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#31081 User is offline   Maark Abbott 

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Posted 04 July 2025 - 07:51 AM

View Postamphibian, on 02 July 2025 - 01:07 PM, said:

View PostMaark Abbott, on 02 July 2025 - 11:52 AM, said:

Heat did me. Got to the gym yesterday, was prepping to go into the work room and promptly puked.

Turns out I had heatstroke, so I had to take yesterday off of work to sort myself out. Not fun.

That's horrible. Did you walk out in the 34C/90F weather for a while?

I've started using a loose sun shirt and a hat/sunglasses to get through long hours outside. Really keeps things cool.


Nah, it's being inside and working that did it - the standard thing of very high humidity + houses designed to retain heat and that are bad at venting it means that if it gets 34 outside for a bit, it'll stay 34 inside for a few days at least - so I slept like shit and eventually it spiralled.

Things are aight now though, it's cooled down to a comfortable level again.
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#31082 User is offline   Azath Vitr (D'ivers 

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Posted 04 July 2025 - 10:47 AM

View PostMaark Abbott, on 04 July 2025 - 07:51 AM, said:

View Postamphibian, on 02 July 2025 - 01:07 PM, said:

View PostMaark Abbott, on 02 July 2025 - 11:52 AM, said:

Heat did me. Got to the gym yesterday, was prepping to go into the work room and promptly puked.

Turns out I had heatstroke, so I had to take yesterday off of work to sort myself out. Not fun.

That's horrible. Did you walk out in the 34C/90F weather for a while?

I've started using a loose sun shirt and a hat/sunglasses to get through long hours outside. Really keeps things cool.


Nah, it's being inside and working that did it - the standard thing of very high humidity + houses designed to retain heat and that are bad at venting it means that if it gets 34 outside for a bit, it'll stay 34 inside for a few days at least - so I slept like shit and eventually it spiralled.

Things are aight now though, it's cooled down to a comfortable level again.


Guess opening windows would let too much of the eternal note of sadness rain and the drug dealers in....
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#31083 User is offline   Macros 

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Posted 05 July 2025 - 08:52 AM

Anyone have a link to a short, but effective video/article that explains in layman's terms how aggressive algorithms work on social media and YouTube, why it's dangerous and why the spread of misinformation is so damaging to the world in general?
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#31084 User is offline   Maark Abbott 

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Posted Yesterday, 11:51 AM

View PostAzath Vitr (D, on 04 July 2025 - 10:47 AM, said:

View PostMaark Abbott, on 04 July 2025 - 07:51 AM, said:

View Postamphibian, on 02 July 2025 - 01:07 PM, said:

View PostMaark Abbott, on 02 July 2025 - 11:52 AM, said:

Heat did me. Got to the gym yesterday, was prepping to go into the work room and promptly puked.

Turns out I had heatstroke, so I had to take yesterday off of work to sort myself out. Not fun.

That's horrible. Did you walk out in the 34C/90F weather for a while?

I've started using a loose sun shirt and a hat/sunglasses to get through long hours outside. Really keeps things cool.


Nah, it's being inside and working that did it - the standard thing of very high humidity + houses designed to retain heat and that are bad at venting it means that if it gets 34 outside for a bit, it'll stay 34 inside for a few days at least - so I slept like shit and eventually it spiralled.

Things are aight now though, it's cooled down to a comfortable level again.


Guess opening windows would let too much of the eternal note of sadness rain and the drug dealers in....


Opening windows does nothing against the sort of heat we just had, because it's still hot outside. Even when it's not, it takes a good few days for the inside of the house to cool off, even with windows opened.
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#31085 User is offline   Cause 

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Posted Yesterday, 06:17 PM

This is becoming one of those things I encounter more and more and hate even fiercer each time I have to deal with it.

I may be interested in your service, give me your roughest ballpark quote and I we can continue from there. You don't need my email, you don't need my phone number, you certainly don't require me to sign up with a password to your app or website yet. We have not started any business relationship yet, I am not a customer yet. The most critical thing I need to decide is price. If you make me go through more than 5 clicks to get it I am moving on.
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Posted Yesterday, 06:43 PM

View PostCause, on 07 July 2025 - 06:17 PM, said:

This is becoming one of those things I encounter more and more and hate even fiercer each time I have to deal with it.

I may be interested in your service, give me your roughest ballpark quote and I we can continue from there. You don't need my email, you don't need my phone number, you certainly don't require me to sign up with a password to your app or website yet. We have not started any business relationship yet, I am not a customer yet. The most critical thing I need to decide is price. If you make me go through more than 5 clicks to get it I am moving on.


But then how can we harass you repeatedly and/or collect your data for resale??? C'mon, we'll give you 10% offffffff...
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Posted Yesterday, 07:10 PM

so much of that.
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Posted Yesterday, 08:48 PM

 Maark Abbott, on 07 July 2025 - 11:51 AM, said:

Opening windows does nothing against the sort of heat we just had, because it's still hot outside. Even when it's not, it takes a good few days for the inside of the house to cool off, even with windows opened.

The opening windows method that most of us outside the UK employ involves opening the windows at night at the coolest times, using fans to get a breeze going to move the hot air out for a few hours, then closing everything up before it gets hot again. I've started searching through appropriate sun shields to use on certain windows (the curtains are on the inside and absorb the heat inside the house) for my house. Having the barriers outside the house will help this summer.

I fear that many of us will be using similar strategies to stay cooler as our tree coverage disappears (old trees near my house in my yard and in those of my neighbors have died or been damaged/removed).

So it's a bit less daffy than initially suggested, yet this only applies if you can do that with the house.

Best of luck.
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