Original question by @ephrin@sh.itjust.works
Freedom degrees. Roughly -13° or 38° if you live in the sane parts of the world.
I’d pick triple digits, mostly because I’ve lived in places that routinely hit 100° in the summer, and I hate shoveling snow.
It is very hard to grow food outdoors in either case. Underground the temperature is fairly stable at about 30+°F. If that’s allowed, and I can manage how to grow food underground, then from experience I know I can easily survive 9°F and spend a LOT more time outdoors than at 100°F
Single digits. You can always put more layers on but you can’t take more off than naked.
…right, and therefore triple digits. AlwaysNudeClub rise up
Single digits. I love shoveling snow, and cold weather makes me feel alive.
Depends. If we’re talking 100 degrees and no humidity? I could probably do that. The misery doesn’t really set in until 110. 10 minutes outside of bow freezing feels like knives.
Low temps. My brain boils in high temps. Heat exhaustion too many times. I’d be dead.
Same. I choose somewhere 15 to 18C - Comfortably cool, and I can always put on a sweater. Any warmer than that, and I’d have trouble sleeping at night.
So triple digits Kelvin for me.
I use celsius. Triple digit temperatures would kill me.
But after a quick conversion, still single digit. Its pretty standard winter temperature just a little bit inland from where i live. I like it best between -15 and -5 °C (5 - 23F)
This is why you can’t have rational conversations with Americans.
Triple digits.
But I’mma use KelvinGranted. 100k. Or 900k. Both are lethal, tbh
I’ll take both.
One on each side of my house.Now to by a few kilotons of ceramic tiles and zinc and copper wires.
Triple digits because I don’t like anything about winter. The cold makes my body ache and nobody does anything because going outside sucks ass. I think I’d get used to the heat, I can tolerate it fine as is. Room temperature below 25°C/77°F feels freezing cold to me.
Single digits, you can always put on another layer.
Triple digit heat is miserable.
Single digits, 100%.
Single digits range from -9F to 9F. Triple digits start at 100F, and can go way the fuck up from there. (And with climate change, they will!) Once you start approaching triple digits, you have to worry about humidity, because you can easily hit a combination that’s literally too hot to live.
Is -9F unpleasant? Sure. But you can layer clothing, and that will keep you comfortable. Death Valley has hit >130F, and when that happens people die, even if they drink gallons of water and stay in the shade.
I like the point about climate change, if you could trick the genie into agreeing that once you set up your new home you get to stay there. Then pick a spot on the cusp of frigidity. So it will gradually get into the double digits at least.
Celcius or…?
Kelvin I guess.
If those are the options, I choose death.
I guess I’d die. It’s never either of those where I live. And crops would fail either way.
In terms of personal comfort:
If the only triple digit temp was only ever exactly 100, then I guess triple digits.
If it can be Celsius, 9 is so cold but not kill you cold, I would be sad but not dead.
I’ve lived in both extremes and single digits wins every time. I never passed out from the cold, but the heat gets me at least once a year.
