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  • arsCynic@beehaw.orgOPtoChat@beehaw.orgTips to keep feet warm?
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    6 days ago

    afaik battery socks don’t have radios. It’d be really fucking costly and really easy to spot if they snuck one in.

    I had hoped the joke would be just as easy to spot. 🕊️

    But in all seriousness, I am in fact paranoid about having non well-known batteries strapped to my sometimes sweaty feet, within fabric. If I can decrease the risk of a house fire by .1% by having cold feet a bit longer, then I’d easily incur that discomfort.
    Moreover, because I believe the likelihood of World War 3 is increasing, I want to rely on luxury products even less than I was before. I already haven’t used heating for 2.5 years, and last month I turned off my boiler, so I’m showering cold. The contrast with battery-powered socks would be too absurd.







  • arsCynic@beehaw.orgOPtoTechnology@beehaw.orgCrypto Cult Science
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    16 days ago

    As much as I like to refer to Hanlon’s Razor—“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”—I discourage using the word “stupidity” as personal slights. First of all, heated subjects should be met with deescalating vocabulary because it’s already so hard to find common ground. Secondly, everyone is a product of their environment; more often than not ignorance, tradition, inertia, peer pressure, et cetera, is to blame. Not raw incapability of comprehending things.