1 "I want to live in a country where the poor people are fat."

2 2nd?

3 A march in June?

4 The worst thing to happen to us was air-conditioning because it allowed Federal bureaucrats to work all summer long in comfort.

5 A/C is nice but the real game changer was indoor plumbing and shitter. Without the indoor shitter, the world would be like like India or San Francisco today.

6 Some years ago, I visited my aunt during the Kansas summertime in her non-air-conditioned home. I didn't complain, but she laughed at me anyway because I was perspiring and she brought me an iced tea.

7 The Left hates air conditioning, since it makes it easier to live in the Sunbelt, and away from the blue states.

Heating uses considerably more energy than air conditioning nationwide, but you don't see papers in Chicago or Boston denouncing people for heating their homes.

8 My motto: "You can always put on more clothes to keep warm, but once naked and still hot, what's the alternative?"

A/C that's what.

9 Good morning KT

10 The South (and Florida) would still be stuck in the 19th century if it weren't for A/C.

11 There's a polar bear
In our Frigidaire--
He likes it 'cause it's cold in there.
With his seat in the meat
And his face in the fish
And his big hairy paws
In the buttery dish,
He's nibbling the noodles,
He's munching the rice,
He's slurping the soda,
He's licking the ice.
And he lets out a roar
If you open the door.
And it gives me a scare
To know he's in there--
That polary bear
In our Fridgitydaire.

12 You put grandma's fridge up there except her freezer was at the bottom.

13 The Europoors can't afford to cool their homes.

14 Trash bags are important inventions. So is the washing machine.
But I'm pretty sure the most important invention was the printing press.

15 I appreciate air conditioning but I keep it set at 83 and use a fan to keep the air circulating. Coming in from 100+ degree weather even sometimes that setting is too cold.

16 Living 13 miles west of Boston we still used an outdoor ice box in the early 50s for extra storage. I would estimate the freezer on our GE frig to be less than .7 cubic feet

17 There is the theory Marxism in its original form , rich vs poor wasn't going to work here, hence other ways to get minorities on the bandwagon is where we are today.

18 Europeans would take A/C in a heartbeat if the government was paying for it. They just don't want to pay 4 or 500 euros a month to cool or heat their homes.

Instead, they don't get it, act like it's a civic & moral virtue to not have it, and then complain all summer sweating it out wishing they had it.

They also, apparently, think ice is a luxury.

Maybe they just like living in saunas.

19
In 2015, the Washington Post declared that the refrigerator was history's greatest invention, but also noted this important point: "Europe to America: Your love of air-conditioning is stupid.

_____________

Japan has the same percentage of air conditioners as the US. It also lies within similar latitudes. But no one calls the Japanese stupid. Because the issue isn't air conditioning it's bashing the US.

Japan also has the death penalty. Another thing that never seems to get condemned.

20
A/C is a great and wonderful invention.

When IO was a wee tad, the day we finally got one of those window units by Frigidaire was a great day.

We had arrived, baby. And had relief from the hot, Texas Summer weather.

Even if it was only in one room.

21 I read an article once about a woman who had air conditioner but never used it because, she said, "it makes it too hot to go outside.".

That actually makes sense.

22 > They also, apparently, think ice is a luxury.
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Some of them don't even use ice for cocktails... even if the drink doesn't require ice in it, but the recipe says (clearly) "chilled."

A warm Martini is a goddamn crime.

23
But I'm pretty sure the most important invention was the printing press.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 06, 2026 11:34 AM (OsdBI)

__________

Her Majesty would say, heated car seats.

24 A/C made continuous government possible.

25 I found it better to keep one constant setting. When you turn on the ac or heat you are cooling or heating everything in the house not just the air

26 10 The South (and Florida) would still be stuck in the 19th century if it weren't for A/C.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 06, 2026 11:31 AM (qFwJc)

Oh, we'd be in the 21st century alright.
We'd just be living in homes with wide open windows with screens, flow-through design from front to back of the house/office for draft, a lot of floor and ceiling fans, and the occasional siesta after noon in the hammock on the porch.

And ice.
Lots of ice.
Ice is good.

27 Government scientists coincidentally discovered that Freon damages the ozone layer just about the time DuPont’s patent for Freon was set to expire

28 What is your favorite American invention?

Easy. The six-pack of 16oz cans.

29 Prior to refrigerated air, some buildings were cooled by using fans to blow air over large blocks of ice. This is where the term "ton" of air conditioning comes from, as it represents the amount of heat required to melt one ton of ice over 24 hours.

30 My favorite American inventions are the transistor.

Then the airplane.

Then rock and roll and jazz music.

31 The 1911.

32 'When General Motors built refrigerators'.
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This house was built in 1955. Mrs. Phillips *liked* pink. So pink appliances (among other stuff) were selected. We still use the pink 'Frigidaire, Division of General Motors' cooktop.

As an aside, she was this fellow's aunt:
https://shorturl.at/9wGKm note the redactions.

33 The automobile had a significant impact on society. Bonus points if it has A/C.

34 dad told me he always loved the Crosley automobiles when he was a kid. Crosley also made refrigerators and he said the cars and the fridges both used the same door handle.

35 Ben Had,

I haven't heard anything about JT in a few months. How's he doing? Any birdbath status updates?

When you talk with him, please let him know we miss him.

36 Supposedly the first air-conditioned theater was in Stockton, Mo.
They used a big fan to pull air from a cave underneath.

37 I know someone who has this weird thing about not needing a/c. Not an environmental thing more like I’m tough I don’t need it. It’s like ok bro suffer if you must.

38 14 Trash bags are important inventions. So is the washing machine.
But I'm pretty sure the most important invention was the printing press.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 06, 2026 11:34 AM (OsdBI)

I would have said trash bags myself, but it was invented by a Canadian.

Failing that, I'd say either the light bulb, or AC and DC current.

39 Oh, we'd be in the 21st century alright.
We'd just be living in homes with wide open windows with screens, flow-through design from front to back of the house/office for draft, a lot of floor and ceiling fans, and the occasional siesta after noon in the hammock on the porch.

And ice.
Lots of ice.
Ice is good.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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High Ceilings

40 Search Assist

"England saw 4,507 heat-related deaths in 2025, the highest number in 35 years, driven by record temperatures exceeding 40°C"

41 Radio is probably my favorite American invention.
That and the telegraph & telephone really did change the world.

But it must've been an event for people when they first began listening in on invisible transmissions of news, music, and shows from dozens or hundreds of miles away through a box with a speaker in their living room.

Almost like it was magic.
Same for television, I suppose.

42 Electric bills are going up fast as fossil fuel costs go up
Avg contract price for renewables is 8.5 cents per kwh and locked in for 20 years
Wonder what fossil fuels will cost in 20 years ? Buffet is selling his solar electricity at 5 cents per kwh to Cali

43 High Ceilings

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 06, 2026 11:50 AM (0kM66)

Yeah, I guess why the older homes had 10 or 11 foot ceilings on the regular.

44 High Ceilings

Posted by: Braenyard
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Tall windows, and, transoms...when was the last time you saw a transom?

