for background, I shaved my forearms for practicing methods of shaving my legs. low-key a mistake, don’t think id recommend shaving arms lol
I picked up a pizza after getting a shower and to dry out my hair faster I didn’t turn on the AC, was in a hot car in Florida for like 5m while it cooked and this is what happened. Pretty cool!
Edit: also it’s interesting to visualize how much water is lost when you sweat
Dogs must look at you like 🤤
Sweat is stored in the balls.
This also is a cautionary tale: hairs make sweating more efficient as the water distributes better.
preposterous! hairy girls are way hotter.
And they can be! Safely! For the power of hairs!
It does that when you don’t shave too.
No, it does not for the hairs distribute it. This beading is unusual on arms.
Guess it varies by individual, I am hairy but sweat still beads up if it’s hot enough or I work out hard enough.
Wait… How old are you? And where did you go to school? (Country)
Probably the USA…
was in a hot car in Florida
The land of the free of thought
… How is this “hatred”?
What a sad little martinet. Donny would be proud of you.
If you think I’m strict enough to be called a “martinet” then I’d recommend you don’t create an account on my instance. My sidebar rules are simple and clear, and the penalty for violating them is up to my discretion. If that’s not a strategy you agree with then I’d encourage you to start your own instance. Good luck!
That’s by far the pettiest shit I’ve seen today.
Banning someone for a sidebar rule violation? You’re lucky to be so privileged - most of us have to deal with far, far worse behavior from people. And those of us in positions of authority, such as moderators and instance admins, have to do so with tact. I’d envy you if I had the time.
Have a day. 🫱
And those of us in positions of authority
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Cute clip! I loved Firefly.
However it doesn’t refute my statement. Thank you
Oh hell yeah. Ban me too, fuck the USA.
Well, they’re not a mod here. I’m one of the poor saps with that role. Is… Is that what you want…? That’s not even a rule here.
Nah, I’m asking to be banned from the instance they do moderate, lmao.
Why “fuck the USA” ? Many citizens of the US are suffering despite doing everything in their power to oust the fascist regime in power. Do you really hate those people? They did nothing to you.
Let’s have a dialogue. Explain yourself.
I live in America. The USA is a disgusting fucking country who brings suffering on the world.
Yes, I live in the USA and I hate myself. Easy answer.
Do you hate people of your same gender?
Do you hate people of your same religious/atheist beliefs?
Do you hate people belonging to your family?
Why would you hate your fellow citizens just because you share a relationship with them?
Ooooh, I especially hate the people in my family. They’re such assholes. My mother told me once that she regretted not aborting me, so I don’t see why I’m in the wrong for hating her back.
Banned from my instance. Please be a better person
Lifelong US citizen here. You need to chill with this. Learn to laugh at yourself and the US as a whole. We do some pretty stupid things.
I myself enjoy a chuckle as much as the next person.
But by letting users get away with nation-phobic behavior I’m setting a bad example for the rest of my users. I made it clear that targeted hatred isn’t welcome on Redlemmy.com, and now I’m standing by my promise.
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They violated front page sidebar rules of my instance, so I banned them. What part of the process do you disagree with?
Oh no! Whatever will they do now? How will they get past this, how will they survive?
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Ahh the Reddit mod has migrated to Lemmy. You should take your own advice and be better.
They violated front page sidebar rules of my instance, so I banned them. What part of the process do you disagree with?
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peak Lemmy world behavior
They violated front page sidebar rules of my instance, so I banned them. What part of the process do you disagree with?
pay the court fine or serve your sentence, your stolen goods are now forfeit
Please stay on topic, this won’t take long.
They violated front page sidebar rules of my instance, so I banned them. What part of the process do you disagree with?
i disagree with your priorities in life and the degree to which minute power makes you feel large
The other day I had a weird experience with pores and sweating.
I was given a family-sized bag of chips that were “too spicy” for my parents. They were spicy, sure, but not painfully spicy.
However, my body’s reaction was not the usual sweating… It was to excessively sweat from a square inch spot just above my temple.
I could literally FEEL the sweat coming out of the pores. I went to the mirror and watched it pour out like a damn faucet. It was fascinating but very uncomfortable, both physically and psychologically
Super weird.
