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running hot water comes pretty close.
by eucryphia 6y ago
running hot water comes pretty close.
- eyelidlessness 6y agoThat’s only progress if you’re old enough to be dead or underprivileged enough to be excluded from something that’s generally solved.
- nkozyra 6y agoThere are a lot of people on this planet who do not have regular access to this.
- epicureanideal 6y agoAnd many more who do. As a percentage humanity is living better all the time.
- nkozyra 6y agoI don't think anyone would deny that. But treating something as seemingly mundane as running hot water knowing it's not a guarantee is a form of proximity bias.
- eyelidlessness 6y agoYou’re very much right and I addressed that by acknowledging the fact that a solved problem isn’t available to people who deserve to have it.
- WalterBright 6y agoI agree. Having a hot shower is just total pleasure. If I was a king in the middle ages, my first efforts would be to invent a way to have a hot shower.
- killtimeatwork 6y agoIt's pretty trivial. Just have worker/slave heat up water and deliver it to a point above the shower head. They had more advanced solutions than that even in the Roman empire.