45 Back in the 1970's there were homes built called "basement houses". Basically a walk out basement with a roof over it and no actual "house" built on top. This is the style of house my parents built. Built it themselves, cinder block walls, a big iron I beam from my great gran dad's blacksmith shop, interior finished with lumber from my grandpa's sawmill. Cost $14000 to build. 4 bedrooms, one bathroom, no central heating, and no A/C. Just a big natural gas fueled heater in the great room.
The back part of the house never got below 65° in the winter (just add more blankets) and never higher than 70° in the summer. A fan blowing warm air down the hall in the winter and turned around to blow cooler air into the great room in the summer. It was comfortable enough.

46 Failing that, I'd say either the light bulb, or AC and DC current.

Sorry ... but AC/DC was invented by the Aussies.

47 Paul is too stupid to understand that it costs $25k to install solar panels on a home and the break even is many decades, by which time most people will have moved.

48 Hour of the Wolf, he is in a long term care facility and will remain there. Quarter Twenty visited him and set him up with another internet capable device but without direct interaction he doesn't use them.

He does remember the Horde when speaking to him.

49 England saw 4,507 heat-related deaths in 2025

Oh no. Anyway.

50 I wonder if all the elite enviros out there like Leo DeCaprio forgo A/C in their palatial mansions.

Hint: they do not

51 The best part of Paul ran down his mommy's ass crack.

52 Ben Had, Thank you for the update.

Not what I'd hope to hear, but I like the truth over having good vibes and bullshit.

53 I still remember well my 2 yesrs in East Anglia no onecwas thinking of air conditioning. I assumed long after that just the way it always was. Until on year heard at Wimbledon it was in the 90s. I really don't think ever saw much around 80 at highest.

54 Thankfully due to general climate and particular location, this house doesn't need AC. Had it, installed by prior residents, but when it wore out I replaced it with a whole-house fan. We're right at in the inner limit of marine influence in terms of temps, so a very sweet spot. Years ago (can't find now) I saw the annual averages from nearby public university weather station. Mean highs/lows were ridiculously close, about 7 degrees. But exact location matters, houses without the breeze, blocks away, are much hotter. Humidity is rare so I still don't get the amount of AC, but whatever.

55 Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian, is most widely recognized as the inventor of the radio as it is known today.

56 It was comfortable enough.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 06, 2026 11:52 AM (OsdBI)

I've seen some videos of people who've built homes underground.

I like the idea.
It definitely saves on energy costs.

Other than the lack of windows and sunlight it seems like it would be a cool experience.

57 Crosley also made refrigerators "

Invented the shelf in the door...

58 It was comfortable enough.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 06, 2026 11:52 AM (OsdBI)

I've seen some videos of people who've built homes underground.

I like the idea.
It definitely saves on energy costs.

Other than the lack of windows and sunlight it seems like it would be a cool experience.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 06, 2026 11:58 AM (6ydKt)

I wonder how well it would hold up against tornados.

59 Air conditioning was done all over the ancient Near East. It's called a "windcatcher".
A big tower takes the desert breeze and funnels it into the lower rooms or even the basement. This pushes out the air on the bottom which might have been warmed up by human activity or just the hot walls.
The outside air might not be all that cool itself, so a common tweak is to have a pool of water on the bottom, maybe fed by nearby streams. This will evaporate and actively cool the ground floor.
tinyurl.com/4vma7vht

60 Had a VW bug for years while living in the humid east. I described the AC as "2/55 AC" - two windows down @55MPH. Barely any effective heat either of course, which was fun in the winter. But the battery died once and I was so busy I didn't have time to go get it replaced, just parked on inclines and push-started for 2 weeks. So that was nice.

61 Invasion by Air - D-Day [Part 1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0AKc7xxQQk

62 My wife has been in Italy for a week. Her first day was 89 degrees but the hotel had A/C. Since then she's stayed at 2 other hotels, one of which had A/C. Apparently, it's in the 70's now, so that's good. She hates the heat almost as I hate the cold.

63 👍🏼 as always.

While certainly true, probably wouldn't put the featured window A/C in a bedroom. (Manufactured by Zengshi Life Museum, a Chinese brand registered through Canada, I think.)

64 My house is well shaded in the summer. It gets pretty cool at night as well. Usually down into the 50s. Open windows at night, house is nice and cool in the morning. Close windows in the morning. Throughout the day the temp slowly rises in the house and around 2 or 3 in the afternoon the a/c kicks in. By 9 or so it starts cooling off, open windows, start the cycle again.

65 The John Nance Garner quote is obvious.

66 There was a viral meme going around earlier in the summer that Europe loses more lives to heat deaths than the US does to guns from all causes. The author of this article attempts to debunk that meme in several ways, and the best she can come up with is that the per-capita numbers are similar: https://bit.ly/4dRBBZL

67 gKWVE, was just about to mention that. In Dubai (Sharjah actually, just a short drive) there is a preserved compound and the buildings all have that wind-catching tower.

I'm sure it helped, but the heat/humidity combo in places like that is something to experience. Actually hottest/most humid experience was Hanoi in June. The white-gloved guards inside Ho's tomb had to keep hurrying people along, it was clear everyone was enjoying the cool dry air inside after waiting in line outside where it was so hot/humid that it was funny.

68 Here in ETEX we appreciate A/C because we be old folk and remember window fan, ceiling fan, and funeral home hand fan.

69 I remember those basement houses. Basically a man made cave. There was often a problem with moisture and inevitable mold problem.

There was no air turn over.

Siting was an issue because of ground water problems.

The were popular in SE Ohio and western PA as I recall.

70 Another major strike against my truck besides transmission trouble is no air conditioning, no electronics or radio too but I listen to podcasts on my phone

71 Other than the lack of windows and sunlight it seems like it would be a cool experience.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 06, 2026 11:58 AM (6ydKt)

This wasn't completely underground. There are windows in every room. The biggest problem is humidity. The floors were poured concrete covered with linoleum. They were wet in the summer. And mold was an issue. My brother has the house now and is finding mold in every wall. They're basically gutting that house and redoing every wall and floor with waterproof everything. And location is a big deal. The ground slopes toward the house. Over time small cracks develop and ground water seeps in. They're spending the summer and a hella lot of money to fix everything.

72 Paul doesn’t get that gas prices are coming DOWN. I’m paying $3.39/gal unleaded now.

73 Underground house! Bilbo Baggins did it first !

74 Heroq this house is the same during almost all the warm/hot weather. Open up at night, close up in the morning. The whole-house fan is a just a booster to bring in the cooler air starting late afternoon/evening. And have only used it a few dozen times in the few years we've had it. Huge tree in back shades 80% of the length of the house in the afternoon.

75 And location is a big deal. The ground slopes toward the house.

Yep. Water wins every time. The only option is to give it somewhere else to go.

76 I've also seen several times where some guy in Kansas, or other states, has bought an old missile silo or bunker from the government and turned into a home.

It's beyond description how unusual the layouts are but nobody can say it's not unique.

They're also turning them into condos and Airbnbs.

77 Transistors.

78 Indeed, that hint of freon adds mystique to her interludes.

79 This country has contributed immeasurably to communication and transportation. The airplane will remain my most beloved American invention.

80 Underground house! Bilbo Baggins did it first !
Posted by: Ben Had

Heh. When I was younger I liked the idea of converting a decommissioned missile base into an underground home/supervillain lair. These days I still like the idea of subterranean living, just more Hobbit and less Hades.

