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If you had to live the rest of your life in single or triple digit temperatures F° (-13 or 38 C°)which would you choose? (sh.itjust.works)

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Freedom degrees. Roughly -13° or 38° if you live in the sane parts of the world.

I’d pick triple digits, mostly because I’ve lived in places that routinely hit 100° in the summer, and I hate shoveling snow.

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[–] rekabis 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Ever since I had a heat exhaustion event in my late teens, I have been exceedingly sensitive to heat. Think actively sweating like I’m in a sauna - only in normal office temperatures. I have to shave my head for nearly half the year in order to not look like a drowned rat - and carry a “sweat towel” with me at all times to wipe the dripping sweat off a half dozen times an hour.

My home office is set to between 15℃ and 18℃ because that is the temperature where I feel the same amount of comfort as most other people do between 24℃ and 28℃. Throw a business suit into the mix, and that comfort range drops by 4-6℃.

There are times in the winter where I throw all the office windows open, let the -20℃ air roll in from outside, and actually enjoy wearing long pants and a sweater.

…I live in Canada. Near where it hit 50℃ during the heat dome a few years ago. Climate Change is going to be brutal for me.

[–] GreyEyedGhost 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I went through this in my middle teens. It took 10 or 20 years to go away.

[–] rekabis 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, my heat exhaustion event was a quarter century ago. It’s just gotten worse and worse over the years.

[–] GreyEyedGhost 2 points 1 day ago

That is just brutal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

So… triple digits then?