9mo ago

Good night's sleep rule

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i love wearing my slutty clothes tho
- i see 20 year old gals bare legged in winter and wish i was that courageous with my sluttiness
  
  Tougher than the troops!

I hate the heat so much.
- You're not going to like the future then
  
  That seems to be true on many subjects these days...
  
  I know 🥲

reasons #3742, #3755 and #6278 of why i hate summer.

- Summer Enjoyers when they get 8th degree burns on their face after they pass out onto the concrete from heat exhaustion.

Autumn lovers >>> all other seasons
- It’s barely a season though. Summer and winter are months long. Any place that actually gets something akin to autumn anymore, itonly lasts for like a few weeks. If that. There are two seasons: summer and winter. They just have barely discernible transition periods which more often than not amount to a few days of back and forth weather, from nice for a day or two, back to the previous seasons temps, then lurching forward to the next, then back and forth with some median-“season” days mixed in mid swing.
  Thanks Shell, Exxon, BP, Koch industries, Lockheed, et al
  
  Yep, they fucked up the planet just to make more money. I’d rather buy an NFT made by an AI than give those people another penny, if I had a choice in the matter
  
  Sounds like climate change alright!
  
  throwback to the almost summer temperatures back in january, and now snow just a week ago in april, i love this timeline.
- It's my favorite season, except this past year it was rarely ever cool. Winter was better this year. I feel like that's only going too become more true as we go on.

easier to warm up than cool down imo
- Clothes-wise sure, we put it 100W at rest, we need only capture that.
  I really don't get why you can still buy cooling-only air conditioners when any heat pump can work just as well in either direction
  Every aircon should heat or cool the indoor space as required
  Then it becomes easy to cool or warm at ~400% efficiency
  
  As s far as window units go, one of the biggest losses is in insulation around the window.
  Those that have window units do so because there's really no alternative.
  Would bi-directional window-mount ACs be effective heaters, given how much loss a window unit sees through drafts?

This is a silly thing to argue over because we don't get to pick seasons and have to live through the one currently on.
- If you can't pick seasons you just need to pick yourself up by the bootstraps. No reason anybody can't pick seasons.
- Maybe you don't
- You can however move to a hotter/colder climate. You don't need to suffer the climate you don't enjoy if you're willing to suffer the consequence
  
  I don’t think many people have such privilege to change countries they live in freely based on whims

Cries in tropical weather
Even when it rains, it can still be over 30 degrees. Life is pain.
- Winter is about to arrive down here. It's dry season, with "cold" (18-22º C) nights and scorching hot (29º+) days. Oh, and there's a fuckton of heatwaves that might come around, which are totally not caused by excessive pollution and CO2 emission!
  
  I feel you, man. I live by the coast. I'll be lucky if my neighborhood doesn't join Atlantis in the next decade.

I have an in-window AC that runs on full blast at night in the summers on top of my whole-house AC. 58 degrees FTabsoluteW.
- Wow Exxon loves you
  
  For now...solar panels are going in soon, which should more than cover it
  
  exxon fucking HATES heat pumps, they want everyone to live in the coldest winter burning fossil fuels to survive.
- I bet you also sleep with a heavy blanket as if it were winter.
  I got sick last time I was in the US cause everywhere was like 16°C while outside was like 30-35°C. What's your problem, people?
  
  We love AC. We also realize that it's easier tod add layers than to take them off, when out in public.
  Bring a hoodie? 🤷
- I set my AC to 26°C (79°F) in summers. As far as I know, most people in my country do somewhere between 20 and 26°C (68~79°F).
- Wow. I am impressed from where I sit, in a house with the AC set to 66F, sometimes 65, to save energy vs where we might otherwise set it.
  
  People consider 70 ideal, don't they? So 65 is only a saving in winter, you would set a higher temperature than ideal in summer

in exchange for almost never running it during the day: i turn my A/C down to like 68 F overnight and sleep like a baby.
- Use anything but Fahrenheit, please!
  
  527 °R
  
  lol no, that's the most american thing about me and i refuse.
  i literally use metric for everything else in my day job and overall life; but for temperature, Fahrenheit makes more sense to me. 100 F? deadly. 70 F? great. 50 F? chilly. 0 F? deadly.