81 Yep. Water wins every time. The only option is to give it somewhere else to go.
Posted by: Howdy at June 06, 2026 12:07 PM (EFkNq)

Been there, done that. The water still eventually wins again.

I think it cheats.

82 Making a note that if I ever build my Biblbo Baggins dream home that I need to buy several dehumidifiers.

83 Yeah, I guess why the older homes had 10 or 11 foot ceilings on the regular.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 06, 2026 11:51 AM (6ydKt)

But a bitch to heat in the winter.

84
Years ago (can't find now) I saw the annual averages from nearby public university weather station. Mean highs/lows were ridiculously close, about 7 degrees. But exact location matters, houses without the breeze, blocks away, are much hotter. Humidity is rare so I still don't get the amount of AC, but whatever.
Posted by: rhomboid at June 06, 2026 11:56 AM (U/Byj)



Location matters, as does urban planning. I heard endless bitching from Israelis about how Tel Aviv was ruined by running major throughfares from North to South, parallel to the Mediterranean coast, which caused a windbreak effect from the buildings, killing the on-shore breezes making the city a humid, sweltering hell-scape, weather-wise.

85 My house is very old, built well before a/c was a thing. You tell the original owners thought it out well and placed trees strategically to keep the house as shaded as possible in the summer. The trees follow the sun.

Also has windows set up to allow cross breezes regardless of which direction the wind is blowing.

Must have been designed by a black transgender lesbian, what being so clever and all.

86 Making a note that if I ever build my Biblbo Baggins dream home that I need to buy several dehumidifiers.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 06, 2026 12:11 PM (6ydKt)

Or build in a dry climate. Southern Indiana is not a dry climate. Don't build that here unless you are on top of a hill.

87 J. Frank Dobie, famed Texas writer of the past: Air Conditioning will be the ruination of Texas, because it means the damn Yankees will come down and start living here.

88 Dobie, famed Texas writer of the past: Air Conditioning will be the ruination of Texas, because it means the damn Yankees will come down and start living here.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2026 12:15 PM (3mtTi)

Right?

89 Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian, is most widely recognized as the inventor of the radio as it is known today.

Posted by: pawn at June 06, 2026 11:56 AM (+rSJz)

He successfully commercialized wireless telegraphy. He had nothing to do with the development of adding sound modulation to the signal, or the advent of commercial radio as we know it.

Reginald Fessenden, a Canadian working in Massachusetts, was the first person ever to transmit voice and recorded music by radio.

90
83 Yeah, I guess why the older homes had 10 or 11 foot ceilings on the regular.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 06, 2026 11:51 AM (6ydKt)

But a bitch to heat in the winter.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at June 06, 2026 12:12 PM (5xuJ/)

Same reason (well cost, also) that most southern houses were built pier and beam with a 3’ crawl space under the house, and no cellar.

91 I'm fortunate to live where swamp coolers work very well.

92 There really is no economic advantage to using PVs if utility power is available. If there is natural gas available its even a bigger loser.

All those "cost savings" is in creative accounting.

Best use of your bucks if you want to minimize operating costs up front is in energy conservation like tight construction, insulation, properly placed and shaded windows.

Even in retrofit situations.

But it's a free country. Ain't it great!

93 Also has windows set up to allow cross breezes regardless of which direction the wind is blowing.

Posted by: Heroq at June 06, 2026 12:12 PM (tNkpt)

That's how my old farmhouse was. Lots of tall narrow windows, exterior doors everywhere, A wrap around porch to shade the windows and doors. Big old maple trees for shade.

The trees died off. The windows and doors were a huge problem in the winter. And humidity caused a lot of rot underneath the structure. Poor old thing was falling down when we had it demolished. I hated it but we had no choice.

94
This country has contributed immeasurably to communication and transportation. The airplane will remain my most beloved American invention.
Posted by: Cow Demon at June 06, 2026 12:09 PM (T6aVk)


Virtually every product/convenience in the past 150 years or better that makes Western Civilization vastly superior to the alternative was invented by Americans, in America. Jealousy over this truth is the root of the Eurotrash hating the US even more than they hate each other.

95 The other effect in Europe of general lack of AC besides mass deaths is that everyone's on vacation for July and August so business essentially stops 2 months out of the year.

96 I appreciate air conditioning but I keep it set at 83 and use a fan to keep the air circulating. Coming in from 100+ degree weather even sometimes that setting is too cold.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 06, 2026 11:35 AM (5P5DO)

68 to 72. My ancestry (DNA) loves cold. Hate summer.

97 There's something so cool about that '54 Frigidaire.

98 But a bitch to heat in the winter.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at June 06, 2026 12:12 PM (5xuJ/)

Tell me about it.
The room I'm in has no false ceiling in it.
The ceiling is sloped at the roof-line.
At the highest point it's about 20 feet.

It looks cool but it's a bear keeping this room cool or warm enough even with a ceiling fan set for winter and summer rotation. It's regularly 4 or 5 degrees warmer (or cooler) in here than the rest of the house.

99 Oil refineries.

We could use more

100 5 A/C is nice but the real game changer was indoor plumbing and shitter. Without the indoor shitter, the world would be like like India or San Francisco today.
Posted by: Joe The Plumber at June 06, 2026 11:25 AM (z20w/)


In the Seattle underground tour, there is a display of the first toilet in the city that was invented by John Crapper. It is somehow appropriate for Seattle.

101 You're welcome!

102 In the Seattle underground tour, there is a display of the first toilet in the city that was invented by John Crapper. It is somehow appropriate for Seattle.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 06, 2026 12:22 PM (2WIwB)

What an unfortunate last name.

103 I use the heated car seat on the passenger side to keep carry out food warm until I can get it home!

104 After the Army, I spent a few months as a Security Guard at the Marconi station in Chatham, MA. That place was wild. Massive "computers" and all that goes with that. I held the job until a demo team came and blew up (down?) the main tower. I think it became a State Park or something. I used to sneak my girlfriend into Marconi's cottage and pound a few beers.

105 Watching Red Dawn, see lots of negative videos on the BoB with Bligh to turn me off. He lived long, fought in Korea

106 Mom. I'm going to make sure our name is never forgotten.

107
From the D-Day memo, A.G. Kirk advising forces on the danger of the mission: "These are not beaches held by apathetic Italians"

Intentional or unintentional humor? In any case, I'm stealing it. Expect to see adaptations in future posts.

108 Developing the ability to use natural gas.

109 Virtually every product/convenience in the past 150 years or better that makes Western Civilization vastly superior to the alternative was invented by Americans, in America. Jealousy over this truth is the root of the Eurotrash hating the US even more than they hate each other.

I saw an interesting explanation for that. You know how there are wonky predictions about how AI will eliminate most work and create massive universal wealth? Europe believed that about the Industrial Revolution and Ford-style assembly lines. So they stopped trying and missed having a significant position in basically every technology invented post-WW1.

There are almost zero interesting global European companies for computers, the Internet, semiconductor design, social media, or AI. ARM is the most important thing Europe has in any of those spaces, and it's a big deal, but it was also launched on an investment from Apple developing ideas from UC Berkeley and is foreign-owned now.

110 Whenever I stumble across some video on YouTube of Brits coming to the US for the first time, I always have to give is a look see. They, generally, spend the entire video pointing out that they have been lied to about America. Air Conditioning is inevitably a part of the discussion, and the usual response is WHY THE BLOODY HELL DON'T WE HAVE THIS IN THE UK?

