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Author needs to cheer the fuck up - his life sounds like a chore...
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Not if it follows a regular schedule.
Until a shipment gets delayed by weather and he can't go outside because he has no more clothes. Though he'd probably consider that a positive development.
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I stopped at >I utilize soylent only at home and go out to eat when craving company or flavor. right after we found out kitchens are nasty and wasteful. Of course, out of sight, out of mind?
His point I think is that collective cooking/eating is more efficient. I don't have the numbers, but it makes sense.
Fair confident this is all satire. Read his post on dating. Same vein of humor, but more obviously a joke. http://robrhinehart.com/?p=1005
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My post was less about the energy usage and more about the Sweatshop workers's working conditions. He seems concerned about highly-paid Energy Workers in the US who are required (by law) to have safe working conditions (or at least, safe as defined by the law. People still die on the job but at least we try to keep them safe). And then he turns around and brags about using cheap Chinese workers to sew him new clothes…
So what are the relative safety rates of textile workers in China vs energy workers in the US? I would be genuinely interested to know.
> Between 25% and 50% of the factories in the region restrict access to toilets and drinking water during the workday.
> The same percentage deny workers at least one day off in seven.
> In more than half of Nike's factories, the report said, employees worked more than 60 hours a week. In up to 25%, workers refusing to do overtime were punished.
Gotta keep those margins. You aren't allowed water because that'd cost the company too much.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1285980/Revealed-Ins...
> Steel wire meshes have been fitted to windows at Foxconn's factory to stop workers jumping after a rash of suicides believed to be due to harsh management practices
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The worst issue is that Chinese media restricts free speech and labor unions, making it hard to gather statistics of any kind.
In the US, we are required by law to report injuries and accidents on the job. China... not so. And since these injuries are embarrassing to state-owned companies, government censorship exists to cover-up these sorts of accidents a lot. Non-government organizations are subject to crackdowns of course.
When a country doesn't have labor unions fighting for workers rights, these sorts of issues happen.
>> “I work on the plastic molding machine from 6 in the morning to 6 at night,” said Xu Wenquan, a tiny, baby-faced 16-year-old whose hands were covered with blisters. Asked what had happened to his hands, he replied, the machines are “quite hot, so I’ve burned my hands.”
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I can spend the money I saved from groceries and take out to buy a friend lunch or dinner Or you could learn to cook and make a friend a probably better tasting lunch or dinner at substantially lower cost.
What is it with cooking that makes people under-appreciate the value of a good professional? It sounds like those clients who think programming is just pressing a few buttons.
The Soylent guy is claiming that his kitchen is "too costly", and yet eats out all the time. The contradiction is obvious.
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His point I think is that collective cooking/eating is more efficient. I don't have the numbers, but it makes sense.
I'm actually all for collectivization and economy of scale, but I didn't see that point anywhere. I could personally come up with the upside of not having a personal kitchen, powerplant, house, but I didn't get that from reading, rather just the dislike of having a kitchen.
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And that's where I stopped. I can appreciate people who can run low powered devices. But new clothes? Just run a washer and hang your clothes if you're in a dry climate. Then you wouldn't even need to buy new clothes because you don't have a machine that slowly turns clothes into lint.
If you're in a dry climate, it still seems like a bad idea to run a washer. Since he seems to be OK with high shipping costs, he could send his clothes somewhere that has more water to be washed.
> Even in less temperate locales I wonder if we really need to define our environment to within single degree Fahrenheit. Hey, sure, tell that to everyone in the northern states, no need for heat right? I mean when it's 10°F outside you can just shut the windows and be nice and warm, right?
> It had no furnace; instead, the house was heated with a solar heating system designed specifically for Saskatchewan’s extreme Climate.
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I can spend the money I saved from groceries and take out to buy a friend lunch or dinner Or you could learn to cook and make a friend a probably better tasting lunch or dinner at substantially lower cost.
What is it with cooking that makes people under-appreciate the value of a good professional? It sounds like those clients who think programming is just pressing a few buttons.
I do appreciate good chefs. It's probably side effect of the (cheap-ass) restaurants I go to, but I can cook at least as well as most of the people they have back in the kitchen. And I don't consider myself particularly skilled.