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Good Morning, Thermometer!

A thermometer lying on a wooden table in direct sunlight, showing an artificially high temperature reading.

Robin Williams once made us laugh about jungles hot enough to fry monks in their robes. Today, the same weather is repackaged as apocalypse. Temperature isn’t a divine decree—it’s a negotiation, massaged into “records” by those with careers to protect. If we’ve lost our ability to laugh at this theater, we’re already cooked.