Other staples of these videos is how nice Americans are to them. And, how much they enjoy the interaction and conversations with complete strangers. They usually talk about how standoffrish Brits are with each other. My favorite is how they can't believe the extreme weather events that Americans just shake off and move on.

111
And really, who cares what the Europeans think? The Losers of Loserville are lecturing us?

112 My wife needs the heat at 74 or 75 in winter. If it’s at 70 she needs a sweater But 74 in summer is insufferably hot for her and the a/c needs to be at 70.

Make it make sense to me.

113 Probably the best American invention, and also the most despised: Freedom.

114 I'm inclined to agree that refrigeration is the greatest invention, but fire has its place too. And it was first.

115 I'm taking a Brit shooting Sunday. Told him we were going to asshole mountain and left it for him to figure out where that was.

116 There is a good apocalypse chance the Marxists here would get foreign countries to finish a takeover

117 AOP, you are correct.

I'd kind of forgotten about Reginald Fessenden. He worked for Edison and went to Westinghouse.

Guy had a shit ton of patents.

I love Grok:

Fessenden’s most famous achievement came on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1906, from his experimental station at Brant Rock, Massachusetts.
He conducted what is widely recognized as the world’s first public radio broadcast of entertainment and music:

A Bible reading from the Gospel of Luke
A phonograph recording of Handel’s “Largo”
Fessenden himself playing “O Holy Night” on the violin
Closing remarks wishing listeners a Merry Christmas

The transmission used a high-frequency alternator (developed with Ernst Alexanderson of General Electric) to generate continuous waves, combined with his AM techniques.

Ships at sea heard it clearly—some reports came from as far as Norfolk, Virginia, and beyond (hundreds of miles). Operators were astonished to hear a human voice and music instead of Morse code.

He had also achieved the first two-way radiotelegraphic communication across the Atlantic earlier in 1906 (between Brant Rock and Machrihanish, Scotland).

118 Wanna hear a secret about Europe? Rich people all have a/c. And they also drive.
It’s the poor and middle class who have no a/c and have to ask the bus or train everywhere.

They don’t live that way by choice, but because they can’t afford the “luxuries” Americans take for granted. Europeans are dirt poor relative to Americans.

119 Make it make sense to me.
Posted by: Heroq at June 06, 2026 12:28 PM (tNkpt)


Lucky. I get +- 2° of 68 or I better be doing something about it.

120 Air Conditioning is inevitably a part of the discussion, and the usual response is WHY THE BLOODY HELL DON'T WE HAVE THIS IN THE UK?

Other staples of these videos is how nice Americans are to them. And, how much they enjoy the interaction and conversations with complete strangers. They usually talk about how standoffrish Brits are with each other.

Air conditioning has been growing rapidly in popularity in the UK, which is further stressing their ability to appease Greta Thunberg with bird Cuisinarts.

121 Reforger, A Brit citizen? If so, swear him to secrecy. The last Brit that mentioned shooting guns here was arrested when he got home.

122 What is your favorite American invention?

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The Transistor.

/During Pride Month? REALLY???

123 Does Ace have a challenger for main Ewok?

(Breitbart) Pop Singer Doja Cat Calls Elon Musk a ‘Barrel Chested Ewok’ While Complaining About X Features

124 First!!

125 Pretty sure it was a Britain who came here, went shooting, took pictures of then got arrested at home for crime of holding a real gun

126 I am fortunate to live in a place where ac is needed only about 15 days a year. So, I just go dunk in 54 degree Puget Sound when it gets too warm and enjoy my electric bill of $40 for two months from May to October. Windows open all the time.

127 Pretty sure it was a Britain who came here, went shooting, took pictures of then got arrested at home for crime of holding a real gun

It was. Brits are the closest of the major European ethnicities to understanding US freedom, which is why I'm constantly surprised that Starmer hasn't been given a free helicopter ride yet.

128 Pretty sure it was a Britain who came here, went shooting, took pictures of then got arrested at home for crime of holding a real gun
Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2026 12:33 PM (Ia/+0)


And this is why Britain is lost.
You can bet those mosques have armories.

129 Other than the lack of windows and sunlight it seems like it would be a cool experience.
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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Seek ye the Whole Earth Catalog. Bermed houses they were called. They were in contest with Fuller's geodesic dome. I think condensation and air circulation problems cut the berm house short.

130 Here in ETEX we appreciate A/C because we be old folk and remember window fan, ceiling fan, and funeral home hand fan.

Posted by: Eromero at June 06, 2026 12:04 PM (LHPAg)

Attic fan we had in LA was a gamechanger. Run it for about 30 seconds at dusk to get a whole house air exchange.

131 There are almost zero interesting global European companies for computers, the Internet, semiconductor design, social media, or AI. ARM is the most important thing Europe has in any of those spaces, and it's a big deal, but it was also launched on an investment from Apple developing ideas from UC Berkeley and is foreign-owned now.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 06, 2026 12:27 PM (QZThv)

ASML is Dutch.
They manufacture the most advanced EUV lithography machines for chip making.

But, yeah, most other Euro tech companies are bit players.

They missed the boat on internet search and social media entirely, for instance.

132 There is a good apocalypse chance the Marxists here would get foreign countries to finish a takeover

Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2026 12:31 PM (Ia/+0)

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Why they're in bed with at least three Death Cults: The Cartels, The ChiComms, and The Muzzies.

133 The Transistor.

/During Pride Month? REALLY???

Posted by: ShainS at June 06, 2026 12:32 PM (+mTA5)

Nukes. Providing 80 years of relative peace on earth.

134 The United States of America, as a whole, is the greatest invention ever created and it was done with the guidance of GOD. The world would be an entirely different place if the the USA never was, and not in a good way.

135 I have had trouble with forced air heat. It’s too dry. And dusty. So I started using just an oil radiator heater in the living room and it is much nicer.

And when the power goes out (3-4x every winter) I have a wood burning fireplace.

It’s pretty mild out here. Today’s high will be 56. Supposed to get thunderstorms and it’s snowing at the higher mountain passes.

Springtime in the PNW.

136 But, yeah, most other Euro tech companies are bit players.

They missed the boat on internet search and social media entirely, for instance.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 06, 2026 12:37 PM (6ydKt)

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But hey! They invented Legos!

137 114 I'm inclined to agree that refrigeration is the greatest invention, but fire has its place too. And it was first.
Posted by: Thag at June 06, 2026 12:29 PM (2WIwB)
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I'm going to have to suggest cars and planes as the best (or most impactful) invention. It moved humanity away from Tribalism. Tribalism created friction among inhabitants of each community even in relatively close proximity. By creating a transportation to move well beyond your origin in a personal capacity allowed a flow and coagulation of new ideas which led to innovation. I truly believe that that ability elevated a locale to 1st World, while the Tribalistic communities remained 3rd world (ME, Africa etc.). We still hold onto the instinct for tribalism, but have transferred it onto sports teams and more innocuous facets.

138 UK has “free” health care.

We have Google, Apple, Tesla, Intel, Microsoft and 1000 others.

Pretty good trade off I’d say.

