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[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 months ago (1 children)

122 in freedom units. At 126 (52c) you can prepare sous vide in a few hours depending on cut.

https://sousvideways.com/time-temperature-guide/

For real though, I'm to old to fight in the water wars, and it's too hot.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

you can prepare sous vide

But that's in water. We're not there yet. Maybe in Florida soon when it first floods and then gets a heat dome.

This one is more like setting the Air Fryer at 50°C.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You set out a container of water and wait for it to heat to 50C

But to be fair, the evaporation will cool it too much for this to work

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Put a glass plate on top. Bam! Solar sous vide

[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hot tip: when its 50c, stay in the fucking shade!

Not the right time for a pilgrimage smh

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Honestly, staying in the shade won't save you at 50c. You're probably going to die unless you find a solution like digging a hole to hide in.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago (1 children)

@silence7 Mecca, you say?

In Saudi, you say?

Fossil fuel HQ? That Saudi?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

That Saudi. The plan there seems to be to sell off all the oil, and then have the royal family decamp to a more northern latitude with their harems while the rest of the population cooks to death.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Been working so far

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is this a joke or do you have a source?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/dubai-sheikhs-words-lost-in-translation-with-viral-quote/

They know what is coming, though you'll note the writers challenge the specific crediting.

Of course, they also think that "hard times create strong men" bullshit is from 2016 so

Idk

Point is the Saudi royals are fully aware that, if nothing else, the wells will eventually run dry so everyone slowing the green transition is short sighted regardless.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

There are ways to make deserts, eh, more livable. Various kinds of mosses, correct usage of water for feeding plants (to reduce sandstorms), and solar farms there occupy territory both not in huge demand and use some of that excess energy.

That's not what's happening now, but the technologies have been tried successfully and work. I like shitting on Israel for their moral standing (the opposite to that, I mean), but their approaches to managing deserts do work, and they are not too wasteful with water.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Our overlords assure is everything is normal. Continue consumption. Do not revolt against polluting industries. Stay inside your homes and expire for the economy. This seems to ring true the world over.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I can't fuckin wait until it gets to that boiling point where we just absolutely trash these wealthy families. Part of me wants that to happen more than us immediately correcting this another way. Fuck those greedy rats.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I'd honestly rather everything get fixed than retribution. If it were a choice between the two.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That may not happen at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Bunkers have to have air vents. Air vents can be blocked by concrete, as can bunker doors. It will happen one way or another.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

They won't need the bunkers, they'll easily convince the dumbest half of the population that the climate crisis is a result of too many brown, black, and yellow people and that any action taken should be against those people. We're speeding towards ecofacism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Evil doesn't fight honestly. Bunkers are a relatively honest thing.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I figure we're going to see the first chapter from The Ministry for the Future at some point. This is getting close.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It mainly needs a massive power failure in the middle of summer and we're there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Up to 900+ I see.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

About 1.5 million people did the Hajj. 320 is approximately 0.023% which cannot be used to draw any conclusion.

Then for those who don’t know, many people go to the “Optional” Hajj unregistered, which means they don’t have an indoor place to stay on or use transportation options and have no direct access to food. There are also the one who are old, the one who take their kids with them, and the one who are sick.

Again the islamic ruling is you do the Hajj “if you can” this include if it is during extreme heat you can just stop or never go in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Great time to be a lawyer who speaks Arabic, possibly a little Nubian and Sa'idi.

EDIT: What exactly are you disagreeing with? These people have an immediate way to punish those responsible for climate change: through legal action.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Bro didn't hear about the bonesaws

You want to go after those kings, do it with an army, not lawyers.

Like, bro, they're literally sovereigns! They can ignore lawsuits!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

If anything, the bonesaws were a symbol of their weakness. These people are literally dying already.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That their royalty are cowards doesn't stop them from being a sovereign country. Just what, exactly, do you think a lawyer can accomplish? The UN doesn't announce a global embargo on the lifeblood of modern nations because someone points out they violated a substatute.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

For example, Oil and Gas Company Weatherford operates in 75 countries. Al Mansoori also has a wider base of operations. Also, again, if lawyers and journalists are so harmless to the GREAT AND POWERFUL ROYAL OVERLORDS™ then nobody would ever need to be butchered. If a large number of people, say hundreds of affected families, in a class action lawsuit all get butchered at once then even Royalty is going to have a very hard time both domestic and abroad.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 5 months ago

If you're determined to inflict harm yourself for religious reasons, not only do I not care if it kills you, but I'll mock you afterwards for it.