How I Gave Up Alternating Current
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How I Gave Up Alternating Current
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#2I am curious about the custom clothes made in China, how much are they and how often does he have to buy them to never have to do laundry.
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#3Is this a parody?
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#4Interesting, but it seems like a lot of the lifestyle choices are just pushing the carbon/climate impact to someone else where the author doesn't have to think about it.
Getting custom clothes made in china and shipped frequently is certainly far less environmentally friendly than simply re-using the clothes you already have.
Taking an uber still burns gasoline. A bike would be better.
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#5Man, I aspire to that level of efficiency though probably could not reach it since I enjoy cooking and eating dead meat too much. I do think there are huge benefits to simplifying life, and relying less on all these time-consuming habits domesticated humans have invented. Even if we can easily afford to pay for big box groceries, and coal power, not relying on these things might free up a lot of mental space I would imagine.
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#6I am curious about the custom clothes made in China, how much are they and how often does he have to buy them to never have to do laundry.
I guess the author is also comfortable with wearing new clothes without washing them. Personally, I wash most clothes before wearing them (except for outerwear).
Also, the author clearly does not have a baby—or keeps his/her baby naked at all times… :)
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#7Is this a parody?
I got to the part about buying new clothes instead of washing before I wondered the same thing.
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#8Is this a parody?
> First, I never cook. I am all for self reliance but repeating the same labor over and over for the sake of existence is the realm of robots.
> I have not done laundry in years.
One can only hope.
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#9Lead-acid batteries can't be used effectively for energy storage, especially not vanilla car batteries that are optimized for cranking amps but will only last a few cycles of charging and discharging.
Generally, lead-acid batteries will sulfate at low levels of charge, which is a hard-to-reverse reaction.
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#10I gave up the article at the "I never cook" line.