I have a lap cat so I get lots of cat-in-lap time 🐱
I get to work from home every day, and so does my wife.
We each have our office space so we can work in peace but at any point in the day we can just have a chat, we can have lunch together, we can have our evening planned and be out of the door at 5pmIt’s just all so much better than the old office-based life
Nothing about that is absurd
It would be if you had this exact same scenario 5 years ago. It’s absurd if you remember what it was like before, and it highlights how absurd return to office mandates are.
You could even, oh my god, have a hug or touch her nose.
see some of that ankle
You saw ankle bone? You got some ankle cleavage, you dirty devil, eh?
…good height !
Like five niiiine!
heheh
Boop!
No human had a hot shower before a hundred years ago and now I have at least one a day
WFH.
I sit in the back of my car in the parking ramp on my lunch break, throw my Nintendo Switch on a seatback headrest mount, and play Diablo II like I’m flying first class. First time I’ve ever had something with 4 doors and I’m using every damn door
You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar. I will try to emulate your good example
It’s ok Nintendo, calm down, he didn’t mean that kind.
Clean tap water.
People have no idea how fortunate this is until it’s gone. Several years ago we had a bad algae bloom in the river that supplies our water and we couldn’t drink it for a couple weeks. Every store in town was out of water and you had people with well water leaving hoses and signs out front of their house offering it up to people. One Pilot gas station tried scalping 6 packs of Dasani for ~$50. It’s so crazy how you take it for granted until you can’t just go to the sink to fill up a cup of water (we have excellent tap water) along with taking for granted the fact that stores have bottled water on the shelves.
Ever since then we’ve kept a small stock pile of water in the garage just in case.
Thanks, i sould appreciate it more. Tap water in switzerland is maybe even healthier as bottled water.
I have a smartwatch, which I got for my birthday. I have no real need for such a thing, but I really do enjoy it. I spend most of my time at home, and it’s nice to not have to do stuff like go find my phone and take it outside with me if I want to sit on the deck in case I get an important text or call or miss an alarm.
Also, because other people are mentioning audio and music- my dad was born in 1931 and died in 2016. He absolutely loved classical music and was a real expert on it, especially the Russian composers. He pointed out that in his lifetime, if he wanted to listen to recorded classical music, he had to go from multiple 78 records, about 3 minutes per side, which you had to just keep flipping over and switching to the next one if you wanted to listen to something long (this is where the word ‘album’ came from, it was originally a literal album full of 78s) to a smartphone or mp3 player that could hold virtually every CD in his massive collection.
That was definitely a luxury, but a luxury that gave him a whole lot of comfort in his old age.
Edit: I just hung up on a telemarketer from my wrist. God, that was satisfying.
I just hung up on a telemarketer from my wrist. God, that was satisfying.
Like slamming down the receiver of an old land line, I imagine you did this by slamming your fist through drywall.
Sadly, I am a little weakling.
I live in a tropical humid place that regularly gets 40+Celsius temps even during “winter” (it is currently “winter”)
But I can afford air conditioning. A lot of people in my country cannot, and have just an electric fan and a lot of water to get them through the days.
I can afford air conditioning
“No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater; than central air.” – Azrael, “Dogma” by Kevin Smith.
We live in a more temperate place, but with the summers going increasingly more smoky and hotter - dry 49.6c temps caused our town of Lytton to burn to the ground - we took advantage of new, aggressive building code that stipulates one room must not get above 26c, and the cooling it mandates, to move to a new qualifying building.
The A/C units - even these lesser VRFs - are fantastic. Truly it changes the mood when I can work morning and night (WFHx2) without me or the nerd gear being too warm. It’s worth this $4/sqft/mo price tag when the rent rebased.
I’m SO with you on this one.
Not even central A/C here. Just Split units on the bedrooms/home office – But it already makes life so much more bearable
Even in humid areas, evaporative coolers can work and significantly cool things off. I imagine a combination of those (which tend to be much less expensive than AC and don’t require any installation), a decent fan, a home painted white and a decent amount of shade trees would work quite well.
Of course, a lot of those things are luxuries as well.
True on all accounts.
Also fun aside – Evaporative coolers are sold under the name of “refrigerating fans” here, a sort of “alternative” for someone who can’t afford an AC (or can afford the machine but wants/needs to save on the power bill).
A bidet seemed like a luxury until i started using the one that was installed in the house that we rent.
Now it seems more like a requirement
Clean water, a place to live, a doctor, able to vote in a free election, driving a car,
About once every 3-4 months I take a 4hr hot bath with, phone in a waterproof sandwich-bag, bluetooth speakers, tunes, Epsom salts, and reading material.
