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   Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 25-Sep-2026 22:45:16 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

   I hate these articles so much, guys when it's 45ºC and 95% humidity a "gentle breeze" in the building won't keep people from dying.

   Just stop.

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     Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 25-Sep-2026 22:46:40 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

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     Put some fucking solar panels on the roof and have some heat pumps and you're just as sustainable with zero emissions.

     And you can actually cool and make people comfortable and safe, not just pretend to cool.

     Mr. Bill repeated this.
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     Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 25-Sep-2026 22:48:35 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

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     Man, this article is nasty.

     "That is to say that if you reduce air conditioning throughout your life … when you get to 30 degrees in the office, you won’t be hot."

     They're arguing that air conditioning makes you weak somehow.

     NO CLIMATE CHANGE IS KILLING YOU.

     For the love of baby Carl Sagan.

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     Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 25-Sep-2026 23:17:06 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

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     • Neo Ehproque

     @ehproque so I’m in Tucson, Arizona and we have 5 months over 40 (on average) and 4 more months over 30. Without AC it would mostly be uninhabitable.

     (Indeed large-scale settlement didn’t happen until the advent of AC. Even native Americans abandoned their permanent settlements before Europeans came here as there was a notable local climate change, I think leading to droughts.)

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     Neo Ehproque (ehproque@neopaquita.es)'s status on Friday, 25-Sep-2026 23:17:07 JST Neo Ehproque

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     @thomasfuchs I'm from a place where that's the regular temperature during the summer. Most places close at 13h and then open again at ~6pm. There's nowhere to go during the central hours because it's understood you are going to be at home, hopefully with AC but more likely just in front of a fan, with a cool drink, and minimizing movement as much as possible

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     Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 25-Sep-2026 23:19:10 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

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     • Neo Ehproque

     @ehproque Proper AC is not that expensive to run (heat pumps are very efficient), especially as a lot of people also have solar (like we do)

     Often people keep houses to like 25°C or so.

     Because we’re a real desert at night it usually cools down quite a lot.

     Also a lot of the year it is very dry here (<20%), so you can use “swamp coolers” (basically a fan blowing into water, with the water evaporating extracting heat energy from the air, therefore actively cooling it) which are very cheap to run (really its just a fan and dripping water) and work quite well.

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     Neo Ehproque (ehproque@neopaquita.es)'s status on Friday, 25-Sep-2026 23:19:11 JST Neo Ehproque

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     @thomasfuchs what do people do in the middle of the day? Just spend a fortune in having AC everywhere and do everything at their usual times?

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     Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 25-Sep-2026 23:24:27 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

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     • Neo Ehproque

     @ehproque at the end we spend less money on AC than people in moderate climates spend on heating

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     Jeff Miller (orange hatband) (jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 26-Sep-2026 00:05:32 JST Jeff Miller (orange hatband)

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     • Neo Ehproque

     @thomasfuchs @ehproque "Going nocturnal" in Tucson was another summertime strategy for goths and hipsters, but yes, A/C. Historically there were screened sleeping porches for hot nights, or some older houses have basements. Some passive solar design. But mostly shade, water, and A/C.

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     Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 26-Sep-2026 00:31:22 JST Thomas 🔭🕹️

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     • Neo Ehproque

     @ehproque The most we had is a few hours of blackouts. Power is usually very reliable here.

     There is also cooling centers for extreme heat events. https://www.pima.gov/cooling-centers

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     Neo Ehproque (ehproque@neopaquita.es)'s status on Saturday, 26-Sep-2026 00:31:23 JST Neo Ehproque

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     @thomasfuchs I have*many* questions, like… do you *never* get blackouts? Do you have homeless people?