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steve  ·  2722 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I was gonna post a ramble . . .

That is so disturbing





user-inactivated  ·  2721 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There is literally nothing to do in many of these communities during winter but drink and beat up your kids. When it is -80° outside you are not going to do anything unless your life is on the line. I've been out working on a ship in -20F and fuck everything about that. At -40° the water in your skin instantly freezes. I'm not brave enough to internalize what -80 does to you.

I do not get cold any more from my time up there.

coffeesp00ns  ·  2721 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I've been in -45C a few times before. The thing that always surprises me is how still everything is, how muffled everything is.

user-inactivated  ·  2721 days ago  ·  link  ·  

. . . I get cold when the air conditioning is on. Alaska would kill me.