Why I always laugh when clueless folks – usually utterly dopey Northerners –  say “no one needs an air conditioner anywhere ever.”

That’s almost 5AM. Eighty degrees with 94 percent humidity at the “coolest” part of the day in St. Petersburg, FL.

That’s not even as hot as it gets at 5AM there. Sometimes the daily low is 83-85 degrees at nearly 100 percent humidity.

I guess you can debate the definition of “need,” but I do a lot of work at night. There’s no way I can work with hot computers running indoors when it’s 85 degrees plus.

That’s at night, of course. During the day it’s 90+ at similar humidity. Do think you can work in an office that’s 90+ degrees with around 100% humidity?

Most people – most Westerners at least – haven’t done that, but I have. And I know how shitty it is and how unproductive. US Army, five years, will put you in situations like that.

About 10% as productive that way.

And oh yeah, elderly and sick people start dying when it gets that hot, but who cares about them when we have to prove our liberal bona fides. Fuck them, right?