Don't forget the forest fire smoke!

Ppl acting like it's winter or summer when autumn and spring are right there
- Here in MN we even get several Springs. I think we got 5 this year.
- Spring is the worst fucking season weather wise. It's perpetually wet and rainy, and the temperature is erratic. In the past 3 weeks it has been 55, 75, then 30, and now we are up to 80 in my part of Ohio. You cant accommodate for it, you cant plan anything outside, and my allergies go absolutely bananas. Summer is consitent, and the fall never really has wild weather changes, just a steady cooling down.
  
  Apparently you don't live in Scotland (west coast at least). Spring may not be warm, but we get some clear dry days, and if you're in the sun and out of the wind you can feel the heat. By summer it's so muggy and humid that 15 degrees (Celsius) feels oppressive. I used to live in Australia but the (not-)heat here feels worse.
  
  Nah man, rain is beautiful. It sounds amazing, makes everything look amazing, and makes the world look so much more vibrant afterwards.
  If it rained two or three times a week until the end of time I’d be the happiest man alive.
- Those only last like 2 weeks around here.

Nah, #teamsummer here. I struggle so much in the winter. I either the blanket is too thick and I'm warm but at the cost of waking up drenched it sweat or it's too thin and I have a hard time falling asleep because it's chilly. There's just no blanket that's breathable and isolates well. In the summer I can just use a thin cotton bed sheet and sleep with the window open. Nights like this are one of my favorite things and I love falling asleep to the sound of crickets chirping outside.

learn to open your doors and windows in the nighttime (with bug nets obviously) and keep them closed during the day, nature's AC.
- That works now, but from June to August the nights aren't all that much cooler and there is rarely any wind either. Still makes sense, but it feels so futile. I am Sisyphus.
  
  I still like to, if I can, because I don't want old-breath hotboxing CO^2 brain damage. My mom calls this fresh air.
- The nights aren't very cool in some parts of the world.
  I wish bug nets for windows (or at all) were standard in Sweden. In some places in the country you will be bitten by 10 thousand mosquitoes just because you dared to open the window for a minute.
  I keep my PC in my bedroom so it's hard in general to keep the room comfortable but in the winter you can at least open the windows for a few seconds and nearly instantly make the room comfortable (and without insects). In the summer it's fucking impossible to keep the room cool no matter what you do. At least the PC has good cooling so it survives; I just wish I would.
  
  You can install bug nets yourself easily. There are some from tesa, its the net and a roll of velcro-like tape. I love them.

I would hardly run the AC if the hottest it got in summertime in Oklahoma City was 90°F. But last year, we had several instances where it got up to 100 or 105. And the dew point was 70-75 degrees all summer. So your sweat hardly evaporates. I run my AC all day to keep it 80 degrees and swampy indoors.
I would love to redo my whole house's HVAC system where one smallish central unit cools the kitchen and living room and each of the bedrooms have their own ductless mini split. This is one way to achieve zoning. There's no reason to cool the entire house to 65 degrees if I'm about to be asleep in the bedroom for the next 8 hours. There's no reason to try to keep the whole house cool when I'm about to spend my day in my home office. Just cool the room I'm in and leave the rest alone.
I could also do window units, but for some reason, my wife is vehemently opposed to them. Her parents just put window units in all their bedrooms and one in their living room. They don't use the central unit anymore. They only cool the room they're in right now, and their power bills went from $400 to $150 in summer. They paid for themselves in one season.
- Window units are loud AF.
  Running a dehumidifier has been the best thing I've ever done though. I believe I'm from a more humid environment though.
  
  One of the best things about living inland is having indoor relative humidity over 30% being high
- Closing vents and doors helps.
  
  You shouldn’t. Blocking vents is bad for your blower motor as your constricting the system and putting unwanted wear on the blower motor.
  You can do it. But you may end up damaging your hvac system and wearing out some parts much faster then normal.

I'm more of a Spring/Fall enjoyer, but I like winter too. Summer I just turn on a bunch of fans because AC is expensive AF and has a chonky carbon footprint

I'm so cold all the time. I think there's something wrong with me. I'm comfortable in the blazing heat when everyone else is complaining.
My blood pressure and heartrate are always low, so I suspect that may be related.
- Yep, I have blood circulation issues (POTS) and I'm perpetually cold unless it's 25+°C out then I'm thriving.
  
