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[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 49 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

After all, our species has survived without AC for hundreds of thousands of years

survivorship

Other things our species survived without for hundreds of thousands of years include water purification, cancer treatment, obstetrics, antibiotics, sterile medical instruments, and agriculture.

[–] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No, actually this one is okay. The main reason we need so much AC is our buildings are poorly insulated and not designed for heat management. They have old Arabic buildings from before writing that have complicated design features for heat abatement and people didn't even stay in side as much as we do now.

Capitlaism won't let us have nice insulation. Like, good insulation is my number one pet peeve in home design. Everything else you can work around but there really is no replacing quality insulation.

[–] homhom9000@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Sorry if it's unrelated, I understand the meme but what's the background of it?

[–] Azarova@hexbear.net 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's an image from a study of Allied bombers during World War 2. The red dots are places where the plane was shot, yet still managed to return home. A knee-jerk reaction would be to add armor to these places, but the real solution was to add armor to the places where the suvivors hadn't been shot (cockpit, engines, tail), resulting in more planes surviving their bombing runs.

[–] homhom9000@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

Oooh thank you. I thought the background was about a plane crash and where survivors would need to be to survive

[–] Meh@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago

Survivorship bias

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My point is that way more humans can survive a couple weeks without AC than a couple weeks without water or food.

[–] SirQuack@feddit.nl 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I can survive years without AI though

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 1 points 18 hours ago

Oh yeah, AI in its current form can fuck right off.

[–] space_comrade@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah ok but most households probably don't absolutely need an AC, there's definitely people that would be put at risk if they didn't have one but on average in the west I don't think it's the case.

[–] ClimateStalin@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

In large parts of the US it’s absolutely the case, and even in Europe every time they have a heatwave (which is every summer now) a ton of old people die