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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.

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[-] [email protected] 55 points 5 days ago

Low temps. My brain boils in high temps. Heat exhaustion too many times. I’d be dead.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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.

[-] [email protected] 36 points 5 days ago

Triple digits.
But I'mma use Kelvin

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Granted. 100k. Or 900k. Both are lethal, tbh

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

I'll take both.
One on each side of my house.

Now to by a few kilotons of ceramic tiles and zinc and copper wires.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 5 days ago

Single as I would die immediately at 100°C

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 5 days ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago

I use celsius. Triple digit temperatures would kill me.

But after a quick conversion, still single digit. Its pretty standard winter temperature just a little bit inland from where i live. I like it best between -15 and -5 °C (5 - 23F)

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Single digits in C or F triple digits in K

[-] [email protected] 23 points 5 days ago

Single digits, you can always put on another layer.

Triple digit heat is miserable.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

Single digits, 100%.

Single digits range from -9F to 9F. Triple digits start at 100F, and can go way the fuck up from there. (And with climate change, they will!) Once you start approaching triple digits, you have to worry about humidity, because you can easily hit a combination that's literally too hot to live.

Is -9F unpleasant? Sure. But you can layer clothing, and that will keep you comfortable. Death Valley has hit >130F, and when that happens people die, even if they drink gallons of water and stay in the shade.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I like the point about climate change, if you could trick the genie into agreeing that once you set up your new home you get to stay there. Then pick a spot on the cusp of frigidity. So it will gradually get into the double digits at least.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Currently doing exactly that. My partner and I just bought a house and a few hundred acres in northern Maine, and will be moving in less than two months. Yeah, winters are cold and long, and yeah, the mosquitos and blackflies suck, but triple digit heat is really rare up there.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago
[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Kelvin I guess.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

This is why you can't have rational conversations with Americans.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

Single digits. I love shoveling snow, and cold weather makes me feel alive.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

I love the cold, I wanna live someplace cold.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

North-west terretories, top tip of scandinavia

[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

I've lived in both extremes and single digits wins every time. I never passed out from the cold, but the heat gets me at least once a year.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

What is the humidity level?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Also single or triple digit

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 days 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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Never going below 100F? There's not enough electricity to cool the houses. Too hot for crops and livestock.

Never going above 9F? There's not enough fuel to heat those houses. Too cold for crops and livestock.

So I guess we all just die.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Single, that would mean there is a lot of water.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days 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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

If those are the options, I choose death.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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 below freezing feels like knives.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Prepping for that climate change huh?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Probably triple. We frequently hit singles here and all we do is complain about how we wish it was summer. I see people pointing out that 100° can be lethal, but not nearly as lethal as 9°

And on the really hot days (although we never hit 100) we still complain, but always follow it with: at least it's not snowing!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Probably singles. -5° and 5° isn't much of a swing. Don't think I could hang at -425°.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Triple digit temperature, single digit humidity. I like it crispy

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