I have something similar happen to me when I eat kiwis. The top of my head just starts sweating.
Philosophy aside, do you get the impression that kiwi tastes different to you than it does to others?
I know a lot of people are mildly allergic to kiwis so I looked up the symptoms and stumbled on something unexpected… Frey’s Syndrome:
Sweating (face, neck, temples) triggered by food. Usually a result of gland surgery, it can also be caused by ingrown hairs near the auricotemporal nerve.
I’ve suffered from ingrown hairs my whole life (yes I bathe regularly) and definitely have had some near my ears. It’s almost too coincidental…
Jokes aside, it was nearly a steady stream off my head. I had to make a bath towel turban
Maybe you are leaking brain fluid. Do you hear the ocean?
Wow, that is super weird actually.
Reminds me of an incident I had a few months ago. I arrived at work, by bike. I hadn’t taken the bike for a good while, and I biked harder than I should have. Anyway, I sat down by my desk, and I started salivating.
It wasn’t too much at first, I could keep up by swallowing. I immediately attributed it to the biking and wrote it off, and thought it would pass soon.
But it didn’t. It kept getting worse. More saliva, and faster. I was swallowing mouthfuls at this point, and it was uncomfortable. Like I was being forced to drink lots of water, or being waterboarded.
At last I reached my breaking point and I swiftly walked to the bathroom, locked the door, and just stood with my mouth open and tongue hanging, over the sink, and it was just running, like a faucet opened just enough to be running yet not dripping. This is the part that was similar to your experience—I could feel my saliva… glands? excreting the saliva.
Anyway, this went on for about a minute or two, then it stopped, and I went on with my day.
Have never had something like that happen before, and not since.
When your mouth salivates uncontrollably, that’s usually a sign you’re about to throw up.
Sounds like a strange dream I would have then wake up drooling on my pillow like a great dane.
That’s even more bizarre than my story lol
Usually excessive salivation is a sign that I’m about to vomit so I think I would have wound up in the stall as a precaution
Yeah, exactly. That’s why I thought it was due to the exertion from biking, and that I would soon vomit. I guess I was like on the very brink of vomiting, but never did? And my mouth was just like, “RED ALERT, FLOOD THE CAVITY, ANY MINUTE NOW. … AAAANY MINUTE!!!”
Mid-key no. Sweat always comes of of pores.
Where did you think sweat came from?
Pretty sure the TIL refers to the second part of the statement.
The eyeballs. I only sweat when I’m sad.
I just pant like a dog to cool off
Your blood actually.
UR BUTT
I find your water discipline lacking. May Shai Hulud forgive you.
Turning the ac on with heat will help pull moisture out of air! Ac is a natural dehumidifer.
AC
natural
AC… Natural…
Dehum-idifier…
Need I say more?
Just dropping in to say what follows in this thread is the most pointless, overblown argument I’ve seen in a very long time.
Full-on, unironically, arguing over dictionary definitions with each other and trading insults.
This is what the internet does to some people. Look on and despair.
Follows in what way? Chronologically? Am I to believe you’re predicting the future?
And yooooooouuuu read it! Behold our hubris and bask in our rage.
Oh my God, you weren’t exaggerating.
Yes, what’s so confusing?
Water freezes to the coils, and the heat melts it and it drips out of the vehicle. Same process happens inside houses too, but it drips into a drain instead.
I’d argue that hot humid air condensing on a cold stone might be a natural dehumidifier, but I’m not sure that refrigerant being compressed in a high-pressure system and then allowed to rapidly decompress through coils captured in dense arrays of metal fins while a fan blows across them qualifies as a “natural” process.
Anyway, I was just being a little silly about describing an Air Conditioner’s primary function as a natural process.
Then I realized it could come off as a little mean, so I selectively and deliberately misconstrued “dehumidify” in a way to make myself sound like a conspiracy theorist.
Now, let’s put on our foil hats and speculate wildly instead of explaining our comments! THEY want us to fight so that they can take our McRibs!
Are you arguing physics aren’t a part of nature…?
Also, natural has more than a single definition, you’re being intentionally obtuse by focusing on one. It also doesn’t mean it’s part of “nature”.
By that logic everything is natural (not arguing this point), and so the adjective is redundant an unnecessary.
I would argue that anti matter by that logic is unnatural!
