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[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 136 points 2 years ago (5 children)
[–] Guntrigger@feddit.ch 37 points 2 years ago

It can't be that cold, they're naked except for the hats!

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[–] uphillbothways@kbin.social 98 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

My kids won't have this problem. Given the circumstances that have been obvious for 40-50 years I made the best and most responsible parenting decision possible. I didn't have any.

[–] Gigan@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago (13 children)

But now your responsible, climate-concerned genes have been removed from the gene-pool.

[–] magnetosphere@kbin.social 40 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

I’m not going to force children to live in a future I have no faith in just so I can say I’m part of the “gene pool”. It’s unfair to make them pay the costs for several lifetimes of greed and irresponsibility. To me, that’s exceptionally arrogant and cruel.

I hope I’m wrong, but I’m not willing to bet my child’s future on that.

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[–] Wrench@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Friends/acquaintances with young children always want to know why my wife and I chose not to have kids. I get very dirty looks when my first answer is "there are already too damn many people in the world as it is"

The economists are the worst. "Don't you know, we need children to fund your retirement! Economies need a growing population!"

Yeah, fuck off. That's not sustainable and you know it. We're going to need to figure out how to make shrinking populations work.

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[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 84 points 2 years ago (24 children)

70 degrees of what? Freedom?

[–] waigl@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Temperature translation for non-Americans:

70°F ≈ 21.1°C
50°F = 10°C
20°F ≈ -6.7°C

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[–] Zorque@kbin.social 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Separation. Kevin Bacon wanted nothing to do with this.

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[–] finkrat@lemmy.world 83 points 2 years ago (1 children)

YOU'RE IN THE JUNGLE BABY

YOU'RE GONNA DIIIIIIE

[–] magnetosphere@kbin.social 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This will be especially true once Alaska becomes warm enough to support a jungle.

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[–] GluWu@lemm.ee 72 points 2 years ago (16 children)

Have fun in the water wars, kids!

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[–] cheeseblintzes@lemmy.world 62 points 2 years ago (9 children)

This shit is exactly why despite having hated growing up in the frozen tundra... I'm now staying. Its not worth giving up at this point in society.

Been a....something... guys. Best of luck to you in the climate wars.

May the odds be ever in your favor.

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[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 61 points 2 years ago (4 children)

That's ~21 degrees in non-freedom units from someone who has to do this conversion a lot.

Also, that's pretty normal summer temperature if you are from the Southern hemisphere.

[–] YoorWeb@lemmy.world 54 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (10 children)

If we are being really pedantic, the freezing and boiling part of first paragraph is only true under sea level atmospheric pressure, so technically, you can't really relate these quantities with the given information in the first paragraph either.

But I don't think that's the point this exerpt is trying to make.

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[–] splicerslicer@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago

But this is clearly written from the perspective of someone who lives in a climate that used to be solidly below freezing all through the winter months in the northern hemisphere. Now snow seems like a distant memory from childhood.

[–] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 years ago

21°C/70°F is a normal winter temperature where I'm from in the southern hemisphere 🥲

And right now it's summer... let's put it this way, lately it's been over 40°C/104°F for so many weeks in a row that, when temperatures dipped to 33°C/91°F, it felt cold... and to think it's only going to get worse going forward @_@

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[–] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 60 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I call them Generation Last

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 34 points 2 years ago (5 children)

The crazy part is I have friends who are well aware that the world is completely fucked and they are still making new children.

[–] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

The cute smile, hugs and sex are pretty convincing 😪

EDIT: of my girlfriend, you sick psychos

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don’t have sex with children

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 48 points 2 years ago (3 children)

70 degrees in Dezember around here would kill most people, since it's only 30 degrees below the boiling point of water.

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ah, being intentionally obtuse.

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[–] TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works 45 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I live near the arctic circle.. it's usually -40° right now.. it's actually +5°C today.

T-shirt weather in late December.. wtf humanity

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[–] rab@lemmy.ca 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

We have had almost no snow in BC this year. Northern BC is in severe drought. There isn't even enough water to fill the recently completed highly controversial site C dam.

Basically that means we are going to have the worst fire season we've ever seen, sorry america but the smoke alone will ruin your summer too

Even fucking Haida Gwaii is seeing some mild level of drought right now. This shit ain't right

[–] vivadanang@lemm.ee 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You should look at the winter that recently ended in the southern hemisphere - record ice shelf losses during winter, record high temps in Rio and other cities. In winter.

And it's just getting more and more brutal.

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[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"That unapparent summer air in early fall"

  • "That funny feeling" by Bo Burnham
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[–] burgersc12@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Hate when it rains during winter time

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