• LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    I love all this and the fact that exposure to the sun can make my autoimmune disease worse and can actually do permanent damage to organs and could kill me if I get burnt bad enough. Got the diagnosis right after I got back into riding horses. -_-

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    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.”

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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        27 days ago

        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.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      27 days ago

      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.

    • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
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      27 days ago

      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.

    • toynbee@lemmy.world
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      27 days ago

      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.

      • RBWells@lemmy.world
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        27 days ago

        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.

    • 🔍🦘🛎@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      27 days ago

      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.

      • ChexMax@lemmy.world
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        27 days ago

        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.

    • skulkingaround@sh.itjust.works
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      27 days ago

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

  • THCDenton@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    Drink water with electrolytes, wear sun protective clothing. Enjoy sunny days in spite of it being sunny.

    • don@lemm.ee
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      27 days ago

      Anon understands at most four, maaaybe five words of your sentence. The fewer the letters, the better. “With, sun, in, of, and it”, and even that is a legitimate struggle.

    • three@lemm.ee
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      27 days ago

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

    • Rose Thorne(She/Her)@lemm.ee
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      27 days ago

      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.

  • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    28 days ago

    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

  • boogetyboo@aussie.zone
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    28 days ago

    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.

    • Hjalmar@feddit.nu
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      27 days ago

      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.

    • LwL@lemmy.world
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      27 days ago

      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.

    • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works
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      27 days ago

      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)