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    anon rawdogs sunlight, blames society

    > Doesn’t know about sunglasses

    > Doesn’t know about sunscreen

    > What even is water

    > Acclimated to climate controlled rooms

    > No really, what is water

    > Do you even walk bro

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      To be fair, exposing yourself to the sun is unsafe. During summer the rule is: Don’t go out into the sun. If you have to go into the sun, cover yourself with clothes. If you can’t cover yourself with clothes, wear sunscreen. And limit the sun exposure to an absolute minimum. There is no safe tan.

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      The basic two-step human respiratory process completely baffles anon. He regularly forgets whether he should inhale or exhale. Anon is well known for tripping over stray dust particles.

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      As someone who wears sun hoodies to avoid negative effects, I respect the evils of the sun.

      That being said, people in the US need to learn acclimation. It does not need to be 15 degrees colder inside. In 2 weeks your body normalizes.

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        As someone who does not live in a climate controlled home but occasionally stays with people who do, I wholly disagree. I love being able to breathe and think rather than having to be in a place that’s just 7-10°F colder because of a lot of effort airing at the right times.

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          Yeah, idk what that guy is about, few months ago the outside temp was like 32°C and, because my apartment has crap insulation, the inside temp was either equal or higher. That was not fun and didn’t help with going outside at all.

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            I have this too. Some genius did not invest in window blinds on the outside.

            By midday I can just open up everything and let the 32c air in because it already warmed up to that temperature.

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      I FUCKING LOVE PUTTING THE STINK GOOP ALL OVER MY BODY EVERY 15 MINUTES AND HAVING AN UNCOMFORTABLE CRUSTY CARAPACE SO I DON’T ACQUIRE CRAB DISEASE

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        Dihydrogen monoxide also tries to kill you

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        So is oxygen

        Disingenuous nonsense. It’s basically impossible to encounter a harmful concentration of oxygen in day to day life, while harmful amounts of sunlight are commonplace.

        A lack of sunlight also doesn’t kill you in less than ten minutes.

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          I’m talking about ROS, which you can’t overdose on in the course of a day, but which are damaging your DNA and therefore cause cancer.

          Why are you so hostile?

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    Meanwhile, people who say they love cold weather:

    “I like sweaters, coats and boots, bundling up, sitting inside by a fire with hot cocoa.”. Really sounds like they enjoy being warm, not cold after all.

    So maybe “I like air conditioning, watching the sun from inside, the feeling of coming in out of the heat in the summer, a refreshing cold shower in the morning, being able to wear fashionable sunglasses and hats.”

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      I like feeling the cold around me while protecting my vitals from it.

      As I’m sure you’ve heard and maybe even contemplated, I can generally warm myself up. It’s a lot harder to cool myself down, at least past a certain point.

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        I have the opposite problem, when it gets past a certain coldness I can’t warm up without an external heat source. Hot weather I can be cool IF I am in the shade with a breeze, grew up without AC in Florida so probably just adapted.

        School kids here do have to do heat danger videos for athletics though, for some ungodly reason they do practices in the afternoons not before school and kids were dropping in the heat. It is dangerous like extreme cold is, I don’t go do yardwork when it’s the top of a summer day.

        Was just saying that if people can say they “love the cold” because they like being warm, it’s no sillier to say you like the heat because you like cooling off.

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        Yeah, but that’s just a mindset. You can turn that mindset on in the Florida summers too. When you get in your car and it’s an oven until the AC cools it you just pretend you’re in a sauna, breathing that hot air from the coals. You’re sweating while you’re doing a job/project, you just pretend it’s like hot yoga.

        A hot tub feels amazing. The heat can too when you decide it does. When you finally give into the heat and decide you’re just gonna be sweaty today, it feels great.

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      Solutions to being too cold - put on more layers, get a hot beverage, do some light exercise

      Solutions to being too hot - get to some AC, splash water on yourself, take off layers

      The problem is that the first set of solutions is generally more accessible and work-friendly. I can’t take off my shirt on a site visit for work (or even wear shorts, and being in damp sweaty clothes is miserable compared to being chilly and needing to warm up.

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      I love wearing 10kg of clothes just to stay warm while I’m outside

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        I literally do. Layers are so comfortable and safe feeling

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      I prefer being outside in cold weather. If I had my druthers I’d keep my house at 60 degrees in the winter and bundle up. I’ve lived in a house where I could wake up and see my breath in my own bedroom on especially cold days and it was glorious.

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        Ha! Well as much as I hate the cold, I hate the heater even more. Resist turning it on until it’s really too cold in long sleeves and a sweater. Air conditioner we keep at 78F, and it helps to keep the house from mold/mildew, improves air quality. Heater dries everything out and feels awful. We do set the heater to 60F, and don’t run it often.

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      Yeah, but I’m too poor for AC so the summer is all suffering. Climate change is making it worse and worse and I hate the whole world more and more.

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        Yeah I grew up before there was A/C all over, even in school didn’t have it until I was 12, and as bad as heat with no air conditioning is, it’s not as deadly as freezing weather with no heat. What do the homeless people do in cold places, do they just die in the winter? There is no season here where going outside in regular clothes would kill you, at least. Uncomfortable, sure.

        But again, I think it’s some epigenetic adaptation, I really do run cool, and now my kids do too.

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      Those people can speak for themselves. I like getting plastered then walking around shirtless in below freezing temps. Makes me feel alive.

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        Same, but I hate cold weather. It’s not because I’m uncomfortable, it’s because I hate all the things associated with cold weather:

        • shoveling snow
        • icy roads
        • so many ads (Black Friday + Christmas)

        The temperature itself is fine, and sometimes I’ll even shovel snow in shorts. It’s everything else that pisses me off.

