I have a lap cat so I get lots of cat-in-lap time 🐱

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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 5pm

It’s just all so much better than the old office-based life

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Nothing about that is absurd

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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.

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17 points

You could even, oh my god, have a hug or touch her nose.

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16 points

Boop!

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11 points

see some of that ankle

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You saw ankle bone? You got some ankle cleavage, you dirty devil, eh?

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You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar. I will try to emulate your good example

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51 points

It’s ok Nintendo, calm down, he didn’t mean that kind.

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62 points

2 gbps symmetrical fiber optic internet

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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.

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3 points

Millions of dollars. Sadly that is what you need.

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3 points

Nice, we get 8gig here :p

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2 points

nice!

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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?

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sfp+ modules are pretry cheap, just running om3 patch cords everywhere.

Things download faster, so steam games, off-site backups go faster.

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58 points

Clean tap water.

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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.

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Thanks, i sould appreciate it more. Tap water in switzerland is maybe even healthier as bottled water.

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42 points

Air conditioning, indoor and safe plumbing/water supply, Internet to name a few

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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.

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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?

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Those are all absurd luxuries? Not luxuries but absurd luxuries?

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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.

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