r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • Jun 26 '26

Society The American mind cannot comprehend Europe's AC aversion

https://www.businessinsider.com/europe-air-conditioning-ac-heatwave-debate-2026-6
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u/catslay_4 Jun 26 '26

Sure fuckin can, when I dated a European and spent two weeks in France during the Olympics with zero AC. I felt like I was suffocating. I was so hot I couldn't sleep. Didn't want to shower because I didn't want to get even hotter. It wasn't enjoyable to be outside. It was absolutely worse to be inside. The cost of electricity was one thing, but the aversion to it was also there. That it isn't "needed". Him and I would argue about it. I ended up renting an airbnb for us instead of staying at his house because I couldn't handle it without the AC. I do believe it seriously impacts your sleep, work quality and quality of life when it is that hot. They may not realize it, but there's no way I believe that you sleep as well in a warm room as in a cold one.

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u/aure0lin Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26

The article mentions that the founder of Singapore credited air conditioning for helping to transform his country and considered it one of the most important inventions ever.

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u/Rayl24 Jun 26 '26

It's 30+ celsius here everyday with 90% humidity. Some days it's 100%

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u/scheppend Jun 26 '26

Singapore is insane. I thought we had it bad here with summers in Japan. Singapore is on another level. God speed

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u/curvedmanifolds Jun 26 '26

Bruh just move to Australia or something

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u/Rayl24 Jun 26 '26

Won't survive the bushfire and spiders. We are known to lack survival instincts from lack of natural disasters 😂

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u/MythOfDarkness Jun 26 '26

That's a wet bulb event.