Original question by @ephrin@sh.itjust.works

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.

  • Pyr@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    Single digits. You can always put more layers on but you can’t take more off than naked.

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    3 months ago

    I guess I’d die. It’s never either of those where I live. And crops would fail either way.

    In terms of personal comfort:

    If the only triple digit temp was only ever exactly 100, then I guess triple digits.

    If it can be Celsius, 9 is so cold but not kill you cold, I would be sad but not dead.

  • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org
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    3 months ago

    Triple digits because I don’t like anything about winter. The cold makes my body ache and nobody does anything because going outside sucks ass. I think I’d get used to the heat, I can tolerate it fine as is. Room temperature below 25°C/77°F feels freezing cold to me.

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    3 months ago

    Depends. If we’re talking 100 degrees and no humidity? I could probably do that. The misery doesn’t really set in until 110. 10 minutes outside of bow freezing feels like knives.

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    3 months ago

    It is very hard to grow food outdoors in either case. Underground the temperature is fairly stable at about 30+°F. If that’s allowed, and I can manage how to grow food underground, then from experience I know I can easily survive 9°F and spend a LOT more time outdoors than at 100°F

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      3 months ago

      Same. I choose somewhere 15 to 18C - Comfortably cool, and I can always put on a sweater. Any warmer than that, and I’d have trouble sleeping at night.

      So triple digits Kelvin for me.

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    3 months ago

    Given that the average healthy body temperature is ~98.6⁰ F, and humidity on the Gulf Coast tends to be so high you gotta drink the air, I prefer temperatures 85⁰ or lower.

    With high temperatures and high humidity, sweat can’t even evaporate, forcing your internal body temperature into unhealthy feverish levels. I’m not a fan of heat exhaustion or heat stroke.

    I’m also not a fan of freezing temperatures either, but at least people can dress in layers to keep warm when it’s cold.

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      3 months ago

      i mean, single digits is also leathal; 9F is much worse than 100F. it is just easier to warm a room than it is to cool it down, but if you had to be exposed to the outside temperature 9F will kill you, 100F won’t

      • CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Speaking from personal experience, 9F won’t kill you, at least not quickly, and it’s pretty easy to put on enough clothes that you can spend entire work days outside being comfortably warm. I used to work outdoors regularly in Alaskan winters and except for days where it got down to around -20F I was usually able to keep warm just by having proper attire.

        You can’t really do that at 100F. Sure, it probably won’t kill you if you stay hydrated, but it will never be comfortable.