Microblog Memes

It can't be that cold, they're naked except for the hats!

But now your responsible, climate-concerned genes have been removed from the gene-pool.

Friends/acquaintances with young children always want to know why my wife and I chose not to have kids. I get very dirty looks when my first answer is "there are already too damn many people in the world as it is"

The economists are the worst. "Don't you know, we need children to fund your retirement! Economies need a growing population!"

Yeah, fuck off. That's not sustainable and you know it. We're going to need to figure out how to make shrinking populations work.

This will be especially true once Alaska becomes warm enough to support a jungle.

Temperature translation for non-Americans:

70°F ≈ 21.1°C
50°F = 10°C
20°F ≈ -6.7°C

Separation. Kevin Bacon wanted nothing to do with this.

I can't remember where I first read it but I've agreed with it ever since: "My retirement plan is dying in the potable water riots."

But this is clearly written from the perspective of someone who lives in a climate that used to be solidly below freezing all through the winter months in the northern hemisphere. Now snow seems like a distant memory from childhood.

21°C/70°F is a normal winter temperature where I'm from in the southern hemisphere 🥲

And right now it's summer... let's put it this way, lately it's been over 40°C/104°F for so many weeks in a row that, when temperatures dipped to 33°C/91°F, it felt cold... and to think it's only going to get worse going forward @_@

The crazy part is I have friends who are well aware that the world is completely fucked and they are still making new children.

Ah, being intentionally obtuse.

Yeah I never expected a nice day in December to bring such existential dread.

You should look at the winter that recently ended in the southern hemisphere - record ice shelf losses during winter, record high temps in Rio and other cities. In winter.

And it's just getting more and more brutal.