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tetris11
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tetris11@feddit.ukJoined: 2025-02-17 |
FWIW, in all my years in kitchens across the globe, one of the few culturally organic commonalities across them all was the tradition of taking a kitchen towel; arranging a long pile of ice cubes across its center and rolling it up tightly; securing with twist-ties, rubber bands, butcher string, etc. (even butterfly clips!) Then, draping it across the back of the neck, and tucking the ends into...
this is solid! |
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Brave Little Hitachi Wand
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yakko@feddit.ukJoined: 2025-01-08 |
Have you tried submerging your entire living space in mineral oil?
Diddy-style life hack 💀️ |
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pawb.social
Kolanaki@pawb.socialJoined: 2024-10-06 |
No, I can't say I've heard of that one... Is that something you've tried? I can imagine additional Health & Safety issues would arise ...?
It's good enough to cool a computer, and those tend to get pretty hot. |
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Digestive_Biscuit
feddit.uk
Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.ukJoined: 2023-06-14 |
Ice packs, the ones you put in picnic bags to keep the food cold. I sit on one or put it in my lap during the day, and put another in bed with me at night. Great between the thighs for maximum cooling. Wrap it in a pillow case or towel or something so you don't have it directly against your skin when it's fully frozen.
I've been using ice packs too. They work great. It doesn't stop me feeling hot but totally works for control sweating as much. |
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fozid
feddit.uk
fozid@feddit.ukJoined: 2026-01-25 |
Some cultures think that you should drink the opposite temperature. But if you look at what happens when you drink hot stuff, it doesn’t sound that crazy. Hot stuff makes you sweat. Sweat, when hot by dry air molecules, releases energy. That process cools you down.
You missed 1 critical part in the process. Hot stuff heats you up, that increased heat makes you sweat harder, the sweat evaporates, which cools you back down to where you were before you drank the hot drink, you briefly feel like you cooled down, which you did, just only from the increase caused by the hot drink. Kind of a win? |
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goatmeal
midwest.social
goatmeal@midwest.social Joined: 2023-10-25 |
Nope, the highs are mid to high 30s in Texas. https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/Texas/temperature-august.php
Those are the average highs. It can peak well above that for a given week. I live in northern US and have the opposite phenomenon. Average low in coldest month is 12F but we usually have about a week below 0F |
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iocase
lemmy.zip
iocase@lemmy.zip Joined: 2026-05-11 |
Just looked up the soapstone thing... looks like Finland did a good job with one recently
Yeah it's pretty smart... And incredibly simple... Way too low profit for my country's blood (Canada) not to mention which duolopoly would own it in Canada? It can't exist as a competing business strategy. It either needs to be blocked with regulations (regs captured by industry and capital...) or it needs to be a pet project of one of our oligarchs that never grows beyond a pilot plant battery that maybe gets used to make chemicals or something via industrial heat. |
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snek_boi
lemmy.ml
snek_boi@lemmy.ml Joined: 2021-07-18 |
You missed 1 critical part in the process. Hot stuff heats you up, that increased heat makes you sweat harder, the sweat evaporates, which cools you back down to where you were before you drank the hot drink, you briefly feel like you cooled down, which you did, just only from the increase caused by the hot drink. Kind of a win?
Ah. I see what you’re saying. You’re saying the heat from the hot water compensates for the increase in sweating. I suppose it’s worthwhile investigating the relationship between the energy in the water and the energy lost through sweating. And indeed some people have studied that:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-hot-drink-on-a-hot-day-can-cool-you-down-1338875/ |
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vext01
feddit.uk
vext01@feddit.ukJoined: 2023-07-05 |
Block sunlight coming in windows. Ideally with exterior blinds or reflective material on the glass. Interior blinds block light but not heat. AC circulation. If your AC isn't hooked to your forced air than you'll want to circulate the air in your house to bring down the average. Vent thorugh windows at night. Wait until it's below 20C and open at least 2 windows. Use a fan to force more airflow...
You aren't from the uk, are you? |
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fozid
feddit.uk
fozid@feddit.uk Joined: 2026-01-25 |
Ah. I see what you’re saying. You’re saying the heat from the hot water compensates for the increase in sweating. I suppose it’s worthwhile investigating the relationship between the energy in the water and the energy lost through sweating. And indeed some people have studied that: “Yes, the hot drink is hotter than your body temperature, so you are adding heat to the body, but the amount that ...
Interesting 👍 thanks for the link. So it does work, just only in very specific situations. |
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fonix232
fedia.io
fonix232@fedia.io Joined: 2023-06-13 |
Have you tried submerging your entire living space in mineral oil?
The exercise was "fried Mars bar for the entire family" not "turn the entire family into fried Mars bar". I'm afraid you'll fail the marketing class exam buddy 😞 |
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