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[–] 15 points 1 year ago

Very, and yes.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago*

    It feels like the coast of fucking Mexico. Water doesn't even satisfy, the computers and ovens generate enough heat to make it worse, I've had to come to terms with being in discomfort, sweating and smelling for the foreseeable future. Wednesday and Thursday are forecast to rain and be a lot cooler in my region, but then it's straight back. I am not used to, or designed for, persistent 30°C with fans on 24/7.

    If I had a job with no aircon I'd have quit it by now

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Nah, this is normal. No one's to blame, least of all the rich.

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  • [+] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 7 months ago)
    [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Very unusual and yes

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    It’s called summer and it happens every year. Why does the UK pretend summer doesn’t exist?

    No, I’m not denying climate change.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Appreciated, and I understand a dry heat is more pleasant than a swamp and that the UK doesn’t have AC by default. But I mean very specifically that Brits will seem surprised every year that June is hotter than May. You suggest they get A/C and they say “nah, it’s just a heat wave, innit?”

    It’s a three or four month long “heat wave” and it happens every year.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 year ago

    Now that heat pumps are becoming a norm, air conditioning will become a moot point. But for real, for us, we'd get like two days of summer and it would rain for three months straight, hence the reluctance to invest. It's only thanks to climate change that we're now getting sustained heat. This is genuinely a novelty to us.

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