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"A mountain lives in mortal fear of its deer." - Aldo Leopold


bruno
@bruno

The chest freezer is really emblematic for me of the efficiency-lifehack-frugality-simpleliving-industrial complex now in that there is a little cottage industry of people who will talk about how much money it saves them. And indeed it does; the freezer itself is inexpensive, it is hilariously energy-efficient, and you can buy frozen things in bulk and store them for a long time.

Assuming, of course, that you have the floor space for a dedicated chest freezer, that you have the liquidity to buy all the meat you'll eat for the year upfront, that you have the autonomy over your living space to buy appliances at all, that you have a car that you can use to bring your bulk groceries into your home, etc, etc. There's always this rancid greasy film covering these conversations of all the invisible infrastructure of the American suburb-dweller for whom space, time, and gas are just ambiently foraged things and not expenses


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in reply to @bruno's post:

This whole idea is pretty obviously coming downstream from deep rural living where you're stuffing whatever deer wanders across the backyard in there, all the hassle is meant to be justified by avoiding shopping (and driving half a day back to town) altogether. The thrifty urban pioneer may have to adapt by substituting neighbors