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Your argument sounds like "how can there be global hunger? I just ate lasagna".

kragen 3y ago
yes, there is clearly not a worldwide famine if everyone in my city is eating lasagna 'global' is ambiguous between 'worldwide' and 'somewhere in the world', but 'worldwide' unambiguously means 'everywhere in the world', and in fact literally half the world is not experiencing intense heat right now
- Daishiman 3y ago
  Argentina is experiencing a hotter-than-normal winter and we just came through with the biggest drought in 60 years. Don't be pedantic.
  - kragen 3y ago
    according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buenos_Aires#Climate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buenos_Aires#Climate the average low in july in buenos aires is 7.5 degrees and the record low is -5.4. last night it was -1. maybe our winter has been hotter than normal, though that isn't my perception, but the supposed worldwide intense heat isn't purported to be a months-long phenomenon, but rather a phenomenon of the current week, which has in fact been a much colder week than normal i don't think it's being pedantic to point out that actually half the world is in the middle of winter, not experiencing intense heat, and that actually people live here too
    - Daishiman 3y ago
      It totally irrelevant for the purpose of large-scale climate observations to observe local weather for a single month for a small region of the planet, and personal perception is less than useless. It is also the case that winter in Argentina was and is expected to be warmer than usual, per https://www.smn.gob.ar/noticias/%C2%BFc%C3%B3mo-ser%C3%A1-el-resto-del-invierno-tendencia-clim%C3%A1tica-para-julio-agosto-septiembre-2023 https://www.smn.gob.ar/noticias/%C2%BFc%C3%B3mo-ser%C3%A1-el... .
- renewiltord 3y ago
  Name 5 phenomena that are worldwide by this definition. I suspect that the set of things that are worldwide might be so tiny as to be useless to converse about.
  - kragen 3y ago
    sunlight, the internet, rainfall, aging, and idiots who think that their immediate surroundings are the entire world
    - renewiltord 3y ago
      Sorry, no sunlight currently in half the world. No internet in rural India. No rainfall in many places in the world. No aging in HeLa present all over the world. And it appears the last one is only present in your original comment, eh? Tragic, mate, though a valiant and hence amusing attempt.

yes, there is clearly not a worldwide famine if everyone in my city is eating lasagna 'global' is ambiguous between 'worldwide' and 'somewhere in the world', but 'worldwide' unambiguously means 'everywhere in the world', and in fact literally half the world is not experiencing intense heat right now

Daishiman 3y ago
Argentina is experiencing a hotter-than-normal winter and we just came through with the biggest drought in 60 years. Don't be pedantic.
- kragen 3y ago
  according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buenos_Aires#Climate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buenos_Aires#Climate the average low in july in buenos aires is 7.5 degrees and the record low is -5.4. last night it was -1. maybe our winter has been hotter than normal, though that isn't my perception, but the supposed worldwide intense heat isn't purported to be a months-long phenomenon, but rather a phenomenon of the current week, which has in fact been a much colder week than normal i don't think it's being pedantic to point out that actually half the world is in the middle of winter, not experiencing intense heat, and that actually people live here too
  - Daishiman 3y ago
    It totally irrelevant for the purpose of large-scale climate observations to observe local weather for a single month for a small region of the planet, and personal perception is less than useless. It is also the case that winter in Argentina was and is expected to be warmer than usual, per https://www.smn.gob.ar/noticias/%C2%BFc%C3%B3mo-ser%C3%A1-el-resto-del-invierno-tendencia-clim%C3%A1tica-para-julio-agosto-septiembre-2023 https://www.smn.gob.ar/noticias/%C2%BFc%C3%B3mo-ser%C3%A1-el... .
renewiltord 3y ago
Name 5 phenomena that are worldwide by this definition. I suspect that the set of things that are worldwide might be so tiny as to be useless to converse about.
- kragen 3y ago
  sunlight, the internet, rainfall, aging, and idiots who think that their immediate surroundings are the entire world
  - renewiltord 3y ago
    Sorry, no sunlight currently in half the world. No internet in rural India. No rainfall in many places in the world. No aging in HeLa present all over the world. And it appears the last one is only present in your original comment, eh? Tragic, mate, though a valiant and hence amusing attempt.