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re: Air conditioning is the greatest invention in the world
Posted on 7/13/25 at 10:14 pm to UptownJoeBrown
Posted on 7/13/25 at 10:14 pm to UptownJoeBrown
In South Louisiana, ANYONE can find the money to buy crawfish, cigarettes (if they smoke) or fix their AC between June - October.
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Posted on 7/13/25 at 10:16 pm to Smeg
When I was at LSU some of the dorms weren’t air conditioned…I know the stadium dorm wasn’t and I don’t think Hatcher was either.
Posted on 7/13/25 at 10:16 pm to Smeg
Everyone should watch Connections with James Burke. I made my nephew watch a few episodes and he actually wanted to watch more.
Posted on 7/13/25 at 10:17 pm to Joehat
I grew up in mid Michigan and we never had AC. The climate was just different. In the summer it was 75-80 degrees but basically zero humidity. I’d never heard of dew point until I move to Louisiana. I had a head cold the first 4 months I was here. Crazy.
Posted on 7/13/25 at 10:20 pm to fr33manator
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The fact that I, a poor man, lives in greater comfort than the richest men of a hundred or so odd years ago, blows my mind.
Cool clean water, with ice, at my fingertips.
Cold air in the dead of summer. Heat without fire in winter.
I'm lucky.
This is basically one thing I tell my wife sometimes when she's bitching and saying everything sucks. I'll remind her: Do you realize how lucky we are, relative to all the people born anywhere from less than 200 to 5000 years ago? No electricity, no air conditioning, no refrigeration, etc. We are so goddamn lucky compared to the rest of humanity that came before us. It blows my mind how people lived back then. It had to be horrible compared to today.
Posted on 7/13/25 at 10:21 pm to Smeg
HVAC repairmen should be considered first responders.
they need a holiday.
They do the lord’s work
they need a holiday.
They do the lord’s work
Posted on 7/13/25 at 10:22 pm to Smeg
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It blows my mind how people lived back then.
Hell, you can compare us to people living TODAY in the shittier places in the world.
Posted on 7/13/25 at 10:29 pm to fr33manator
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Hell, you can compare us to people living TODAY in the shittier places in the world.
That's another thing I mention too. "Do you realize how grateful we should be for being in the US? Just imagine if we were born in some shithole like India or some other third world country. We really lucked out on the lottery of life." It's humbling to make these realizations.
Posted on 7/13/25 at 10:38 pm to Smeg
I laugh when people buy homes without inspecting/inquiring about the AC system age, status, SEER. etc. Its the most important equipment in a LA house. When I house shopped several times, I would ask the agents about it. They were clueless, saying they never have been asked about it, and it was like I was speaking Chinese to them. These were multiple agents. Just goes to show you have naive the buyer is.
Posted on 7/13/25 at 10:44 pm to Smeg
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Smeg
Your Ode to AC is beautiful... and as a resident of the hot and humid south, I couldn't agree with your sentiment more!
In the winter I can bundle up layers galore... in the summertime should I strip to my heart's content, the neighbors would call the cops.
Posted on 7/13/25 at 10:46 pm to Smeg
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If they tried to take it away in the name of "climate change" I think I'd be ready for war. It would be worth fighting and dying for. That's how much I love it.
Surprise, they’re slowing doing that, in the name of climate bullshite.
Making HVAC more expensive and less reliable.
So start the war.
Posted on 7/13/25 at 11:13 pm to sqerty
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Everyone should watch Connections with James Burke. I made my nephew watch a few episodes and he actually wanted to watch more.
He explains that a Doctor failed to solve malaria by pumping compressed air through filters to clean the air. The result was the room got cooler and ice formed where the compressed air was released. Thus his failure to cure malaria resulted in ice being made mechanically and the first air-conditioned room. It's all explained in one of the Connections episodes.
If I could go back in time to talk to anyone it would be that Doctor. I will tell him the the world is a more comfortable place to live based of off his work trying to cure malaria.
Posted on 7/13/25 at 11:20 pm to Smeg
You would be putting the wrong person on mount Rushmore.
Posted on 7/13/25 at 11:29 pm to Spankum
West Laville was not and it was hot as hell.
Posted on 7/13/25 at 11:34 pm to TideSaint
I would wipe my arse with a cactus before giving up air conditioning during a Louisiana summer
Posted on 7/13/25 at 11:49 pm to TideSaint
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Wet wipes aren't far behind.
Sometimes you have to get them far behind to work.
Posted on 7/14/25 at 12:17 am to Smeg
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If they tried to take it away in the name of "climate change"
They won’t but they will make it more expensive for you. Even they won’t live without it.
Posted on 7/14/25 at 12:30 am to Smeg
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blows my mind how people lived back then. It had to be horrible compared to today.
Nope. If you never knew what AC was you would live no different than you are now. You'd plant shade trees around your house to keep cool.
Those people didn't have a choice so it never dawned on them that cool air in a house was possible without a fan.
Posted on 7/14/25 at 12:46 am to Spankum
I lived in the Pentagon around ’83-‘84 both before and after ceiling fans were installed.
During the summer as well.
Got a good dose of life without AC in South Louisiana and old memories of attic and window fans from my childhood.
During the summer as well.
Got a good dose of life without AC in South Louisiana and old memories of attic and window fans from my childhood.
Posted on 7/14/25 at 2:16 am to Smeg
I would have gone with penicillin, but AC is a solid second choice.
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