The official advice of the German government's Federal Environmental Ministry, here conveyed by the state broadcaster, is that portable air-conditioning units are "not effective" because they vent hot air outside, causing a pressure drop which brings air into the room, making the room overall hotter.
Here we see the midwit condescension of the European managerial elite in its purest form. First of all, this is all disingenuous. The environment ministry knows full-well that air-conditioners work, they just don't want people using them because it would strain the German electricity infrastructure -- which the environment ministry itself has done a good deal to weaken.
Also, if portable AC units don't work, why have Germans bought 75% more of these machines in the last five years? Why are there literally millions of reviews on Amazon and elsewhere saying "This thing works great! Finally I can sleep through the night!". Why has pretty much nobody ever returned an AC unit, saying "It just made the room hotter!"
How stupid do these bureaucrats think Germans are? It's as if the health ministry warned that you shouldn't drink alcohol because it doesn't really make you drunk, in fact it makes you sober because -- LOOK! A SQUIRREL!!
What a hellishly cruel and stupid mess SCOTUS has enabled.
Most or the 1.3M legally resident people they’re letting Trump deport have lived here 15+ years. Average age 42. They’re parents to 273,000 U.S. citizen kids. 30% have mortgages.
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So here's a story about the Düsseldorf University Hospital where heart patients are sweltering in 38°/100.4° temperatures right now because this 15-year-old building lacks central A/C.
I taught at the law faculty of this university for 15 years. When the law faculty built a new expansion in 2005, I asked whether it would be air-conditioned. They said: "No, because then every building on campus would ask for it". I thought to myself, "Well, that's Europe for you. Crabs in a bucket."
Then the university announced plans for this new building, the one you see in the picture, which would be the main university hospital. That was in 2013 or thereabouts. Shortly thereafter, they published the plans and sketches online. No A/C infrastructure visible.
At some sort of faculty function, I asked the dean or assistant dean of the medical faculty whether they were going to install central air-conditioning on this building. "It's no problem if lawyers are brain-fuddled because of the heat -- in fact it might be a bonus! -- but surgeons? Patients?"
The dean answered: "Well, we asked, but the construction board and city officials said no, because if this new building gets air-conditioning, then all the older buildings on the university campus will demand it."
"Even though this is a fucking hospital?" I asked with typical American coarseness.
"Yes, even though it's a hospital," responded the dean, staring with chagrin into his beer.
And so now dozens of people recovering from open-heart surgery are bathing in their own sweat. Across the country, thousands of people are dying in un-air-conditioned hospitals right now.
As in all former heatwaves, there will be institutional pressure at all levels to attribute their deaths to underlying ailments, not the fact that they sweltered for over a week in brutal temperatures.
Across the political spectrum young men are more interested in having families than young women, who are chiefly interested in careerism.
It was women’s liberation and their sexual revolution which changed things.
If we want something else, those things must be rolled back.
@BigDickBarclay I will take on more then I can handle....eventually finish it...it turns out decent...hate every second of it with the rage of a million suns..and then magically ..."it wasnt that bad"