Comment on The true hero of summer

HelixDab2@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  lol it’s 107 this weekend get fucked

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  • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    107 fahrenheit is 42 celcius.

    beep boop this was not sent by a bot

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    • onion@feddit.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Also not by a banana

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      • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That was not disclosed. We don’t know for sure.

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    • son_named_bort@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Can you prove you’re not a bot?

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      • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Captcha

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  • HelixDab2@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Been there, done that, in San Diego (technically Lakeside, but it’s metro San Diego) when the Santa Anas came up from Baja, Mexico. I didn’t have room fans at the time either. IIRC, most people in San Diego at the time–mid 90s–didn’t have a/c.

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• teft@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I agree with you to a point. People can get used to high heats. However we are going to be reaching problem temperatures soon. Look up wet bulb temperatures. I will drop this quote from the wiki page on wet bulb temperatures:

  Even heat-adapted people cannot carry out normal outdoor activities past a wet-bulb temperature of 32 °C (90 °F), equivalent to a heat index of 55 °C (131 °F). A reading of 35 °C (95 °F) – equivalent to a heat index of 71 °C (160 °F) – is considered the theoretical human survivability limit for up to six hours of exposure.

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  • HelixDab2@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh, definitely. I’m not arguing with that at all. But for the most part people in the US rely on a/c when they’d be better off getting sued to the heat.

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• rockSlayer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Heat in excess of 80 degrees increases everyone’s risk for heat injuries, especially for workers. The heat in the last 5 years is undeniably caused by climate change, and creates a lethal threat to outdoor workers. It’s not “just a little heat”.

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  • HelixDab2@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m not talking about climate change; I’m talking about individual adaptation.

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    • rockSlayer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Individuals don’t have control over the weather. You cannot reasonably expect everyone to adjust to the same acclimation as you.

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      • HelixDab2@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        People do, in general, if they’re healthy, acclimate to the area that they live in. Fairly quickly at that. It doesn’t take more than a summer or two before people that grow up in Minnesota ore used to Florida, and vice versa

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• lobut@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think it can depend on where you live and dry heat vs humid and stuff, but in general I agree.

  I would sleep with a fan instead of turning on AC.

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• Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  To a point. Temperature alone isn't the issue, humidity is the factor. We are exothermic creatures and produce internal heat we have to get rid of. If sweating begins to lose effectiveness due to high moisture already in the air, we slowly start to cook ourselves inside and organs begin to fail.

  I've lived in the south too, you can absolutely get used to the higher variations after a few years. Except when it starts getting higher than you can biologically cope. Just ask people in countries hotter than the U.S. south who have lived fine with the heat for centuries who are now faced with possible death as things get both hotter and wetter there.

  Or just read the first chapter of The Ministry for the Future, it's online.

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  • HelixDab2@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is mostly directed at people in the US that are using a/c for convenience, rather than people in India that are literally dying of heat right now.

    Also, a/c creates net heat.

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