• rustyricotta@lemmy.ml
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      Is it the 40 pound box of cake mix that kills? Or is the person hucking the 40 pound box of cake mix?

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    My cat. Everything else in my room brings me either misery or a feeling of meh. Cat brings joy, which is difficult for me to obtain.

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    The toilet. Lost count of the number of times this has saved me from getting dysentery or something and it’s so convenient when it just pushes the shit away from my house and I never have to see or smell it again. I almost feel bad that I repay it for all its done by repeatedly shitting in it.

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    Me? Unless I’m excluded, then the laptop. Although the room itself is pretty useful, but I don’t think I consider it “in the room”.

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      Consume salt! Water on its own isn’t great for hydrating when you’re continously sweating, Gatorade exists for a reason (to supplement the nutrients lost to sweating, not just the water)

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        No worries. Gone through 2.5kg(~9lbs) of Gatorade powder, just this summer. LiquidIV got way too expensive after the first box.

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    The answer is electricity. It’s so useful, we take it for granted. Your phones, computers and laptops are not useful if you can’t power them.

    I’ll give the people on the dunny their due: toilet paper is still useful in a room without electricity.

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        Your point is a good one, though I’d like to point out that electricity is so useful that if I have power and water in the room (and a bit of prep time) I can make oxygen.

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    That’s a tough one because I’m currently surrounded by computers and tools. I’m within reach of my smart phone, one of my laptops, I’m typing this on my desktop PC, I’m within reach of three multitools, a power drill, and my away mission tool bag. So I think I’ll give a cop out answer and go with “The several thousand liters of air filling the room.”