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i say swears online posted:i legit think austin has better weather than vancouver but also i'd prefer to jog in 90 degrees than 60 perma
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Jan 9, 2024 18:36
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it's nice to be warm imo
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Jan 9, 2024 18:44
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I don't get all this talk about Houston being unsafe. It's perfectly fine if you live in the loop! (Inside I10N, 45E, 59S, 610W only)
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Jan 9, 2024 19:02
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taco bout deez nutz
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Jan 9, 2024 19:12
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Mistaken Frisbee posted:My wife lived in Vancouver, Canada for a year and moved back when her work visa needed renewing. We'd never leave Vancouver if we had the ability to move there. yeah I expected and received the doomer reaction (Canadian thread would be no different!) though thought I'd post here anyway because I wanted to know about what niche political issues people were nerding out about here. But yea the situation that you described is pretty much me which is why it's even on the table. I wouldn't be coming at all in other contexts. I've done that much research at least... I'm actually going to fly over next week and have a short look around. Looking at the weather it's uh not too hot but at least not a freak snowfall I guess... (knocks on wood) i say swears online posted:i legit think austin has better weather than vancouver but also i'd prefer to jog in 90 degrees than 60 I do suspect I will could find the hot weather unbearable tho I like hot weather more than many people. I was born in Vancouver so it's all "normal" to me and so I find all the people who moved here and complain about Vancouver weather to be kind of hilarious weaklings. "Boo hoo it's cloudy all the time I have seasonal affective disorder" lol give me a break.
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Jan 9, 2024 19:31
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Cloudy, raining, and 60 degrees is my perfect day.
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Jan 9, 2024 19:38
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It's more the 100 degrees (Fahrenheit) for at least two solid months last summer. Like, that and the driving (if you're not living in the Domain or downtown) is what would get you in day-to-day life. Housing is expensive compared to a lot of places, but affordable compared to Vancouver. I think your questions from your original post reveal a big difference in the political environment. The one visit I've had to Vancouver back in 2017, plus talking to our Vancouver friends, it's like we live in a completely different world. Even crossing the border and going from Seattle to Vancouver felt like a weight lifted. I'd say Austin city politics probably look closer to Vancouver. We've apparently seen rents fall recently, as a lot of people who moved here during the pandemic have returned to the coasts and more apartments have been built. But housing is always the biggest issue, public transit is way behind what is needed for a city this size. Police accountability is another big issue they've tried to address. Travis County (where Austin is located) went 72% for Biden, so I also wouldn't assume your neighbors here are likely to be in favor of the party in charge here. At least in the cities, I wouldn't equate the people with the state leadership. Plus...the governor hates us and sees our city as a cesspool. We have an Austin thread that could give you more specific advice on Austin (though lot of the same folks). But for Texas itself I think the difference is not just individual issues. It's that we have a state government that is led by a party that has been in power for decades with no meaningful opposition, and the national Democratic party hasn't done much to challenge them here. Due to ideological issues, Texans are constantly in a place where the federal or city governments try to do something good, then all of our tax dollars go into the state leadership suing to fight the good thing from happening. Or we just turn down millions of federal dollars that would keep our hospitals open or our children fed because it's coming from a Democratic federal administration. The courts have also been filled with Trump appointees and elected Republican judges, so they often rule on ideology and not facts of the case. I've seen folks from more progressive places seem utterly bewildered by our state because generally their governments try to do a good job at serving the people. But I think once you accept that our state leaders absolutely do not care about making things better for Texans and are just answering to some fringe right-wing extremist voters and a handful of oil barons, it starts to make a lot more sense. They also don't mind being sued and paying more money in lawsuits than it'd take to fix a problem. It doesn't feel like it's always been this bad, so you do have people in this thread who used to be much more hopeful than they are now. I think 2021-2022 - with abortion bans, power infrastructure failure, Uvalde mass shooting, aggressive anti-trans legislation, attempts to privatize and defund schools, etc....have broken a lot of people who used to have some faith in the system, myself included.
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zoux posted:Cloudy, raining, and 60 degrees is my perfect day. is your perfect day one in which you go outside
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Jan 9, 2024 20:06
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That's a definite strike against any day.
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Jan 9, 2024 20:09
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Outside is for people not cool enough to cut it online. No, I will not be going outside. Why do you keep asking?
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Femtosecond posted:
You'll have plenty of people in this thread and the Austin one basically get seasonal affective disorder being that it will get 100+ with at least 50% humidity and you're stuck inside all day till the Sun mercifully sets and you can go enjoy 85+ degree evenings. Whoever said 100+ for two months is basically memory holing all of literal last year holding record for longest string of hot months starting in May and not ending till like Mid-October also no rain. Keep in mind the geographical position here as well, where you weird rear end west coast people start having a sun rise at like 4-5 in the morning, Sun comes up later goes down way later.
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Jan 9, 2024 21:06
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Yeah I don't think you can conceive of a straight month or 100+ temps if you haven't gone through it, it dehydrates your very soul.