139 Joining the Horde in saying the A/C thing for $35 is the insulating barrier, not the A/C itself. 😹 "ZENGSHI LIFE MUSEUM" What the hell kind of company name is that?

140 Springtime in the PNW.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 06, 2026 12:39 PM (A5RD0)


Is it just me or has this been an unusually cool Spring?
I've only worn shorts twice for Geezer Golf.

141 Nurse Ratched, if I may impose, I have a question. I have never been to the PNW, and I really want to see the giant Redwood/Sequoia trees. Where should we fly into, what time of year is best, etc.?

142 ASML is Dutch.
They manufacture the most advanced EUV lithography machines for chip making.

True, but I count photolithography as a pre-WW1 technology. Yeah, the stuff they do now is far beyond what Kodak and Polaroid were doing 110 years ago, but the fundamentals haven't changed.

143 We will pratice proper OPSEC with the king's subject.

144 Well, the Europeans invented Communism.

All the cool kids want some of that.

145 Make it make sense to me.
Posted by: Heroq
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Relative humidity and barometric pressure can effect feelings.

146 UK has “free” health care.

We have Google, Apple, Tesla, Intel, Microsoft and 1000 others.

Pretty good trade off I’d say.

I saw a chart a few years ago to the effect that Home Depot is larger than any European company created post 1950.

147 But hey! They invented Legos!

Posted by: Diogenes at June 06, 2026 12:40 PM (2WIwB)

You gotta give it to them.
They've made crap ton of money off of those little plastic bricks.

You'd be hard-pressed to find any person born in the West in the last 60 years who hasn't played with Legos.

148
I'm taking a Brit shooting Sunday. Told him we were going to asshole mountain and left it for him to figure out where that was.
Posted by: Reforger at June 06, 2026 12:30 PM (ZxzYs)



The last time I took guests out shooting was a couple of years ago, Mom and I took my late step-father's Dutch nephew & family to the range. Semi-rural, conservative, and TALL. Their teen-age son was dying to shoot a gun for the first time, so we made a whole day of it. Everyone had a lot of fun, especially his mom, who REALLY got into it, surprising the hell out of all of us.

149 Well Utah Beach wasn't held by apathetic Italians, but there were lots of "Osttruppen" and others impressed into Wehrmacht service, or lower quality volunteers, in that sector. Which helped make the operation quite a bit easier than Omaha.

At one point one unit had encountered so many non-German surrendering troops (they couldn't really communicate with them) that someone asked a senior officer back on the beach "just who are we fighting here, sir?".

I think this is where the famous Korean was taken prisoner, marking the end of his journey wherein he fought in 3 armies (Japanese, Soviet, and German).

150 You're all a bunch of whining pussies. When I get too warm I fly over to Mt Everest and climb it. It's much more temperate at 29,000 ft.

151 Is it just me or has this been an unusually cool Spring?
I've only worn shorts twice for Geezer Golf.
Posted by: Diogenes

A lot of cool days, I say. At least it was 50 this morning. I brought a hibiscus back in overnight last weekend. It was only 42 deg last Sunday am and the damn potted plant weighs about 90 pounds.

152 135 I have had trouble with forced air heat. It’s too dry. And dusty
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Filters, you must change the filters on schedule.

153
I saw a chart a few years ago to the effect that Home Depot is larger than any European company created post 1950.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 06, 2026 12:45 PM (QZThv)

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The chart I saw was that the market cap of Home Depot is bigger than that of the 50 most successful EU startups in the last 50 years, combined.

154 Well, the Europeans invented Communism.

All the cool kids want some of that.

As Crowder likes to point out, Karl Marx was an enthusiastic user of the German version of the N word. If that were better known entire colleges full of septum-pierced young they/thems would be full of exploding heads, Scanners style.

155 My paternal grandfather landed at Omaha. Infantryman. Never talked about it to me, but my oldest cousin tells me he told him and that I'll get the story when we meet up this summer.

156 I saw a chart a few years ago to the effect that Home Depot is larger than any European company created post 1950.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 06, 2026 12:45 PM (QZThv)

About the time they started down the road to the EU.

Europe has regulated themselves into this position because they can't control their socialist impulses.

157 Is it just me or has this been an unusually cool Spring?
I've only worn shorts twice for Geezer Golf.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 06, 2026 12:43 PM (2WIwB)


Very cool. I'm inland PNW but today the high is only going to be 58 degrees.

158 As Mayor For Life, I will ban A/C in all residential and commercial properties, except for those operated by the City of Los Angeles. For the children.

Badda boop boop beep beep hey hey hey...bop bop dula be bop...

159 Europe has regulated themselves into this position because they can't control their socialist impulses.

More broadly, because they always listen to "experts".

160 To be fair to the Euros YouTube was created there and Google bought it. Spotify is Swedish. They have had a couple of things here and there. But compared to what’s come out of the US tech wise, it’s an afterthought.

Europe simply doesn’t have the entrepreneurial mindset. There’s no Facebook created in a College dorm room in Berlin or Paris. It’s a foreign concept to them.

161 Lincolntf, I think redwoods are CA only, maybe some in southwestern OR?

Coast redwoods (sequoia sempervirens) are, duh, near the coast. Sequoias (sequoia gigantea) are at some elevation, and I'm pretty sure only in CA.

My reco is fly into SFO in late fall (only for tourism/people density, not foliage), head up to Sonoma, wine-taste, walk at the state redwood park near the Russian River, and enjoy the incredibly beautiful area. Then if you want to see the giants head down to Sequoia Nat. Park, which is a drive and different place to visit.

162 . I have never been to the PNW, and I really want to see the giant Redwood/Sequoia trees. Where should we fly into, what time of year is best, etc.?
Posted by: Lincolntf at June 06, 2026 12:43 PM (vV6n9)


I'll let Nurse add her part, but thought I'd put in my two cents. The Redwoods and Sequoias are native only to California, although you can begin to see redwoods along the very southern Oregon coast. A quick Google search can help you find places to visit. You could fly into Eugene OR and drive south, or I think Sacramento and drive north is probably a better choice.

163 Here's one that will surprise you....and annoys me every time I'm in the UK or the EU:

Mixer faucets. In the US, the majority of sinks have mixer faucets...where you have one faucet that can be adjusted to the desired temperature. In the UK and the EU...and most other places for that matter....they have a cold faucet and a hot faucet, and you have to do the "slide hand wash"...Oh too HOT....slide over to the cold faucet...too cold, back over to the Hot faucet. It's annoying.

164 "Europe simply doesn’t have the entrepreneurial mindset. There’s no Facebook created in a College dorm room in Berlin or Paris. It’s a foreign concept to them."

Something about American Exceptionalism.

165 Oh, shit. For some reason I always thought those giant trees were in OR/WA. I blame my 6th Grade Science teacher.

166 Lincolntf,
Redwoods are in northern CA.

The Olympic National Park in western WA has some pretty big trees and a temperate rain forest and a coastline to blow your mind. It is not a hot, sunny, sandy easy access beach with hotels every block. It is remote and cold and windy and rainy and rocky and there’s not a lot of options for overnight accommodations, if any.

167 Years ago I spent a summer in an old house in Shreveport (rent was free if I did maintenance) which didn’t have much AC, only two small window units, but which had an attic fan with the wind power of a DC3 engine. I’ve long wished I could find one like that again, I think it was built in the 30’s.

