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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Bit of a tangent, but I find it funny that Americans complain about it being hot when they have AC in most of their buildings, but then mock people complaining about a 40C/105F heatwave with relatively high humidity in countries where AC is anything but standard and sometimes with houses which are designed to keep the heat in during the winter meaning it can easily reach 45C/115F or more inside.

I assume it'll happen again this summer, with the usual Marie Antionette level "let them use AC" comments, not seeming to grasp the environmental and financial cost of AC everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Some of us here are paying attention and are aware of the situation. We just aren't all that common, unfortunately. You hear the same thing come up like clockwork when someone brings up the heat waves and wild fires in the PNW.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

TBH I assume assume the least informed and biggest arseholes dominate discussions.

The rest of the world is simply lucky that our biggest and dumbest arseholes don't speak English too well.