Posted on 07/24/2019 11:38:36 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
Yep. I’m only in my late-40s, but I grew up in an old brick house with no air conditioning until I was 16 years old. And I attended an old three-story high school (in the late-1980s) that had no air conditioning, except for the cafeteria and library. And I somehow survived!
The New York Times insists that the population must give up air conditioning.
Suck it up, buttercups.
Air conditioning is (evidently) white nationalism.
There is no need to have a vent out of a window ??
That machine might be what i am looking for.
I worked at the NY Times in the 1990s. The whole building was air conditioned quite comfortably. As a matter of fact, in winter time, they had the heat up so high we would often need to open the window in our office to keep from roasting.
But wait....doesn’t the green socialst deal BAN air conditioning for everyone except the elites?
None of my dorms had AC, in college, or the military...
They’ll survive.
Being a hardy survivor is great and all, but the article doesn’t say why they don’t have air conditioning?
Nor does it say the students knew to expect these conditions before they enrolled at that college.
So, my 8 story dorm had no AC.... UGA, Creswell Hall.
Somehow we survived.
“Air conditioning is very nice but there was a time when people didn’t have air conditioning, and they somehow survived summer.”
Survived is the correct term. When I was young I hated to come inside due to the heat.
LOL...no school I ever went to had AC. Suck it up buttercups.
Yeah my high school had no air conditioning either.
In fact it was one of the last buildings in this area
to be heated by coal.
As the Pittsburgh Dad would say, “When I was growin’ up, we didn’t have air conditioning. We had the crick.”
I lived in a dorm room in Atlanta (Ga. Tech)
without AC and with a steam radiator for heat.
I don’t remember suffering for it (’73-’78)
I graduated from Arizona State University in 1969. Even back then, every single building on campus, including the dorms, had refrigeration or evaporative coolers.
But my VW bug didn't have A/C. It had what we called Mexican air conditioning. Drive around with the windows rolled up until you were soaking wet from sweating. Then roll the windows down to get some air to cool off with.
The temperature in the summer could soar to 115-120 degrees in the summer.
But the humidity was low and that makes the hot temperatures easier to tolerate.
I grew up in Arizona. In the old days, no one had air conditioning, but we all had evaporative coolers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporative_cooler
Maybe we should bring them back—they’re more energy-efficient than air conditioning.
However, the evaporative coolers were not very effective during the humid August monsoon season. So that’s when Arizonans who could took vacation—in San Diego or in Northern Arizona.
See my post #37!
How did the human race survive?
It certainly wasn’t cause of the likes of snowflake millennials.
I’m in hot Texas and am sitting in front of a little fan that only hits my legs. Oh, the horrors! Ok, I could get up and turn on the a/c but haven’t bothered.
“Some college dorms” Well, duhhhh. Pay the extra for a room in one of the dorms that has central a/c. I figured that out when I signed up as a freshman many years ago. It’s not rocket science. A/C - check. No communal showers - check. $7/sem. extra for no weirdo roommate - check.
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