168
As Crowder likes to point out, Karl Marx was an enthusiastic user of the German version of the N word. If that were better known entire colleges full of septum-pierced young they/thems would be full of exploding heads, Scanners style.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 06, 2026 12:49 PM (QZThv)



Marx also was an unwashed moocher who lived off of Engels' family inheritance. Notorious for his noxious personal hygiene (Marx almost never bathed), it was so bad that he suffered from horrible rashes nearly his whole life.

169 250 years is a good run, but we are in a undeclared war with 1/3 of the country

170
Do cars sold in European have air conditioning?

171 I'm tired of dealing with those window and wall A/C units. Maybe it's time to invest in a mini-split.

172 I'll let Nurse add her part, but thought I'd put in my two cents. The Redwoods and Sequoias are native only to California, although you can begin to see redwoods along the very southern Oregon coast. A quick Google search can help you find places to visit. You could fly into Eugene OR and drive south, or I think Sacramento and drive north is probably a better choice.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 06, 2026 12:52 PM (2WIwB)

There is a small stand of redwood trees in a beach park near Jericho Beach in Vancouver, B.C. I never knew that until a couple of months ago. Some are pretty big. I expect they were planted there over a century ago.

173 Thanks for the knowledge and the advice, Rhomboid and Diogenes. October is likely when we'll have an opportunity to go.

174 That reminds me of one of my favorite places in the Olympics - Hurricane Ridge, up above Anacortes. Absolutely breathtaking views. I think you could see Mt Olympus from there as I recall.

175 Europe simply doesn’t have the entrepreneurial mindset. There’s no Facebook created in a College dorm room in Berlin or Paris. It’s a foreign concept to them.
Posted by: Heroq
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Who knows where the people's minds would go if they were set free. Regulation is a killer.

176 faucet and a hot faucet, and you have to do the "slide hand wash"...Oh too HOT....slide over to the cold faucet...too cold, back over to the Hot faucet. It's annoying.
Posted by: Orson

One of a few local NW inventions: the single handle faucet - Alfred Moen, Seattle.
Vinyl- (everybody's favorite albums?) - Waldo Semon Univ of WA. Let his name be the first name in synthetic rubber!
And compact disc technology - James Russell from Bremerton WA.

177 Marx also was an unwashed moocher who lived off of Engels' family inheritance. Notorious for his noxious personal hygiene (Marx almost never bathed), it was so bad that he suffered from horrible rashes nearly his whole life.


His very name and the ideology he founded is a horrible rash on all of humanity.

178 Thanks, Nurse. I still can't get it out of my mind that the giant trees are in the PNW. Now I definitely have to go see them, even if it means entering the dreaded State of California (actually, San Diego was great).

179 164 "Europe simply doesn’t have the entrepreneurial mindset. There’s no Facebook created in a College dorm room in Berlin or Paris. It’s a foreign concept to them."

Something about American Exceptionalism.
Posted by: pawn at June 06, 2026 12:55 PM (+rSJz)

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Europe has a cultural history of monarchies and elites. They were, and are, the ones who made decisions and ran things.
America has a history of a pioneering spirit and rolling up our sleeves and getting shit done ourselves.
We are free enough to dare to try.

180 171 I'm tired of dealing with those window and wall A/C units. Maybe it's time to invest in a mini-split.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
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Someone here was getting one, never heard the results. Have read they are no more fun than a window rattler. Noisy.

181
Marx also was an unwashed moocher who lived off of Engels' family inheritance. Notorious for his noxious personal hygiene (Marx almost never bathed), it was so bad that he suffered from horrible rashes nearly his whole life.

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Sounds like the non-bathing was for a reason other than simply convenience or laziness.

182 California protected the hell out of a lot of their Redwoods. I lost 4 and my inlaws lost probaly close to 20 in a fire in Berry Creek a few years ago. I sold the land. Nothing there worth owning now.
Good thing they wouldn't let us harvest any. They wouldn't have been there to die in the fire.

183 Europe is set up in a way to not allow entrepreneurs the opportunity to build a better mouse trap. The old guard companies are protected from any competition.

184 Lincolntf don't know your priors or druthers, but if you've never visited Sonoma, October is a great time. Sonoma's long past its prime (by my lights) of sleepy and informal, but still beautiful. In October you'll have dry heat inland, but beautiful ocean conditions out at the coast just a short drive away through the Russian River valley. Pop over the ridge to Anderson Valley for a beautiful quieter place, continue west and you hit a stand of coast redwoods. No more beautiful part of the US, and the food and wine are superb.

185 Marx abandoned his household, had child with housekeeper, abandoned all children.

186 Europe has a cultural history of monarchies and elites. They were, and are, the ones who made decisions and ran things.
America has a history of a pioneering spirit and rolling up our sleeves and getting shit done ourselves.
We are free enough to dare to try.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 06, 2026 01:03 PM (2WIwB)

The notion of private property, including the right to your inventive and creative works and other fruits of your labor was perhaps the single greatest contributor to the concept of American Exceptionalism.

Of course enemies of America want to tax that into oblivion.

187 Marx abandoned his household, had child with housekeeper, abandoned all children.
Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2026 01:05 PM (Ia/+0)

Is that wrong?
- Aaahhnold

188 One of a few local NW inventions: the single handle faucet - Alfred Moen,
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Mr. Moen, I'm sure that you are a nice guy but I can't stand your faucet.

189 Marx abandoned his household, had child with housekeeper, abandoned all children.

My man !!!

190 Lincolntf San Diego is still tolerable, I guess, but only for the toughest of us. Well, more than tolerable actually.

191 All right, Rhomboid, that sounds exactly like the kind of trip we'd like. Wife has been to Sonoma when she was a kid, I've never been there.

192 Stopped bathing? Ewwwww.

Saturday is bath and fresh underwear day.

193 > Someone here was getting one, never heard the results. Have read they are no more fun than a window rattler. Noisy.
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I had one installed in an office setting. The inside unit which has the heating coils and A/C condenser wasn't bad.... but the unit froze up a couple times and made a mess on the wall with the melting ice. The outside unit was real quiet. Inside unit too. If at full blast it could be annoying.

194 One of a few local NW inventions: the single handle faucet - Alfred Moen, Seattle.
Vinyl- (everybody's favorite albums?) - Waldo Semon Univ of WA. Let his name be the first name in synthetic rubber!
And compact disc technology - James Russell from Bremerton WA.
Posted by: Rex B at June 06, 2026 01:00 PM (rgnea)


And the dude (forgotten his name) who invented the little plastic thing (looks like a square guitar pick) that secures the bread bag was from Richland.

195 It looks like the Intimidator, in his Black #3, has a new competitor to race.

Ned Jarrett passed away at 93.

196 notion of private property, including the right to your inventive and creative works and other fruits of your labor was perhaps the single greatest contributor to the concept of American Exceptionalism.

Of course enemies of America want to tax that into oblivion.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder,

Not just tax it but turn an entire ge station against it as well. The whole “work life balance” shit is the left sabotaging the American capitalist system.

I’m not saying everyone needs to work 80 hours a week. But the reason Google and Tesla and intel exist and are what they are, is because people worked long hours to make it happen. And were rewarded with unbelievable wealth for it.

Remove that incentive and the next Google or Amazon won’t be created.