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Jan 9, 2024 21:07
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Dameius posted:Outside is for people not cool enough to cut it online. No, I will not be going outside. Why do you keep asking? same
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Otherwise known as, "A really nice day to be at the beach", "decent enough day to do yard work in the shade"
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dry and 100 as the high really isn't that bad. 110 and high humidity is just killer, it's a different world. when i go visit my dad on south padre the high will only be 82 but the humidity is brutal, it's so hard to sleep at night
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Jiro posted:Whoever said 100+ for two months is basically memory holing all of literal last year holding record for longest string of hot months starting in May and not ending till like Mid-October also no rain. Oh no, I meant 100+ degrees EVERY SINGLE DAY. It was bad for six months, but it was record-breaking never under 100 for more than a single day of 99 degrees for two of those months, maybe three? I remember how 90-95 degrees was feeling pleasant in September. I had that summertime sadness. My son went to bed early and had no heat tolerance, so we never went outside longer than 5 minutes for four months there. Mistaken Frisbee fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Jan 9, 2024 |
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Jan 9, 2024 21:45
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i say swears online posted:dry and 100 as the high really isn't that bad. 110 and high humidity is just killer, it's a different world. I think you are Taylor Lorenz
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Jan 9, 2024 21:45
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zoux posted:I think you are Taylor Lorenz Swears has never accused me of ableist genocide, so I don't know about that.
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Jan 9, 2024 21:47
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more like ted lorenz. i don't get the taylor reference except forquote:In an interview with MSNBC, Lorenz said that she has "severe PTSD" from experiencing online harassment.[33]
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Jan 9, 2024 21:48
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She posted a tweet of her home thermostat at 90 degrees
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Jan 9, 2024 21:50
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lmao respect. it's 77 in here rn. i'm in shorts
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i say swears online posted:dry and 100 as the high really isn't that bad. 110 and high humidity is just killer, it's a different world. When has it ever been 100+ degrees and not been high humid as well? Leaving out all of West Texas naturally. It's the Island when isn't the humidity below 60%? Heat Index is what you really need to pay attention to.
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Jiro posted:When has it ever been 100+ degrees and not been high humid as well? Leaving out all of West Texas naturally. It's the Island when isn't the humidity below 60%? Heat Index is what you really need to pay attention to. when the wind blows out of the southwest instead of the southeast. it's more rare though; SSE winds are dominant edit for austin i mean. SPI has like two non-humid weeks a year
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i say swears online posted:dry and 100 as the high really isn't that bad. 110 and high humidity is just killer, it's a different world. The heat wave this past summer was real. It was something like over three months of 100+ degree days in every part of Texas. THAT'S Seasonal affective disorder - you can't fuggin' go outside!
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Jan 9, 2024 21:58
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IT BURNS posted:The heat wave this past summer was real. It was something like over three months of 100+ degree days in every part of Texas. Keep in mind OP 3+ months of that kind of weather has been trending to be NORMAL for here not so much an anomaly anymore. That also leads to really shaky water availability. You being in Vancouver already know all about poo poo being on fire for months at a time, same here only it's faster spreading grassland fires. Hurricanes pushing inland are less of a rarity but still pretty uncommon. Of COURSE you can go outside! If you're Texan enough.  Time to go grill in the middle of August at 2 pm cause steaks and fajitas won't make themselves.
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At those temps they will
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There were accounts that tracked the temperature of playground equipment during the dome and some of that poo poo was getting to contact temperatures of 160-180F at peak heat hours. Try telling your kid they can't go to the playground for almost 6 months right after they discovered the concept and got confident on the equipment.
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Dameius posted:There were accounts that tracked the temperature of playground equipment during the dome and some of that poo poo was getting to contact temperatures of 160-180F at peak heat hours. Try telling your kid they can't go to the playground for almost 6 months right after they discovered the concept and got confident on the equipment. Sorry, I like my children medium rare.
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Jan 9, 2024 22:15
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you just have to siesta from 10am to 9pm
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Dameius posted:There were accounts that tracked the temperature of playground equipment during the dome and some of that poo poo was getting to contact temperatures of 160-180F at peak heat hours. Try telling your kid they can't go to the playground for almost 6 months right after they discovered the concept and got confident on the equipment.
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Gotta go back to making full wood playgrounds. Great against heat when touched.
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There is one of those in the heights but then you get the issue of a 3 year old beginning to heat stroke at 10-15 minutes of exposure.
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Jan 10, 2024 00:25
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death by heat stroke or a thousand cuts (splinters). the choice is yours
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The real underrated part of what makes summer so miserable all over Texas is that it is so warm out overnight as well. There is no opening windows at night to cool off, it just makes it more humid and miserable. Other places get hot, but it will just be for a few days, and it cools off at night. It is truly unrelenting here.
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Yeah. I have a pool at my house and never, ever swim during the day because of the heat and UVs that will literally singe you in minutes without protection. Even at night it's basically a sous vide machine after absorbing heat all day and feels like you're swimming in a jacuzzi. Might as well put a few steaks in that fucker.
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Jan 10, 2024 02:17
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At least when it's scorching hot and the sun is out the mosquitos tend to hide
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IT BURNS posted:Yeah. I have a pool at my house and never, ever swim during the day because of the heat and UVs that will literally singe you in minutes without protection. Even at night it's basically a sous vide machine after absorbing heat all day and feels like you're swimming in a jacuzzi. Might as well put a few steaks in that fucker. The outdoor pool at the Y this summer was hot tub temperatures. It was weird as hell.
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litany of gulps posted:At least when it's scorching hot and the sun is out the mosquitos tend to hide Yeah, in your home
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