I like winter because due to climate change being outside in California is unbearable any other time of year but I do not like the constant dark now that I have to drive everywhere
No, I just fucking hate temperatures above 70 degrees. I live in the Bay Area so it's like 78-85 degrees all year long except for in the winter where it (used to) be like 50-60 degrees
If I lived somewhere actually warm I would kill myself, I remember after the freak storm that burned half the state down it was like 100F with 80% humidity for a solid week and I would be sitting in my bathroom at like 2AM sweating while not moving
IDK how people in the rest of the USA live, it gets oppressively hot in most states
To me, it is not hot until it is over 102 degrees Fahrenheit. It is not cold until below 20 degrees Fahrenheit.
Yes :gigachad:
I am not sure if I enjoy the dark and cold or if I have simply grown accustomed to it though. The flipside is the constant light during summer, which is pretty neat. Walking home at 1am as the sun is rising is also a vibe.
While I could take or leave the darkness, I'll take the cold over the heat any day. Maybe it's Stockholm syndrome at this point but I love the snow, to a point at least.
You can put on as many layers as you want until you are warm, but you can only take so many off before you're arrested for public indecency.
Reminds me of an interesting comment I saw in r/antiwork. (the best place to post agitprop) https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/r9h7me/its_an_older_code_sir_but_it_checks_out/hnccskp/
Consider the most well known cases of Stockholm syndrome.
The first is the case after which it's named. Some armed robbers stormed a bank in Stockholm and took everyone there hostage. By the time the crisis ended, many of the hostages were expressing sympathy for the men who had threatened them.
The second, of course, is Patty Hearst, who was kidnapped by the SLA (radical leftist group in the US), and then apparently willingly joined them in multiple incidents.
We call this Stockholm syndrome as if the only possible explanation is a mental illness. But there's another explanation. The bank robbers in Stockholm had literally nothing to gain from actually killing their hostages. They needed the threat to exist to keep the state from coming in guns blazing, but if any of the hostages actually died they'd have murder charges on their docket as well as the armed robbery charges. What if the robbers just...told the hostages this. Just said, "Look, folks, we really don't want to kill you. We have no reason to hurt you at all. But due to [insert life circumstances which have for some reason been completely erased from the publicly told story about these events] we desperately need money. We have every intention of letting you go, please just work with us here. It's the system fucking all of us, after all."
And as for Patty Hearst, her explanation is even easier. She was a billionaire heiress who had likely never seen true deprivation. The SLA could show her what that looked like and appeal to her humanity, while demonstrating that they were not the enemy by showing her genuine kindness in other ways.
So yeah. What if there's no such thing as Stockholm syndrome? What if that's just what we've been conditioned to call people becoming disillusioned with imperialism and capitalism in unusual circumstances?
One of my favorite feelings is going from being chilled to the bone to nice and toasty warm :comfy: can't do that if it's hot out
20 years ago when we had proper seasons around here and we actually got a month of proper fall temperatures instead of being perfect out for roughly two days, maybe
In Florida I get to trade one type of seasonal depression for another. In winter it gets dark early, but in summer it’s so fucking hot and miserable you just get to look at the sunlight from indoors. I’ll take the winter of the two options but fuck this place sucks.
well don't feel bad we'll all be Florida soon (and i guess florida will basically be the equator)
(and i guess florida will basically be
the equatorunderwater)
It's not really winter until you can feel your nosehairs freeze on every breath
woke up at 3am last night to get a drink of water. saw how extremely foggy and peaceful out it was decided to make hot chocolate instead and sit by the window for a bit since i didn't have to do today. was nice. but goddamn was it the most foggy i've seen it in ages
