hate waking up sweating because the morning is not as cold as the night and now I have too many blankets
Sweat is a perfectly normal process, though. Being able to sweat a lot and having it evaporate quickly (little bodyhair compared to most other mammals) is one of humanity’s big evolutionairy advantages.
Endurance hunting FTW.
I like to think I’m not sweaty - I’m just an effective endurance hunter.
You may be suffering from synthetic fibers, check your clothing and bedding for polyester. It has very poor characteristics for comfort and feeling hot and sweaty is a key characteristic. This isn’t some hippie shit, you’ll genuinely be much more comfortable in real non-plastic fibres and you’ll significantly reduce your microplastic generation and exposure as a direct byproduct.
After abandoning plastic fibers, I can’t even put on a polyester jumper in winter without overheating and getting sweaty. Real organic fibres are so much more comfortable and only marginally more expensive.
Preach!
With some very specific exceptions, natural fibers are far better.
Give me a wool blanket or sweater (jumper in your terms I believe).
Wool is freakin magic.
My only exception is workout gear - the specialty synthetics are fantastic.
I love my linnen bedsheets in the summer, expensive as hell, but damn, they have the perfect temp for me.
Hemp is also amazing and doesn’t involve animal cruelty
Giving sheep a haircut is cruel?
No, but the living conditions of many sheep in the wool industry, particularly merino wool, are horrible. Look up mulesing
The mere act of milking cows or taking eggs from chickens is also not animal cruelty, that doesn’t mean store bought dairy and eggs are free from animal cruelty
This is entirely inconsistent with my experience, so I suspect there is no correlation. My polyester shirts are silky and breathable, and my cotton blankets are rough and scratchy. I’m sure you have your on experiences that seem to validate your view, so I suspect there is no correlation. Perhaps there is some other processing factor that determines how comfortable or breathable a fabric turns out to be.
Only difference I’ve reliably seen between cotton and polyester is that cotton degrades faster, which makes you buy clothes more often. If you throw clothes away a lot, cotton is better for the environment. If you wear clothes until they’re unusable, polyester is better for the environment.
Clothing made of plastic fibers that will forever become smaller microplastics are certainly not better for the environment
Did you know it’s better for the environment to keep an old gas car running than to buy a new electric vehicle? It’s the same principle. One Polyester shirt that lasts 20 years is better than 20 cotton shirts degrading year after year.
Wearing cotton shirts doesn’t result in microplastics accumulating in the organs of those around you
Hate the laws of thermodynamics? Put that hatred to good use and become a mechanical engineer! Doesn’t matter if it’s aerospace or manufacturing! We all hate that doing fun stuff generates heat, so we design complicated systems to make things like 1% more thermodynamically efficient 👍
(This sounded funnier in my head)
Found Samanthan Rutherford’s Lemmy account
Ah yes, damn our natural state of multiple blankets
blankets don’t generate heat
But you do, and the blankets retain it.
yeah, it retains, and as I said, our natural body temperature is uncomfortable for us, and that’s bullshit design
Anything which produces heat needs cooling to maintain an even temperature. What’s uncomfortable for you is when your temperature is higher than your natural temperature due to lack of cooling.
that’s bullshit design
We were not designed: we evolved into something that will survive in its current environment just long enough to reproduce, for a number of different environments and despite a number of antagonistic factors.
The fact we generate heat is a really minor issue, in the grand scheme of things, that evolution didn’t fix. Were we endothermic instead, for instance, we’d still need to find or create areas of better environmental comfort from hour to hour or day to day. Our fix for the necessity of creating surplus heat through our metabolism or exertion is to sweat. It’s our heat sink. It’s enabled us to run hotter glucose-driven brains to figure things out better and, thus, out-compete lizards and bears and badgers.
You can hate it, but you do need to understand it’s unavoidable – but it can be minimized, and that is how you cope with it. But I understand the frustration: sweating can really suck sometimes. Sometimes, though - and this is the ironic part - sweating from wild exertion can feel amazing. I bet it’s from the endorphins or whatever, and that the sweating is only correlative, but still, good times.
Some basic math - we’re a species who’s body generates heat, so works best in conditions with a temperature lower than our body temp. Otherwise we need to sweat to efficiently transfer heat.
