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Cold water is survivable, as long as you keep moving. The civilisation's various habits1 have conditioned us all poorly.

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  1. standing under a jet of warm water to rinse away soap, marinating in a warm tub, yakking in a sauna rather than stacking in a saloon, ...
yeah I know, I usually take a bath in cold river and keep my blood flow strong, but when you get out in a fucking chill wind ... trouble is coming fast. And I cannot afford to be sick when I have so much work to do before winter.
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You might reconsider the word "bath"; rivers are not a confined reservoir...
I don't have any better verb to suggest, beyond "dunk", although you probably mean the complete washing ritual rather than just a quick reminder of mortality.
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your replies sounds like a fucking shitGPT. Are you one of them?
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I'll ignore the entire saloon for the remainder of the day; as far as I'm concerned, you're not one of them, either.
People are shit, btw. Bitcoin is no panacea for civilisation being a corrupting influence, regardless of whether your curriculum favored either "Professor" McKenna or Kaczynski.
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