Wait, not like that

It's not the AC that are incredible. Modern heat pumps are incredible. They are the best thing since the sliced bread. I could talk for hours about heat pumps. They're just so efficient.

Heat pumps - they pump my heat.

Did I mention I like heat pumps?

How is AC being a game changer surprising?? When it is hot I see my contacts in the UK sitting with icepacks in their laps or with fans all around them spraying themselves with water. Imagine if the whole room was just a tolerable temperature, it isn't hard to picture. Seems odd.

(Yes I get it just isn't a thing there and they have buildings older than time itself...but still....)

Honestly it's not that bad if the building is made right. Especially old stone houses that also happen to be surrounded by trees are absolutely godly in these scenarios (the down side is the heating bill in the winter :P or rather that used to be the downside...). I honestly wouldn't have ever considered an AC a couple years ago, but now that summer means a constant 30°C I'm reconsidering. Like bro, 30°C used to be a HOT exceptional couple days, not the entire summer!

We in EU also have AC, what's the difference?

Like an engineer told me recently, the image of AC is biased in most of us towards the electricity-sucking devices of the previous century. Contemporary AC tech is to 1980s-90s AC what LED lightbulbs are to incandescent ones.

I did, they're pretty fun.

We tried guns 90 years ago, and found the results not to our liking.

till

American checks out.

Seems minisplits are becoming more popular. Saw a truckload of them on the interstate a while back

Weird, AC is very popular in many parts of Europe.

Wait, what? Guns can be used for cooling too?

/s

I want to buy one of these when Midea sells them to the public. A portable heat pump that doesn't kill the very little sunlight I get seems like a godsend for apartment living

this escalated so quickly

literally me now that summer's getting real annoying here

They don't exist in my country and our windows doesn't work with one either. We don't have sliding windows

The irony being that my favorite designs are foreign.

[Norway Intensifies]

I wonder why Euros always get these weird little AC units. Where the hell is the rest of it? I'd it some kind of centralized air refit for their ancient-ass brick houses? So they even make timber framed houses there for normal central ventilation, or ever use wall units? AC in Europe (and GB) is fucking weird.

Guns are fun as hell, it’s true. Unfortunately as with most things in the world, shit gets ruined because people don’t know how to act right

At 40 cents / kwh you learn to tolerate heat very quickly.

I am at this point considered liberal, but I have to say that I do like guns. Range shooting is super fun. If I could I would take up competitive Three Gun as a hobby, but I don't have a course in my area.

Also, I hike with either my 45-70 ammunition rifle or my .45acp pistol with high grain ammo. Why? I live in Wyoming where we are definitely not on the top of the food chain. Even my pistol is liable to just piss off a bear if it really means business.

But America is DC, Europe is already AC!

I'm a US electrician who may move to Scotland within a decade. I'll hook up some mini splits for yall. Just gimme that NHS.

I'm pretty sure that access to guns would instantly end my depression.

AC always gives me a sore throat after couple of days, is that just me?

Yes. Like that.

Got to shoot an assault rifle in the army. Would definitely buy one if I could.

I'm just over here looking at that lineset cover wondering how in the hell whoever installed that is expecting the condensate drain to go up.

Doubly amazing due to these crazy heat waves.

AC is great, but have you ever had DC?

Take it to the next level and just fire off a few rounds from your recliner

We could use AC over here by now, it gets unbearably hot...but man those fuckers use a solid amount of energy and everything is already expensive as hell...so suffering through the heat it is.

ac is fine i guess