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To be frank the best summer I’ve ever had in Berlin. Everyday warm and sunny and love it.

You get completely drenched in sweat if you take the metro or S-bahn even at 30 degrees. There's no AC there. It's just miserable to commute. Also, most buildings don't have shutters and are not designed even for high 20s.

Berlin is an absolutely miserable place in this weather if you commute or just trying to sleep at night. Like, you can't efficiently cool the apartment down if it's 20 degrees at night and there's no wind.

I agree, that's a total failure of the Berlin government, they even ordered new U-bahn without A/C. As for S-bahn, most are air conditioned. I take the ring bahn to work and it's ACed.

There was one day it didn't cooled down at nice for this year (when day temperature went close to 40 degrees). Other than that, for I sleep with all windows open and I create an airflow with two fans. The apartment gets cooled during night and during the day I just keep the curtains closed. It hasn't gone above 25 degrees inside the apartment during the day time.

> they even ordered new U-bahn without A/C

AC is fairly problematic for narrow underground tunnels. This is one upside of the massive 9m diameter tunnels being used for a lot of new underground lines; way easier to ventilate. But, ah, not something you can really retrofit.

It could be worse, however: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_cooling

That’s kinda incompetent excuse in my opinion. There are many other ways they can cool down the underground stations and trains. Would be expensive, but doable. However, given the track record of constructions in Berlin it would take like 100 years to do it for all Ubhan lines.

    > Like, you can't efficiently cool the apartment down if it's 20 degrees at night and there's no wind.

I don't get it. 20 degrees at night sounds lovely. Get a window fan and you will be golden.

I was there last week. It was 37 degrees one day. Not most peoples' idea of a good time.

There was just one day with 37 degrees and it was a wonderful day spent by the a lake for me. If you live in Berlin you'd actually start to appreciate those days because if we're lucky we'd get like max. two weeks of sunny warm days and rest is rainy, cold, gray depressing weather

People are literally dying due to the heat.

So what? People die everyday due to many reasons. Should I not supposed to enjoy life because people are dying?

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I don't think any opinions should be criminal, but some deserve downvotes.

Are people that bitter? like someone enjoying the summer weather deserves a downvote?

In Germany there are criminal opinions, mostly about Jews and Nazis.

True, but get off free if you’re supporting a genocide, but can go to jail for telling a politician is dumb

As long as you support the correct genocide.

There is no such thing as correct genocide

There is in Germany.

> What's next? "BaCk iN mY DaYs SumMeRs WeRe HoT ToO" ?

Please don't sneer like this on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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