And it’s besutiful.
For ghouls, maybe.
Bruh that’s so rude, they’re just programmers, no need to call them names
More like 1:30 PM, during midwinter. 😭 The long dark near the Arctic circle…
But also the other 23 hours.
I love that, thank you very much.
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Sorry, but I prefer this to winter days where I don’t see the sun at all because it’s only up while I’m at work.
They’re equally awful but in their own ways.
They’re both equally just fine imo. During winter it can be really bright with snow and sunshine feels so much better and during summer I just get heavier curtains.
But sometimes when there’s snow and you have the moon shining it’s just unbelievably pretty. But yeah, I’ll take more sun over less anytime.
Better than winter depression. Better than recognizing it’s getting dark, wondering where the day has gone but it’s only 16:30. Better than waking up in the darkness and realising it’s still two or three hours till sunrise. Better than going to work before the sun rises and getting home after it sets, only seeing the sun like an image, a distant promise when looking out the window at work.
Can’t have the highs without the lows. Around the equator it’s basically light from 6am to 6pm the entire year.
That doesn’t mean that I have to love each season equally or that my depression magically goes away.
My depression goes away in the Winter. Come summer I get seasonal agression and hide in the basement.
Fuck the sun
No, fuck you.
Do you know how depressing it is to only experience the sun while at work and not outside of it in the winter?
Yes, I do know. Funny thing because I normally don’t care about going out and such. But going to work before sunrise and going home after sunset is depressing.
Especially those times of year where you’re in the office before the sun rises, and leave after it sets. Oh, and you work in a windowless room.
Been there. Starting at 7:30am, before dawn. Finishing at 4:30pm, after sunset. Fine I’ll just go without any daylight for 5 days per week then.
As someone who works all day, commutes, and then has to sleep, I don’t understand this viewpoint.
What am I going to do with extra daylight after work? I’m still just going home and then to bed. It’s not like I’m taking an excursion to the lake at 8pm when I’ve got to be up at 5am to get ready for work.
I think that most winter lovers/summer haters live fairly south (like, not in areas north enough for taiga or tundra) and have never experienced a real winter. Come back to me when you have spent 5 months with only a few hours of sunlight, streets slippery as hell, barely any vegetation or animals, and being cold as hell.
I lived in Fairbanks, AK for almost three years. I’ve also lived in Bethel for a little over a year and spent about 6 months in Barrow. I grew up in Anchorage. If I could afford to have seasonal houses, my summer home would be in Barrow and my winter home would be in Fairbanks.
Fuck anywhere that gets above 65F at any point during the year. It’s currently 62F in Anchorage and while it’s bearable, it’s bordering on becoming miserable.
Fuck Summer and the Sun it rode in on.
That sounds so amazing. Air temperature outside my car driving back from the store was 114F a few minutes ago. You can’t go outside, you can’t get fresh air into your house, and the a/c runs full blast 24/7 just to hit 72F inside, until the power grid fails, again, because it’s more profitable to not properly maintain the equipment. I need to get out of here. Texas sucks.
Omg we are such opposites. I grew up in FL and 60sF (15C) is winter for us. Like people will straight up wear jackets in the 60s. I love weather in the 80sF (26C), 90sF (32C) is bearable, but 100sF (37C) is horrible and stay inside as much as possible.
Nah, I know Finnish people who like winter and their winters are hard core.
No we don’t. Why do you think we drink more coffee than any other country and have shitton of both seasonal and general depression?
I know you generally hate it but I have met individuals who (claim to) like it
I think it’s a bit hard to live further south than Punta Arenas but I loved winter there despite it being far from warm.
Have you never heard of Antarctica?
Your attitude is entirely dependant on your latitude my natty dude
If I were near the equator: is this a joke I’m too 0° lat to understand?
Yea, here in New Orleans the sun is setting around 7:30. Elsewhere in the post people are talking about the sung going down at 9:00 in Germany. So I looked it up and apparently New Orleans is further south than Cairo.
I don’t care about the sun being up at 9 or 10 still.
I hate the god damn heat! Get this climate change under control! 😬
That’s a hard ask of the stupids of the world.
22:40 here
Iceland?
Denmark
I actually like that the sun doesn’t set until like ten in the evening where I live. It also starts rising at 3 in the morning. I love it. I prefer this to depression season the other half of the year xS
Found the Dane :)
I’ve been to Denmark and I agree, it’s great to have sun until late in the evening. It feels like you have more life after a work day.
then there is the winter when you casually just realize that you haven’t seen the sun in weeks, maybe event months because you leave for work before the sun rises and go home after it sets and in the weekends you are inside recovering from the workweek.
