• KaRunChiy@fedia.io
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    It is surprising how quickly it can hit though. I had an AC unit break on me a 95 degree night while we were all sleeping. Woke up feeling like my whole body was melting and all the water had been drained. The animals took it way worse and were pretty lethargic for a few hours while we cooled them off

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    “My mom lives paycheck to paycheck and if the AC breaks down in the summer and you can’t afford to fix it, you will die here. My dad proves that.”

    Richest country in the world.

    They say.

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        Doesn’t paint him in a very good picture. Morbidly obese and likes to play videogames with their 6 animals while his wife worked 3 jobs.

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        No, as “hateful” as it sounds… I’d say primary cause as well. Nothing stopped them from walking to their neighbors house and asking them if they could stick it out there for a bit since their A/C went out… Well… except for the walking part.

        They had family coming and checking on him regularly. If he wasn’t so fat that he couldn’t get out of bed, he’d have just gone to their house… No? Clearly they cared. They installed a window A/C.

        Inaction over the course of 2 days is was killed this man, the cause of inaction was his weight. His family obviously determined that they couldn’t move him… and he couldn’t move himself.

        Edit: To the point, I also live in AZ. I have a really big solar install that lets me run my house off grid and islanded (with many hours of battery as well). I’ve told my neighbors they should come over during outages. People understand what A/C means here in this state. This family shouldn’t have been blind-sided by the problem. It would have been his inability to get out of bed that limited options.

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          I don’t want to get into it too much, but consider this analogy: let’s say a person is tied to a chair wired with a bomb. The bomb explodes, and they die. What killed them? Personally, I’d say it was the bomb, not the rope or chair.

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            I reject the analogy. I’ve already stated the options any normal person would have had that would have kept them alive… and those options are quite simple of “walk to the neighbor’s house”.

            Once again, I’m GOING to sound hateful, even though I harbor no actual hate (do what you want with your life… but there’s consequences to everything). I speak this from a place of being overweight myself. You can’t let it get to this point. I personally don’t get the stupid signal from my stomach that I’m actually full. My brain tells me all the fucking time that I’m hungry even though I’m not. I get the problem though I’ve never been this far down the road myself.

            It’s even worse in this case as it’s well understood that fat people hold heat longer. The fat acts as a literal barrier to shedding heat. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30454605/

            With your argument… since being fat in of itself is never on a death certificate, it’s impossible to die for being fat. It’s always cardio issues, diabetes, kidney, or airway issues… That’s nonsense. Those issues existed because of the persons obesity. Why would this situation be any different than the others?

            Edit: Calling 911 would have also been an option once he started overheating… So I also have to wonder about the family members part of the situation. And his own inability to dial 3 digits on his phone as well.

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              Once again, I’m GOING to sound hateful, even though I harbor no actual hate

              Yeah, you do. Judgementalism is hateful.

              How about you sit down and really consider your own fallibilities, weaknesses and self-centredness before pointing fingers at anyone else.

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                I speak this from a place of being overweight myself. You can’t let it get to this point. I personally don’t get the stupid signal from my stomach that I’m actually full. My brain tells me all the fucking time that I’m hungry even though I’m not. I get the problem though I’ve never been this far down the road myself.

                Since you apparently are unable to read, I’ll repost this portion of my comment just for you.

                I’m 100% aware of my own problems and am dealing with them.

                I would highly suggest you work on your reading skills before pointing fingers of your own next time.

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                This is kind of a weak response that doesn’t address any of the actual points made and yet itself judgementally points moral fingers around. Calling someone a bad (and non-self-aware?) person is not a good way to prove them wrong.