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@siannnyyy26 @obiwormkenobi Poor and retarded

@obiwormkenobi Most Europeans have been to america and we didnt like it and the heat is totally different. Ask Americans that experience uk heat they will tell you that small number of Americans that hold passports

genuinely mystified by the average european's idea of how climate works in america

@wishmemellon My observation: Europeans made the choice via democratic processes to make their energy costs as high as possible.

My observation as an American myself: Americans: Just install AC Europeans: Electricity is crazy expensive in our countries. Our electricity is some of the highest in the entire world. Americans: What does that have to do with AC?

@vse_oche_ploho @hackerjay @RBPundit

@hackerjay @RBPundit >European city gets about as hot and humid as an average spring day in the US South We can compare temperatures. Share your dataset.

Wait. They think homes in the US have uninsulated walls?

@Boytavious @LigmaMael @Cyn1calCrusader Even AI knows you’re wrong and it has no ability to feel temperatures.

@LigmaMael @Cyn1calCrusader I've been to South Florida in the summer, and a UK heatwave is 10x more uncomfortable, and it's not even close.

So, jokes aside, to understand why the heat is worse in the UK than say Arizona for example, the answer is quite long... First it's the Humidity, it's far higher here. The UK's island location and prevailing south-westerly winds bring moist sea air, so heatwaves are often humid rather than dry. In contrast, many of the hottest US states (e.g., Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico) have dry desert heat where sweat evaporates quickly, so you actually feel cooler despite higher temperatures. Even humid US regions (like the Southeast) usually have widespread air conditioning to offset it. Second, the buildings and Infrastructure that we have all are designed to Trap Heat, not Release It. UK homes are built for cold, damp winters: thick brick/stone walls, heavy insulation, small windows, and designs that retain warmth. During a heatwave, they turn into ovens, solar gain through windows builds up, and there is poor ventilation or passive cooling features like overhangs, shutters, or light-coloured roofs. Plus, poor air conditioning: Only about 5% of UK homes have AC (vs. ~90% in the US). It's not standard because it's rarely needed most of the year, but during spikes it's a nightmare. Also, retrofitting is expensive and tricky in old terraced houses or listed buildings. This extended to public transport, schools, offices, and even hospitals as they often lack cooling. Finally, most importantly, we have zero acclimatisation. Meaning it's just as hot at night as it is during the day. Britons aren't physiologically or culturally used to sustained heat. We're properly white! So, a sudden jump from typical UK summer temps feels extreme, and the body struggles more without gradual adaptation. Heatwaves often bring "tropical nights" (temps staying above 20 °C), so homes don't cool down overnight. You can't sleep, recover, or anything which just compounds fatigue, dehydration, etc. Drier US heat often cools significantly at night. That is all topped up with the fact that we have longer summer daylight at the UK's higher latitude meaning more hours of solar heating. Hope this long explanation that no one wanted clears this right up...

@upthejunction28 @FentBlowdart @negafops $150/month over the summer is a fortune? You guys really are poor as fuck.

@FentBlowdart @negafops It only works because you spent a fortune pumping A/C into the house without that the insulation myth of cool homes would be busted

Every summer Europeans admit two things: 1) That they think America doesnt have insulation 2) That they think insulation only works in one direction

@SmithyAlan45201 @SukaruAnow @Ayle_Vermillion @aliceisplaying Yeah that's not true at all. You're taxed about double what we are, so halve these French salaries, remove a quarter of the American, and take into account US sales tax which is half of French VAT and also American sales tax is often not applied to groceries, etc in some states.

@SukaruAnow @Ayle_Vermillion @aliceisplaying Actually we make around the same amount as you guys, but you aren't taxed at 57% (plus after that we've got a 20% flat tax on everything you buy, from groceries to energy bill). Our welfare is bloated and broken.

continuing our heatwave coverage, did you know that in france they have complete nonsense superstitions about AC

@lazylucyowo @Rob_Motto @RobertMadness @6gauntlets .01% difference proportionally

@Rob_Motto @RobertMadness @6gauntlets Says the guy who lives in a country where you can go bankrupt from medical expenses, homeless veterans, cancer alley and more

why are the Americans so mad at Europeans complaining about a heatwave

@grok @RyteSideUp @cumwhale927 Euros can't even afford a few dollars a day in the summer to be comfortable/not die? They really are closer to the developing world than they are the US.

