Before I welcome you all to this weeks Discusstion post I would like to mention that as many of you know, the Former prisident of the Peoples Republic of China, our Comrade Jiang Zemin passed away on November 30th of leukemia. I would like to wish, on behalf of the mod team of GenZedong, and I hope on behalf of the community that we wish our Comrade, Jiang Zemin to rest in peace, his memory shall not be forgotten.
With that out of the way, now I would like to welcome everybody agian! Make yourself at home. Sit down in that chair over there, all I ask is that you use a coaster as I just refinished all the tables. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is our weekly discussion thread!
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I’m actually starting to like the cold in my house in a therapeutic way. Like, it doesn’t bother me as much as I thought it would. And I figured out that if you keep going after the initial shock of stepping into a cold room (naked after a shower for example) you eventually will be able to regulate your reaction and to go on as if nothing is happening. Today I stood in my bathroom of 10 degrees C with the windows open, and after one minute of shivering like a madman I went on like usual for another 20 minutes.
It also makes me reflect on how insanely privileged I am to be able to turn my house into a tropical island with the turn of a button. I’m going to drastically change my way of consuming damaging sources of energy as I can manage just fine without them.
This doesn’t mean that I want everyone to do this though. It’s rough for a lot of people in my country and they need to be able to live a comfortable life, like everyone else around the world.