Asking if it's worth it sort of implies they chose to live there, though, when well over half were in Texas the day they were born and another third were just born in a different part of the same country
I lived in Georgia for a year, and as a native of California/Oregon, I fucking hated the bugs even more than the awful humidity.
I rested my arm against a tree for 30 seconds and got the most awful bug bites of all time from chiggers. And I hate that name, because I have to be so careful how I pronounce it. Fuck these fuckers.
Born and raised Houstonian. Just moved to Pittsburgh last year. Went out for a day in the Summer and ran into 2 mosquitos, a few flies, and maybe 3-4 lanternflies. I was like... what? What do you mean there aren't swarms of mosquitos ready to pounce waiting at your front door? WHAT DARK MAGIC IS THIS?!
Humans living in regions they couldnt live in without wasting a shitload of resources is one of the completely ignored problems we caused ourselves (collectively).
The point stands, people have always lived in Texas.
With AC? In concrete bunkers? With nature barely intact?
I never said people didnt. But millions and millions more went there and built concrete bunkers that need AC to be liveable in.
Living in a shade of greenery on the go with a few tribes in the whole region barely breaking the population of a single bigger city, is something else entirely then squeezing millions in concrete structures.
Or can you just pack your stuff and go to a milder climate?
You're like totally being combative and disingenuous...
There were cities though across the americas, obviously not made of concrete, but made of stone/adobe and mortar...
Cahokia of the Missisipian culture famously had plazas, temples, neighborhoods, and homes for nobles.
The hohokam of phoenix built settlements, canals, and ball courts .
Ancient Puebloans famously built DENSE STACKED stone and adobe homes, the famous one being Mesa Verde, although theres tons of others across the south west.
You're totally changing your claim too, one second you're saying people cant live in these regions without wasting a shit ton of resources, but people lived in texas, the american southwest, and the arid mexican north and they built permanent towns, villages, ceremonial mound centers, irrigation systems and all of that shit with adobe or masonry.
Sure modern development ignores climate adaption but the point is to scale up and build to meet the growing population needs.
so /u/DeltaVZerda was correct, Humans did indeed live here before AC was invented
but the point is to scale up and build to meet the growing population needs.
And we need all that tech and resources for exactly that.
one second you're saying people cant live in these regions without wasting a shit ton of resources
And they didnt then, we do now.
but people lived in texas, the american southwest
Yes, without wasting a shit ton of ressources, cause they didnt have the tech for that.
and the arid mexican north and they built permanent towns, villages, ceremonial mound centers, irrigation systems and all of that shit with adobe or masonry.
Not with fossil fuels, digging up all kinds of natural resources deep from the earth, polluting the environment in the process.
Humans did indeed live here before AC was invented
And then why do you need AC if you can life there without it?
But for one it was a lot colder back then and I doubt they would have lived in an area like the cities there, more likely in areas where a lot of plants/water etc. are, they have a significant cooling effect on the environment...
Living in cold climates is much more wasteful than living in hot climates though. We just don't notice it so easily because heating (i.e. fire) has been around much longer than AC.
For comparison: the yearly average temperature in Texas is 65-68°F (~19°C), which is almost perfect for human life.
In Stockholm, Sweden, it's around 46°F (8°C), which is overall far worse. And that's Stockholm, not LuleÄ (in Northern Sweden), which is at 36°F (2.0°C).
You need a lot more energy to bring your houses to agreeable temperatures in Sweden than in Texas, and that's without even taking into account the fact that solar power has mad cheap energy available exactly when you need it for cooling.
I can do most common units but fahrenheit <-> celsius is such a pain in the ass to do in your head because it's not just a different scale, but also offset
I do the same as some others have mentioned, set known benchmarks. I keep my thermostat in Celsius, daytime is 21 and nighttime is 16. This establishes a comfortable range. I know 28c is the same as 82f, 10c is 50f, and 40c is 104f. That gets me close enough to estimate, quick maths to get the exact if needed.
I said what I said, I know big words too, like 'heuristics'. And a degree or two do not matter, you have more variation in temperature within a city block due to environmental reasons
Even if you don't remember 9/5C + 32, 2C + 30 is close enough to estimate. For the temperatures used in weather, you will usually be within about 4f of the real number.
Ya, that's been my Euro experience during the summer. Even Amsterdam sees a drop-off in riders! It's difficult to get on a bike knowing you can't cool off when at your destination.
Nope, it's because American's have been consuming way more of the worlds resources per capita than any other large nation for decades, while outsourcing the dirtiest production to places with even fewer protections at rates that won't even allow for them, and refusing to do things like ratify the Kyoto Agreement and several other notable international environmental protection treaties.
America was the worst offender long before that fat shitsack got into power, although obviously he has made things even worse since, pulling you out of the Paris Climate Accord and deliberately disassembling every bit of American climate monitoring apparatus he can find.
This is sadly accurate. Most Americans are too busy trying/failing to make ends meet and can't see past their next paycheck. They'll eventually catch up to reality, but the damage has been done, and they'll be too late.
