this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2026
890 points (99.1% liked)
Microblog Memes
11873 readers
728 users here now
A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
RULES:
- Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
- Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
- You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
- Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
- Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
- Absolutely no NSFL content.
- Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
- No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.
RELATED COMMUNITIES:
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I didn't have AC until I was almost an adult in the late 90s. It regularly gets to be about body temperature outside, with humidity, in the summer. Heat waves can sometimes be 110f/43c. When I first lived in a home with AC I was freezing and had to wear long sleeves all summer. I have since acclimated, but my wife and kids who have always had AC freak out if it gets to be 80f/27c.
A lot of public spaces in the usa set their air conditioning to bone chilling levels. Especially restaurants and hospitals.
The hospitals argue it helps control bacteria growth, and the restaurants do it because the kitchen becomes a sauna in the summer.
Hospitals are right, and there are additional factors. Most pathogens really like human body temperature, so keeping the difference high enough between rooms and bodies helps cutting their growth rate (and it's a quadratic correlation, not linear). Also, lower room temperatures have shown to be preferable to reduce patient mortality in general - The body doesn't have to do tons of work to cool you down, which is additional strain on the circulatory system and reduces available water due to sweating. It's no coincidence that mortality rates rise dramatically during heat waves.
I got AC when I moved out, prior to that I lived in an old single-wide trailer in the middle of a field... It was always hot but being near the GA/FL line didn't help lol.
Did your home have awnings? I have heard that just keeping the sun off is most of the work.
None at all, it was a pretty bare bones trailer, we had to replace a lot of flooring but that was more just adding a layer of wood we pulled out of an abandoned house. So pretty much a metal box in a big open field.
Well, I'm glad you made it out of there.
We all come from somewhere, sometimes I catch myself thinking fondly of the simplicity of the time, though ultimately I'm glad I moved out as soon as I could.