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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

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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 Sunday OP

This message was self-deleted by its author wcmagumba Sunday #1

My flat on the 7th floor r�is�n_dubh Yesterday #14

AC in Europe? 🙄 ColoringFool Yesterday #17

some people really don't know Skittles Yesterday #21

Holy Moses. mahina Sunday #2

Europe is heating up TWICE as fast as other regions SamuelTheThird Sunday #3

When the AMOC collapses soon chernabogg Sunday #5

IF it does, then yes SamuelTheThird Sunday #6

Thankfully I'll be dead r�is�n_dubh Yesterday #15

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

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

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

Kind of not relevant. ColoringFool Yesterday #18

huh? Skittles Yesterday #22

Erm, I live here. r�is�n_dubh Yesterday #25

And it isn't August yet . . . . no_hypocrisy Sunday #4

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

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

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

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

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

Tough one BettyBlueDot Sunday #12

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

No, Europe is not eliminating air conditioning, au contraire progree Yesterday #24

Twilight Zone.. We are there BettyBlueDot Sunday #10

Marta and I went to TZ conventions in 2002 & 2004 Omaha Steve Sunday #11

Decoy 1957 B&W BettyBlueDot Sunday #13

DU does remote hosting of photos Omaha Steve Yesterday #28

Crazy to think we were just there last summer fujiyamasan Yesterday #26