Anti mater is routinely created in the nature. X-ray telescopes can see it being created and destroyed all over the universe.
Are you arguing physics aren’t a part of nature…?
I… Uhhh… I’m not even sure where to start with that… Like, I see the point you’re trying to prove, but in the context of your initial comment, it’s confusing at best. When you see an airplane flying overhead, leveraging Bernoulli’s Principle to seemingly levitate at speed (similar to how air conditioners leverage Bernoulli’s Principle to displace heat outside of the area in which you want your air conditioned, and to evaporate refrigerant inside that area), do you point at it and say “ain’t nature grand?!” Even an ornithopter, which also leverages Bernoulli’s Principle, but uses the natural motion of birds flapping their wings, would still get you odd looks if you called it a part of nature. But I feel like you probably don’t call planes or any other man-made vehicles parts of nature. Likely, you’re phrasing your question around evaporation, a very natural process, but your initial comment didn’t say “evaporation is natural.” So, by taking my comment about air conditioners, boiling it down to being about physics, not the fact that it’s a man-made appliance that you plug in to achieve anything, you’re attempting to frame an argument out of context. But if you want me to follow you down your rabbit hole of bad faith arguments, then here we go! You only specified physics, are you arguing that chemistry isn’t part of nature…?
natural has more than a single definition
I fail to see which one of dictionary.com’s 38 definitions of natural supports calling an air conditioner a natural dehumidifier. While all forms of air conditioning over time have used some form of energy differential to remove hot air, only the modern electric air conditioner (the kind that’s actually called an “air conditioner”) specifically condenses air moisture into a mechanism specifically designed to then remove that moisture from the system entirely. In fact, the original electric air conditioning unit was installed at a publishing company to control the humidity and keep the paper from buckling. The term “air conditioning” was later coined when people experimented with reintroducing moisture into airflow systems, proving that they can truly control the temperature and humidity of an area, a process similar to “water conditioning,” which was a more well-known term.
you’re being intentionally obtuse
If an air conditioner’s primary function is removing moisture from air, it would be just as awkward to call it a “natural dehumidifier” as it would be to call a pitching machine a “natural pitcher.” An air conditioner isn’t “naturally” a dehumidifier, it’s literally a dehumidifier. It’s naturally a white noise machine, or it naturally causes nosebleeds if you run it with the heater on in the winter, or it’s naturally able to be used as a filtration system when you use it with the proper Merv-rated HEPA filter.
Calling an air conditioner a “natural dehumidifier” makes it sound like its purpose is cooling and it just so happens to condense and sink away moisture, but it literally does that by design. Refusing to acknowledge that diminishes the effort, science, and engineering that went into inventing it as an appliance. Hand-waiving that away removes people’s ability to intuitively understand things like sweating (a thing that naturallycools you off) or wet-bulb temperature, which when factoring in global warming means that sweating could eventually not cool you down naturally.
Toilet paper isn’t naturally absorbent, it is designed to be that; paper towel designs don’t naturally prevent layers from sticking together, they are designed specifically for that reason; hard candies aren’t naturally sweet, they’re designed that way. Differentiating is important to demystify rather than confuse the topic.
I fail to see which one of dictionary.com’s 38 definitions of natural supports calling an air conditioner a natural dehumidifier.
It’s not a “natural humidifier” why are you clumping those two words into a singular item?
Also…
There’s your own TIL, you can make a post now! You really are intentionally obtuse, you literally explained how an ac naturally dehumidifies that air, but dance around using the proper term since you’ve got it in your head that it was misused, even so far as to ignore a dictionary definition.
Edit, here’s another
Nothing to do with nature or anything else, but bloviate dude.
And here’s professionals using the term.
How many more examples do you need? I can go and find a special example for each of your asinine claims here.
It’s not a “natural humidifier” why are you clumping those two words into a singular item?
I don’t think I called it a “natural humidifier” anywhere. I called it a “natural dehumidifier,” the same as you did in your original comment.
Also…
The definition and example you’ve chosen addresses an expected reaction. An air conditioner is a dehumidifier. In your chosen example given in that definition on dictionary.com, your original comment would be more akin to saying, “When the fist landed forcefully on his face, it was natural that he was punched in the face.”