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    I love WEARING SUNGLASSES.

    I love WEARING A HAT.

    I love DRINKING WATER.

    I Love WEARING SUNBLOCK.

    Jesus christ dude, if you get yourself into some kind of shape that isn’t round, you aren’t going to have these problems.

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      OP thinks sunny days are too hard. I have no idea how he survives rainy days. A bit of snow would kill him instantly.

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      I only disagree with the drinking water one to be honest. The others I find legitimately annoying. I still wear sunscreen, but only because sunburn is even worse

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        Doesn’t bother me; it’s 2 minutes to spray it on, and then re-apply every hour that I’m outside. As long as I’m wearing a hat to shade my face, I don’t have to worry about putting any on my face, and then sweating it into my eyes.

        Doing hard manual labor in the mid-day sun at the height of summer though? That’s def. unpleasant as fuck. I can do 2-5 hours, and then I’m just done for the day. I don’t know how some people can do that for eight hours a day, day in and day out.

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          Try 10 to 12 hours outside working. If you work outdoors, you ain’t doing no measly 8 hours as a rule.

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            Disagree; most people that work outside are still working for a wage, and OT pay kicks in once you break 40 hours in a week. That limits most places to 8 hours, unless you’re talking about undocumented immigrants that don’t have any labor protections, or people that are self-employed in some way.

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              You’ve never been on a construction job site meeting a deadline have you? Been there, done that, got the tan, and I wasn’t an undocumented immigrant.

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                Yeah, I have, and I got stiffed out weeks of pay I was owed because it was with a fly-by-night contractor that had a nose-candy problem. …Which is why I don’t do that any more. (Plus, he insisted on doing shit in the most backassward, bullshit way. I’ll be surprised if his shit doesn’t kill someone some day.)

                If you work for a reputable company–not as a 1099 contractor, which is self-employed–then you probably have to be paid overtime pay. If you get a W2, and you’re not getting OT when you have to put in more than 40 hours in a week, then you need to consult with an employment attorney.

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                  So you chose poorly the one time. It often happens to the young and dumb - that’s why you got hired. I had a similar situation where I didn’t get paid either. I took the guy’s semi tractor and trailer and kept it until he paid me.

                  I’ve done construction work building pole barns over a 3 state area and then I did some road construction running heavy equipment. They always paid overtime after 40 and travel expenses when needed. With road construction the pay could vary depending on if it was for township, county, state, or federal though. The hours almost always 50 to 70 hours a week. Because there was always the next job waiting and a deadline looming to get it done with heavy penalties if you missed them. So OT was never an issue.

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      I hate sunscreen, the only thing worse than being sweaty all day is being sweaty and oily and sticky.

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    All of those things can be avoided by following Australia’s public health messaging that all kids have learnt since the early 90s. It started as Slip, slop, slap.

    It’s now:

    • Slip (slip on a shirt i.e. Cover your skin in the sun)
    • Slop (slop on sunscreen and make sure you reapply)
    • Slap (slap on a hat, ideally a wide brimmed sunhat)
    • Seek (seek shade - you shouldn’t spend too long in direct sun)
    • Slide (slide on some sunnies - protect your eyes).

    While the country does periodically catch on fire over here, I love our summers. But to enjoy them, you basically have to remember that you’re made of meat and if left under the grill in the sky, you will cook.

    If you’re morbidly obese I can understand summer being very uncomfortable. But for most people, taking simple steps can make even a 40°c day comfortable.

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      Thanks for the advice but still, 40°c is a long way above what I’m confy with. Somewhere around 30°c I’d preferably just lie down and sleep till the summer is over. Also, you guys really love your hats, do you? I know a Australian guy who was constantly wearing his sunhat year around (yes, even when it’s dark outside 90% of the time) for multiple years after moving to Sweden.

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      The trick is to wear one layer that’s gonna absorb the sweat and another layer for looking good. Bamboo fibre wifebeater with colourful short sleeve shirts got me through 45+ °C 90% h. no bother.

      I’m writing this because I started with just the shirt, and two layers seems counter intuitive, but it’s actually a lot more comfortable and better looking (fewer sweat stains)

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      Granted I think my heat intoletance is abnormal and when I get a doctor that doesn’t dismiss it out of hand I want to see if there’s a reason, but simply sitting in my chair at my pc in 22°C in t shirt and shorts is uncomfortably warm for me. 40 is just awful. Then again I barely notice a difference for anything above ~28, it’s all horrible.

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      Just live in the Mountain West - Colorado, Arizona, Utah. The air is so dry it actively mummifies you every day of the year.

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        Eh, I live in Utah and I also only get chapped lips in the winter. It sucked the first year when I moved here, but my body adapted.

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    I think I might prefer a dry heat even if that’s what would chap my lips. I sure as hell know I hate humid heat. 100+ heat with 80%+ humidity doesn’t even let you sweat do what it’s intended to do!

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      Been living in the desert for 6 years now, chap stick and lotion is a small price to pay for no swamp ass.

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      There is no hell quite like 100/100.

      The air is hot water. You are hot water. There is no relief. You don’t even want to breathe.

      Humidity sucks.

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      Bri’in moment 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧☁️☕🔪

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      In the fall we usually get a few hours of rain and then it clears away to cloud or sun and that’s my favourite weather.

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    I love sunny days when it’s reasonable temperature outside, between 15-20°C when you can do sports with t-shirt and shorts without getting uncomfortably hot

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    Who gets chapped lips from a sunny day? Where are you, the fucking Sahara desert?