197 Air conditioning is the single reason I would never want to live in any other time period. Its my consistent answer when somebody says "yeah it would be cool to live in the roman days" Uh..no. "wow ancient egypt would be cool" Uh...no. Viking times would be killer, long houses and mead and.." Uh..no, I can buy mead and sit in my long house with the AC.

198
Do cars sold in European have air conditioning?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 06, 2026 12:57 PM (iTNuP)




Of course not. Car air conditioning belongs in the same hell as dashboard cup-holders. You Americans with your drinking-coffee-while-driving fetish are uncivilized savages.

199 Lincolntf - if you fly into Medford, OR you take I-5 north to Grants Pass then 199 southwest over the CA border towards Crescent City. You can find places to camp along the Smith River. Lots of redwoods in that area.

200 Splits are the norm in Japan and many east Asian countries, I've always found them to be fine.

201 Rhomboid, we had an AirBnB cottage on the beach in Ocean Beach, and when I say "on the beach" I mean we couldn't access the place without walking in the sand. Volleyball constantly, dog walkers constantly, even roller bladers and skateboarders cruising around like it was 1988. We had a blast.

202 No one in movies takes Tuco's advice
When your going to shoot, shoot, don't talk

203 "giant Redwood/Sequoia trees. ?"

Fly into Fresno or Bakersfield and visit Sequoia National Park.

204 Germany: drinking coffee while driving? Gross!!

Also Germany: we create the weirdest fetish porn your mind can conjure

205 Paul Gaugin, the French artist, abandoned his wife and children and ran off to live with topless Polynesian girls. Then he sat around on the beach and drew pictures of them and said he was “working”.

206 What rhomboid said @184.
Spot on.
Years ago I put the top down on the Beamer and started from Washington state and headed south on the coast highway. (101) drove all the way to Monterey. Dang! A fantastic drive. It is bucket list worthy.

207 Thanks Alberta and Pablo and everyone else who contributed to my trip-planning.

208 Years ago I put the top down on the Beamer and started from Washington state and headed south on the coast highway. (101) drove all the way to Monterey. Dang! A fantastic drive. It is bucket list worthy.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 06, 2026 01:13 PM (2WIwB)

In 2001, I loaded up my '62 Notchback and headed on down for my first job out of undergrad in Silicon Valley. Beautiful summer drive.

209 Better get outside and do stuff

210 Thanks Alberta and Pablo and everyone else who contributed to my trip-planning.
Posted by: Lincolntf at June 06, 2026 01:15 PM (vV6n9)


The Horde also excels at dating and medical advice.

211 Benicia ca used to have a good swap meet.

212 Speaking of entrepreneurship...I think a fortune could be made for anyone who invents a device that will blind a phones camera. Every riot has a couple causing trouble and a throng of assholes holding up cameras. Those clowns are half the problem. Someone needs to create a handheld laser or something like that to blind them.
I got this idea from some R&D the military was doing in the 80's. Technology today maybe could make it work.

213 > Years ago I put the top down on the Beamer and started from Washington state and headed south on the coast highway. (101) drove all the way to Monterey. Dang! A fantastic drive. It is bucket list worthy.

Posted by: Diogenes
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I used to commute from Monterey to Menlo Park on CA 1, 17 and 101. 100 miles one way.

214 Young people are back out on the streets in the major cities in Iran.

215 What an unfortunate last name.
Posted by: Reforger


Was 'crap' a word before John Crapper?

216 In the category of Less Exciting Travel Plans, some Army buddies want to do a get-together this summer in Nashville, Indiana. Yes, Indiana. One of my firiends said "It's like miniature Gatlinburg!" as if that would entice me. I'll probably end up going, but I'll be a dick to the guys who picked the spot.

217 In the category of Less Exciting Travel Plans, some Army buddies want to do a get-together this summer in Nashville, Indiana. Yes, Indiana.

That sucks.

218 Heh heh heh

219 Then he sat around on the beach and drew pictures of them and said he was “working”.

there should be a school for this

220 .
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Please STOP pulling my Pelley.
.
That's nasty.

221 Almost any of the US highways in Nor Cal are really cool drives.
I do 70 from outside Reno to Lake Orroville quite a bit. 49 is awesome too. There are a lot of "truck routes" that can be really challenging if you're into that sort of thing.

222
Do cars sold in European have air conditioning?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

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Shockingly, they don't even have cup holders.

I discovered this after I went to a Danish restaurant with a friend and we casually said we'd take our coffee To Go. They looked at each other as if they didn't know English after all. In the end, they gave us our coffee in glasses with little paper covers they'd found somewhere, baffled but happy to be of service.

(Then we got out to the car and realized...)

223 I have mini-split a/c. Very quiet and only need to run for a few minutes at a time. Can be set to do it automatically.

224
Another climate-related thread that I can't relate to.

Staying at a relative's in SoCal. She lives in a cul-de-sac near the beach, and it's safe. We open the doors. AC! Close the doors. Warmth! It's enough to make you stay and fight for this state.

225 >>We'd just be living in homes with wide open windows with screens,

Window screens were arguably more important than A/C because they keep a lot of vermin out of the house.

226 175 Europe simply doesn’t have the entrepreneurial mindset. There’s no Facebook created in a College dorm room in Berlin or Paris. It’s a foreign concept to them.
Posted by: Heroq
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Who knows where the people's minds would go if they were set free. Regulation is a killer.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 06, 2026 12:59 PM (0kM66)

Just this morning I watched a YouTube video from a guy who said he couldn't wait to get back to the US after living in France. He said the US is the "land of yes" in contrast to Europe's "land of no."

227
212 Speaking of entrepreneurship...I think a fortune could be made for anyone who invents a device that will blind a phones camera. Every riot has a couple causing trouble and a throng of assholes holding up cameras. Those clowns are half the problem. Someone needs to create a handheld laser or something like that to blind them.”

As you say, a handheld laser. The problem is that if it can do that to a camera, it can do the same to anyone’s eyes. People try to point lasers at helicopters and planes from time to time - not cool.

228 Fun fact: Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard together invented a refrigerator that didn't require a pump. Einstein was inspired to design his invention when he read about a family that was asphyxiated in their home when their refrigerator's pump leaked out its coolant. (In those days, the most widely used coolant was ammonia.) However, the Einstein-Szilard refrigerator was too noisy and never went into production.

229
Just this morning I watched a YouTube video from a guy who said he couldn't wait to get back to the US after living in France. He said the US is the "land of yes" in contrast to Europe's "land of no."
Posted by: The Patriarchy

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I saw that one! What a refreshing break from the channels of Americans fleeing fascist Trumpistan. (I get a train-wreck sort of thrill watching those.)

230 As you say, a handheld laser. The problem is that if it can do that to a camera, it can do the same to anyone’s eyes. People try to point lasers at helicopters and planes from time to time - not cool.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2026 01:48 PM (3mtTi)


Exactly. There in lay the rub.

231 Staying at a relative's in SoCal. She lives in a cul-de-sac near the beach, and it's safe. We open the doors. AC! Close the doors. Warmth! It's enough to make you stay and fight for this state.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 06, 2026 01:46 PM (n7rxJ )

This is not intended to reflect on you of course, but it helps me clarify something I’ve been thinking for a while. For many who choose to live in SoCal, personal comfort is their highest goal. For many who choose to live in uncomfortably hot and humid Texas, personal comfort is trivial, while economic opportunity and personal freedom is paramount.