You really are intentionally obtuse, you literally explained how an ac naturally dehumidifies that air, but dance around using the proper term since you’ve got it in your head that it was misused, even so far as to ignore a dictionary definition.
I want to either take responsibility for or deny whatever it is you’re saying here, but I’m not sure what you’re saying. This isn’t me trying to throw in a burn by personally attacking you and saying that you don’t know how to communicate. I think I’m just confused by the wording. There are probably millions of other people to whom this makes sense, but I’m probably misreading what you wrote. I believe you’re saying that I’m explaining that an ac “naturally” dehumidifies the air, but I’m avoiding using the word “naturally” because I believe that your use of “naturally” was improper, so much so that I’m willing to ignore the definition of the word naturally. But I don’t want to misconstrue your words because any argument I’d make would be about using a word to define that same word, which doesn’t progress our discourse.
Edit, here’s another
“Without special help or intervention” with the example of “naturally curly hair” is literally describing part of nature: the way that hair grows. If someone wore a curly wig, I don’t think that they’d tell you they have naturally curly hair. When you say that an air conditioner is naturally a humidifier, it sounds the same to me as someone saying that a lever naturally can be used for leverage—yes, that’s why it’s called what it is, because it does what it does. Is an automobile naturally a cart that moves without a horse pushing or pulling it? No, that’s literally what it is. That’s why it’s called an automobile. An air conditioner is called that because it itself is a dehumidifier. It’s not “naturally” a dehumidifier, it was designed to be a dehumidifier. The argument you’re trying to make is the same as Futurama’s joke about Wireless Joe and Pitch-o-mat 5000 being literal versus figurative blernsball machines.
Nothing to do with nature or anything else
What a thought-terminating argument. Nothing to do with nature or anything else! Are you arguing that your words mean what you intended because you said them? Slow down there, Veruca Salts.
but bloviate dude
I don’t know why you’re trying to turn this argument personal, but very well. That’s a good one dollar word! And you used this one correctly, way to go! If you wanted to sound fancy in the first place and the correct word, “literally,” seemed too pedestrian, you could instead substitute “ipso facto.” Since an ac, by the fact of being an air conditioner is itself a dehumidifier.
I normally try not to be so challenging about people misusing words, but you’re just stubborn and self-righteous enough to remind me of my father and that’s gotten under my skin.
Anyway, it’s obvious that neither of us is a linguist not enough of an expert to split hairs like this, since we can’t agree on the meaning of definitions of words. If anyone with some knowledge wants to weigh in and tell me I’m being pedantic, I’ll begrudgingly eat crow.
I like my AC-s homegrown.
Artisanal Conditioning
Me coming after doing some gardening and drenched in sweat:
And the heat then means the air can absorb more moisture.
You want hot dry air for maximum evaporation.
If you have the heat on in an ICE car you get waste heat from the engine blown into the cabin. The AC does nothing in that case. And even if it did, as in the the AC would be run in reverse like a home heat pump in the winter, moisture would be condensed out of the outside air, not the cabin air.
… most vehicles turn the AC on when turned to defrost mode.
The waste heat blowing across the coils is what unfreezes the moisture for it to drip off. It works better as a dehumidifer the warmer the air blowing across it, as hot air holds more moisture. Also cars have a neat little switch to recycle the air, sometimes it’s automatic with ac, this allows cabin air, instead of waste air to also blow across the coils.
was in a hot car in Florida for like 5m
Dang, must have been really hot for you to start sweating like this after just 5 meters. 🙃
It’s Florida - OP was sweating like this in the first meter
Have been to Florida in the summer a few times, can confirm. Once I went jogging under the sun. Not sure why I was trying to play a hero that day.
It also beads up when you don’t shave. Had that yesterday with my hairy gorilla arms when sitting still and trying to cool off.
+1, not sure if shaving has anything to do with it. You can see this beading up quite easily in a sauna for example
Shaving one’s arms is weirdly common among women in Japan.
Balkans, too. And, of course, Turkey. In fact, apart from the North Atlantic Rim and Scandinavia, it’s kind of common in Europe, especially when compared to the US.
For women. that is. For (black) men, the US seems to take the lead.God that would be so itchy. I shaved everything once for drag. Never again. Now I peer pressure women to stop shaving instead.
