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BettyBlueDot

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10. Twilight Zone.. We are there

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Sun Jun 28, 2026, 11:10 PM

17 hrs ago

Reminds me of Twilight Zone episode, Midnight Sun. Lois Nettleton suffering fm heat. People freaking out. Then the twist ending. Just like Idiocracy, now Twilight Zone is our reality. "This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. " TS Eliot

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France records around 1,000 additional deaths as extreme heat breaks European records [View all] Omaha Steve 23 hrs ago OP

This message was self-deleted by its author wcmagumba 23 hrs ago #1

My flat on the 7th floor r�is�n_dubh 16 hrs ago #14

AC in Europe? 🙄 ColoringFool 16 hrs ago #17

some people really don't know Skittles 15 hrs ago #21

Holy Moses. mahina 23 hrs ago #2

Europe is heating up TWICE as fast as other regions SamuelTheThird 23 hrs ago #3

When the AMOC collapses soon chernabogg 22 hrs ago #5

IF it does, then yes SamuelTheThird 22 hrs ago #6

Thankfully I'll be dead r�is�n_dubh 16 hrs ago #15

Global warming is a hoax. Rush Limbaugh told me so and used scientifical figures to prove it (SARCASM). /nt artemisia1 11 hrs ago #27

There was a brief period in the late 1990's (if I recall) when global temperatures were fairly stable. dedl67 9 hrs ago #29

Well you can't prepare... r�is�n_dubh 16 hrs ago #16

Kind of not relevant. ColoringFool 16 hrs ago #18

huh? Skittles 15 hrs ago #22

Erm, I live here. r�is�n_dubh 14 hrs ago #25

And it isn't August yet . . . . no_hypocrisy 23 hrs ago #4

Heat is the number one weather killer. More than all others combined n/t Cheezoholic 21 hrs ago #7

A small change in average temperatures dramatically increases the number of days with extreme temperatures progree 20 hrs ago #8

Figures and stats that mean nothing, really, to the humans in danger now. ColoringFool 15 hrs ago #19

No, but it means a large increase in the number of people suffering now and in the future. And why. progree 15 hrs ago #23

Shouldn't we be doing here what Europe has always been doing? Seeking Serenity 18 hrs ago #9

Tough one BettyBlueDot 17 hrs ago #12

Um.....Whut?? You first. In D.C. On the 4th. ColoringFool 15 hrs ago #20

No, Europe is not eliminating air conditioning, au contraire progree 14 hrs ago #24

Twilight Zone.. We are there BettyBlueDot 17 hrs ago #10

Marta and I went to TZ conventions in 2002 & 2004 Omaha Steve 17 hrs ago #11

Decoy 1957 B&W BettyBlueDot 17 hrs ago #13

DU does remote hosting of photos Omaha Steve 10 hrs ago #28

Crazy to think we were just there last summer fujiyamasan 14 hrs ago #26