• jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    If you’re cold in winter you can always put on another layer.

    If you’re hot in summer, eventually all you can do is suffer. :)

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      5 months ago

      It feels like we have to keep screaming this at peoples faces for them to understand.

      It’s impossible to survive and be productive or do anything useful in the fucking heat.

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      5 months ago

      In Holland we have 99% humidity all winter with temperatures right around freezing and no matter how many layers you add the cold wet air seeps in and chills you to the bone.

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        I see you have not experienced -30C going on and and on for weeks on end. I promise you, the little wet chills are better. Especially when its windy, though I imagine you dutch know all about that nastyness.

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      5 months ago

      This cliche has always landed flat for me. Always cold or uncomfortable in the winter with a dozen layers, and don’t suffer in the heat ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

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        Right? No matter what I wear, I’ll inevitably start freezing/being cold, especially my feet which I can’t just put extra layers on. Add to that eyes watering intensely in the cold, windy weather, plus runny nose, so can’t wear anything over it for any extended time, lest I bathe my face in snot. No, thank you. Give me summer and a fan.

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    5 months ago

    I love winter. 6 hours of sun per day and the color gray is all I ever wanted in life.

  • iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com
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    Here me out please.

    Throughout most of the time humans existed we lived a migratory existence. It is only with the adoption of agriculture that staying in one place sense made sense.

    Now here we are, with like 2% of our population involved with agriculture and still living that way.

    We should all migrate like birds and stay in cooler climes during summer and warmer climes in the winter.

    Obviously this is a huge change, but we can do it!

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    There is no such thing as too cold. There is only under dressed. At least that’s what the old fucks say. I like me a toasty summer but that doesn’t make it any less true thst its easier to get warm when your cold than it is to get cool when your too hot.

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        I’ve worked outside in -50 with a 30km/h wind, more than once. It’s not fun, but I would take that in a heartbeat to +40. I can dress for -50; at +40 there’s only so many clothes I can take off before I get arrested.

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          And I’ve worked in sweltering heat with high humidity and it’s a lot easier for a layman to survive the heat than the cold. You need gear and burning resouces to survive the cold. All you need with the heat is some shade and maybe a dip in the river/lake/pool. Like I said in my other comment, there’s a reason homeless flock to warm climates. It’s easier to survive.

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      5 months ago

      Truly missing the suffering I experienced there with 39°C under shadow. Eternal suffering. Having to change clothes 3 times a day.

    • Sʏʟᴇɴᴄᴇ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Very US centric take. I’d be curious to see how Dubai or Singapore stack up in terms of energy consumption per capita compared to large cold-climate cities. Everything is air conditioned and there is so much enclosed space because being outside sucks so bad.

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        There are extremes at both ends. I live in a place where you have to pay for heat 6 months out of the year to survive. Most of the warm climates I’ve lived in have 1-2 unbearable months max. Why do you think you see so many homeless in warm climates?

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    I personally like summer and heat. A lot. But I realize that it’s objectively bad for most people.