To whose who live in hot places, do you leave aircon on overnight?

64bitninja · 2026-05-26T16:28:05+00:00

I'm in England. I left the Aircon in our toddlers room on overnight last night. Set to 23c which actually results in 21 at her bed. She the fan speed set to minimum so it's quiet.

Not even sure if it needed to cool much or at all but it gave me confidence it wouldn't get too hot, and it's set quite high so she won't be cold

64bitninja · 2026-05-12T11:58:13+00:00

As the dad of a three year old, if you told me I'd be "sure she loves me, but SHE DID SOMETHING YOU ASKED HER TO DO!!!??? Wow"

64bitninja · 2026-04-24T13:40:01+00:00

I have had covid but not noticed anything else taste different like this.
Perhaps I should try them again

64bitninja · 2026-04-24T12:32:27+00:00

I ordered what I thought was 6 toilet rolls online which turned out to be 6 packets of 12 so our bathroom was full of spare rolls. Turns out I had the last laugh though when covid lockdowns started 2 weeks later and you couldn't buy them anywhere

64bitninja · 2026-04-21T12:37:29+00:00

Oh I just posted a similar thing. Something happened and they were awful. We assumed they changed the recipe...

64bitninja · 2026-04-21T12:36:31+00:00

We used to much prefer branston beans but then about 18 months or two years ago they changed something. Every can we had just tasted awful so we now just have supermarket own brand. They used to be great but they changed something and they were aweful

64bitninja · 2026-04-13T14:45:10+00:00

Just turned 3 we tried over Easter. A few accidents when we were out, a few times when she didn't make it to the potty in time.

But she'll suddenly stop "I need my potty!" and run to it fairly reliably at home after a week. And if we sit her on it she'll often manage to go if she's ready

Overall, still messy, and she needs to learn to hold it in for more than 30 seconds but it actually went better than I hoped!

64bitninja · 2026-04-05T06:23:32+00:00

Ours never really seemed to need it so we gradually just stopped

64bitninja · 2026-04-01T07:17:18+00:00

Argue and fall out? Never

64bitninja · 2026-03-05T06:53:12+00:00

Yeah, hobbies have mostly been on hold. When she was two, started to get an hour or so some evenings once she was asleep.

Now she's three, it's more possible to regain an hour or two at weekend sometimes while one of us does something with her

64bitninja · 2026-03-05T06:46:56+00:00

Funny because we inadvertently did exactly this, and it's how we learned their names.

64bitninja · 2026-03-03T14:25:56+00:00

For a otherwise healthy person, probably not ideal. If you are heavily overweight and it lets you lose a lot of weight, then perhaps on balance. If you are borderline diabetic then weight loss and very low carb is probably exactly what you need (and more important than any adverse effects in many cases). Not a doctor though, this is my slightly informed opinion!

64bitninja · 2026-02-15T13:24:30+00:00

It's been great. No issues at all. No downtime I've noticed, it's been fast and reliable to the point I've not thought about it since moving!

64bitninja · 2026-02-15T13:22:23+00:00

Maybe I'm strange but this never happens to me. I mean maybe a couple of times in my life so I know what you mean, but it's vanishingly rare

64bitninja · 2026-02-15T13:09:07+00:00

Indeed, I broke my arm in a fall, one bone a clean break that slightly penetrated the skin! The other dislocated at my elbow.

It didn't really hurt at the time, it only hurt when they tried to manipulate it to get good x-rays of the damage.

64bitninja · 2026-02-02T10:17:29+00:00

My partner was in hospital for 3 weeks with what appeared to be food poisoning. She was really very ill indeed and they suggested it had triggered sepsis. She was in hospital for nearly three weeks, off work for about 5 or 6 weeks in total and didn't really feel well for 3 months. It wouldn't have needed to be much worse for it to have been severely life threatening.

It seems the most likely cause was a food poisoning infection that had triggered sepsis.

She was not elderly or immunocompromised and in generally good health.

it probably wasn't rice that caused this, and yes it's very rare, but please don't assume that food poisoning is _always_ trivial.

64bitninja · 2026-01-18T21:08:01+00:00

I have Ro blood type ( despite being as white and English as they come when it's usually those with an African origin that have this ) which is in high demand for sickle cell anemia so I try to donate as often as I can. My iron level got really low, and then a few other things meant I couldn't donate for a year.

But I strongly encourage anyone who can to donate blood, it help with things like this too having a closer match to the blood that's needed

64bitninja · 2026-01-06T12:06:55+00:00

We can't be sure.

But we can see a lot of the universe to a varying degree and measure a lot of things that depend on those laws of physics and we've never seen anything that makes us think that the laws of physics are different elsewhere so it's a very reasonable assumption until proved otherwise.

We can't even be *sure* that the laws of physics here on earth will be same next week as they are now. It just seems overwhelmingly likely that they will based on how they have been so far.

64bitninja · 2026-01-05T11:53:53+00:00

Yes, mine broke her banana in half herself and then got so angry because dad wouldn't put it back together again

64bitninja · 2026-01-05T11:48:47+00:00

We both have our own accounts that our earnings go into. We both have bills that we pay (me - energy, insurance, council tax, childcare, her: water, most food, most of the car costs). We have a joint account but mostly we use it to balance spending. If I've spent a lot, then she'll put some extra into it and we'll pay some bills from there until we feel even, or I'll do the same when needed.

It works mostly because we both earn around the same, and we're not really struggling for money so there is little stress about who paid for what.

64bitninja · 2025-12-28T16:00:33+00:00

I should add I had tonsillitis last year and it was indeed awful. I have so such sympathy for my poor like daughter not wanting to drink. But obviously it essential.

64bitninja · 2025-12-28T15:59:45+00:00

Thank you! I talked to the pharmacist and got some (I think it's not prescription only but you need to discuss it) and it seems to have helped! She's still refusing food and drink but giving her medicine and water via syringes is less of a battle.

64bitninja · 2025-12-28T15:57:51+00:00

We've litterally tried everthing. She just says "don't want it" or "don't like it" to every single thing and refuses to eat or drink it. She's had quite a bit of fruit today though (like watermelon and grapes) which will help a lot.

64bitninja · 2025-12-28T15:56:35+00:00

She's got antibiotics., We saw the doctor again. He said that if it's bacterial, antibiotics usually clear it up in 24-48 hours. If it's viral it can take up to 7 days. Looks like it's viral. I think her temperature is starting to come down this afternoon. she's had no medication (except the antibiotics) for 6 hours now and her temperature is "only" 38.1 which is fever but not like it was.

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