For context on the air conditioning debate between the US and Europe...one must consult the ancient texts:
1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you're 15 and 35 is new and exciting and revolutionary, and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're 35 is against the natural order of things.
-- Douglas Adams
@theoldzealand Every man on Earth in that moment: A great disturbance in the Force, I felt. As if cried out in terror millions of voices did, and suddenly silenced, they were