• village604@adultswim.fan
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    I’ve been confidently told that I was wrong about working all day in the fields when I was in high school, in triple digit temps (F) with extremely high humidity, and not dying.

    “But the wet bulb temp…” It’s like the LD50. You’re way more likely to get heat stroke, but it’s not a guarantee.

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      Thank you! I lived in South Florida as a kid WITHOUT AC and we spent the entire summer all day every day running around out in that awful heat. I’m not saying the heat is good, but acclimatization is a real thing.

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        This is true. Heat is more deadly in Europe because they have neither aclimization nor air conditioning to escape the heat waves.