  This is a comfortable temperature range for me as well. It feels physically painful for me to be cold.

Me only being able to sleep while blasting the AC to the point where it's cold enough that I need a blanket: Pathetic

How about is autumn/spring enjoyers?
- Everyone enjoys those. It's not controversial.
  
  Fair enough

Opening the windows during sleep sucks in winter tho. That's the only downgrade for me
- Disagree! Sleeping with the windows cracked open in the winter is amazing.
  
  When I was in high school my roommate insisted on opening the windows and putting a box fan in them, cranking it to full blast. We’d go to sleep fully dressed lol.
  I hated it at first, but honestly, I kind of grew to love it.

bug repellent, my beloved
- Makes sex worse.
  
  You didn't want to mate with that mantis anyway, trust me, bro. I've got your back.

I live in Florida, what's winter?

You let your blanket hang off like that?? You monster!

It was a beautiful 3 chilly days over here, now we went back to our regular daily hell 🫠🫠🫠

It really depends on where you are. There are places where summer is the same temperature as some other place's winter.
Also, I hate the fact that in winter you have to stay inside all the time, there's no sun and everything is cold and sad. Spring and Summer are the times of the year when you travel, go out, enjoy nature and make memories.
And if you have a decently insulated home or AC, you can sleep great.
- come to sweden, where the winters make people kill themselves and the summers are actually a fairytale wonderland.
  
  I am happy sitting alone on my computer. Sweden sounds amazing.
  
  Love fairytales, will visit Sweden now
- I make memories in winter too though. Nothing better than playing in the snow with your little daughter. Or ice-skating.
  Also, pubs are fucking great in the winter.
  That said, I do prefer the summers we have here. The temperature is always around 23-27 °C here, which is great. Also very little humidity.

I quickly acclimate to either, but it's not fun. Low 50f/10C is very comfortable to me by late January while 90f/32C is fine in July. It's the damn December and May that are hell.
- 10°C is fine in sunlight or still air. If there's a breeze it is cold. Great cycling weather though, you can dump so much heat and barely need gloves
  
  I'm abit extreme with how much seasonal variation, in that I use extremely little climate control in my house (a fan at most and usually only a single space heater). Nighttime/morning exterior temps dropping to 25f/-4C was pretty normal this winter. I'd guess the house stayed just above 0C at the lowest for the most part. Usually start acclamating with a few cold showers. The problem is 70 starts feeling oppressive and I end up getting heat uticaria going grocery shopping lol.

Another reason would be you can't use heavier blankets in summer

I just want to wear as simple an outfit as I can and get away with it without freezing, ok?
- Have you considered living in the tropics?
  
  Have you considered Deez Nuts?

This is why water beds are amazing
Winter you put memory foam to keep you from the cold water, in summer you sleep on the cold water.
Only downsides to a water bed are: 1. Heavy 2. You have to add chemicals to your mattress as regular maintenance 3. It can't really be extra firm (but a lot more firm than people think)
The water will steal every bit of heat from your body, but you'll stay warm with a blanket
- Sometimes I can’t take a bath cause the moving water makes my head spinny. I can’t imagine how bad the water bed would feel lol. I’d probably have mid night breaks for puking.
  
  That's a misconception for water beds.
  High-quality water beds have stabilizer pads in the mattress
  The idea of the old crappy 70's water bed where they slosh around is a poor idea.
  You aren't laying on a ziploc bag barely filled with any water.
  It's more like a ziploc bag filled with molasses. If I pushed a corner down it would slowly bring up everywhere else. If I stopped pushing a corner it everything would slowly go back down.
  Say I have a massive gut and sleeping on my right side. I'm displacing X amount of water. If I was to turn to my left side I am still displacing the same amount of water. Just the empty space that use to hold my gut would be filled with the water from the other side where my gut is now. Someone on other side of bed wouldn't even feel it because the water underneath them doesn't change.

man i wish it was summer already
I'm most cozy at an air temp of like 30°C :( It barely ever gets this hot here in Germany

Sorry I don‘t spend enough time sleeping to actually care

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