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I like winter. Snow is great. (ani.social)
submitted 3 days ago by sho@ani.social to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world
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The perks of winter:

  • it is easier to keep warm during winter than it is to keep cool in the summer
  • get to wear more clothings which means more pockets to carry things
  • all the hell spawned insects go into hibernation
  • everything layered in a blanket of snow glistens and sparkles.
  • can build stuff with snow so easily
  • unpleasant people are deterred or avoid going out as they are bitter about the snow so less likely to encounter them in the winter.
  • the weaklings rely more on help as they are not strong enough for winter
  • can do more exercising without overheating
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[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Unpopular opinion (largely discredited in anthropology circles): cold weather encourages resourceful behaviour and improves human cooperation. In climates where you can survive winter outdoors, homelessness is not as detrimental to continued existence. Three walls and no roof is fine in a slum in Florida, but harder to pull off in Minneapolis.

This societal coordination which is required to survive winter leads to more orderly and more socialist civilizations. Because hairless apes have no business being in that climate. So it is human ingenuity that is selected for -- and that includes development of systems of cooperation.

If I extrapolate, our space faring descendants will face much bigger hurdles, but ideally will develop even better systems to deal with it.

Bonus picture. Me doing arctic exploration.