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[–] LainTrain -2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Being uneducated and calling others uneducated? Are you a Reddit refugee by any chance?

Go read:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_comfort https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent_temperature

High humidity and low temperatures cause the air to feel chilly.

Cold air with high relative humidity "feels" colder than dry air of the same temperature because high humidity in cold weather increases the conduction of heat from the body.

There has been controversy over why damp cold air feels colder than dry cold air. Some believe it is because when the humidity is high our skin and clothing become moist and are better conductors of heat, so there is more cooling by conduction.

You can check the primary sources under the claims on Wikipedia yourself and maybe learn a thing or two before you go around spread misinformation and calling others uneducated and making a confidently incorrect fool out of yourself.

I would also read some about "Wind chill" and the Heat Index. Start with Wikipedia but check the sources and explore these concepts. Then look at thermodynamics and how heating in your home actually happens and how insulation plays into it and how energy is produced.

Good day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

I am going to assume you're autistic since you've clearly given this a lot of thought, yet lack understanding.

Evolution doesn't have a goal or plan at all. We humans have evolved with the necessary traits to live in, every environment we currently live in. You want to argue that our ability to warm ourselves with clothing and cook our food doesn't count? Do you hold other animals, like for example ants to the same standard? Their ability to build and cooperative, like us humans, is the reason they're some of the most successful species on the planet. But you want to judge ants by a single ant on its own?

I am well versed in the subjects you linked. I just believe you've gotten a weird idea in your head about where humans are "meant to live".

Could you point me to where you picked up these ideas? I'd like to be aware if there's some new global warming acceleration movement going on, which I'm assuming you're promoting.

[–] LainTrain 0 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

I was responding to your claim that I was misunderstanding the effect of humidity on air temperature.

Hence y'know - all the stuff about humidity and air temperature? The stuff I posted that you're allegedly "well-versed" on?

Judging Ants? Evolution? Did you reply to the wrong thread or are you just spamming random nonsense? And why are you talking like a 14 year old? And what is with all that ableist shit about autistic people? Is it meant to be insulting?

Edit: Now that I think about it, that insult doesn't even make any sense - autistic people usually are known for having a special interest and lots of specific knowledge in an obscure subject.

The "autism" as-internet-insult that I think you're using is meant to imply someone is out of touch or too deep in the weeds wrt some overly nerdy topic like ricing window managers in Linux or something.

I definitely don't know much about the topic at all nor have I thought about this for very long, this isn't my specialty, nor do I claim to be "well-versed in all these subjects" which I'm not sure is even actually possible as they're separate areas of study - but if I were, I would not use it as a source of authority, I just have the basic research skills needed to cite established and well-regarded sources to back up the specific claims I made.

If you'd like to prove something in a debate or make a point in a discussion or establish a claim as valid - you should probably do so by doing the same, not simply claiming to be an authority and then going on some rant about ants and autism.

Blocked.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

Do you not remember what you wrote a couple of comments ago? This tirade about windspeed and humidity is irrelevant to the conversation. Humans are excellent at adapting to different climates. You can't simply say "oh humans can't live in the cold" because we definitively can.