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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Come down here during the late fall/winter and it’s great. It feels like a nice spring day. I’m originally from NJ and it always makes me laugh when it’s like January and I see people walking around with coats on and I’m walking around in shorts and a T-shirt. I remember one day in December after my dance class I walked outside with a few people and said “damn, it feels great out here” and the girl gave me the “WTF is wrong with you?” look because she was freezing 😂


  • Facts. I take between 2 and 4 showers a day (most are just to wash the dried sweat off, no soap necessary unless I reek).

    I’m originally from South Jersey where it gets humid as fuck for about two months out of the year with the occasional reprieve, so I’m used to it being hot as fuck. Before I moved down here, my friend and I spent 2 weeks down here in South Florida in August to see if I could stand it at its worst. I lasted a day wearing my typical summer clothes (khaki shorts and a cotton T-shirt, I’m a dude). The rest of the time was spent freeballing in basketball shorts and three tank tops that I bought and was still drenched every day.

    I’ve been down here since October and freeballing in basketball shorts (or linen shorts) and wearing mesh or linen shirts are the only things I wear outside between May and October. Two days ago I went outside for a 10 minute walk and was drenched within a few minutes. Yesterday I went out for a long walk and before I went out I soaked a mesh T-shirt in cold water to see if it would help keep me cool. It didn’t.


  • Yeah, it’s just blazing hot there but at least when the sun goes away you get some relief, the humidity sticks around even at night haha I’m originally from South Jersey where the humidity is just as bad for about 2 months out of the year, so I’m used to it, but at least there’s the occasional reprieve up there. Here, it’s just relentlessly humid. At least I live right next to Biscayne Bay and there’s always a 10-20 mph breeze, so it’s not just still humidity like it is back home in NJ. Both places are essentially built on swamps. If you look at a map of South Florida it’s literally just the east and west coast that are populated (spanning maybe 20-30 miles inland) with the entire center taken up by the Everglades.

    I live in a new apartment building and I forgot to turn on my AC last night (thanks Ambien!), when I woke up it was 74 in my apartment but 70% humidity 🥵 I’ve never seen it below 50% in here, even in January or February when the temp drops down to the 70s. I’ve had my dehumidifier running for about 1.5 hours and it’s 57% in here now. It’s 12:30 PM right now and it’s 70% RH with a 76 degree dew point and a temp of 88F, feels like 100F.


  • Sounds like Miami, every day I look at the temperature and it’s like 82-90, feels like 100. Literally every day since like late May/early June, the weather report says “oppressive humidity, extreme caution” since it hangs around 70-85% with a dew point in the mid 70s. This isnt event record breaking either. Whenever the humidity drops down to like 60% and the temp is in the low 80s I’m like “it’s actually cool out for once” even though the real feel is like 92.

    It’s been cloudy and rainy for like the past two weeks, so at least the pool is back to a cool/comfortable temperature and not like bathwater every day.











  • The reason for this is because switching from Windows to Linux is a lot bigger change, requiring a fair amount of technical know-how, and even knowing that Linux exists in the first place. Swapping browsers is easy in the technical sense, it’s breaking the habit that’s the hard part, but if they piss people off enough all it takes is uninstalling it in order to break the habit, not a drastic paradigm shift. I’m a long time Chrome user, like over a decade and with the recent “unverified download” nonsense unless you enable their invasive tracking has put me over the edge. I had both the Chrome and Firefox icons pinned to the taskbar and just out of habit kept clicking it, I finally removed it last week