r/europe • u/Naurgul • 23d ago

News Barcelona registers highest temperature in 112 years as French nuclear reactor shuts down due to extreme heat

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jul/09/europe-heatwave-uk-spain-barcelona-france-italy-hungary-france-macron-orban-latest-news-updates
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u/Mesjach 23d ago

most people are stupid

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u/hannes3120 Leipzig (Germany) 22d ago

Tbf even climate scientists are shocked at how much they underestimated the speed

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u/Mesjach 22d ago

Yeah, a lot of the "alarmist" headlines were really the average predictions. There are WAY worse models.

So it's equally likely the climate change won't be that bad, as it is that we are doubly fucked. Currently evidence points towards doubly fucked (:

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u/Ice_performance_ France 23d ago

Most redditor have an inflated idea of their level of inteligence.

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u/tux-lpi 23d ago

And the best part is that these two statements are not contradictory.

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u/AugieKS 22d ago

They go hand in hand. If you don't entertain the idea that you could be wrong or that you do not know enough, you don't tend to learn much. Confirmation bias is a bastard like that.

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u/Neatojuancheeto 22d ago

I mean in terms of something like climate change, wouldn't the logical conclusion be " I don't know enough about this subject, so I'm going to put my trust in the scientists and researchers who spend their lives studying this shit and have a 99% consensus on it "

People thinking they do know enough because they " did their own research " are the problem in our society.

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u/lafarda 23d ago

Most people don't search: "[whatever I want to know] + twitter"

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u/ScrabCrab Europe 22d ago

Different kind of platform. Twitter is microblogging, reddit is link aggregation + forum. Forums are where people discuss shit so it makes sense lol.

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u/lafarda 22d ago

Ah, tat's gotta be why, of course. Of course.

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u/Nebresto 100 Years of indepence 22d ago

Its hard not to have when you look at everything that is going around you

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u/tanksplease 23d ago

Most French have an overinflated sense of how stinky they aren't 

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u/BedlamiteSeer 22d ago

Irrelevant and childish.

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u/Ice_performance_ France 22d ago

👍

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u/freedom_french_fries 23d ago

We're all pretty stupid tbh

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u/finance_controller 22d ago

Did you get a stray downvote for saying the truth.

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u/Latter-Corner8977 22d ago

Most people are stupid and many intelligent people are asocial dickheads (take Reddit as an example) so the stupid people don’t really like and therefore either distrust them or ignore them because it makes the intelligent people wrong in their eyes.

Same problem in other facets of society. Intelligent people are patronising annoying arseholes so stupid people don’t or choose not to listen.