This year may be biblical

[fohat.digs]

it has been festering in me for years.

People who know me know that I like "sitting around in the dark" .... No doubt that my eyes are sensitive, they are pale blue and I am getting older, but I have always preferred low light situations. As far as enjoying a dark environment indoors - that seems natural to me. True, now that my visual acuity is diminished I need extra light for critical close-up tasks but for general "sitting around" I strongly prefer low light levels.

My ex- in contrast, was one of those people who turned on every light in the house right away. On a dark winter morning that is absolutely painful to me. And, I hardly ever set foot outside in sunlight without dark sunglasses.

As far as open windows, that can be pleasant (if there is nothing ugly outside like pollen or smoke) but downstairs in an area where there are passersby, no, I don't think so.

[tp4tissue]

No doubt that my eyes are sensitive, they are pale blue and I am getting older, but I have always preferred low light situations. As far as enjoying a dark environment indoors - that seems natural to me.

This sounds like a deficiency of Beta Carotene which is what coats the back of your retina preventing damage from UV.

Gotta eat them yellow/orange veggies.

[tp4tissue]

Texahs

[tp4tissue]

Well, there it is, Venezuela's the first country to lose all of its glacier. Its last remaining glacier has melted down to a lower category an "ice field".

It's gon' get wild people.

[tp4tissue]

We can barely handle 100 million refugees today, projection is 2 Billion refugees @ 2.7Celcius,  Not a single country is ready, or even preparing.

[tp4tissue]

[tp4tissue]

Climate Scientists: We're running out of fresh water, there's gonna be Water-Wars.

-The rest of us, while eating burgers: But why, who's drinking all that water??

Doctors: Never mind that, I need your diabetus money to pay for my german car that I never get to drive because I'm so busy managing your diabetus.

Mcdonalds: My customers are morons, if I sell them something else, they will rebel and go to Burger King.

[tp4tissue]

23 predicted major named storms/hurric for 2024, vs the normal 17.

And that's conservative, other weather agencies are predicting up to 33.

Don't mess around people. Get RDY. Call grandma, bug-out bags at the door.



La nina transition typically makes for a busier season in the Atlantic than usual, this ontop of EXTREMELY warm water this year from el nino.

[fohat.digs]

DeSantis strikes again.

Note that this is -  NOT A JOKE

[fohat.digs]

Hallelujah! Amazing!

SCROTUS actually ruled that the CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) is legitimate and constitutional!

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/16/supreme-court-upholds-cfpb-funding-saving-agency-00158348

[tp4tissue]

Houston, Texas devastation. 1 million people without power. Concrete highrise = deathtraps ?

Climate change is fake news. Even florida legally denies its existence.



Honestly though, why do we even put glass on highrise windows. Why not use plywood with some holes. What's there to see. It's a city, we're in a cage.

Those windows will cost $millions to fix.

[fohat.digs]

Concrete highrise = deathtraps ?

Imagine when the hurricane hits Miami ....

[tp4tissue]

Imagine when the hurricane hits Miami ....

No way, Ron Desantis has the power to stop climate change in its track.

[Leslieann]

The funny thing is he also made it a requirement to have hurricane restoration plans (I.E. insurance)...

So deny the threat but require insurance to cover it, what could go wrong.
The next major one will send insurers running, the few that are left and they'll take their money with them just like they did with Hurricane Katrina. At which point the feds will have to handle it... You know, the ones they way to get rid of.

[tp4tissue]

In the event of, let's call it scarcity, a CITY would tear itself apart. The amount and rate of destruction would rise exponentially relative to population size.

[Pyre]

In the event of, let's call it scarcity, a CITY would tear itself apart. The amount and rate of destruction would rise exponentially relative to population size.

Indeed - its fascinating how interconnected a city is, and how much its denizens don't realise the effort it takes to get various things on the store shelves - and how fragile that all is.

 We saw in here in Sydney during COVID with people fighting over toilet paper of all things

[Rhienfo]

In the event of, let's call it scarcity, a CITY would tear itself apart. The amount and rate of destruction would rise exponentially relative to population size.

Indeed - its fascinating how interconnected a city is, and how much its denizens don't realise the effort it takes to get various things on the store shelves - and how fragile that all is.

 We saw in here in Sydney during COVID with people fighting over toilet paper of all things

The toilet paper hoarding was the strangest thing, I would've expected hand sanitiser and soap to run off the shelves first but toilet paper seemed so random, I remember hearing that the majority of toilet paper in Australia is produced locally, so it made it even more random cause there wouldn't have been shortages if there wasn't any panic about it.

[fohat.digs]

This picture is not pretty.

[tp4tissue]

It's going to be worse during harvest season through June. Harvest releases a ton of carbon. And at the same time removes the surface plants which absorb carbon

[tp4tissue]

In Mexico, it's so hot right now, overheated monkeys are falling from trees, suffering injury and death.

[fohat.digs]

In Mexico, it's so hot right now, overheated monkeys are falling from trees

I heard that was in India. Probably both.

[tp4tissue]

Mungeshpur, Delhi, 52.3 Celcius.  ~126.14 F

Look, I'm just saying,  the house is burning down.  You guys wanna like maybe, idk.

[Pyre]

In the event of, let's call it scarcity, a CITY would tear itself apart. The amount and rate of destruction would rise exponentially relative to population size.

Indeed - its fascinating how interconnected a city is, and how much its denizens don't realise the effort it takes to get various things on the store shelves - and how fragile that all is.

