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listen here, canadian, you may like it when your extremities hurt from how fucking cold it is, and love sweating because you have to wear layers to not freeze, but your nose is still cold, but some of us actually like feeling like we're warm enough and being ok with things being bright, visible, welcoming and comfortable.
Too hot? just stay indoors between 11 to 3 and you'll be fine.
EDIT: Unlike those random ass non summer months when it can rain or be shittier than usual at random, we know when it's too fucking hot or so sunny it will burn you; it's the same fucking time every day.
Too cold? Put on more clothes until you're warm and cozy.
Too hot? Keep taking off clothes until you're just a sweaty naked mess begging for the sweet release of death.
I got 3 layers on inside and my hands are still chilled and my feet bounce from being cold to being sweaty so I'm constantly taking my socks on and off. I was sitting in my office at work with my coat and jacket on for 3 hours yesterday before I got back up to a comfortable temperature after being outside. Also everything just fucking hurts all the time. Fuck this shit. I don't have issues like this in summer.
It kinda sounds like you might need to see a doctor about that.
Wtf is a doctor going to do. It's been this way my entire life.
I don't know, I'm not a doctor. But if it takes 3 hours in a jacket indoors to get warm, there's potentially an issue going on. Temperature regulation issues could be nothing, or they could be a symptom of an underlying issue.
My wife is like that and it's probably the neuropathy from the lupus that no one but her eye doctor believes she has (despite her father and his mother dying from it). Like, if it's below 78F, she has a jacket on.
So just because it has been that way your whole life, without a doctor looking into why, it is an unsolvable problem...? All you've said just screams "I want to have this problem because it's something to complain about".
Imagine if a person has had a limp their whole life, they complain about it and other people say "it shouldn't be like that, it's not normal and you should get it looked at" and their reply is what you said. See how fucking dumb that is? That's you.
So, say it is some medical issue where my body doesn't regulate temperature properly, what will they actually be able to do? Make me spend $1000s on diagnostic tests? Put me on an expensive medication that I have to take forever? I live in America, our healthcare is a joke and I'm not going to waste my money on something that isn't actively killing me. So yeah I'm going to complain.
again, different parts are difficult to keep warm, like my nose or my hands and feet. How the fuck am I meant to type with thick gloves on?
Also, the differing levels of activity and transitions make it awkward, I'm dressed in a thick coat because its cold, and my core starts to get warm because I'm walking , but my arms would be freezing, and when I get to my destination I take of my coat and stench bomb wherever the fuck I am
As opposed to being too hot all over and desperate for anything that gives the slightest momentary relief. Not being able stand any activity because movement just makes you hotter and the heat has sapped your will to live. Being sweaty all over no matter what you do because it's all your body can do to keep you alive.
Our bodies generate heat. When trying to warm up, physics is on our side. When trying to cool down, we are fighting a losing battle. You're worrying about typing in gloves while I'm trying to figure how to waterproof my whole system so I can work from my shower.
bruh just turn on a fan
That only helps up to about 80F for me. Beyond that, it's just misery with a breeze.
Ok. It introduces wind. Temps still remain high.
Stay inside from 11-3? More like stay inside from May-September.
I never stop sweating for like four months of the year and hate it.
Good thing no one works outdoors and every building has A/C.
It sucks to work outdoors full stop. You think they prefer it cold or rainy?
My dad’s a welder, works outside every day. I asked him, he said obviously it depends on the situation but in general he’d take cold and dry. 1-5 degrees and raining is just about worst case scenario for him. We’re Canadian though so we’re used to the cold, maybe if you asked someone from Florida or something they’d have a different answer.
He's working with fire. of course he prefers winter.
Canadian here. Fuck being cold.
And never seeing the sun.
How many mosquito bites did you get today?
I'd rather take the summer mosquitoes. It goes down to as low as -40c/f and I just don't want to dress in like four layers w/ snowpants, balaklava, boots and all that to do every single thing that requires going outside like taking out the garbage or doing groceries
I'd assume the same number people who don't live near swamps get. Or people who stay inside.
