mankind in the process).
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Nah, more SUVs
I'm with you, but it's not the SUVs that are causing the problem, it's the fucking corporations that contribute over 80% of the harmful emissions.
But fuck SUVs and big ass trucks.
I start to wonder if corporate executives themselves arent responsible for this myth that the meaningful bulk of emissions comes from them. So consumers can feel guilt free about buying these gas guzzling chunkers, after all their choices dont have any meaningful effect on emissions.
But no, corporate headquarters doesnt have a giant smokestack spewing out those corporate emissions you hear about. Those emissions are coming from...SUV tailpipes! Transportation is the highest emissions sector in the US, and personal vehicles make up the bulk of those emissions, especially trucks and SUVs.
Actually, it’s electricity and heating:
https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector
Transportation is number two (by quite a bit) but don’t forget that Transportation of goods is also part of transportation.
Not saying we shouldn’t give up the SUVs, just that maybe we should use less power and heat with something cleaner as well.
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Welcome to Pakistan, we have:
- drunken COAS with nukes
- smog
- the hot
- fresh fruit
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50C is near OSHA's max limit to touch safe zones which is 60C. At 60C, no matter how many seconds, you will get burnt. At 50C you can hold an object for a few seconds safely.
But also keep in mind that it's usually air temperature being measured, with surface temperatures being even worse than that!
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Hottest I've ever been in is 114f iirc in a dry heat. It was brutal like "you can feel moisture evaporating out of your eyes", I felt like just sitting around I couldn't drink water as fast as I was losing it. 125 is bonkers
Higher temperatures have been recorded last year but I think the heat is starting earlier this year?
Texas had its hottest May in recorded history this year. I have to assume we're not the only ones.
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Hm, strange. I wonder if there's anything we can do about it?
Nope. The shareholders are in needing of a 5th yacht
Oh... if only the scientists had warned us something like this could happen...
Oh... wait....
Well, if only the scientists had done something bigger and been louder to get everyone's attention, like saying global warming is bad and self-immolating in a public place to try to warn people we're all about to die...
Oh... wait...
Well, don't worry, the magic sky gods will all take us to paradise once it gets too hot, and they lived happily ever after, the end, Yay! 🎈 🎉
Hats off to delivery people, soldiers, guards, roadside sellers for not dying in this heat apocalypse
Best keep the hats on, eh
Don't worry Pakistan Greenpeace banned nuclear power and brought back coal, that will save you from the ravages of global warming
Greenpeace banned nuclear power and brought back coal
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Centuries of colonial rule
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Decades of military dictatorship
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Enormous domestic fossil fuels and chemicals industry (see: Pakistan's fuel oil exports surge to record high on muted domestic demand )
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Decades of nuclear non-proliferation policy at the UN driven by fear of rogue states using the weapons to terrorize civilians
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Billions spent on media campaigns to influence fossil fuel policies
You know that small American-based environmental organization that did a few high profile stunts back in the 1970s? They did this.
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Genuinely curious. Is it safer to stay inside without AC or go outside in shade? Isn't the ambient air temperature still too dangerous in the shade?
Anyway whoever starts selling AC to Europe is going to print money.
I lived in Phoenix Arizona where 52 C was the peak of the summer heat. I'm not sure how one would have a regular life without AC. Sleeping in that type of heat is very hard.
I had a truck with no AC and driving around with the windows open was like opening a convection oven door and letting the fan blow on you.
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Sure hope we don't get temperatures like this over water for any prolonged period...
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