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It doesn't suck. It's just a temporary discomfort. I feel like the discomfort is actually somewhat beneficial. When I get home after cycling on a really hot day I immediately take a shower and then feel great about how comfortable my home is. Better than if I had taken an air-conditioned car/bus back. I think maybe we have too much confort all of the time and it makes it harder to appreciate than if we get to experience discomfort some times.

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The first world privilege is stunning.

You mean the first world privilege of "Big SUVs with the AC turned down to 65"?

Yes, it is stunning.

Especially when its being confused to something like a basic human right -- that everybody should just adopt, instead of the spoiled result of a consumerist society, enabled by first world wages and cheap energy (subsidised by exercising global power).

As is the idea that the lifestyle of your country (or your adopted country) is the best in the world, and everyone should follow suit, with big SUVs and AC to 65" -- and if they don't do it, it's only because they can't afford it (never mind that places that can very well afford SUVs and full-on AC blast, like in most of Western Europe, happen to shun both as tacky).

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