A typical wall-mounted mini-split AC (like the Daikin shown) draws 500–1,500 watts (0.5–1.5 kW) while running, averaging lower thanks to inverter tech that modulates output. Real-world daily use for a room-sized unit is often 4–12 kWh depending on size, temps, insulation, and hours run (e.g., 5–8 hrs in hot weather). Bill impact scales with local rates + runtime. At ~$0.16/kWh (US avg), that's $0.64–$1.92/day. In much of Europe (~$0.25–$0.40/kWh), $1–$4.80/day. Not negligible, but manageable with efficient models and smart use.

do americans even know how expensive it would be to run that anywhere in europe?

@ipnotjcaa You're just weak.

can countries that have nothing to do with europe stop talking about how we handle the heat 😭 because they don't take into account THE HUMIDITY AND THE FACT THAT IT'S SUFFOCATING AND IT'S NOT NORMAL IT'S ONLY MAY

@adam7485 @MoMohler It's 33 degrees C here today with 65% humidity. This is a fairly mild May day and lots of people are out and about.

@MoMohler It’s 35 today, guaranteed it would humble you

That’s 77° by the way.

@samstein @AndyKimNJ "No one is above the law" types in shambles.

ICE pepper sprayed a US Senator today (@AndyKimNJ) nj.com/news/2026/05/i…

@liberalcapkjpp @therealLCWOLF @Redhead360 @MissJilianne NFTs? What year do you think it is boomer?

@therealLCWOLF @Redhead360 @MissJilianne Yeah, the ‘orange man’ matters because he’s literally the president and his policies affect all of us. Hard to ignore someone screwing up the country while selling watches, steaks, phones, and NFTs like a salesman.

As a Democrat, I can admit I’ve been voting wrong. Look what Mayor Karen Bass has allowed to happen to Hollywood Boulevard. It’s not only disgusting, it’s an embarrassment. It’s much worse than the picture depicts.

I had a professor at Cal State Long Beach who constantly trashed America as racist, oppressive, and irredeemable. He mocked the Constitution, capitalism, and virtually every American institution. At the end of the semester, he gave an emotional story about how his mother crawled through sewer pipes to reach America. So I raised my hand and asked: if America is this irredeemable, oppressive country, why did she risk everything to come here? And why are neither of you interested in going back? He didn’t answer the question. Instead he called me disrespectful. That’s because much of this ideology is not rooted in reality testing. It’s institutional theater rewarded by academia, media, and activism. The system incentivizes moral denunciation of America while simultaneously depending on the opportunities America uniquely provides.

I'm a mess, which is a bad time to tweet. It's Memorial Day, which means I've spent a lot of today thinking about the past, about the lost, about the people who built the world that we have inherited. But I've also been thinking about @xwanyex recent commentary about the nature of immigration and who "deserves" a country Today is Memorial Day. I went to the graves of my brother and my grandfather. I owe them so much. So does everyone. They did a lot of underappreciated work. Many of the immigration tweets Wanye points to are people saying "I succeeded in your country while you failed. Ha ha ha, I'm awesome and you suck". And, sure, this might be a particularly caustic example of that attitude, but is it really that rare? If immigrants love this country in particular, do they love the people who made it? Because they don't frequently say so. And if they love the people who made this country, the country that enabled them to have all the good things that they brag about, do they love the children of those people? Are they thankful to the grandchildren of the people who built the country that enabled their wild success? Or do they hold those grandchildren in disdain? How would a grandparent who built a world of tremendous opportunity and success respond if they saw someone who benefitted from that world telling their grandchild that they were a piece of garbage because they didn't build a billion dollar company? I'm thinking about this a lot now, largely because it's being shoved in my face. I'm not feeling particularly forgiving about this topic.

If you've ever helped empty out a boomers garage you know "we were just smart with our money and didn't buy tons of bullshit" is a bald faced lie.

Gonna try to explain this to tech CEOs again: Young Americans are pissed. They feel betrayed. Half have embraced the far right & want to cut off your access to cheap foreign labor. The other half have embraced the far left & want to cut off your head. One side will win. Choose.

This one was for my amigo ☝🏽 Grateful for the courage and sacrifice of the men and women we remember today. 🇺🇸

she has a masters in drama from Yale and “had no idea what the odyssey was”. not just “hadn’t read it” had never heard of it at all apparently. what a damning indictment of Yale.