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[โ€“] balsoft@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (37 children)

The very last electric appliances to be turned off should be residential AC units

I don't think a mostly for-comfort utility should be the last to shut down. There is a lot of significantly more important shit, like hospitals, water treatment plants and pumping stations, coolers and freezers which are storing food, public transit, etc.

After all, our species has survived without AC for hundreds of thousands of years, but surviving without running water or safe food is much more difficult.

Even some datacenters can be more important, e.g. those predicting the weather or handling communications.

And if AC is necessary for survival in a place, then maybe we shouldn't fuckin' settle there (or at least shouldn't cover the entire place with asphalt and concrete). What happens during a real blackout? Does everyone just die?

[โ€“] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 49 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (10 children)

After all, our species has survived without AC for hundreds of thousands of years

survivorship

Other things our species survived without for hundreds of thousands of years include water purification, cancer treatment, obstetrics, antibiotics, sterile medical instruments, and agriculture.

[โ€“] homhom9000@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Sorry if it's unrelated, I understand the meme but what's the background of it?

[โ€“] Azarova@hexbear.net 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's an image from a study of Allied bombers during World War 2. The red dots are places where the plane was shot, yet still managed to return home. A knee-jerk reaction would be to add armor to these places, but the real solution was to add armor to the places where the suvivors hadn't been shot (cockpit, engines, tail), resulting in more planes surviving their bombing runs.

[โ€“] homhom9000@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago

Oooh thank you. I thought the background was about a plane crash and where survivors would need to be to survive

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