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Goddammit it's real.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240207005450/https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2023/07/29/how-to-become-heat-tolerant/
- Oh my god, I thought this was an Onion meme.
  2023 too, and not a cherry-picked misquote.
  WTF.
- When I was a kid, I asked a science teacher: "Why don't humans just evolve to adapt to the ozone layer being gone"
  The teacher responded: "That's not how evolution works..." (and then explained it)
  An UNDER-PAID TEACHER can understand that, are these journalists just kids who never paid attention in class?
  
  I mean, evolution kind of might work around the ozone layer being gone. People just need to have children before the skin cancer kills them and that's totally possible. Might be good if the parents don't die when the kids are too little.
  Evolution really doesn't care about your personal well-being and won't help you. It might "evolve" the human race to get children earlier in their teens, because everybody over 30 is dead from skin cancer and microplastics, but maybe the better solution is to use something different in hair spray and fridges.
- Yep. Very much so. Same for cold and high altitudes. Our bodies really are extra badass. Low oxygen- more red blood cells and hemoglobin concentration. Cold- blood thickens.
  Fun fact: proffesional distance bikers and runners will often go train for several weeks before a race in high altitudes as a means to increase red blood cell counts without "doping". All the benefits of cheating but without technically cheating.
  
  Just so we're on the same page, I wasn't unsure whether it is possible to acclimatise one's body to different temperatures but whether this was something someone actually had the gall to write about as a "climate solution".
  
  Also, occasionally, athletes just fucking drop dead while doing so. And they’re the healthiest among us.

Fun fact, frogs won’t actually sit in the water, they always jump out when it gets too hot. Hilariously, humans are one of the few species of animals that will cook.
- The test was around brain dead frogs to see if they'd jump out or boil to death... Not about functional frogs.
  
  Humans confirmed worse than brain dead frogs

The craziest thing is this (real) article doesn't address things like wet bulbs which can be fatal, and no amount of heat tolerance will change that.
So not only is it proof The Washington Post is class traitor garbage, but also that their journalism isn't even good
- Heat tolerance will also not help against the increases in storms, floods and wildfires that are directly caused by the heat increases.
  Summer being 110°F is not even in the top 10 of why climate change is bad.
- no amount of heat tolerance will change that.
  Conservatives: "Climate change will be fine. Actually all this extra heat and carbon in the air will be good for the plants. You'll see."
  Also Conservatives: "MAKE MORE BABIES! ONLY THE FITTEST WILL SURVIVE!"
  Also Also Conservatives: "We need to conquer Canada and Greenland for... uh... reasons."
- *Extreme WBT's
  A wet bulb thermometer measures wet bulb temperature (WBT), which is a metric that always exists and can always be measured. It only gets bad when the WBT reaches an extreme value, as is the case for basically all environmental metrics. Saying that wet bulb temperature is lethal is like saying that temperature is lethal. Look out for temperature! I'm sorry for the rant so I'll try to keep this short, but "wet bulb" by itself in this context is an inane shorthand that lacks all the significant words and muddles the meaning of those words that are in it. Scientists talk about Extreme WBT events, because that's what they are. A less of a mouthful would be nice for science communication, but I don't want it to come at the expense of words losing meaning like that.
  Heatwave is a nice and descriptive word for one type of an extreme temperature event. Cold snap is another one. I'm glad neither is called "temperature event" because that would be dumb.
  
  The problem with your rant is that the "extreme" label is applied by researchers in temperate climates and could very easily, and almost certainly will be thanks to Trump, be replaced by "tropical"

Let's see if these experts can build up a tolerance to acute lead poisoning
- Or, more topically, exposure to raw sewage.

It's like shooting yourself with smaller bullets to build up a resistance to higher calibers

I'm gonna take a wild guess that the "experts" have air-conditioned homes and workplaces.
Make them live without AC for the entire next summer and let's see if their "expert" opinion changes.
- They were asked these questions by journalists and they answered. Don't blame scientists for idiot media people.
  
  Scientists can be absolutely the biggest idiots. I worked maintenance in a laboratory and sometimes I was impressed somebody who can genotype plankton could also tie their own shoes.

!nottheonion@lemmy.world

I used to go on 1-2 hour walks every day, the heat never felt less bad.
- That's cause it keeps getting hotter
  
  excuse me then why does it snow

True? Yes, to a point. Climate solution? No.

Step one: undergo a lobotomy

Truly top tier post

I never would have thought Bezos was a Stalinist…
- I'd really like to know what in this image relates to Stalin.
  
  I was thinking they don't remember what Lysenkoism is, but do remember Stalin was involved somewhere.
  Then they started talking about classical conditioning
  
  The old Soviet system was enthralled with classic conditioning, and Stalin tended to use it to shape society, although Lenin was more appreciative of Pavlov. 1984 is Orwell’s critique of Stalinism. It seems Bezos didn’t object to a classic conditioning editorial and it shows in his treatment of Amazon workers.