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Turkey's Environment Ministry said meteorologists had registered a reading of 50.5 degrees Celsius (122.9 degrees Fahrenheit) in the southeast of the country, setting a nationwide record.

The record temperature was registered on Friday at Silopi, the ministry said in a post on X on Saturday.

Silopi is 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Turkey's borders with Iraq and Syria.

The previous heat record, registered in August 2023, was 49.5 degrees Celsius.

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[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Don't worry, Trump is over there to teach you how to do things the American way. See, you use the cheapest lumber, plywood and pine boards, and then you cover it all in plastic sheeting. Then you put up drywall, which is about the weakest material known to man, and cover the interior walls with no plaster or anything

Then what you want to do is really crank the plastic up to 11. Plastic siding, expanding plastic foam in the walls, just fill up the attic with it

And you want to make the designs very basic, they should all look nearly identical

And now you have a house that will require constant A/C or heating, because it's a plastic bubble with terrible air circulation. Also, you have to worry about the whole thing rotting if it gets too damp

But if you do everything right, it might last 50 whole years

[–] KumaSudosa@feddit.dk 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Oh how lovely that sounds! I am beginning to tire of my old brick building.. I hope this is part of that totally equal trade deal the EU just made with our saviour so we can crank up the Americanisation!

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 31 minutes ago (1 children)

Yep! Look forward to bleached meat and widening all your roads to accommodate pointlessly enormous trucks you currently need a CDL to drive

You're going to have to rip up everything and redo it all just for that

[–] KumaSudosa@feddit.dk 1 points 15 minutes ago

Amazing, finally I'll have space to drive the tank I've always dreamed of and I'll never have to worry about parking spots when I go to the new super mall to buy corn syrup-filled food! I hope we tear down all these old crap buildings and will have a serious building boom! Preferably mass-produced cardboard houses and glass skyscrapers!