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        1. was slightly confused by a startup whose big innovation is putting a battery into an induction hob for More Power (my cheapo IKEA plug-in hob is plenty powerful). and then I remembered that American electricity is weaker than regular electricity.
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        still, they've managed to crack the seemingly unsolvable problem of "induction hob but also physical controls", so more power to them
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      god I hope people hurry up and succeed at making alternative battery chemistries good & successful, I wish I didn't have this little pang of guilt every time I think about an unnecessary or short lived lithium ion battery
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    although ultimately I know that the right answer to almost anything non-biodegradable that is "unnecessary or short lived" is probably a little pang of guilt, so
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      although although, to immediately contradict myself, actually it turns out "little pangs of guilt" are remarkably unstrategic and cause us to focus on the wrong things. actually you need "structurally disincentivized"
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        to get back to the point of this thread: ha ha, look at the way that the place that I live has, in at least one respect, better infrastructure than the place where lots of my friends live.