Come back to this post in 2030's

In the beginning, autumn and spring duration were 13 weeks. Then six, then three weeks. The last autumn lasted for a week. In next year they will be four days, we could be seeing a summer and winter transition in eight hours, until they switch in four minutes.

brace yourself, winter debate is coming

God, I remember when that meme was so fun to use.

How come you can makum snowballs in summertime?

Honestly its ridiculous how people act today.

But yeah, all we can do is try and show them how their behavior is not really sane when it comes to social media discussions. But for all we know we could be talking to bots.

Peoples opinions are reported as “misinformation” sometimes. Makes me laugh.

When I lived in the NE US in the ‘00s it would snow so much the airports would shut down for a day. Piles of snow would last well into spring. Last time I was there it snowed maybe a total of a foot for the entire winter for a couple years running. All those winter scenes in film, or even Currier and Ives prints from the turn of the last century are the only context that it used to actually snow and stay covered for months at a time.

MRGA guy on the right

I live in the arctic, we had 3 weeks over 30c this summer.

The first two weeks of September were all over 20c. Normal high for these two weeks is 8.8c.

Snow would usually sit around until late April/ early May. The last 4-5 years it’s been gone early April at the latest.

!RemindMe 2035

It’s just two AI chatbots posting to a dead internet, on a dead planet, hours before the last bit of electricity is consumed by their mainframes and a rack mining crypto.

There’s a ray Bradbury story that’s kind of similar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Come_Soft_Rains_(short_story)

I actually have read that one before. Definitely the inspiration

Probably inspired that ST:TNG episode with the Douwd as well.

Same deal with Lake Placid, NY and Hakuba, Nagano, you ask anyone who’s been in a snow area since the 70s about how impassible people’s yards became from the snow when they were in their 20s. At least Sapporo got snow this year.

This is internet arguments now

Sure but when hasn’t it been?

I dunno the 80s?

As late as the 2000s. The internet didn’t always have the content it does now. News agencies took a long time to adopt it. Publications scientific or otherwise weren’t all published online. Content aggregators hadn’t scraped and indexed it all. Random pseuds hadn’t social media profiles to digest and spit out their takes on it. None of that existed which has led us to this point where internet arguments are two doofuses frantically dumping the results of that on each other.

Believe or not. Once upon a time not long ago people on the internet didn’t know everything. And generally they didn’t pretend to. Much less get into the modern day logical fallacy warfare while firing volleys of “sources” at each other.

As a user of the internet and telnet in the 80s, this was also the case back then. But also, sharing the entire sources and sharing knowledge was the primary use.

Western Europe. Places stopped having any freezing in winter. It just turned into one long autumn.