tbh I know a lot of you aren’t ready for the end of Man because you aren’t even ready to revert to the quality of life in the 1980’s. We’re talking European QoL here. No A/C.
Imma b real I’m Alt-F4ing when that happens I’m not sticking around to live like that.
@SwiftOnSecurity I laid in a tub of 60F water tonight for an hour not because it felt good and was comfortable. Sometimes I worry that I was born in the wrong century other times I am glad for modern conveniences and especially modern medicine. The point is you can choose to toughen up. But yes it feels like abuse.
@SwiftOnSecurity if you're talking about Air Conditioning, that is one of my least favourite things about my visits to America. Why do you people have such a problem with fresh air?!!
@SwiftOnSecurity No problem, we know how to do AC both passively (no energy input) and actively without significant electricity (only solar heating as energy input, aside from boring small loads like fans and pumps). Just need to get our act together and do it.
I fundamentally do not believe a human can grow up in an A/C world as a youth and later accept the European lifestyle. It would be like asking if I could live in a hut on the prairie and shuttle a little bucket down a well for water. It’s not happening.
Europeans get big mad when I say that the EU is just Proto-USE. Basically between the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution, but centralisation is rapidly happening as the EU structures gain more and more suzerainty over member states.
@SwiftOnSecurity I did, even though I live in America (so far). Grew up in A/C until I moved out of my college dorm, and then again for a few years in my second apartment. Current house of 24 years has ceiling fans, no A/C. So it’s possible, unless… <x-files.wav>
@SwiftOnSecurity Ummm...temperatures have changed. A big problem with current heat waves is that many folk don't have a/c because they never needed it before and are unprepared for the extreme heat when it comes.
Those are increasingly common in Europe, and it's what is most common in Japan.
If you mean centralised cooling, then maybe? I dunno. We had swamp coolers in New Mexico, central cooling wasn't a thing I had until I moved to Texas, and haven't had since moving to Japan a lifetime ago.
@SwiftOnSecurity I bought a portable AC unit for the first time ever in 2022. I used it for a couple of weeks, and since then it's just been sat in storage. 😂
In Northern Europe, it's not heatwaves that are the problem, it's mostly the frozen water coming down as melted water instead.
and the reason why i can isn’t that i didn’t have a/c until the 1990s, but that the place i’m going to be moving to was designed with a heat shelter in the 1980s.
basically, it has a level that’s designed for maximum airflow and light (with options to switch between the two) and a level that’s designed with thermal barriers and to keep out nearly all the sunlight, as in only a few rays of sunset penetrate.