Due to airstrikes on the electricity grid, power outages are relatively common. This has lead to literally every business buying generators.
In other countries, putting a generator on a sidewalk outside your business would have taken months of red tape. Not here.
In Vienna, I’m unable to install an air conditioner that hangs out of my window, so I’m forced to endure unbearable temperatures of 30 degrees Celsius in my apartment during the summer months.
Every unit in the apartment building my Airbnb is in has an air conditioner outside. And no-one is stopping you from fixing it by crawling on top of it 10 floors above the ground!
You must live in an old building. My understanding is that you can't put the external unit on the facade. I live in a new building and we have floor cooling. I didn't expect it to be enough, but it's amazing.
Floor cooling systems provide only a limited temperature range adjustment, typically a few degrees, compared to a standard wall-mounted air conditioner.
Vienna is an old city, with many buildings dating back centuries. However, this should not be used as an excuse. AC should come as standard like in the US.
Ukraine proved that decentralisation works in energy too.
I wouldn't say that. Those generators are quite expensive to run. Businesses turn them off whenever grid power is available, which at the moment is 100% of the time (in late August and early Sept Russia spent ~$1 billion on missiles and drones attacking energy infrastructure, but Ukraine has managed to mitigate that attack since then; Kyiv hasn't had a power outage for about 2 weeks).
It's also notable that Ukrainians aren't responding to this by installing solar on a large scale. In this climate it's just too expensive for not that much power. There is a bit of solar. But it's pretty minimal. Wind isn't being installed either.
They need energy that works, not energy that gets you Wokeness Points.
Nuclear and Hydro(carbons) rule the world.
not to mention stupid politicians trying to reclaim territory for a nation that did not exist until the bolsheviks manufactured it (it's called ukraine because that means "on the edge/border" lol that is not the name of a nation that's a fucking location
i think the history of the region as relates to russia goes back to when the kingdom of russia annexed it and funded the expansion of odessa, tsarina katherine, prior to that it was part of poland and romania and bulgaria and idk what other... probably was turkish at one point and probably austro/hungarian
the entire edifice of the "ukrainian language" is codification of a provincial dialect of russian, and it's not that much different to Russine which is an ethnic group found to the west in romania and serbia, and that's basically an archaic form of russian before the stupid language bullshit of the 18th and 19th century
NATO is just using these people as pawns in their scheme for bringing on armageddon and that's all there is to understand about it IMO
that's why if more of them would just go beg to the asshole countries that are backing this stupid pointless war for legitimate asylum this would be over tomorrow
honestly, we have africa flooding into europe to get free welfare payments and we have legit victims of bullshit over to the east and they aren't flooding in, what's wrong with this picture?
maybe i'm biased about all this because i've lived most of my life as a nomad and moved from one place to the next and i come from two generations of people who did this, because of world war 2, because of the indonesian war of independence, but honestly, the people who stubbornly refuse to gtfo when maniacs show up cheering on murder and destruction idk what to say about you
are you stupid? i think you might be stupid
without these people sticking around there is no war
