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@WillieDJenkins1 @Cyn1calCrusader Our ancestors also invented unlimited clean energy so could live better but here we are
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@Cyn1calCrusader Replace the monarchy that roasts you to death in terrible hot slave quarters. Window air conditioners are under $200, proof the God loves us and wants us to be happy
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So, jokes aside, to understand why the heat is worse in the UK than say Arizona for example, the answer is quite long...
First it's the Humidity, it's far higher here.
The UK's island location and prevailing south-westerly winds bring moist sea air, so heatwaves are often humid rather than dry.
In contrast, many of the hottest US states (e.g., Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico) have dry desert heat where sweat evaporates quickly, so you actually feel cooler despite higher temperatures.
Even humid US regions (like the Southeast) usually have widespread air conditioning to offset it.
Second, the buildings and Infrastructure that we have all are designed to Trap Heat, not Release It.
UK homes are built for cold, damp winters: thick brick/stone walls, heavy insulation, small windows, and designs that retain warmth.
During a heatwave, they turn into ovens, solar gain through windows builds up, and there is poor ventilation or passive cooling features like overhangs, shutters, or light-coloured roofs.
Plus, poor air conditioning: Only about 5% of UK homes have AC (vs. ~90% in the US).
It's not standard because it's rarely needed most of the year, but during spikes it's a nightmare.
Also, retrofitting is expensive and tricky in old terraced houses or listed buildings.
This extended to public transport, schools, offices, and even hospitals as they often lack cooling.
Finally, most importantly, we have zero acclimatisation.
Meaning it's just as hot at night as it is during the day.
Britons aren't physiologically or culturally used to sustained heat.
We're properly white!
So, a sudden jump from typical UK summer temps feels extreme, and the body struggles more without gradual adaptation.
Heatwaves often bring "tropical nights" (temps staying above 20 °C), so homes don't cool down overnight.
You can't sleep, recover, or anything which just compounds fatigue, dehydration, etc.
Drier US heat often cools significantly at night.
That is all topped up with the fact that we have longer summer daylight at the UK's higher latitude meaning more hours of solar heating.
Hope this long explanation that no one wanted clears this right up...
NewsWire@NewsWire_US
UK Heatwave Ignites Calls for Widespread Air Conditioning – Government Urged to End Resistance
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Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown says that all of the alleged criminals charged by Peel Regional Police in the organized crime network involved in extortion are not even Canadian citizens
Toronto Crime Watch@CrimewatchTO
Transnational Organized Crime Network Dismantled By Canadian Police And FBI A joint cross-border investigation involving Peel Regional Police, the Canada Border Services Agency, Surrey Police Service, the Ontario Provincial Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation has resulted in 17 people being charged with a combined 109 criminal offences linked to organized crime activity. Investigators say the charges include 11 counts related to extortion, along with numerous firearms, arson, conspiracy and breach-related offences. Police allege the investigation targeted individuals involved in violent criminal activity operating across multiple jurisdictions in Canada and the United States. Authorities said six firearms and quantities of ammunition were seized as part of the operation. Investigators also confirmed that none of the accused are Canadian citizens.
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@LadyReapr @chakravartiiin Fuck. I didn’t not need to read this tonight
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@chakravartiiin My best friends 10 year old little sister hung herself after her mom died of cancer. This was in 2001. Kids are human beings with emotional capacity and the fact that you don’t understand that does not make sense to ME at at all.
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Pardon me but how does a ten year old get depressed much less take such an extreme step like this? Do kids even have such emotional capacity at that age? This does not make sense to me at all.
WTF@mrwtffacts
In 2025, after a long battle with depression, 10-year-old Liberty Hall tragically took her own life. She left behind this note for her mother, apologizing, and asking her not to blame herself 💔
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Stephen retweetledi
My opinion…..Travel baseball up to the age of 12 is for the dads that want to drink at the hotel bar after the game with other dads and the moms that want to post pics that their kid is on a travel team on social media
Kenny@kennyfgan
Middle America families stuck in the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time that is travel baseball. Baseball needs Legion Ball played at high school fields in t-shirts and gray pants more than ever right now.
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Opinion: Ill-gotten gains: How the gym has allowed the far right to build an iron grip on young men theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…
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@WillieDJenkins1 They don’t sell that new anymore tho. Not in Canada. Nothing cheap left..
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In 2020 $13,200 got me this Mirage brand new. It always delivers at least 40 miles per gallon. Maintenance means fluid changes. 36,000 miles now, finally paid off in October. Still under warranty. NO SUCH DEAL NOW EXISTS! perpetual broken sorry Boomer Toyotas payd for it all
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That’s just a bad driver.
