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A temperature above human body temperature is one of nature’s ways of saying “this place isn’t for humans.”



A temperature below human body temperature is one of nature’s ways of saying “this place isn’t for humans”.

Cutting the hide off of another animal to survive in an environment might mean it’s not your environment.


You think you need to wear a hide at 20C?!? Human body temp is 38C, and any where near that is very hot!!

Most Canadians find 27C "omg it is hot out even wearing shorts is uncomfortable".


It is funny how “off” that rounding feels to me, just, I think, because it puts the human body temperature above 100F (a totally arbitrary threshold).


Try to sleep without clothes or shelter in 68F. You’ll just get hypothermia and die.


Erm, I sleep nude with nothing covering me at that temp.

68F is warm.

Where I live 68F is July highs.

I often sleep at 60F with a very thin cotton sheet.

Why do you erroneously think you would die? Your body can easily heat you the same when asleep, as awake.

You must be from a place that gets hot.

You know many Canadians wear shorts at 50F, right?


You are sheltered, that doesn’t count. People frequently get hypothermia on the beaches in NorCal because it’s windy with 60F humid air and that’s with clothes.

> You know many Canadians wear shorts at 50F, right?

Shorts are clothing FFS! “Slightly more of my leg is exposed while I’m awake” is not the same as being able to sleep naked without shelter.

Humans came from warm clients in Africa. Living in the north depends on critical technological advancements that quickly puts it outside of “”nature (fire, clothing, construction).

> You must be from a place that gets hot.

Not at all, I grew up in miserably cold environments (high mountains in Wyoming). When you grow up with it you become blind to all of the basic technologies your life completely depends on.


You are sheltered, that doesn’t count

You literally made a ridiculous starenent, changing things after the fact doesn't make you right, or it true.


Better get used to it. Soon, this will be the norm for a lot more places than it is now




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