But still i like to say that it takes the whole winter to yearn for the summer but it only takes one day of summer to want it to be winter again.
That, and more energy. I swear something got fucked up at the factory when they made me. I’m a terrible scandinavian. I am prone to pretty intense winter depressions and I’m not a fan of the cold either. I have been so far down the dumps during the winter seasons that I have blacked out entire months and have no memory of what I did and my spouse is like “yeah, you basically spent two months sitting in the same corner of the home when you weren’t working, just looking gone, dude.” And when I have winters where I feel like I did pretty good and didn’t get depressed my man still goes “yeah, nah. You were depressed af. Just not vacant this time”.
On the flipside I have been giddy like a kid walking for hours in flip-flops in Mediterranean mountains, getting slow cooked by the summer sun. I remember last time I was visiting Greece with my parents and we walked all morning until noon to get to a nice little beach across the mountains and a couple of locals saw us coming and were fucking horrified that we had come all that way on foot, lol.
One of the reasons why i vehemently hate summer. The other one is temperature. And another one is people. Too much people.
What if I told you that ALL the seasons have people in them? Kinda gross to think too much about it.
That’s what I forgot to add. True, but summertime here is full of shitty tourists, while local people spend more time outside making annoying and noisy parties.
Seconded. I’d rather sunset at 4:30 and freezing my ass off than torturing myself with the summer heat that comes with the late sun.
You seem like a well adjusted person that is fun at parties.
Oh. I forgot to add I also hate parties.
Nevermind what I said then.
I bet they throw amazing parties. Nice food, drinks that aren’t all bud light and shots, music is a background thing and not something you have to compete with for conversation, maybe a bored game or card game.
As if partying with people you couldn’t care less was mandatory or healthy in any measure.
For sure.
X-Files in Alaska:
Fox: “Why is the school closed on a weekday?”
Mulder: “It’s 10PM Fox.”
He’s talking to himself? Must be the lack of sleep.
Uh, I’ve never actually seen the show, but I’m pretty sure Fox Mulder is the guy and something Scully is the lady.
Dana Scully.
Fun fact; she wasn’t allowed to play an FBI agent in anything else for a long time as to not dilute the Scully character
I had ONE job. :(
Yeah summer is terrible, with how you have to put on five layers to stay cool in the sunshine and then go shovel out all the sunshine in your driveway and/or scrape all the sunshine off your car before you drive ten mph all the way to work while fellow commuters slip & slide all over the sunshine covered roads…
wearing 5 layers to be warm is better than wearing 1 layer and still boiling alive and literally having your skin burn and still feel painful and like it’s cooking the next day while sitting in a pitch black room
As my mom always said
“If you’re cold you can put on more clothes, but you can only get so naked”
I can’t have warm hands and usable dexterity in winter. Only in winter can I have painfully cold, numb hands and be sweaty at the same time.
At least in summer my whole body agrees that it’s warm and my hands always work properly
Where do you live? Maybe you could choose a more temperate climate
“oh just move country if you don’t like the heat” true fivehead statement the uk is supposed to be temperate but climate change happened there is nowhere temperate anymore
There’s plenty of temperate locations, sounds like you just haven’t bothered to look. I live in one, but it’s in America so I wouldn’t suggest that to anyone not already here. I’m guessing further north in the uk or in Northern Ireland you would find plenty of temperate regions.
again hur dur just move bro it was temperate here 10 years ago you think it won’t be hotter in the north soon even if I wanted to move I live in social housing on disability and am reliant on help from my family just moving to the other side of the country to avoid summer isn’t an option also I’ve lived in the north when I went there for school it was pretty damn hot there in the summer not as bad but it was not that much cooler
It depends on where you live. In my case snow is a miracle at this point because of global warming
You still have snow? Must be nice. We have 40 degrees in june.
I’m enjoying seeing my solar panels still producing electricity for the house at 8:55pm at night.
I love it, for real. Short winter days suck, especially after going back to standard time. Having light in the evening is wonderful.
9? pft try living in Alaska when the sun rises at 1 AM. And the other half the year is nonstop crushing darkness.
But more evening sun means better light for evening events. I don’t know of too many early morning events other than work/commute and fuck the boss’ extra 5% productivity from the average person, I’d rather drive in the dark.
