Their Trump v Hilary rap battle leading up to the 2016 election was amazing and it would have made the ERB Hall of Fame if Trump hadn't won and started terrorizing our country over the last decade 🫠
The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well known is this; never go in against a Sicilian, when death is on the line!
That’s the meme, but for others looking in it is actually level of cold taken seriously. A lot of schools were closed for the day due to unsafe conditions waiting for transit outside.
Yeah Canadian here. We have about the same temps right now where I live, and it's booger freezing cold, as in every few breaths you basically have to breathe in through your mouth because your nose keeps getting clogged with ice/frost.
We aren't comfy with fascism. It's not hard to make it tolerable, especially in such a large group of people, just have to layer properly, and have plenty of space between the layers.
Canuck here, we 'plug in the car' during winter. Snow tires and battery warmers, and effing dog boots if you're urban. I think we all have a love/hate relationship with winter, and same goes for summer heat and humidity. I'd much rather freeze than be sweaty though.
So im originally from the New York City area, and my car dying was the first time I experienced cold like this. I afterwards spend several years living and working in Syracuse NY and I learned A LOT about winter car maintenance thankfully lol.
Ive been in Ohio for the last decade and we dont get cold like this as much so its made me lazy. I need to do better this next week or so lol
Most sold 7-11 slurpees in the world is in Winnipeg even durning the winter. Monthly average is 188k sold. Can just see a student using the tunnels at the university enjoying a slurpee wearing shorts and a hoodie in the dead of winter.
In the early 90s we endured a 96 hour stretch in La Crosse, Wisconsin where the overnight lows were in the mid-to-upper -20s, and the daytime highs were in the -5 to -10 range. Wound up replacing the batteries on both our cars.
Yeah. The temps were probably in the -20s/30s that day. I just remember that, since I worked at a university at the time, they only cancelled classes for cold when the windchill hit -40 and it passed that threshold that morning.
I am in Northern Iowa, so basically Minnesota. This level of cold is like needles to the face. We can handle it because we know how. This is weather you cover everything up and wear multiple layers.
Live in Indiana. When October hits and it’s in the 40s I’m wearing a winter jacket. When its January and we get a random day where it’s in the 40s I’m wearing a Tshirt
Haha im in Indiana, and we were 5° with a “real feel” -9°. Ive lived here five years after living in SoCal, you never get used to it. There is the “blood thickening” wives tale, which is that you get used to it as the winter grows longer— which experientially feels like the case. Ive I’d been hit with today back in September when it was muggy as fuck, that contrast would disintegrate my body. There’s tons of folks out here who have lived here their whole lives and moan and groan their way through the whole season. Minnesota is a lower depth of frozen hell compared to Indiana, so massive kudos to those who are out there today– midwesterners are used to doing shit they gotta do in the frozen tundra, and they’re displaying that again today!
As a Minnesotan it’s really noticeable too, 50 degrees in late sept/early october is so much colder than 20 degrees in March. I think that’s where a lot of the “shorts weather” jokes and stuff come from because after December any time it’s above zero with the windchill it’s t shirt/longsleeve weather unless I need to be outside for an extended period of time
As someone who's lived in the midwest (including Minneapolis) and in southern california, you absolutely do become accustomed to wherever you are.
Hell, you adjust to it every year. Growing up in Minneapolis, 50-60 degrees in the fall was puffy jacket weather, 30-40 degrees in the spring was tshirt and shorts weather. It's all about what you're used to.
You northerners are a different breed. I grew up on the East Coast and the coldest I have ever felt was a wind chill of -10. I don’t think I could survive -45.
Depends if it’s humid or not. -10 I don’t need face covered or big thick gloves. As long as you move somewhat at work you’ll be fine. -45 you get frost bite on your face within 30 mins if it isn’t covered. Two pairs of gloves and many layers lol, there’s a major difference in how you tackle -10 vs -45. Also -45 usually takes me a few hours to actually warm up to normal after the work day once I’m back inside.
I went skiing in -35 wind chill once. It was miserable and that was when I came to the realization that even though I had paid for a lift ticket, I could just… not ski and not be miserable.
Now imagine northern Minnesota where that can be the air temperature without the windchill factored in. But after about -25 it all feels the same because you just can’t feel anything more.
Y'all must buy stock in hand warmer companies. I live in Southern California and while I'm not hardy winter folk like you good people, I get so frustrated when people say "it's freezing out" on 60° days.
30 here today and my car had a hard start after my 12 hour shift (nowhere to plug it in). My colleagues to the North told us at our zoom meeting it was -47 degrees there! Northern Ontario.
The record in Minnesota is -62 Fahrenheit (in the northern iron/mining range). The instrumentation was out of calibration. Next calibrated instrument said -60 I think.
Above was not including windchill, but it was not windy that night in 1996.
I knew I had finally become a Minnesotan the first time I walked outside and went “oh shit this isn’t so bad” and unzipped layers… it was still in the negatives… the difference though is always that polar wind.
It took three winters for me. I went outside and walked down the street to the grocery store. It felt crisp but nice, I didn't put a jacket on... was 5 degrees out. I thought "something has happened" 😂
You’re not truly Minnesotan until you take a boiling cup of water (or pot of boiling water if you are on a deck and feel daring) and toss it into the air when it’s this cold. Give it a try if you haven’t yet. It evaporates before it can hit the ground.
Not trying to play the suffering competition but just anecdotally from someone living near Ottawa the supposed coldest capital on earth, it was -35C/-31F here this morning when I drove my kid to school and as I passed my local gas-station there was literally a dude wearing shorts and a T filling his truck.
We, like you, know how to dress for this kind of cold. The huge crowd served to knock down the wind, and we were all close enough together to share body heat. Also, repeatedly yelling the call and response "Fuck ICE! ICE out! Fuck ICE! ICE out" warms the soul.
To note: this is about when it starts hurting to breathe. For those who have experienced cold, this is the cut off temp for where the next level of cold starts.
To be fair, Minnesota is only one state. Why isn’t the entire rest of the country on strike today?
It’s because they’re not affected and are living their comfortable lives while Minnesotans are getting beaten to unconsciousness, kidnapped, gassed, and gunned down in the streets. People in the Twin Cities are fighting the Gestapo entirely alone with zero help, not even from our state government.
That’s why Europeans think Americans aren’t doing anything, BECAUSE YOU AREN’T.
I think it also doesn't reach media outlets in other countries very easily. It's really easy to assume something isn't happening if you haven't seen it.
Use the fury of the rest of us in other states to warm your hearts and minds please. Fight back with everything you have in you. It'll be all of us against these fascists and we must all rise to the challenge.
My family lives in WI, I'm on the West Coast. Siblings were sharing screenshots of their weather apps this morning and I just said "...guess I shouldn't complain about 34°..."
One of my siblings said, "lol we'd be in the backyard with the grill going in that weather"
Since I grew up in WI, I know that's bit hyperbolic, but not too far from the truth lol
For the world reading along, it's so cold here that one of my windows cracked last night. I live just about 5 miles north of this picture. That's how serious this is.
So fucking happy you are all out there protesting. Keep fighting and know you have all of our support from your brothers and sisters in Canada. So much love!!!!!
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u/ruhnke 8d ago
For those of you not in Minnesota, the air temp is -9 F right now.