• dfc09@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m taking this opportunity to vent. I just got back from a year long deployment from a snowy, mountainous region. I’m geared for cold, used to the cold. Even at the hieght of summer there, it was like … 70°F. They decided to demobilize us in El Paso, TX!!! It’s murderously hot here every day, and our barracks don’t have AC!!! So after walking around all day in a head to toe uniform in Texas desert heat, I don’t even get the luxury of feeling cold, crisp air 😭😭😭

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      1 year ago

      It’s stories like this that make me glad to have joined the Air Force during peacetime. The closest I got to what you’re experiencing is walking from my car to the office.

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        1 year ago

        Yes, this deployment taught me I need to switch to the air force when my contract is up. I like being in the military, I’m just over being army infantry. I did the cool guy stuff! Get me a desk job!!

  • CoupleOfConcerns@lemmy.nz
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    1 year ago

    If I’ve learnt anything from numerous askreddit posts on the question ‘what is the best feeling ever?’, it’s that the human condition is rather tragic. The best pleasure is basically the relief of discomfort or pain - like taking your bra off at the end of the day or like this one walking into an air conditioned room.

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      That’s why I consider being alive as irrational for a conscious being. Suffering will always outweigh good emotions so we should come to the conclusion that not being alive is beneficial for our wellbeing. Somehow the majority of us decides to rather endure pain than end our existence.

  • worfamerryman@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I live in a tropical country. It’s always hot and this year has been especially bad.

    Well there is this new mall that is kind of underground and the entrance is kind of hide. In the park.

    When you go in… DAMN! You are instantly cooler. Every time I go in it is it’s own reward.

    It’s also a scent walk from my home but to too far, so you can really relax as you get there.

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    1 year ago

    I used to work in a bar, on hot summer days I’d just go in our walk in fridge and act like I was restocking stuff. Best feeling ever

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      1 year ago

      The first time I ever went to Albuquerque it was in the middle of July. Every day I was there was over 100 degrees. Being outdoors felt like being in an oven, and the inside of my car felt like a blast furnace, but all the businesses had their AC cranked up to arctic temperatures. My whole experience of being there was moving back and forth between absolutely roasting and completely freezing with basically no in between. It was extremely uncomfortable. This was almost 20 years ago, and to this day I don’t think I’ve ever been so hot and so cold so many times in the same day.

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I could live without air conditioning for 2/3rds of the day, but if it’s not ~65°F I basically can’t sleep lol