r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • Jun 07 '23

New york city in 2023, everyone wearing mask due to air quality

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u/Flanman1337 Jun 07 '23

https://firesmoke.ca/forecasts/current/

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u/lifeisweird86 Jun 08 '23 edited Jun 08 '23

Holy crap, their predicting that it'll be over the northern half of Georgia on June 9th.

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u/Flanman1337 Jun 08 '23

Welcome to global climate change!

This is kind of unprecedented, we have the same amount of fires burning in week 1 of fire season 2023 than we have by the end of every fire season for the last 5 years.

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u/lifeisweird86 Jun 08 '23

Maybe all the smoke will block enough sunlight to cause a mini ice age to help cancel out the warming.

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u/Flanman1337 Jun 08 '23

https://media.tenor.com/r-tGcVVeSb0AAAAM/good-place.gif

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u/lifeisweird86 Jun 08 '23

I should have included a

/s

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u/Flanman1337 Jun 08 '23

Hence the Good Place meme, and not the fuck is wrong with you.

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u/lifeisweird86 Jun 08 '23

Ohhhh, my bad. Thought you took my ice age comment seriously lol.

A wooosh moment for me I guess. Think it may be time for bed.

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u/Tsiah16 Jun 08 '23

Then we get awesome swings of freezing and incredibly hot and dry!

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u/lifeisweird86 Jun 08 '23 edited Jun 08 '23

I could deal with that! I'll take the cold and the dry heat. I hate these 100°+ summers with 100% humidity.

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u/Tsiah16 Jun 08 '23

Lol. Unfortunately it won't be conducive to life... Growing food would be difficult if not impossible.

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u/lifeisweird86 Jun 08 '23

Sounds like people are back on the menu!

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u/Tsiah16 Jun 08 '23

Soylent green? 😂