It’s excellent self-care. (No, the water doesn’t go cold, I let out half the water and top it up with more hot, when needed).
Highly recommended.
Am an American in my mid 30s. Recently bought my first and almost certainly only house. There is so much stuff about homeownership that feels like a luxury vs renting.
I’m a somewhat tall guy and my house’s only bathtub is too small to do this. God knows when if ever I’ll have the money to renovate that.
Get a hot tub. My partner and I are both tall and both love to relax in hot water. Now we get to submerge our tense monkey bodies in our personal hot spring and just float any damn day we want to, for as long as we want to. It’s great for our relationship. Plus, foot jets! We spent $7k on ours- a true luxury- but it was one of the best health / self care purchases I’ve ever made in my entire life.
Isn’t this how we all watch movies nowadays?
From a person with no bathtub, I wish.
I guess I should add daily (sometimes double) baths. Love my bathtub
2 gbps symmetrical fiber optic internet
Nice, we get 8gig here :p
nice!
I have the option for 2 gbps but it costs more than the 1gbps connection I have at the moment. Do you get any use out of the higher speeds? Did you have to upgrade your local network gear to take advantage?
sfp+ modules are pretry cheap, just running om3 patch cords everywhere.
Things download faster, so steam games, off-site backups go faster.
What do I need to do to make this happen in my neighborhood? I want to push municipal optical internet at the city level so bad.
I have cable internet and it’s actually fantastic for typical consumer-based ISPs but I’m tired of the horrible upload speeds.
Millions of dollars. Sadly that is what you need.
Reduced work hours and work from home with good salary.
I work 24 hour shifts but also get paid to sleep. This results in 6-7shifts a month to cover a full time job. It allows for a lot of free time and also easilly able to add extra shifts if needed during tough times
I would so do this
My ABCC11 gene is in it’s recessive AA form.
Which is more common in Asians, but I am European. This means my earwax is almost white and completely dry, which makes it just crumble/flake out. But more importantly, my sweat is almost odourless. I am a bigger dude and sweat a lot as it is. When I used to take a certain medication that made me sweat insane amounts I would literally be wet above the belt when I walked a minute. No stank. I check regularly and have my partner check my smell but I legit have to shower more often because my hair is greasy than because of body odour. When I had super short hair the thing that made me want to shower is when my skin gets oily, which happens after about five days. I still shower every other day because hygiene, but it’s a really nice perk.
Don’t be too jealous though, nature balanced that out with heaps of mental health issues.
My mom had this and also no leg hair. She told me “I shaved it once and that worked, it never came back”. Not Asian as far as I know but part Native American or Mexican, she never found out because her dad was so estranged from his family.
Fun, I never heard about these before ! here’s all my good vibes for your mental health
Thanks, it’s well under control now, but I had some shit years, not gonna lie.
Do you have everything you need? Like, can someone take away your shit without your permission, to what extent are you able to self-determine your life as of now?
Oh, all’s well, friend. Long story short: Mega heavy depression from early teens, diagnosed in my early twenties after years of substance abuse, tried to off myself, odyssey of therapists, got better for some years, got bad again, got a great psychiatrist, got on some fantastic meds that we tweak occasionally (got rid of the sweaty pills).
I’m in my thirties, have a family, life is good (apart from /late-stage capitalism and my countries slow and seemingly inevitable decline into fascism).
Air conditioning, indoor and safe plumbing/water supply, Internet to name a few
Growing up in the Midwest of America I took AC for granted. Pretty much every home and shop had AC, and if it didn’t there were at least window units. Moving to the Pacific Northwest with a more mild climate almost no one had AC, and it’s just normal not to have it.
Until the heatwave a few years ago that melted power lines I didn’t care, but I realized it was a safety issue and had a heat pump installed. That’s when I realized it’s a luxury. Almost $10,000 to get it integrated with my existing HVAC.
It’s wild, it’s definitely a luxury that most people just assume is normal. You have to go somewhere that doesn’t have it to truly appreciate what it does and how much it costs.
Native midwesterner living in SoCal, and these shithole window A/C units have me at my wit’s end. This is the technology state?
Also, natives here have no concept of closing doors after themselves when entering a place with heat or A/C. I get it that we grew up with this but is it hard to figure out later on in life or something?
Those are all absurd luxuries? Not luxuries but absurd luxuries?
Well, that depends. If you’re talking amongst my own country (the US)? No, probably not. If you’re talking compared globally? I’d argue yes.
