• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    12 hours ago

    Tell me more about how freezing water is the end of civilization.

    Just because people are paying a premium for it doesn’t make it any worse than the bags of ice at the grocery store.

    Ice was one of the first things humans used to keep things cold, and was super important on the path to refrigeration and freezing.

    While I know a lot of technologies are overused, and capitalism twists them to disgusting ends, but refrigeration is a massive boon for making food last longer. Most American families just have ones far larger than they need and as such they end up wasting food instead of getting fresh food regularly and using it all up before it goes bad in the fridge. I personally enjoy a small fridge.

    Also, freezers and refrigeration are an integral part of the medical sciences.

    Anyway, personal opinion, this is pretty innocuous compared to like, jet travel between Seattle and Portland.