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  • TehWorld@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Because showing up to a client meeting dripping in sweat on a 103 degree day is considered to be poor form. Because I got a new job and don’t have an extra two hours in my day to ride a bike back and forth, and moving isn’t in the cards. Because I have to carry a couple kids and all the crap the goes along with them.

    • glitchdx@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      because the US sucks ass and the entire world just does what the US does is also sucking of the ass.

      It’s not that I disagree with you, it’s that we can do better and we’re not.

    • Tuukka R@sopuli.xyz
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      1 month ago

      Why would a person ride their bike so fast that they end up dripping in sweat? Is there a reason for that?

          • shortrounddev@lemmy.world
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            1 month ago

            If you were in a car you wouldn’t be hot. 103 is very hot, not safe for old people to be outside for very long. It’s 103 degrees, so quite hot

            • Tuukka R@sopuli.xyz
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              1 month ago

              “103 degrees” means that it’s hot enough for water to boil. Water boils at 100 degrees, unless you’re deep underground.

              But okay, it sounds like that’s a very rare temperature, then?

                  • Tuukka R@sopuli.xyz
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                    1 month ago

                    Not my experience. I spent some 4 months at Goa in India, and it was usually around 40°C. I rented a bicycle there and rode it for distances of over 100 km in a day. And I did not sweat.

                    That temperature should not be a problem for a person living in an area where that’s a common temperature. And if it’s not a common temperature, then it’s not common, and it’s not really a problem to have to pay the taxi if you need to go to an important meeting precisely on the one scorching hot day :)

                    I was assuming from the context that it would translate to more like 50°C or so.