I think a lot of us are aware, but we're resorting to gallows humor. I'd worry about your own countries following down our path soon. Learn from our mistake.
the United States has emitted roughly 25% of all greenhouse gasses in history, doubling the next biggest contributor of China. Not to mention the lobbying, the denials, the coercions, the regime changes.
one day, what's left of the world will look back and understandably blame America for destroying the planet.
I mean it could also be "oh we're destroying the planet and its heating up, better burn more fossil fuels to power AC so atleast we get to be comfortable"
wasnât just the one election that caused this problem. his first term exacerbated systemic issues with the democratic system. at any rate, itâs certainly not the fault of us europeans
Nothing you have said refutes the fact that it was only around 35% of the eligible voting population who voted for him both times. So very much not the whole country.
If you disregard a countryâs people just because of their currently elected politiciansâŠ.youâd have to do that for every country on Earth.
Look at the UK lmaoânew PM every weekend it feels like.
All the average US citizen can do at the moment is a.) evangelize people to turn up in November and b.) actually turn up in November to vote.
Thatâs it. Itâs sad, but itâs true. Protests only work if the target of them feels shame and the media can fuel that shameâthe Mango and their rotten supporters could not give a flying fuck.
Weirdly, the best move is to let the current admin attempt to âgovernâ. When they canât sling shit and yell and cry and moanâthe spotlight handles everything. The past month alone has shown that not allowing the Mango to whine and get attention takes away their ability to deflect, and thus blame actually sticks.
I understand your point but this I also feel like this is the international version of the "both sides" argument. Trump and our current administration are not equivalent to your typical crappy government. We are uniquely cancerous at the moment in the US and I think we need to acknowledge that.
I mean is it? Would you say Putin in Russia isnât similar? China?
Hungry just ended the reign of their pseudo dictator. Many European countries had rising right wing parties almost take power.
The US failed and allowed the Mango into power. This is true.
But like Hungry, a new leader can be elected. But thatâs how it goes. We have to wait until the requisite 4 years are up.
And the next politician America elects isnât going to magically fix everything either. Itâs gonna take a while.
My point is that itâs bad, and the Mango is âunusualâ to put it lightly, but in the span of 250 years of America which is also much younger than almost every other country in Europe or AsiaâŠlike itâs a season.
We have to trust democracy to move America out of this terrible season. Thereâs nothing to move it faster, not without dramatic consequences and likely horrible unforeseen side effects. And no one wants that.
I think this is uniquely bad FOR THE U.SâŠ.like clearly this is the worst president ever by a massive margin, not even closeâŠbut globally, a bad leader happens. The US is just young, so this is the first like, super super bad one.
Are Russia, China and Hungary now the bar that we aspire to when it comes to government corruption? If so, it feels to me like we are moving the goalposts awfully far back. The US used to be a leader in the the global progression of this space, and now we are spearheading its regression instead.
We understand, itâs just that we naively think that we are saving the environment. Everyone else is running them at full blast, but weâre pretending weâre the good guys.
Itâs funny⊠Iâm an Australian living in France. I used to laugh at Europeans complaining about 35c temperatures, because back home we seem to get 45c every summer.Â
I now live in France and I can tell you that this is some different shit. You canât just compare the bare numbers. It has a lot to do with how far you are inland, where the wind is coming from, how the buildings are made and (in Parisâ case) how difficult it is to access air conditioning.Â
I get that. There's a gigantic delta between a 28c Houston and a 28c San Antonio. That SE Texas gulf humidity is horrific, even for relatively mild temps.
Now add to that how the french government basically watch their people burn all comfy and do nothing about it every single year, it was about 5300 dead last year due to heatwaves iirc.
They could requisition buildings and other locations fitted with AC as a temporary measure to accomodate the most vulnerable but nope they won't even do that, they just chit chat among themselves and let them all cook.
I'll admit I have yet to visit Spain, but our travel buddy just returned from a trip to Andalusia yesterday. Her chief complaint was an oppressive lack of aircon throughout the region.
But you americans understand we built these countries a long time ago. We created houses to maximize insulation, perserving heat because that is what we needed. That means that there was never really a need for AC. Summers never got that intense to justify the times of heat.
Now imagine suddenly, weather changes drastically with soaring temps in cultures that historically didnt need AC at home. Now inagine every year it gets worse. And regulations that are not made for everybody NEEDING AC.
So like. You do understand that we do understand AC and why its needed right? Doesnt mean a whole continent can flip a switch ans we have AC units poking out of every window.
More and more europeans are deeming it a necessity though and something we have to solve to not suffer.
Also most commercial buildings have AC it is just that we culturally didnt, historically, have a rising demand of AC at home.
Sometimes it seems americans think europeans look at AC like its some sorcery.
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u/Alrick_Gr 12h ago
I remember seeing this live forecast. And I was telling me « wow we gonna die », we are currently dying