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No AC for me this year. Ice baths > poorfag cooling. Rate
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Date: June 16th, 2025 5:35 PM Author: Violet Stirring Background Story I decided to stop wasting money cooling stale air around my apartment this year. I'm running cold baths. They're supposed to have all these benefits: reduce stress, inflammation, spike dopamine, etc. After a 5-minute ice bath, I find that 90 degrees feels like 70 for quite a while. Fan on low, body still in glacier mode.
Start getting mental and physical gains while skipping the electric bill.
Rate me as a frugal innovator or a cheapskate savant.
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Date: June 16th, 2025 5:35 PM Author: slippery striped hyena ac is very cheap to run, you're not saving much (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5738798&forum_id=2).#49021672) |
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Date: June 16th, 2025 5:46 PM Author: Violet Stirring Background Story How much is "not much"?
Srsly though, if you take an ice bath, you don't need the AC for several hours. Not flame. |
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Date: June 16th, 2025 5:54 PM Author: slippery striped hyena in my admittedly smaller house in a modestly hot month I'd say it might add 80 bucks in total to run it all the time, in an apartment you should be looking at less than that unless you have a bunch of glass walls or some shit in Arizona, the air pockets of the apartments all around you are doing a ton of the work for you (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5738798&forum_id=2).#49021725) |
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Date: June 16th, 2025 5:56 PM Author: Motley Carnelian Step-uncle's House Coldplay Fan You don't even need cooling. There is a so-called "reverse" (but a more apt name would be "U-shaped") temperature-comfort curve, which I'm guessing you aren't even versed in but once you get it you will be fine. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5738798&forum_id=2).#49021731) |
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Date: June 16th, 2025 6:09 PM Author: white parlour (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5738798&forum_id=2).#49021761) |
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Date: June 16th, 2025 6:10 PM Author: Violet Stirring Background Story Fair enough, hadn't come across it. But thanks to ChatGPT spitting out answers in seconds, here's the comeback:
The "U-shaped" temperature-comfort curve idea has some truth, but it’s not that you “don’t need cooling”—rather, it means:
People tend to feel most uncomfortable at mildly warm temps (e.g. 27–30°C / 80–86°F)
Surprisingly, colder or hotter extremes can feel more bearable if you're physiologically adapted (e.g. through cold baths or acclimatization)
So yes, there is evidence that comfort perception isn’t linear, but saying you “don’t need cooling” oversimplifies it. Your body still responds to heat, and extended exposure to 30°C+ can cause fatigue or stress—even if it feels tolerable.
That quote is confident but half-informed. The curve exists conceptually, but you still need some form of heat regulation, especially long term. |
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Date: June 16th, 2025 6:13 PM Author: Motley Carnelian Step-uncle's House Coldplay Fan This is not accurate. You have to remember that ChatGPT isn't a fount of all knowledge--it is limited to the training set it has access to, and human temperature curve experimentation is the sort of thing that is buried deep in journals and mystical epemera, not something an llm is going to pick up wandering through the archives of the NYT. The gist of the reverse temperature curve is that, beyond a certain point, typically around 60-70 Celsius, your body will begin re-adapting to the temperature, triggering genetic modifications that are dormant but accessible through the elevated heat energy that is being generated within the environment where you are being subjected to the heat (I should note that humidity will play a factor in the activation curve but the extent to which it is relevant in an analysis is beyond the scope of this initial comment). It is that response, the re-activation of latent genetic capability, that allows humans on the other side of this curve to fully exploit the increased warmth and not merely persevere through high temperatures but become stronger and better from them. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5738798&forum_id=2).#49021774) |
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Date: June 16th, 2025 6:05 PM Author: Iridescent Indian Lodge Marketing Idea 180. Trying to get my family to do this but getting some resistance from wife and 2 year old. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5738798&forum_id=2).#49021752) |
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Date: June 16th, 2025 6:10 PM Author: thriller lettuce theater stage you're a kike (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5738798&forum_id=2).#49021765) |
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Date: June 16th, 2025 6:13 PM Author: Violet Stirring Background Story Not a good idea for a 2-year-old. But does he even realize how hot it gets? When you're that young, your brain is focused on so many other things, such as fairies and learning how to function as a human. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5738798&forum_id=2).#49021773) |
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Date: June 16th, 2025 6:15 PM Author: chocolate fortuitous meteor add an ice bath if you want, but air conditioning is awesome and i wouldn't give it up to save a few bucks.
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