Yossarian had everything he wanted in the hospital. The food wasn’t too bad, and his meals were brought to him in bed. There were extra rations of fresh meat, and during the hot part of the afternoon he and the others were served chilled fruit juice or chilled chocolate milk. Apart from the doctors and the nurses, no one ever disturbed him. For a little while in the morning he had to censor letters, but he was free after that to spend the rest of each day lying around idly with a clear conscience. He was comfortable in the hospital, and it was easy to stay on because he always ran a temperature of 101. He was even more comfortable than Dunbar, who had to keep falling down on his face in order to get his meals brought to him in bed.
His odds were good,actually ; despite the near-constant rumours around the USSR space program, Korolev did his best to make sure the launch was safe as it could get.
Rest assured, I’m in agreement. I’m just joking that the dude who was the first to use an explosion to leave the planet might have some nerves that needed calming.
Who the hell keeps their house at 68F?! 74-78 is my preferred temp but I can cope all the way to 85. But you turn that below 70 and we’re gonna have a problem (both in the “I’m fucking cold, bitch” sense as well as the “do you own the electrical company or something? I didn’t know you’re a billionaire”)
I thought the same thing! Though since I pay the electric bill and have electric heat, I’m keeping my place whatever the fuck temperature it wants to be.
I start to sweat if it’s much above 21 (70 F) indoors, I prefer it to be around 18 (64.4F) to 19 (66F). Of course that is in winter where outside temps are well below freezing, in the summer I tend to sleep in the basement during the hottest period since I can’t sleep if it’s too hot
We keep our thermostat set to 64-65 during the winter time. Keeps the HVAC from running a lot. You just put on some cozy sweater, sweatpants and warm socks. During summer we keep the thermo higher, up to +10 more degrees.
I sleep at 60. House is 65 all day between November and April. We don’t get true winter here so the heat hardly has to run. In May/June when we need to start running the AC, everything goes up 10-12 degrees.
I can’t cope much over about 78. 80 degrees indoors and I’ve got no fewer than three fans aimed at myself. Gas bills in winter are relatively low. I’d like to get a little unit just for the bedroom and the computer room, then I don’t have to cool the whole house to stay comfortable. Leave the house at 82 during the day and keep the rooms I’m in at 72.
I’m the kind of guy to wear shorts when it’s below freezing outside.
I keep my house at 55 during the week and 60 on weekends. 51 at night.
Edit: I sleep with a window open even when it’s 10 degrees out and I have a window fan to pull that fresh air in. My wife tolerates it, but I get snuggled more because I run so hot, so it’s a win.
This was pretty much how I operated when I was single, but my wife won’t tolerate below 55 at night. I had a 600 ft² apartment, and my power bills were $150 in summer and $25 in winter. But now my wife and I have a 1,500 ft² house so that’s just not feasible. In summer, I take a cold shower before bed, the thermostat gets left at 71, we put up a box fan on medium, and we sleep with no blanket. That makes things tolerable when the overnight lows are 80 degrees. It’s also what kept the power bills below $250 this summer. We fucking roasted this year. 10 to 15 degrees above average all summer. 90-95 is very tolerable, even when it’s humid. Just drink lots of water and you’ll do alright. But 105-110? Count me the fuck out.
Quick reminder: you SPCA will tell you that a cat living 100% indoors will ensure Kitty and the surrounding bird population are happier for many years longer.
“He rarely goes out” is the worst setting.
Your car isn’t somehow special either.
It used to be double. DOUBLE! now it’s even worse.
That’s the spirit! Let bats take those ecological niches! Bats are cool, and unlike birds they don’t go crapping everywhere, they do it tidily in their caves.
Fuck birds. They should have gone extinct 65 million years ago with the rest of the dinosaurs. This is the age of mammals. They had almost 200 million years (plus 65 million freeloading after their time was up), that should be way more than enough. Let the cats have their fun.
Just in case people do take this seriously, birds are important. If you want to take your cats out, supervise them or put them on a leash. The environment and your cats ARE better off not mangling with each other.
even if you dislike birds, cats don’t limit their murdersprees to just birds. they’re an invasive species; do yours a favor and keep it in like I do. Their lives are longer and better.
I am heavily questioning the life of a confined cat being better than the life of a cat that is free to go where it wants. The moment you have 2 cats that get along it’s unlikely to be a bad life, but you have no way of telling how another being unable to communicate complex thoughts to you considers their quality of life to be.
You also got to realize people are also putting their cats at risk by letting them go out on their own while there are wild life out. There are coyotes, predatory birds, big cats, etc. that will not hesitate in including house cats as their food. There are too many stories of cat owners losing their cats because they never came back home
There are coyotes, predatory birds, big cats, etc.
Not in the civilised world there ain’t. We ate, domesticated, or otherwise drove those to extinction hundreds or even thousands of years ago.
Most dangerous things around these parts (besides free-roaming cats) are cars, and a good public transport system together with a street and road network built around pedestrians and bikes (and said public transport) will get rid of most of those, too (though the reduction in noise might lead to more birds; nothing is perfect).
I can’t speak for where you live in, but these are still real considerations for any pet owner. Wild life still exists inside and outside of urban areas, especially suburban areas. Just because there may not be as much sightings of predators around the areas you live in doesn’t mean the same for other people who live in different areas
That is true (well, where I live there are few actual dangers to cats but that’s just region dependent) but in general I believe a short, but more fulfilling life to be better than a longer, less fulfilling one. Which I’m aware is subjective.
Assuming a cat can jump just over 2m (record is around 7’ apparently) then you have a launch velocity of around 6.5m/s. Plugging this in as an escape velocity works out to around a 1-2km diameter asteroid. Not huge, but not bad for a small animal.
My error bars are quite large, so it’s only an order of magnitude calculation.
Yeah thats not bad, assuming the asteroid is a perfect sphere, that comes out to a surface area of 12km^2^ for an interstellar cat colony that can move into orbit at will.
The cabinet could be 20 feet tall and they’d still figure out how to get up there.
My parents have 4 cats and these ones are a lot different than all of the other cats we’ve had over the decades. My parents have a wall mounted cabinet where the bottom portion is about 5 feet off the ground and the top of it is about 8 feet off the ground. There’s about 6-9" between the top and the ceiling, and various decorations up there… The kitchen table is about a foot in front of it, at normal height, about 3-4 feet from the ground.
One day I noticed one of the cats was on top of the cabinet! That’s a good 6 foot jump at a steep angle (100°, 110°? I suck at Trig) and she didn’t move a single decoration!
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