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@needpills2sleep @EFCevie Except they aren’t. Feel free to provide the correct ones if so! Which you will not be able to of course!

@thoms_00 @EFCevie But all of your facts were wrong chuck.

why are americans stills stuck in this primary school mindset? do they ever grow up?

@needpills2sleep @EFCevie I haven’t moved anything. I’ve given you the facts. 7% of your homes were built in the last 26 years. Imagine thinking your decade to century old housing supply is up to snuff and not old, drafty, and compromised. No wonder UK is a nation in decline!

@thoms_00 @EFCevie So you’ve moved the goalposts from 200 years ago to *checks notes* 26? You big, bumbling, burger-eating blob!

@needpills2sleep @EFCevie Over a quarter of your homes were built pre-1944. 93% built pre-2000. To sit here and think that you are living in homes that function as they were built day one and up to modern standards is absolutely hilarious. Enjoy living in your nation in decline!

@thoms_00 @EFCevie You understand the majority of the country don’t live in 200 y/o houses don’t you? Insufferable yanky candle.

@needpills2sleep @EFCevie If it is drafty it is going to transfer heat & quickly. Which is why you cry about the heat in the summer and the cold in the winter. Your homes are old, uninsulated, and drafty. Imagine thinking something built 200 yrs ago is still functioning as it was built day one

@thoms_00 @EFCevie Are you stupid? All your buildings are made of drywall and have aircon. UK and europes homes are all brick.

@HomeLoanBill The U6 unemployment is 8.2%. The U3 calculation is a joke.

Unemployment has been under 5% for going on five years.

@Cyn1calCrusader You obviously aren’t resilient to it otherwise your countrymen wouldn’t be dying in droves.

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...

@ClubAtheists @NineCato No it doesn’t. You are the only stupid one here. My chart shows the real hourly wages. Not their “buying power” if real wages didn’t actually increase between 1970 and 2019 yet inflation has risen. What do you think that means when someone tries to buy something?

@thoms_00 @NineCato Except your chart shows the buying power is exactly the same from 1970 to 2019. So nothing has diminished at all by your own chart. And mine shows wages have gone up between then (2019) and now. Are you really this dumb?

1976 - new Cars avg. $5450, 11-13% interest $150 payment. 1976 min wage 2.30. $305.00 take home a month. $150 car payment? 47% of salary a month. Your fantasy world did not exist.

@ClubAtheists @NineCato Convenient how you want to use data that completely excludes anything pre-1980. My graph says the same thing. There has been real wage growth in that time period. But workers are not making more than they were in 1976. Which is what OP has claimed. The gold standard mattered

@thoms_00 @NineCato Funny how ypu use an old, incorrect, chart that stops at 2019. fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252…

@ClubAtheists @NineCato again, you do not know what you are talking about. Wages kept up with inflation in Weimaraner Germany but their money was worthless when benchmarked against real wages. Same thing is happening today. Real wages are no better than they were in the 70s.

@thoms_00 @NineCato I see you aren't very smart. What it means that wages have increased faster than inflation is that, on average, a workers salary buys more, not less.

@ClubAtheists @NineCato that means nothing if what you are purchasing with has the value of toilet paper. sorry to break your illusion. people could be making %1M a year as the median income but if the value of what they are paid in is worthless than it means nothing.

@thoms_00 @NineCato Wages have increased faster than inflation. Sorry to break your illusions.

@FloridaFloGrown I get the idea behind your post. But most of those people got their calories through beer essentially. They weren’t eating that volume in food. It was most likely beer and mead.

The people telling you to povertymaxx and eat bread sandwiches so you can afford a used car are just plain wrong. Even as far back as the 1800's people were averaging 3,000 to 5,000 calories a day.

@kamikazecash Yeah you a a single brain cell. Maybe don’t make shit up to fit a narrative. Your opinion is disregarded. Boomers are not downsizing and don’t plan to do it either.

Hating on boomers for having market opportunities is wack and weak. Boomers got nailed by the dot-com bubble followed immediately by the Global Financial Crisis. Millennials hit adulthood just as the GFC bottomed and had early access to $BTC. If you’re a millennial or Gen Z and on the struggle bus, stop hating on the boomers. They’re all in their 70s by now and most of them are out of the workforce and downsized their house. Start by assessing your resources available to you and make incremental changes until your finances are on track. Otherwise, when the boomers are dead, you’ll still be struggling and have to move on to hating GenX.

@kosmickoehn @AkkadSecretary You are most likely close to being mentally disabled with takes like this. You don’t have 90% of your workforce doing these jobs and expect to pay them slave wages. The job at McDonald’s is equivalent to your grandfathers job at the ford factory now.

@AkkadSecretary Most of the issue is not inflation. We all said this would happen when you pay low-skilled, uncaring fast food workers $20/hour or more. Meals have to cost $10 minimum to outpace labor costs, and that is what we are seeing.

If Whoppers had gone in line with inflation they should be $1.56, but they are $5.99 Almost 4x in price

@CarolinaLion2 “For a limited time” 😂

No, I mean Whopper.

@LibertyJen Yeah great idea let’s have the one million potential first time buyers fight over old decrepit houses in the middle of nowhere.

There are currently ~487,000 home listings in USA under $250,000. Please stop lying that you *must* spend half a million dollars.

@Brien_Jackson A boomers brain has already melted from the leaded gasoline. I wonder what type of careers you could get in 1974 that are just not available today.

You know how you can melt a Zoomer's brain? Literally just make it shut off and stop processing anything? Tell them what the median household income was in 1974. It would be unfathomable to them.

@JulieLovesFluff “My dad struggled as the government subsidized their entire generations housing” yeah we really could care less lil cub

My Dad is a Boomer, he took two tins of sardines, a sleeve of saltines and hot sauce to his job as a carpenter for 40 years. My husband's Dad is Gen X, he took a can of soup to work every day making modular homes in a factory. My husband is a Millennial and eats turkey sandwiches or leftovers. Zoomers are so soft and entitled, I'm tired of them pretending like they're the first generation to have it hard.

@mercoglianos @MageManX @johnkonrad yeah I wonder why they could do that in 1943 but it is basically impossible to do now. China has the mills, forges, etc. US has rotting infrastructure that has been shut down for decades, and partially converted into a casino.

@MageManX @johnkonrad Be built 2 commercial ships in 1934. We built 2 in 1935. We built 1,661 in 1943. That was out of the midst of the Great Depression.

Latest shipbuilding numbers are out from BRS and they are not good. China had gone from 51% in 2022 to 70.9% in 2025. That is from 2,107 ships to 4,055.