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    Der amerikanische Geist kann die Abneigung Europas gegen Wechselstrom nicht verstehen

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    4. discretelandscapes on

      The US isn’t the only place with ACs. They’re total standard in a lot of Asian countries.

      Europeans who have an aversion towards air conditioning as a concept probably haven’t lived outside the continent for an extended period and don’t know how much of a necessity it is (and not just in recent years because of global warming).

    5. JonJackjon on

      I think its simple. I would compare it to the first time someone finds they need to wear glasses. The natural tendency is to deny needing them until it gets so bad you have no choice.

    6. Score-Emergency on

      Yeah I lived in Seattle and on the beach in Southern California. Not everywhere has air conditioning in the US either

    7. TwistedTrooper989 on

      „I refuse to give in to the demands of this completely natural yearly phenomenon whose effects I can easily mitigate and I absolutely will die on this hill“ in French lol

    9. Great68 on

      I mean I have a heat pump, so I also get AC by default. I don’t understand the aversion, it’s fantastic.  I save money compared to the heat-only oil burning furnace that  I replaced.

    10. NicoToscani on

      I remember checking into a nice hotel in Paris and the AC wasn’t working, in summer, top floor room, and they acted like I was throwing a Mariah Carey level diva fit when I insisted they move my wife and I to another room.

    12. Ink7o7 on

      Pretty sure I just read that a bunch of people were dying in Europe due to a heat wave?

    13. LeoSolaris on

      When enough of them die from heat stroke, I’m sure they’ll figure it out. Otherwise, there will be a lot of real estate on the market as global warming ramps up.

    14. marlinspike on

      Absolutely true. My mother-in-law in France is suffering in crazy heat, some of the highest temps in the world and she lives with a hot roof over her head. She won’t do with anything more than a fan that belonged to her mother.. yes an over 70 year old fan, because it works and why would you throw away something that works. She won’t consider air conditioning because it’s energy inefficient and costs money and bad for the environment… I’ve long since moved and become accustomed to the US and I can’t imagine living that way anymore, although I understand it. It is… French.

    16. catslay_4 on

      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.

    17. Creativator on

      Best explanation I’ve heard is that once workplaces have A/C the month-long vacation will be clawed back.

    19. NavyDean on

      I’ve seen the funniest arguments against AC from Europeans.

      The funniest one is saying that „insulation  can keep heat in, but not cold, because insulation that does both doesn’t exist.“

      They’d rather invent new arguments, over buy an ac.

    21. Starship_Taru on

      An entire article that references anonymous meme tweets as sources…. 

      Fantastic journalism. 

      Could have explored other reasons… like perhaps the need for an AC being significantly more frequent as temperature trend up historically in Europe. 

      Or how In the US humidity plays a significant role in comparison to Europe. Further pushing the demand for air conditioning 

    22. Cloudboy9001 on

      Trash article for a somewhat interesting question. An article referencing an X post where a guy asked a chatbot for its opinion…

    23. aeon-one on

      A UK friend still resisting getting AC for his house purely because he want to minimise his part in producing green house gas. For that he has my respect. Just not a sacrifice I would choose for myself.

    24. marcuschookt on

      My non American mind can’t either.

      My first time in France I checked into a budget hotel and thought the ventilation was faulty. The air was warm and stale. Went down to reception and the guy just said „we have natural cooling“ and it took some Googling to understand that the tiny bit of wind coming out of the mechanical ventilation system was by design.

      Their response to heat is „just open the window“.

    25. chatrugby on

      What’s funny is that the PNW historically didn’t need AC, so doesn’t really have AC. Thanks to global warming temps there are spiking to a point where AC is needed and people are retrofitting their homes with mini-splits cause it’s a lot more affordable than a central air conversion. 

    27. ElysiumSprouts on

      I could be mistaken, but I thought Europeans were adopting the far superior heat pump. Heat and cooling. AC is a terrible energy wasting technology compared to a heat pump.

      I think the more relevant article would have been questioning why heat pump adoption is so low in the US!

    28. roseofjuly on

      It’s not an „aversion“. They didn’t need ac until recently and that shit is expensive both to retrofit and maintain.

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