JFC… Sorry the billionaires decided we’re not going to address climate change so they can get more rich. They’ll have proper air conditioning too, you’ll have to get used to it. Have you tried having a sauna?
Pretty sure installing a sauna is more expensive than installing air conditioning.
Not if you lower your expectations!
I’ll add that the parents of an ex of mine. Would setup a “sweat lodge” in their yard yearly with the help of their other crunchy friends. Was essentially a teepee with a pit of hot rocks in the middle. They’d all sit naked in there and chant stuff. The structure wasn’t difficult to construct.
They offered for me to join. But I was like 17 and seeing my girlfriend’s father’s cock and balls was not high on my list.
What a weird chant.
I bought a steam tent years ago, it truly does help with the summers. Mine is “full sized” so I don’t have to stick my head out of it.
But you’ll find sauna much faster than AC currently. I wonder why ?
I just have to go outside.
Free standing sauna vs window AC, yes easily.
Free standing sauna vs central air, the sauna wins.
Bought our sauna from Costco for $400 in 2020, so I am sure prices have skyrocketed.
Cold rinsing after a hot shower has the same effect for cheap.
People in the Nordics that go to sauna on a weekly basis haven’t seen any heat waves, so it works I guess.
Pushing it down as personal responsibility, as usual.
No, just something interesting to try of you think you can handle it and have access to a sauna.
But yes, what else can be done on a global level when temperature is rising. It’s already happening so it’s good to explore how we deal with it.
Find shade, cover your windows on the outside with reflective material, make sure there’s proper airflow through the home, hydrate, avoid strenuous activity, etc. Nobody will do this for you unless you ask (so still on you).
Great, I’ll just check with the HOA where I rent so they could tell me to fuck off on reflectice windows, mini splits and even 1 solar AC unit because I can’t afford a car dependent home in my area with jobs outside of this USian BS.
I mean, do whatever you can. If you got a friend you can crash at, do that. If HOA says no to your shit that you need to survive, do it anyway and maybe take them to court? I dunno. Anything if it’s a matter of survival! Stay safe out there! The world is changing as we live and breathe.
Why not just use the heatwave to get used to the heatwave?
I dunno, getting into a sauna thinking about it as training for a heatwave kinda ruins the mood don’t ya think
I don’t think I have a mood to enter a sauna anyway, I hate heat, even if it’s cold outside
The great thing about sauna is not the heat, but the jumping in ice cold water afterwards.
But you have to get into the heat first, which is the part I hate…
I do it everyday. Take a book, just close your eyes, play a podcast. Time goes pretty quick. Once you feel uncomfortable, get out and jump in the pool. It’s great
I never really checked how this is possible when they were teaching me to wet my neck before jumping in the sea… And I will not check it now neither, I’m on a break, from… doing nothing
“just get used to it”
Just own a car without working AC.
You sauna not naked?
Yes, Finland was a bit of a shock!
Going for a naked swim in lake after the sauna was nice though.
Heat acclimatization, yeah. You can make use of it to improve your overall performance in endurance sports too, on account of the increase in blood volume that comes from being exposed to uncomfortable levels of heat.
It takes several weeks and you have to do it semi continually to maintain heat acclimatization. So that doesn’t really work for places that don’t normally get hot.
So, conditioning?
without air, seams accurate
While I don’t want to presume that science that feels intuitive is bad science, I’m not entirely sure how newsworthy it is to talk about how getting used to heat helps one deal with heat. People did live in hot places before AC.
It starts to feel like instructions and socialization rather than simple science journalism…
probably it helps acclimate the body of people for hot humid weather. at first i had low tolerance for walk in freezers at work -20c, as more time goes on consistently going into a freezer, i dint have the wierd breathing thing going on, which my allergies make it more susceptible.
I’ve sat in a lot of fridges, that did help me with coping for the cold.
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no way. love hot baths. loathe saunas. dry ones are nice to dry off after a shower quick though.
Can confirm, playing badminton for hours at a time during summer in poorly ventilated halls really does build your heat tolerance 😅
Pro tip, being a large bottle of water laced with electrolytes.
