FWIW, I never had an AC until about 5 or so years ago. These days it is required as people age. And compared to when I was young, summers are far more brutal. I think about 40 years ago I started using a window fan at night, before that an open window was good enough.
"A large analysis found that the majority of these deaths were not just among the extremely frail, but in people who likely would not have died within the next six months, and that in most cases, life was shortened by at least one year. Some cases will have less time lost, but it is rare for heat death to simply advance death by only days or weeks.
In quantitative terms, heat deaths tend to "cost" between six months and a few years of life per death on average."
You gotta die of something.
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"The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it."
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