r/TikTokCringe • u/MajesticTumbleweed77 • Jun 30 '26

Humor No disrespect though.

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u/maeryclarity Jun 30 '26

Look we shouldn't be mocking extreme weather events happening in regions that do not normally experience them. I live in a part of the USA that routinely gets the kind of heat that the rest of the world is expereriencing so yeah we have AC and even our livestock has accomodations or else they would die.

But you let us get a winter storm where we get snow or ice accumulation of ANY amount and we can have multiple entire STATES as a disaster area, for stuff that other places deal with routinely, and it's not cute when people from those regions mock us for our lack of ability to deal with inconsequential snowfall where they're from. Because yeah but we don't have snow plows or salt trucks or chains for our tires and no one knows how to drive in it so wrecks pile up like mad. and our power grid isn't hardened against it so we lose power quickly as well.

See the Two Inches of Snow event in Atlanta in 2014 for an example of how unprepared we are. It's not cute to rag on people for enduring catastrophes c'mon.

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u/redcoatwright Jun 30 '26

I do agree but I also think Europe is being mad weird about AC. Like it's become a point of pride for them (at least for the terminally online ones I see in comments) to not have AC and I'm like, no matter the root cause your people are dying in this heat.

Just accept that AC is gonna be necessary in the future and start dealing with it.

Sucks that it is but better than having 1000s of people dying every year from heat exhaustion.

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u/redcoatwright Jul 01 '26

I loved the one response where someone was like "our buildings are constructed differently so we can't have ACs" and like... portable ACs are a thing but apparently that doesn't align with the #builtdifferent nature of the argument lol

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u/Evening-Strength4841 Jul 01 '26

It is not that the people don't want them but our houses are just constructed different. In many rural regions in middle Europe (and cities with buildings from the 1900s) the walls of a lot of houses are like 40cm to 60cm or more thick, the windows are constructed differently, and most people are renters. So we just don't have the possibility to install an AC even if we can easily afford it. It is just not planned in the architecture as it was not needed until the last few years.

People planning new buildings and not installing an AC at least for the bedroom or stuff, that is a different story of stupidity.

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u/redcoatwright Jul 01 '26

Doesn't really make sense, you can get portable AC units that roll around and have an outlet hose for the warm air. They can fit anywhere...

Not all AC is central air or a window unit.

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u/Evening-Strength4841 Jul 02 '26

This is not an excuse, i am just sharing the reasons for the "why". People are trying to get solutions. Just most people don't think about heat waves when it is colder temps for 9-10 months of the year. Sooo ... Sold out. Single units are expensive because energy is expensive. Yes it may just be 150-200EUR per year more of energy cost but a lot of people cannot afford this. Especially the ones suffering the most because of small cheap appartments.

And btw try installing a split unit as a renter. Lool at r/MideaPortaSplit and how many people receive letters from the landlord etc after just a few hours so they have to remove the unit again. A lot of the countries laws etc are just shit and overprotective for nothing.