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I don't mind being hot. I hate being cold.
If you're cold you can always put on another layer. If you're hot, you run out of layers to take off
You can always take off more layers
I can put 15 layers on in winter and still be cold. My toes and face are the worst. If I try to protect my nose, I get snot everywhere and it's gross. If I don't, I feel like my face will freeze off my body. Too hot sucks as well. No winning for me except for spring maybe.
Yeah, cold all the time, barely see the sun because I'm at work the entire time it's out. Can't do much of anything outside, roads are frequently shit, can't get together as much with my friends because none of our homes are big enough, think about offing myself constantly because of the above factors, winter blows.
Every reason you gave was because of capitalism
Capitalism is making it cold outside?
Cold air damming increases with climate change, so unironically yes.
Climate change
It would still be cold if there was zero pollution.
The cold is only an issue because capitalism, yes. Fwiw, "it's cold outside" is a neutral statement.
No it's an issue because I fucking hate being cold. I'd still hate it if the government was taking care of my needs. It's not like I'm living on the streets, I'm living in a house with HVAC, I still fucking hate it.
Oh, well that wasn't said. If you could be with your friends, got to see the sun, the roads were easy and third spaces managed, you wouldn't notice how miserable the outside is for you. Also you could just move somewhere warmer instead of thinking about offing yourself for 1/3 of a year.
Unless they need you exactly where your job is so you won't get an apartment in another city somewhere where it's warmer. Perks of a planned economy.
Like I'm fairly sure half the soviet union would've moved to somewhere around the black sea if they could have.
Yeah I've asked my mom, it was cold here in the winter in the soviet era too. And I believe a lot of people had these things called "jobs", except they were even less voluntary than they are now, so being at work for the entirety of the sunny daytime period of 10 AM to 3 PM hasn't exactly been invented with capitalism.
The one thing capitalism has changed is it gathered everyone into the cities because there's a lot less support of small countryside schools and such. So instead of walking 5 KM to bus stop to take the bus to school, kids can now take a city bus that stops closer to their home and comes every 30 minutes at most.
There's a bunch of problems you could solve by abolishing capitalism, but weather ain't one of them.
People that don't have jobs today lose their housing and starve to death. You think there's a level below that?
And no, what caused that was mechanization of farming.
Now, thanks to capitalism, we're dealing with heatwaves beyond predictions and snowstorms that out freeze historic data, so I wouldn't say that capitalism isn't impacting the weather. Also, before it, people had the ability to take breaks from work, which doesn't really exist today.
My hands feel like they're being crushed by boulders, and face feels like needle face x1000 in the cold. The peak of summer may be miserable but I can still function without extreme pain. And before anybody mentions better gloves or a face covering, it doesn't help. I've tried every magical glove in existence. And heated ones make me sweat after 5-10 minutes and I'm arguably in a worse position, same with full face coverings. FUCK WINTER.
I hate winter. Switching all my winter wardrobe to wool has made it at least less sweaty under all the layers. Seems like every winter thing is made of some synthetic fiber that acts like wearing a plastic bag when you sweat. Wool is the way.
Wool is the only (that I am aware of,) fabric that will keep you warm after it's wet. Cotton is the worst, it sticks to your skin when wet.
If you are caught outside, stranded, they say to make sure to take layers off, because if you sweat, you die.
I don't mind being hot but I hate humidity. It's 7am and the temperature is 67 with a "feels like" temperature of 77. And there is no breeze. There is never any breeze here. I fucking hate it
Real talk! I grew up on the equator and moved to somewhere it snows on occasion. All the mfers saying "I can only get so naked" haven't experienced the cold.
I grew up (and still live) in a part of Canada where it regularly gets below -40°C in the winter, and... no. I 100% will say stuff like "I can't take off any more clothes."
Winter is fine, I can always add another layer. Summer sucks now, it didn't get this hot nearly as often in the past, and I mostly hate summer now.
You are contradicting yourself not one line break later.
Please humor me, where is the contradiction?
You said summer is more hot.
I think our frames of references are cattywompus.
Yes, summer is indeed more hot.
It's hotter than the other seasons, and it's hotter than it used to be.
I don't like the hot.
I prefer the cold, and my comment was saying I prefer the cold, specifically because I can't handle the hot well.
I was saying it's very silly to claim something along the lines of "The only reason people think they prefer the cold season is because they haven't experienced real cold."
I've experienced the cold. I prefer it.
I still see no contradiction, but maybe I'm just dense?
Edit: Minor structural change, less ambiguous wording.
I've experienced subzero cold and 110°+ heat.
I'll take the cold thanks.
You're welcome.