Do you think China limits its subtle propaganda and psychological warfare only to the USA?
Trump's profound stupidity is not China's doing. They don't put dumb words in his mouth or dumb ideas in his head. As excuses go you will need to try much harder.
Of course China is eating our lunch right now thanks to the psychological warfare they are leading against the USA. The saddest thing about it is that many real Americans are sold to China without even realizing it. Many real Americans are now religiously listening and following Chinese trolls pretending to be American like rsilvergun and believing all their lies and the propaganda they spread, so sad...
The entire rest of the world considers the US every bit as sketchy as China now. No need for propaganda, every time your leader opens his mouth billions of people roll their eyes and laugh.
It just raises the cost........Now we're just specializing for particular audiences.
Ideally you could combine your traffic stop phone and your border crossing phone into one.
No, Americans are dumb because you instantly though that I was talking about intelligence rather than the aspect of widely adopted societal norms.
I'm not American and if making assumptions is dumb you should stop.
You can see that with any disaster be they extreme hot, extreme cold, extreme wet or extreme dry. What is normal for one group is rare for another. The only thing dumb is calling someone dumb for understanding their norms rather than someone else's.
Disasters are pretty much by definition not norms. Critical thinking is a useful skill everywhere, and for more than just weather.
We are very much talking about a few weeks, which is why its trivial to cope with without AC.
Coping is what you do if you don't have the means to do better and unfortunately the most vulnerable take the brunt of it here too. So granted it is a few weeks right now, but at how many weeks will it no longer be trivial? Cause you know more is coming. At some point what worked during the Roman Empire will no longer work and you will have to step into the modern era. Will probably be easier to do it incrementally than all at once, so while the best time to start would have been years ago, the next best time is now.
I listed this out in another post, much of Europe has a social and an education problem. At no point were people taught the importance of drinking or seeking shade.
You make it sound like Europeans are really dumb. Surely there must be some more freedoms they can give up for some additional safety?
There's also the landlord problem. Namely they won't let you put in air conditioning due to fears about the wiring. It's a big problem in my part of Canada.
Sketchy landlords are a problem for renters everywhere. You can substantially cool a single room in a heat wave with ~1000 watts, which is less than a typical oven which are all 240V around here so I don't think load is an issue if wired correctly. I can see how landlords might be worried about tenants individual ability to not overload things, but air conditioners are exactly the same as space heaters in this regard, which is why if that is a concern they should do it themselves.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada...
We kept all our windows closed and while it was 36C outside today (and I guarantee 36C inside the neighbour's house) the indoor temperature never got above 30C, and with some small pedestal fans that was quite a pleasant temperature.
Yeah OK. I keep my house at 22C. All the time, year round every day whether it is +40 or -40 outside you can rely on it being 22C in here. I worked all my career specifically so I can be comfortable, and HVAC is one of the greatest inventions of the modern era. Putting up with the heat because it is only temporary makes as much sense to me as putting up with the cold because it is only temporary. Do you do that in the winter too? 10C with a couple of sweaters is quite a pleasant temperature too...
European windows don't work well for portable ACs. One, they don't usually come with screens which are typical in the US to keep bugs out. Two, they open from a hinge on the side. So, you basically need a way to cover the whole window space if you open it at all.
You can put a screen over the condenser exhaust hose. Granted with swinging windows you do need to block the entire frame (I guess you could use plexiglass if you were handy). Presumably if it is so hot you might otherwise want to keep the curtains/blinds closed anyway and blocking the sun is additionally helpful. This is simple DIY stuff, people here in Canada make them work with all sorts of windows too. Only you can decide if it is too hard, but the option is nonetheless there should you choose.
Oh, it gets worse. Every time you wank, it prematurely prevents a life from happening, which makes you a serial killer of sorts. And there are millions of wankers like you.
Window ACs are not really an option because Europeans have tilt and turn windows, not slide windows.
You can make a portable work with most any sort of window that opens.
Approximately 50 million human lives are prematurely ended each year due to abortion. That's a World War II death toll, every two years.
Mortality rates became rather meaningless when humans stopped recognizing the single most destructive force against humanity for what it is.
We don't actually need more people.
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else doing it wrong, without commenting. -- T.H. White
