Hope this helps someone struggling to survive the heat
that's only half of it
this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2026
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Shit, really? Wow, I'm on the edge of my seat waiting to find out the rest.
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Have you tried not being hot?
this is it. they're trying
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I installed both AC and solar panels when heat got too dangerous for my kids.
Yes, many everyday problems can be solved with money, money were literally invented for that exact purpose. Other problems can be solved with time, for example - trees need a fuckton of time to grow, but I still replaced most of the grass in my garden with trees and bushes. I will most likely never rest under their shade in my life, but is that really important to see the benefits fast?
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
There's a ton of variants of this, and saying (in a form or another) apparently goes back to 1700s.
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So you volunteer to fund one for me and convince my landlord and the mayor to allows its installation ?
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Billionaires who want to boil the proles alive hate this one trick
I'm going to leave this running and open the Windows for a little while. Hope that helps all you folks out there.
How considerate. For instance, my friend's Internet went out today. I mailed him a cup of Internet, he should be good to go on Monday when it arrives.
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I have a portable AC for the main part of my house and a window unit in my bedroom. Where I live in the US it is literally a necessity. People without AC can get heat stroke and die in their own homes here in the hotter parts of the summer
Here in the USA, south Mississippi, it's fucking hot as hell as well!
And unfortunately, we're borrowing my mom's car for now, waiting for a part we ordered for the truck to come in. Mom's car has 4 windows, but only the front passenger window goes down, and no air conditioner.. 🥵
I've taken to bringing a cooler with us, with bare minimum of 2 bottles of frozen fresh water, plus 2 bottles of frozen saturated saltwater.
Why frozen salt water? Well it's definitely not for drinking, that's for sure. But frozen saltwater freezes at like -10⁰C, which makes them excellent ice packs to keep things in the cooler extra cold for around 6 hours or so...
Stay cool out there everybody!
I think the salt is actually worse for keeping thing cool longer.
Most of the cooling capacity of the ice is in phase change from solid to liquid. The salt is moving it to -10 which means bigger gap from outside temperature. So the cold escapes quicker.
If you use normal water it will climb to 0 faster, but stay there longer.
Great. You’ve got a hypothesis. Now work on it this weekend and report to the class on Monday for a practical.
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Hey one of you finally realize that air conditioning is necessary to sleep at night when it gets really hot, a problem which is only going to continue to grow worse thanks to climate change. At least until the ocean conveyor breaks completely and y'all start freezing your balls off like you live in Siberia.
Maybe invest in a reversible heat pump so you're ready!
I wish; I rent, so it's whatever they've given me - specifically a window unit currently.
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I have just one thing to say: 🖕
Man I'd love to have a spare £850 too
Yeah, you can hop into your time machine and go back to the 90s when you could get an AC installed for 850quid.
Unfortunately I bought a portable unit for my room. My reasoning, rooms gets to 38c and sleepless nights could mean sleeping through alarms, future health concerns and also, this heat won't be going down any time soon.
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I'll have to get one at some point. It just seems a lot for the one week a year it's needed.
Pretty spent this heatwave with a damp cloth wrapped around an ice pack and stuffed under my plums. Working from home is no fun when it's 35C in your room. I even stole the cat's cooling mat at one point (she hated it anyway) to use as a pillow.
It's not just for cooling. It is very efficient at heating and warms up the whole room very quickly.
In the winter we would wake up to a pre-warmed room. Didn't bother turning on the whole house central heating. The wife and I would get dressed in this room (and attached bathroom) and then quickly grab a hot drink and toast from the kitchen and leave the house, and then you save on heating the whole house in the morning. We would also turn off central heating really early in the evening. The house retains heat till we were ready to just chill in the bedroom, and then if it felt too chilly we could turn on the AC heating for a little while. My wife was using an electric fan heater every night despite central heating anyway and needed a blast of extra heating in the bedroom when she always felt particularly cold. Between getting this AC, buying my wife an electric blanket and changing to an electricity tariff that gives quarter price overnight (it costs almost nothing to run this overnight on hot nights).... A friend in a similar sized house has been amazed that our energy bills are one third of his (although we are particularly frugal with energy (15 min of water heating is all we need in 24 hours) and they are particularly bad with energy (overheating central heating and then opening their windows in winter!)).
so you're making the rest of us hotter >:(
I'm running my air con in reverse cycle so the outside bit gets cold. Just doing my part to help offset old mates selfishness 🫡
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