Air conditioning. Near the coast in Texas it's more or less a lifesaver.
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Clean and well-tasting tap water. It sucks when I'm going to another country and they have chlorinated tap water
Where in the world?
We have clean water in Austria, directly from the mountains without adding anything (just cleaning it with UV light to kill potential bacteria in most regions, nothing else. Not even that in some regions).
Some of the best and cleanest water worldwide, so whenever I go to another country I'm disappointed by their water quality.
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- Air conditioning
- Chocolate
- Coffee
All 3 are things that are reasonably likely to have troublesome accessibility in my lifetime.
I think AC will be the most reliable if home solar takes off. The other two though...
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oh
a/c
yep that's the one
I can hear to say coffee, but AC is at the top. I live in a tropical country.
Chocolate is nice, and I love it but I could drop it.
Hot showers and a bidet.
We just finished a big holiday trip, 2 weeks visiting both sides of the family. Stayed with one family and then the other. After that....yeah...seriously considering getting everyone bidets next year for Christmas...
Travel bidet
We recently got a bidet ourselves. There are portable ones. Basically a water bottle with a pump and sprayer on it.
Yeah, but there's something a lot more gross about spraying yourself with a bottle than just turning a knob and letting the plumbing do it.
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Electricity.
If you lose electricity most people lose access to:
Hot water
Running water (if you have a well)
Air conditioning
Indoor heat
Television
Internet
Indoor lighting
And hot meals if you don't have gas.
Losing electricity would cut you off from almost all of your luxuries as we've become completely dependent on it over the last century or so.
it sounds like a necessity
It's a utility and so I agree it's a necessity. A luxury would be some of the things electricity allows like Internet.
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Not necessarily, you could absolutely survive without electricity, I live in a predominantly Amish area that proves that.
It just wouldn't be any fun.
Hah, that's fair
Yeah but no electricians no more electrocution... Think of the positives lol
Toilet paper.
(I'd argue that's more a necessity but) Bidet plus a a toilet rag covered in the stains from your previous toilet rag adventures?
Music, without a doubt. Specifically, being able to choose particular songs to listen to. I'd get pretty miserable after a few days.
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Spices. Very much spices. If I was limited to like 5 good ones I'd make do but I have a drawer with like 50 spices in it I use regularly and it's my happy place.
Caffeine
I'd be broken for a little while but tbh I think I'd be better off in the long run
I would normally say this too, but it's surprisingly easy to get off caffeine. I've gone weeks without it, to usually slip up and start using it out of habit.... but I don't think I would miss it if caffeine suddenly just vanished from this world. I'd just slap my knee and say "huh, remember that weird drug we all used to take in the morning?"
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Soap and clean water
Literally, depending on where you draw a line between luxury and important but not mandatory for most people, it's air conditioning. We have three people in this household that do very poorly once heat and humidity starts to climb, including myself. Plus, uncontrolled humidity in the south ruins things, so there's an increase in costs associated with whatever decrease in power usage would save. For us, AC is right on the edge of being a necessity, as in a medical thing.
But in a more literal luxury that serves only pleasure or want, chocolate. No nutritional necessity, and it isn't like we all can't do without it. But gods damn, it would hurt. A nice piece of good quality dark chocolate is the ultimate mini reward for me. Do something incredibly painful and time consuming, that bit of chocolate is enough to turn it from something that I'm weeping in pain trying to finish into something I'm able to get through before I break down. That's a luxury, but fuck me if it isn't something I lean on heavily as a crutch. I really don't know what I would use to coax myself through really bad days where I'm barely functional but still have to function.
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A/C
Indoor plumbing and summer time AC
Sharpening stones and files. I can't imagine using dull knives. I can't stand knives duller than hair popping sharp. I have excellent knives that hold a crisp edge and I sharpen those every 30 minutes of super fast chopping (10 seconds on a 9k stone).
Not just knives but scissors, trowels, shovels, cooking spatulas, dust pans, vegetable peelers, can openers, toenail clippers, all need to be sharp. Not being able to sharpen all of those would be a tragedy.
If you are delaying getting into sharpening, just do it. It will serve you for the rest of your life, and I sharpen every single day (I'm a woodworker). Its truly a luxury to have sharp tools, all the time. So satisfying.
Aside from that, chocolate. The cravings will never go away.
Air conditioning, but I would argue that is a very expensive necessity.
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healthcare
Contact lenses. I know I could use my glasses, but I put them down and can't find them half the time. I am blind enough to be absolutely useless in most situations without corrective lenses.
Cheese in general. Chocolate as well. Clean water is a necessity, but I guess hot water on demand? While I like eating beef and chicken I probably wouldn't be that sad overall if it went away.
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None that would "break me" if I didn't have them, but I spend the vast majority of my free time on my computer (by choice, I have friends and outside activities I can go to if I want), and whenever I've had to be away from it that's always been the toughest part.
that picture exactly
Meat, specifically ground beef
Hot water!! I don't remember how I survived childhood
Healthcare, condoms
Must be in the US if Healthcare is a luxury
Biggest one would be AC, followed by cheap electricity, and internet. Maybe frequent sex too. To quote that recent Mengzi post ι£θ²ζ§δΉ
Partner says filtered water. My more luxury item may be homemade seltzer water
I genuinely think I'd go insane if I wasn't able to buy Brie or Blue cheese. I don't need it every day of course, but any less than once every two months would be unspeakable
I have a bit of a compulsion to scan the grocery store for marked down fancy cheeses and bakery stuff. I've tried some pretty awesome stuff I never would have gotten otherwise.
Clean water on demand
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