 We saw in here in Sydney during COVID with people fighting over toilet paper of all things

The toilet paper hoarding was the strangest thing, I would've expected hand sanitiser and soap to run off the shelves first but toilet paper seemed so random, I remember hearing that the majority of toilet paper in Australia is produced locally, so it made it even more random cause there wouldn't have been shortages if there wasn't any panic about it.

That was the funniest thing - Quilton have their factory in SA, so there wasn't really an issue of supply.

[fohat.digs]

toilet paper hoarding

That was the funniest thing

It was truly bizarre. Not far from here there was a gunfight and death in a parking lot when one customer filled a truck with the entire supply available at the store.

Of course grocery stores were stripped of rice, beans, flour, oil, etc, very quickly but that made at least some sense.

My theory is that people felt helpless and were looking for anything to do that would make them feel secure.

[tp4tissue]

Of course grocery stores were stripped of rice, beans, flour, oil, etc, very quickly but that made at least some sense.

Tp4 also bought ~600lbs of rice back then. Up to 1000lbs end to end.

[tp4tissue]

Sobering article about climate inequality.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2023/india-deadly-extreme-heat-poverty/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2

[Rhienfo]

It was truly bizarre. Not far from here there was a gunfight and death in a parking lot when one customer filled a truck with the entire supply available at the store.

Of course grocery stores were stripped of rice, beans, flour, oil, etc, very quickly but that made at least some sense.

My theory is that people felt helpless and were looking for anything to do that would make them feel secure.

For Australia at least, it was a lot of panic that stemmed from the media, that started when people started spreading misinformation that the toilet paper supplies were running out. Then the media reported about these shortages and were basically saying "don't panic buy, but it might be months before you can get some" so people flooded the stores to get some.

The lesson learned - get a bidet, more environmentally friendly and probably better for you than tp.

[fohat.digs]

The lesson learned - people are full of ****.

Fixed that for you.

[Rhienfo]

The lesson learned - people are full of ****.

Fixed that for you.

also true lol

[noisyturtle]

Middle of the afternoon, 1 day away from June, 51°/10.5°C

this whole weeks has been cold and miserable

[fohat.digs]

this whole weeks has been cold and miserable

There are literally hundreds of millions of people who envy you.

[tp4tissue]

Peeps pretty angry over on the Indian forums.

[tp4tissue]

Unconfirmed, but rumors of high uptick in raw milk sales due to the belief spread along social media, that drinking Raw Milk infested with H5N1 will produce immunity.

 
Heck, let them do it, natural selection right?

[mohawk1367]

Middle of the afternoon, 1 day away from June, 51°/10.5°C

this whole weeks has been cold and miserable

i wish it was still 51 here. hate the heat

[tp4tissue]

Heat Katrina.

So, this is where they model a sudden power blackout during a dangerous heatwave.  For example a 2 day black out modeled in Phoenix Arizona during a severe heatwave would result in 12,000 (12 thousand) deaths.

//Gaspp..

[tp4tissue]

Dengue fever, here it comes. Already 3 million confirmed cases in Brazil.

Dengue, bone-breaking pain + fever, because it feels like your bones are breaking, they don't literally break, it just feels like it, but maybe that's good enough.

[tp4tissue]

Microplastics found in seeman samples, lower spurtm count correlated.

So they say further studies are required to explore the correlation.

[tp4tissue]

Oh snap, they lied about the Cows not dying from the H5N1, they indeed have been dying.

[tp4tissue]

South Florida flooded, despite climate banishment.

[kurplop]

Cheer up and stop being so gloomy.

[tp4tissue]

Cheer up and stop being so gloomy.

Trying, kurplo, it's very hard.

[tp4tissue]

The car wash. sigh..... The amount of wasted resources just to wash cars.  It's not even that clean after the fact, it's only slightly cleaner at best. They barely get out all the streaks.

[noisyturtle]

It has been in the low 50s all week, what is going on? Where is Summer?

[fohat.digs]

Where is Summer?

Everywhere else.

[Rhienfo]

The car wash. sigh..... The amount of wasted resources just to wash cars.  It's not even that clean after the fact, it's only slightly cleaner at best. They barely get out all the streaks.

true, but like, idk going through a car wash is like so cool to me, idk it was like my favourite thing to go through as a kid.

[fohat.digs]

The last 2 times I went through I got no soap.

[Leslieann]

The car wash. sigh..... The amount of wasted resources just to wash cars.  It's not even that clean after the fact, it's only slightly cleaner at best. They barely get out all the streaks.

A LOT of places filter and re-use the water, using only pure fresh water for the last rinse, if even that.
If there's access to treated/grey water they can even use that for final rinse.

Washes can also save resources, especially in the rust belt, by prolonging a cars usable lifespan.

[tp4tissue]

Dr. Phillip Alveld, former program manager, DARPA’s Biological Technologies Office that pioneered the synthetic biology industry and the development of mRNA vaccine technology.

"...the White House has maintained the very strictest abatements to protect people who live and work there from the virus: In order to enter the White House, they have to have had no symptoms for 14 days, the latest booster vaccinations up-to-date, and a negative rapid test. They have nine or better fresh air exchanges per hour and all filters are upgraded to MERV 13. They have also installed 220 nanometer Germicidal UV lamps. After a positive test, you have to have a PCR Test negative to return to work. The White House admitted quietly on CSPAN that the protections were still in place in July of 2023 when an Israeli delegation was not admitted after testing positive for COVID, after claiming with much fanfare the prior April that the pandemic was over and that it was safe to return to work."

Covid is NOT over, they just don't care if you die anymore. Don't stop flipping those burgers.