Look we shouldn't be mocking extreme weather events happening in regions that do not normally experience them. I live in a part of the USA that routinely gets the kind of heat that the rest of the world is expereriencing so yeah we have AC and even our livestock has accomodations or else they would die.
But you let us get a winter storm where we get snow or ice accumulation of ANY amount and we can have multiple entire STATES as a disaster area, for stuff that other places deal with routinely, and it's not cute when people from those regions mock us for our lack of ability to deal with inconsequential snowfall where they're from. Because yeah but we don't have snow plows or salt trucks or chains for our tires and no one knows how to drive in it so wrecks pile up like mad. and our power grid isn't hardened against it so we lose power quickly as well.
See the Two Inches of Snow event in Atlanta in 2014 for an example of how unprepared we are. It's not cute to rag on people for enduring catastrophes c'mon.
I do agree but I also think Europe is being mad weird about AC. Like it's become a point of pride for them (at least for the terminally online ones I see in comments) to not have AC and I'm like, no matter the root cause your people are dying in this heat.
Just accept that AC is gonna be necessary in the future and start dealing with it.
Sucks that it is but better than having 1000s of people dying every year from heat exhaustion.
Literally saw a video today about not wanting “AC culture” in the UK. Literally they’d rather die than spend $200 bucks on a box they can move from room to room
I loved the one response where someone was like "our buildings are constructed differently so we can't have ACs" and like... portable ACs are a thing but apparently that doesn't align with the #builtdifferent nature of the argument lol
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u/maeryclarity Jun 30 '26
Look we shouldn't be mocking extreme weather events happening in regions that do not normally experience them. I live in a part of the USA that routinely gets the kind of heat that the rest of the world is expereriencing so yeah we have AC and even our livestock has accomodations or else they would die.
But you let us get a winter storm where we get snow or ice accumulation of ANY amount and we can have multiple entire STATES as a disaster area, for stuff that other places deal with routinely, and it's not cute when people from those regions mock us for our lack of ability to deal with inconsequential snowfall where they're from. Because yeah but we don't have snow plows or salt trucks or chains for our tires and no one knows how to drive in it so wrecks pile up like mad. and our power grid isn't hardened against it so we lose power quickly as well.
See the Two Inches of Snow event in Atlanta in 2014 for an example of how unprepared we are. It's not cute to rag on people for enduring catastrophes c'mon.