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[Kagus]

What the fuck even are temperature allergies?

Like, for dust or dander or pollen allergies, those at least have particulate matter that the body can pretend is dangerous... But how does a body decide that it's allergic to heat? Or cold?

[Magistrum]

Allergy to cold is usually just a symptom of autoimmune disorders. Some people develop it during life and we have no idea why.

Hot allergy is just allergy to your own sweat.

[Iduno]

Allergy to cold is usually just a symptom of autoimmune disorders. Some people develop it during life and we have no idea why.

Hot allergy is just allergy to your own sweat.

Could be woo, but reliable sources propose they're just using words wrong.

Edit:

Hot allergy is just allergy to your own sweat.

That's wild, and also an explanation.

[Magistrum]

Yeah, that one got me scare imagining.

[Kagus]

That makes sense, insofar as how I've seen it exhibited...

..but still, what the fuck

[scriver]

Me, I'm allergic to people who make up allergies for things they just dislike

[Iduno]

Has anyone trained one of those machine learning systems to make up bullshit corporate holidays? I need a new calendar.

[itisnotlogical]

Can anybody from the UK tell me what the royal family actually does? From a few offhand comments by British YouTubers I watch it just seems like they're state sponsored celebrities, like if the Kardashians here in America were considered government employees.

[scriver]

No, they also steward a lot of estates, and officiate lots of things.

[Frumple]

Uh, which is basically to say yes, they're what amounts to government employed celebrities, just ones which also happen to inherit (some degree of control over) a fair amount of land.

[WealthyRadish]

It's an entirely vestigial and mostly harmful institution wholly incompatible with any modern sense of justice, kept in place by the political costs of removing it and its own immediate insignificance. Even more cynically, it's a weak but constant source of distraction and political indirection that doubles as a "break glass in case of communism" ready-made autocrat.

[hector13]

‘Tis a lot of pointlessness, and expensiveness also. There is nothing they do that could not be done by someone who was not solely in the position ‘cause their parents fucked.

It is also sad that the various members, despite being positions of extreme privilege, are harassed endlessly, again, solely because their parents fucked, or because their parents were, when they fucked, related to other people who are only interesting because their parents fucked.

[scriver]

Uh, which is basically to say yes, they're what amounts to government employed celebrities, just ones which also happen to inherit (some degree of control over) a fair amount of land.

At that point, do anyone ever do anything?

[Iduno]

At that point, do anyone ever do anything?

I think they were required to approve (as in, could not deny) a request to do Brexit.

[scourge728]

Don't they bring in a lot of tourism money or something?