it's nia!

“86F just means you’ll get a little sweaty, -22F will literally kill you!!!”

86F temperatures also kill! And people have lived just fine at much lower temperatures than -22F, even just this winter!

You’re just used to and have a culture adapted around even higher temperatures than that in the US. If you’ve paid any attention to the UK over the past decade or so of summers, you’ll hear how devastating temperatures that high can be when people are not equipped for it.

Like. Fucking.

People are in the comments of this post responding to people who live in cold climates that, “no you’re dying too! Look at the data! There are thousands of death by cold each year in the coldest places on earth!” And I’m over here thinking to myself, have these people not seen the thousands of deaths being reported on from the UK every summer for a decade or so because of temperatures “only” around 30C? Or is the confirmation bias so strong that this doesn’t end up sinking in each year because “lol those silly Brits can’t handle a tiny bit of warmth? Sounds like a non-issue lmao”. And that’s one country where I keep track of this stuff because my partner lives there. There are heat deaths in other places that don’t involve heat more than 30C. That is extreme heat in certain places because of how structures are built and the accessibility (or lack) of air conditioning.

And yeah, a heat wave in the UK could have temps of 30c and it will have a death toll, but I'm going to go out on a limb here and say if the same city had -30c temperatures for the same amount of time would, you know, maybe be a bit worse.

I'm pretty sure this is a human thing given the temperature ranges humans tend to populate.

max: “sometimes i’m competing or whatever, i can wake up in the middle of the night with some ideas and i do need to test it, i can’t wait for it.”

“then what do you do?”

max: “wake up and turn on the simulator.”

“like at 2 in the morning?”

Okay so clearly I've underestimated y'all

So how about we make this more interesting?

Us:

When I made this post, it was supposed to be a joke

I mean, none of my posts ever get more than 20 notes if I'm lucky, so what are the odds of one reaching 666k? Impossible, haha

But then, something happened, something I didn't expect

People actually began to... like it? And... reblog? And comment?

Before I knew it, my notifications were swarmed with comments after comments after reblogs after comments all on this one post

Then, still in the mindset of this being a joke, I realised I'd made the goal too easy, so I upped the stakes

But... the notes just got more frequent from there

And it started to hit me just what was happening

For a while, I was overwhelmed with a feeling

A feeling I wasn't used to

It was like... all of a sudden... I mattered...

My existance was actually noteworthy

People actually... cared?

It wasn't a game anymore, it was a race to assure a stranger on the Internet that they were actually worth something

Hundreds of people all gathering in one online place to help out

Leaving messages and well wishes

Making me smile

Making me laugh

Funny comments

Jokes

Fun facts

Even simple comments

It all suddenly felt so real

This was never a joke to you

This was important

And I won't let any of that go in vain

So... stay tuned I suppose

I'll look after myself, and I'll post proof of it too

I'll catalogue every time I put my health first

Physical and mental

I'll acknowledge my bad days and celebrate my good days

But most of all

I won't forget this

Any of this

Ever

(Tagging all the people in that screenshot)

We're cheering you on, and I think you've inspired a lot of people to hold onto this bit of hope and motivation.

We all deserve a little kindness, especially from ourselves, and I'm so glad that this is helping you get there.

Let's go, friends, we're almost there, and then we're going to do the thing, together; okay?