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  • How cold is it supposed to get?

    The sources I’ve read estimate a drop of 3-3.5 °C. For comparison, the Little Ice Age had a global average temperature drop of only a little over 0.5 °C, although to be fair, it varied in different parts of the world and I haven’t been able to find a reference for how much the drop was in the UK, specifically. Still, my guess is that it’s more than enough for Frost Fairs on the Thames to become a thing again. Oh yeah: and also completely fuck up all the UK’s agriculture, BTW.

    They’re installing heat pumps, not ACs so while the current generation of heat pumps will struggle with the ice age, cold weather performance keeps improving.

    Yeah, that’s definitely not just more prudent in this situation, but also just a better idea all around anyway.

    Also, I think technology has already progressed enough that it’s the previous generation of heat pumps that would struggle, not the current gen.






  • After this, I don’t know what more proof anyone could possibly need that Xitter is purely a right-wing propaganda platform exactly equivalent to the likes of Truth [sic] Social. Anyone who continues to use Xitter supports this behavior. Continued use of accounts like @POTUS or @KamalaHarris or these is effectively an endorsement of equating Donald Trump with America. It has to stop! The platform has to be fully abandoned by every single person, organization, or government entity that isn’t fascist; there is no choice now.




  • grue@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneDrunk cycling rule
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    Not on bicycles, that’s for damn sure!

    Wanna hear something stupid and fucked-up? Listen to this: in my city, getting a license to serve alcohol comes with a minimum parking requirement. Not maximum, minimum. In other words, if you as a business want to be allowed to get people drunk, you effectively must facilitate drunk driving by building extra parking for them. It’s absolutely ludicrous and ass-backwards!