I don't want to be a fucking tragedy

Yes, it is finally summer, and yes, it's supposed to be hot too here. Except our hot temperatures are still way below that. The average temperatures at that period between 1991-2020 are 15-20°C below what we're experiencing. It's 41°C in Paris, Bordeaux, Toulouse, when it should be about 25, 42°C in Rennes when it should be 22.

On Tuesday 23rd, France was hotter than 99% of the planet. Only some specific zones in the Sahara, Arabian, and American deserts were hotter.

In the night between Monday and Tuesday, temperatures only came back down to between 21 and 28 degrees. Those are supposed to be the temps at day.

In Belgium, our temperatures don't go as crazy, though we are still going to reach 38° today.

We don't normally need A/C. Several people live or have a bedroom right underneath a rooftop, and while it's always a bit hot in summer, it's normally not supposed to be unbearable. A lot of places are simple too warm inside. At my place, while downstairs is always a bit fresh (a few times leading me to put on a light jacket inside while outside it was quite warm), today, it's warm.

We are so unprepared for these kinds of temperatures that since the start of this week, schools are closing in the afternoon so kids don't overheat in their classroom. This include secondary school, when usually teenagers are expected to be at school even during conditions where children are not. Preschools get closed all day because it's too hot.

And, since yesterday, they've decided to stop the bus service from 13h to 17h, when temperatures hit their highest, because most bus don't have AC and the few that those are the most recent ones. Today, and likely tomorrow, will do the same.

these temperatures, at 8:30 am? are NOT normal for us

Our houses are made to keep warm cuz of our winters, and, in the 25 years ive been alive, its only been 30+°C in summers in the past 5 or so years. I dont remember it being THIS hot here. And then i am lucky that i work in a new building that is fully climate controlled.

Even with people in countries where its usually hotter (i.e. Spain/Italy), people DIE because of heatwaves like this. Not only people, animals too.

I keep in touch with my grandmothers more often during the and bring them more icecream if they've run out because of how hot it is, just so i can make sure they dont die of the heat.

I keep my animals inside, or get them inside earlier (i have a horse as well), and make sure they have cooler places to go so they dont fucking die of this heat. Everyone is miserable. Yesterday i got into my car after work and it was 48°C inside it, it only went down to 38° while driving. That is INSANE temps for us.

We are lucky our supermarkets, busses, trains, and most shops have AC

the parade

I’m saying it because cis people will never care for us on our own.

Me: I mean depends on your tolerance for this type of racism, but like I said it's my favourite show, it def has some great parts if you're up for it.

Them: Oh so it's not racist.

Me: It absolutely is.

Them: So you're saying racism is ok??

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

ID: A youtube comment with 11 likes by Niceone, it says "I've lived 46 years without knowing this. How nice of life to save some of the best bites for later." End ID.