Cries in European (we usually don't have AC)
A dehumidifier plus a "swamp cooler" (a bucket of ice in front of a fan) works pretty well so long as you keep it to one room and only expect it to work for a few hours or so. Otherwise you'll be buying a lot of ice and doing a lot of work dumping the water from the dehumidifier.
Won't the dehumidifier warm up the room again?
Yes, but it's not a big deal because it only will run once the humidity gets above a certain level - especially if you're using it to cover multiple rooms where any heat from it running will disperse across a wide area. You set it to something like 60% and it will pop on occasionally for a few minutes to maintain that level.
In a closed room with a swamp cooler it's a bit of a different story, but that's why I recommend that only for a short period of time, a couple of hours at most. Just long enough to cool down yourself and the room.
So you leave the dehumidifier on all the time on an automatic setting in a central location in the house to keep the air in the house fairly dry, run a swamp cooler late in the afternoon to cool down your room, and if it isn't too hot and humid outside, open a couple of windows in the house to get some cross ventilation going and air out the house once the sun goes down.
https://lemmy.world/post/40277663/21045211
Bruh, learn physics: Those don't work too well if it's too humid. 🙄
... isn't it the other way around?
Nope. You lose heat by evaporation of water on your skin. If the air is too humid, water can evaporate worse and worse.
That's why heat in the Sahara is easier to handle than in the amazon forest.
OK, but I'm not talking about making your body temperature drop, I'm talking about feeling cooler. Doesn't having more stuff in the breeze make it feel cooler?
No. What makes you feel colder is the air moving faster and therefore absorbing sweat off your skin more quickly. If the air is already moist then its capacity for extra heat goes down. You should look up what Wet Bulb Temperature is. In short, it's when the humidity nears 100%, which prevents the air from absorbing any heat from your body because it's no longer pulling sweat off of you. At this level of humidity, even special forces units have found themselves incapacitated within hours due to heat stroke during army tests of soldier capabilities in those conditions. There was a heatwave of about 70-80F in the UK a couple of years ago where multiple people died of heat stroke related organ failure because the humidity was so high that their organs couldn't cool down and overheated until they just stopped working.
If you want to cool down, ideally the first step is to get a dehumidifier to pull water out of the air. This is how air conditioners work as well, they pull moisture out of the air which carries heat, and then transfer that heat and moisture somewhere else.
In the short term, you can use a "swamp cooler" as an ad hoc air conditioner to help cool down. A swamp cooler is just a big bucket of ice in front of a fan. The ice will cool down the air in front of the fan as it blows over it, allowing it to absorb heat from the rest of the room. This only works short-term though, because it won't do anything about the humidity in the room and will actually increase the humidity as the ice melts.
thank you for that thorough explanation on why I'm wrong, I understand the idea much better now.
I don't know what else to tell you other than "evaporation makes it feel colder".
Have you ever been in a Turkish sauna? That's the same principle. Warm water in the air is definitely not pleasant and refreshing.
That air isn't moving
At this point you must be trolling. Turn on your hair-dried and cool yourself down with warm air, since you seem able to.
That's what your mom did (I'm her fan)
You know that scene from riddick where the guy steps into the sun/desert storm and gets instantly vaporized? Thats what its like here in the summer. Every year my state sends everyone a letter telling them basically not to go outside. Winters are aight, they get a little cold. Coldest i can remember was about -10f or im guessing about -14C
I live in Calgary. The 3 things Calgarians will invariably tell you are: 1) Calgary Olympics was the only profitable one and was well managed. 2) Tennessee barbeque is the greatest. 3) it gets to -40, but it's not so bad because it's dry cold.
Only one of those is unconditionally true.
is it this one?
Yup. They used it as an impetus to build public transportation infrastructure, turned the Olympic complex into a winter sporting area, and the athlete dorms into student/affordable housing.
Since then, public transportation has turned to dog shit for most of the city, but it works well for me. Plenty of people still use the winter sporting infrastructure (I think), and housing still exists even if everything around those areas are getting gentrified, which somewhat of a universal truth.