This Anti-Air Conditioning Article Has it All

[Ben]

Props to Vox for hitting all the SJW talking points. AC is climate violence. AC is racist. We need "air conditioning justice". One answer is "socialized AC" where we all must got to community cooling centers.

They've got some good drugs over at Vox.

https://www.vox.com/22638093/air-conditioning-worsens-climate-change-ac

[HankB]

[MechAg94]

Where do these people live? 

I might be interested in a minor wager on whether or not the author has AC in their home.

[JTHunter]

Proof of "warming".

[K Frame]

You can tell it's summer when another one of these articles hits.

I defy fucksticks like this to live in DC metro through one of our typical summers.

[MechAg94]

You can tell it's summer when another one of these articles hits.

I defy fucksticks like this to live in DC metro through one of our typical summers.

Texas Gulf Coast also. 

[dogmush]

[Laughs in central FL]

[Bogie]

St. Louis - two major rivers, and one minor one... And 90+ temps.
 
And lots of black tar roofs.

[Jim147]

Waking up to 90+ heat index last week I'm sure every old person around will dump their a/c tomorrow after reading this crap.

[230RN]

According to my electric bill (which is a nice playground for numbers) I used about 120 kWh in running my air conditioner during the last billing period.

I'd hate to calculate how much sweat I'd have to evaporate to get that much cooling from my body.

But just imagine all the cooling water I must have saved !

Terry, 230RN

[BlueStarLizzard]

They say from their air conditioned office, in their weather tight and well insulated building.

I live without a/c, in central Virginia.

I spend most of summer struggling with meeting the basic needs in my home.

The polar bears are fine. I'm the one that's not fine.

Furthermore, it's not a racist issue.

It's a *expletive deleted*ing poverty issue.

It's just they don't recognize that poor people exist outside of black inner city communities, because they are racist *expletive deleted*s.

[Ben]

They say from their air conditioned office, in their weather tight and well insulated building.

I live without a/c, in central Virginia.

I spend most of summer struggling with meeting the basic needs in my home.

The polar bears are fine. I'm the one that's not fine.

Furthermore, it's not a racist issue.

It's a *expletive deleted*ing poverty issue.

It's just they don't recognize that poor people exist outside of black inner city communities, because they are racist *expletive deleted*s.

Sorry Liz, but it's impossible for you to be poor - you have privilege! Your privilege keeps you cool in the Summer and warm in the Winter.

[BlueStarLizzard]

Sorry Liz, but it's impossible for you to be poor - you have privilege! Your privilege keeps you cool in the Summer and warm in the Winter.

Some body is gonna get the privilege of my privileged foot shoved up their privileged ass. 

[Jim147]

Want to borrow one of my boots?

[JTHunter]

St. Louis - two major rivers, and one minor one... And 90+ temps.
 
And lots of black tar roofs.

And lots of blacktop parking lots and roads.

[Perd Hapley]

I defy ****sticks like this to live in DC metro through one of our typical summers.

I just want the Congress-folk to be denied any air conditioning.

[PEfarmer]

I just want the Congress-folk to be denied any air conditioning.

Perhaps we could compromise and just deny them air.

[K Frame]

I thought about this article last evening as I turned my AC down to 70...

Mainly to clear the humidity out of the house. With all the insulation I put in a few years ago it rarely gets warmer than 75 or 76 in the living room (it may push 80 in the upstairs if it's really blistering hot).

I'm really surprised we don't see regular articles like this in the winter screaming about how home heating is killing the environment. Yeah, we see it for specific forms of heating, like coal, but I'm talking just in general.

Come on, it's not THAT cold!

aholes.

[K Frame]

Thought I'd bring this back because here's yet another article on doing without air conditioning.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/08/02/1114354904/opinion-life-hacks-from-india-on-how-to-stay-cool-without-an-air-conditioner?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Yeah, I'll just continue to push a button, thanks, and revel in the fact that I don't live in a third world *expletive deleted*it hole.

And I love the advice to "use a swamp cooler." Doesn't work when the humidity is already beyond max as it often is here in the mid Atlantic.

[230RN]

Hot summer again, 2022. 

Another opportunity to zing anything unthird world in our society.

Say it (in this case, regarding air conditioners) often enough and people will start to believe it.

Successive impacts.  Basic advertising / PR  technique, but we don't recognize it as such.

[MechAg94]

Thought I'd bring this back because here's yet another article on doing without air conditioning.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/08/02/1114354904/opinion-life-hacks-from-india-on-how-to-stay-cool-without-an-air-conditioner?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Yeah, I'll just continue to push a button, thanks, and revel in the fact that I don't live in a third world *expletive deleted*it hole.

And I love the advice to "use a swamp cooler." Doesn't work when the humidity is already beyond max as it often is here in the mid Atlantic.

Yes, Swamp cooler people are always from the West where humidity is 6%. 

I figure most houses these days are designed for AC at least down my way.  I think I would have mildew issues if left the AC off.  In the Winter, I run the AC periodically just to get humidity down also.

[Pb]

I don't think anyone who writes these lunatic articles lives where I live.

AC is one of the greatest blessings of science.

[HankB]

I don't think anyone who writes these lunatic articles lives where I live.

AC is one of the greatest blessings of science.

They're doing it because a lot of Southern states still tend to vote Republican. (Although the Solid South isn't as solid as it used to be.     )

[Perd Hapley]

Our AC was out for a couple of days last week. With windows open and attic fan on high, it got to 93 in the house. We're less than a mile from the Missouri River, so I'm sure a swamp cooler would have worked just beautifully.

[K Frame]

The one thing I've missed seeing this year are the sanctimonious posts from some of my European facebook friends about how America is so soft because we're addicted to AC.

I guess the heat waves that they've been having have show them that they need to shut the *expletive deleted*ck up and work on being tougher.

As I told one person the other year who was bitching about the heat... You know what we call that in my region of America?

We call that July and August. A MILD July and August.

I don't think she appreciated my candor.