For a real test with someone who knows what they’re doing:
youtu.be/cSxBKR___Sg
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NRM84@Mappy6984
That turbo has to be glowing
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Stephen retweetledi
What if the west isn't the villain they told you it was?
We’ve spent years accepting accusations about racism, intolerance, and slavery without challenging the bigger historical reality:
The societies most condemned today are also the ones that led the world in ending slavery, expanding rights, and building the most tolerant nations on earth.
That’s the conversation nobody wants to have.
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Americans spend more on slot machines than movies, books, and music combined.
Insane.
Ed Latimore@EdLatimore
Gambling is getting up there with porn.
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YES! This needs to be the answer from all politicians. WTF does it matter if they are “first-time offenders”. All foreign criminals go home. No questions asked
Alexander Zoltan@AmazingZoltan
REPORTER: “Some of the Indian extortionists are first-time offenders.” POILIEVRE: “I don't care.”
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Mr "Canada is Broken" sees no relationship between his years of trash-talking Canada and the rise of separatism in his base.
Scott Robertson@sarobertson_
Poilievre: "If I can be nostalgic for just a moment, I just want to recognize that it was only 10 years ago, under a Conservative government, where there was absolutely no separation movement whatsoever in Alberta. And the PQ and the BQ, the two separatist parties in Quebec, they didn't even exist anymore."
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@Wexboy_Value Read some of the Reddit frugal things blows my mind. Figure out how to make more you can only cut so mucb
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They're obv pitching something here, BUT what he's saying is still VERY true...
...the normie idea of budgeting is to try reduce/cut expenses, when in reality working twds/investing* in making a higher salary & other/more income is far BETTER!
*Usually sweat equity, not money.
Paul W. Swaney III@paulswaney3
Short form video might be our worst invention
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I had signed up for a $4400 extended warranty on the 2026 GMC 2500 6.6L gas ⛽️ Warranty coverage on engine, transmission etc to 150,000 miles. I decided I’d rather take the risk of a major failure at the price. Went in today cancelled the warranty. I know we are good to 150
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@liberalnotlefty Why is he in public? Why do we tolerate this? The streets should be safe and clean.
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"Daley has a history of not taking his medications, “not following up with recommended psychiatric supports, and limited engagements with programming,” said the decision."
Another day, another Schizophrenic stabs a random child & gets absolute discharge.
ca.news.yahoo.com/schizophrenic-…
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Stephen retweetledi
The Soviet whaling fleet killed 180,000 whales between 1948 and 1973, delivering rotten carcasses that nobody wanted to eat. Soviet citizens had zero demand for whale meat. The ships hunted anyway, fulfilling quotas handed down from central planners who counted tons of dead whale as economic output.
This was bureaucratic box-checking that nearly drove multiple whale species to extinction. Soviet whalers targeted endangered right whales and humpbacks specifically because they were larger, helping them hit tonnage targets faster. The meat rotted on deck during long voyages back to port, where officials dutifully recorded the numbers and sent reports to Moscow declaring another successful harvest.
Central planners measured success in tons harvested, not consumer satisfaction or long-term sustainability. Factory managers got promoted for exceeding whale quotas, regardless of whether anyone actually wanted whale meat (they didn't). The feedback mechanism that normally connects production to human needs had been severed entirely. When bureaucrats replace market prices with administrative targets, you get mass slaughter with zero purpose.
You still see this today every time politicians promise to "create jobs" in industries that lose money year after year. When government agencies measure their success by dollars spent rather than problems solved. When university administrators chase enrollment numbers instead of student outcomes.
Remove the profit motive and price signals, and you get 180,000 dead whales rotting in the sun while commissars celebrate meeting their targets. You don't get rational planning.
Socialism is fundamentally destructive to the environment and inevitably leads to ecological disasters.
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@mouthy_mom_ Crazy to think you could have someone like Bezos running the country but here you are.
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Don’t stay on our behalf, you can live your dream right now.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Trump: "I'm right now at 99% in Israel. I could run for prime minister, so maybe after I do this, I'll go to Israel and run for prime minister."
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@HandyGingerGal Exactly. They don’t know what calling someone an elbows up boomer means. Worst insult you could give me lol
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@brianlilley “Environment backslide”
Fuck off. Same useless turds who held the country back the last decade I would guess
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14 Liberal MPs write a letter critical of Carney.
CBC gets it and writes this.
"Despite signing their names at the bottom of the letter, the MPs do not want to be publicly identified," CBC writes.
No names released.
This would not happen to Poilievre.
cbc.ca/news/politics/…
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