232 >>>I have mini-split a/c. Very quiet and only need to run for a few minutes at a time. Can be set to do it automatically.

Posted by: free tibet

>Window models kinda suck. They're seasonal. Put them in, take them out without damaging your back, and then there is sealing to keep the bug invasion out. Mini split, you just throw a tarp around the thing if you're concerned about the elements in the off season.

233 Fun fact: Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard together invented a refrigerator that didn't require a pump. Einstein was inspired to design his invention when he read about a family that was asphyxiated in their home when their refrigerator's pump leaked out its coolant. (In those days, the most widely used coolant was ammonia.) However, the Einstein-Szilard refrigerator was too noisy and never went into production.

Posted by: Nemo at June 06, 2026 01:49 PM (4RPgu)

On first use-ta-fish, a prototype hull/reactor for the USS Narwhal (SSN-671) in Idaho, the plant had a steam powered A/C chiller that used a Bromine salt solution refrigerant, that by absorption of water, cooled the chilled water, as I recall, and steam was used to drive off the excess moisture, "recharging" the refrigerant.

One of the main drawbacks, as I recall was corrosion.

234 you say, a handheld laser. The problem is that if it can do that to a camera, it can do the same to anyone’s eyes. People try to point lasers at helicopters and planes from time to time - not cool.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2026 01:48 PM (3mtTi)


Exactly. There in lay the rub.

Posted by: Diogenes
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Handheld EMT maybe?🤔

235 Well. Things to do.
But first a shout out to my late Father-in-Law.
He fought in the Pacific and while he gave credit to the guys in Europe for D-Day, he had three D-Days of his own. Three different islands and the fighting was brutal.
RIP Al.

236 >>WHY THE BLOODY HELL DON'T WE HAVE THIS IN THE UK?

About 30 years ago, worked with a guy fresh from the UK (Newcastle-on-Tyne). He arrived in early December, and we were trying to scare him about Midwest winters. Had to translate from F to C, but he was amused that we thought he would have a problem with zero-degree Fahrenheit weather. After all, Newcastle got that cold at times almost every winter. In summer, it could even get up to thirty degrees Celsius! We translated. Um, Peter, in July here you can see forty degrees Celsius. (cont)

237 2/2
He looked at us and said, 'You're joking.' Fast forward to July; one of those mornings where the temp was around seventy and the humidity about the same. He came in looking melted. All he could say for about five minutes was, 'Thank God for air conditioning.'

238 > peaking of entrepreneurship...I think a fortune could be made for anyone who invents a device that will blind a phones camera.
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People use some sort of laser, with specific power output, to disable Flock security/surveillance/ALPR cameras. A number of Redditors in that sub are quite militant about it too.

I find them to be a nuisance. The cameras. The Redditors are nutz.

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Daily Tech News 6 June 2026

Top Story

• SpaceX just launched 50 more Starlink satellites into orbit in a single day, using a pair of its trusty Falcon 9 boosters from facilities at Cape Canaveral and Vandenburg. (Space)
  
  And recovered both boosters, with them landing autonomously on the company's two purpose-built drone ships.
  
  I was curious as to how long it took mankind to launch its first 50 satellites into orbit, and the answer surprised me: Withing four years of Sputnik there were over a hundred satellite launches. "Space race" is no misnomer.

Tech News

• Speaking of SpaceX they just signed a deal for Google to pay them $920 million per month for compute capacity in SpaceX's Colossus datacenters. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Which might sounds backwards but illustrates the scale on which the company is operating. SpaceX already has an arrangement with AI company Anthropic, which pays SpaceX $1.25 billion per month to lease compute capacity.
  
  
  
• SK Hynix is planning to double memory production at its factories in Korea and China. (WCCFTech)
  
  By 2030. The drought won't break anytime soon.
  
  
  
• A coalition of trade associations representing the telecommunications, automotive, and medical device industries has urged the Trump administration to do something about that drought. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Though it's not clear what they can do. Even direct government investment or loan guarantees for Micron - the one American player among the Big Three memory makers - to accelerate expansion can only go so far because it takes years to build and fit out new factories, and the availability of the equipment for making chips is as constrained as the chips themselves.
  
  
  
• The Radxa Dragon Q5E is a small single board computer for embedded projects with a Qualcomm Dragonwing Q-6690 processor. (Liliputing)
  
  (muffled screaming)
  
  Qualcomm is infamous for masking the specs of their processors. For more than a decade every CPU shipped has contained "Kryo" cores according to the company's own datasheets. Those are relabeled Arm cores, but you're not supposed to know which relabeled Arm cores. Could be the A53 from 2012; could be the latest X925. It's all just "Kryo".
  
  It's as if General Motors announced its 2026 Car (TM) with Engine (TM) technology.
  
  Anyway, in this case it has four A720 cores and four A520 cores on a 4nm process, because as soon as one person outside Qualcomm gets their hands on one the real specs leak out.
  
  
  
• Intel is planning to refresh its new entry-level Wildcat Lake processors next year - pushing them solidly into the mid range. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The cheapest model, the 304, has one performance core, four low-power cores, and one graphics core; the other current models have two, four, and two respectively.
  
  The planned upgrade will bring the count of performance cores to four, a perfectly reasonable number for an everyday laptop.
  
  
  
• Nvidia's on-again off-again 50 Super range of GPUs might be on again? (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Expected at the end of last year, these models would have swapped 2GB GDDR7 memory chips for 3GB models, with some unspecified other minor improvements. The 5070 with its 12GB of RAM - limiting for some recent games - would be supplanted by a 5070 Super with 18GB of RAM.
  
  Rumours now include a 12GB 5060 Super, plus the new 24GB 5070 Ti Super and 5080 Super.
  
  No leaks of when or how much, but not soon and not cheap.
  
  
  
• Brave Origin is a new browser from Brave that costs $60 to remove features from Brave. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  But the features it removes are Brave's own - relatively unobtrusive - monetisation efforts.
  
  (Speaking of which, Tom's Hardware has annoying new ads that fill every inch of whitespace on the page. If you set Brave's adblock to "aggressive" it makes them go away and leaves the page readable again. I don't want website owners to starve but there are limits.)
  
  The $60 is a one-time payment and lets you install the browser on up to 10 systems, so I'd only need two licenses.
  
  And it's free on Linux, so I might only need one.
  
  
  
• Asus has a new 13" monitor on offer with a resolution of 3200x2400 - sort of - and a 35Hz nominal refresh rate. (Liliputing)
  
  It covers around 30% of the DCI-P3 colourspace.
  
  Yes, it's an e-ink display, so take that refresh rate with a pound of salt, and the resolution as well: In colour it is cut by half, so 1600x1200. Which is not terrible for a 13" display you would use mostly for reading text, but worth remembering.
  
  I did some digging on the original 2012 Nexus 7 tablet - which I owned (and probably still have in a box in the garage), and which had notably murky colour thanks to the choice of a budget LCD panel. That still offered something on the order of 60% of DCI-P3 colour.
  
  
  
• Been very busy at work recently, pushing a new project towards release. Got sign-off from both the QA and marketing teams yesterday, so I finally get a weekend off. Ish.
  
  
  

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