38°C in Britain is more dangerous than 45°C in Phoenix, and it comes down to one number: your body sits at 37.
Once the air outside is hotter than your skin (around 35°C), heat stops flowing out of you. Radiation and convection reverse. The air starts heating you instead. At that point your body has exactly one cooling system left: sweat turning to vapor and pulling heat off your skin.
Phoenix is built to protect that system. Around 90% of US homes have AC, the air is bone dry so sweat evaporates the instant it forms, and the whole city is designed around triple digits.
Britain is built to defeat it. Roughly 5% of homes have air conditioning. About 92% overheat during a heatwave. Half the housing stock went up between 1930 and 1982, with thick walls and small windows meant to trap warmth through a damp winter. The same features that keep a house cozy in February turn it into an oven that won't release heat in July.
Then the sun goes down and nothing changes. A real heatwave brings tropical nights where the temperature never drops below 20°C. Your body resets by dumping the day's heat overnight. Remove that recovery window and the strain stacks, night after night.
That's why London's heat death rate rivals Rome's, and why the UK loses more than ten times as many people to heat as Sweden does. The 2022 heatwave killed around 3,000. At one point the Central Line was running hotter than the legal limit for transporting cattle.
Phoenix planned for the heat. Britain assumed it would never arrive. 38 stays a small number right up until it's one degree above the one inside you.
I saw a reel where a woman said "where are the trad wives who are 40, 50 years old? Why aren't they making these barefoot in the kitchen videos? Why is it always a 20 something year old?" Every woman knows the answer.
medio que estoy harta que siempre que un país entra en la decadencia de mano de la derecha todos los demás lo sigan.... tipo, NO MIRAS QUE TODO ESTA MAL? NO VIERON QUE EN ARGENTINA ESTÁ TODO MAL EN CHILE, COLOMBIA, PERÚ????? ME QUIERO MUDAR A PLUTÓN.
“How did we go from paper straws to data centres?”
no one listened to the environmentalists who said unchecked corporate pollution was the bigger issue.
Listen, I don't care if you're straight. I have lots of straight friends, I just wish they'd stop pushing their agenda so brazenly in front of the kids. How do you even explain this to them? You don't wear two different types of shoes, do you? No!
🚨 BREAKING: Everyone who joined our NHS–Palantir campaign has now had a reply from NHS England's Data Protection Officer.
In writing, they confirmed:
▸ Palantir staff can access identifiable patient data before it's pseudonymised
▸ There is no opt-out from the Federated Data Platform
▸ Your Article 21 right to object has been formally refused
They've confirmed it. They won't change it.
Next step: a formal ICO complaint, citing their own response.
We're building a one-click escalation tool for campaign participants. Watch this space.
Mad how these braindead helmets can throw fascist salutes openly without consequence but if they held up a sign supporting an anti-genocide group they’d be charged with terror offences.
This is yer two-tier policing ya fucking Nazi scum!!
This is important information for everyone in the UK.
Thank you @UnityNewsNet for sounding the alarm on these 'data centres'.
They are set to devour up to 1.37 billion litres of water EVERY SINGLE DAY.
Buyers: BlackRock, Digital Realty, Equinix
Users: Google, Meta, Oracle, OpenAI
The UK government designated 'data centres' as Critical National Infrastructure, which allows projects to bypass local planning disputes.
People are already angry.
Noise Pollution:
Massive industrial cooling fans are running 24/7. Residents near existing centres compare the constant low-frequency hum to a jet engine parked outside their windows.
Green Belt Destruction:
Despite a national housing shortage, huge swaths of protected green spaces are being rezoned for data warehouses.
They are out-bidding residential housing for grid power and planning to burn on-site gas when the grid fails.
The more apt name for them is 'surveillance centres'.
Politicians who fanned these flames should hang their heads in shame.
Time and again we've seen this story play out. Single incidents used to fuel a far right narrative - and communities across the nation paying the price.
seriously how much more evidence do people need that this isn’t for the kids. It’s so freaking blatant kids are being used to implement surveillance and censorship.
Whilst we were distracted, the groundwork for our AI control grid has slowly been growing. The map below shows Data Centers in Britain. Each one of these data centres use up to 5 million gallons of water per day and enough energy to supply 50,000 homes.
It cannot be overstated the fact that we’re all gonna die for the wealth of like 1000 people max. When the collapse happens, just keep those people in mind.
It is Albanians, not Americans, who are protesting against American corruption.
The US appears to have accepted the corruption of the Trump family, so we Americans have to rely upon the sound anti-corruption sentiments of others.
Truly embarrassing, but thank you, Albania!
NOTHING will beat the feeling of when the lionesses won the euros for the second time. the whole tournament was torture, but michelle and hampton always saving our arses AND THEN THIS MOMENT fucking hell. also everyone say thank you sarina wiegman
El gobierno Boliviano del agente de la CIA, Rodrigo Paz ha iniciado una brutal reprensión a su pueblo, el ejército está disparando a mansalva, por favor difundir que este delito no quede en la obscuridad, que el algoritmo no lo oculte #RTMasivo
Todo el apoyo y nuestra solidaridad al hermano pueblo Boliviano
#FuerzaBolivia
##RodrigoPazRenunciaYa 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
Y'all having sex before marriage, killing, lying, stealing, working on Sunday, getting tattoos and piercings etc. but always worried about somebody being gay😂😂😂😂😂😂😂