Asklemmy

Clean water on demand

While I am trying to use the internet less since the past 2 years or so, I will freak out if it ceases to exist completely.

Electricity.
If you lose electricity most people lose access to:
Hot water
Running water (if you have a well)
Air conditioning
Indoor heat
Television
Internet
Indoor lighting
And hot meals if you don't have gas.

Losing electricity would cut you off from almost all of your luxuries as we've become completely dependent on it over the last century or so.

Coffee. Can't even stop drinking it when I'm sick bc I feel like ten times worse.

Clean and well-tasting tap water. It sucks when I'm going to another country and they have chlorinated tap water

Break me? No. Really depress my mood? Probably no longer having Plex and my media collection. If my hard drives and back-ups all spontaneously combusted right after a trade war drove their prices through the roof x5 or something and I couldn't afford to replace (and/or couldn't find any to replace because of shortages) I would be quite sad. Additionally I've worked quite hard to curate my collection so losing it entirely in the first place would be depressing because of the amount of work required to rebuild it, encoding, scraping hard to scrape rarities, setting the posters just the way I like them, etc.

High-quality food. For me, food is one of the main sources of enjoyment, and if instead I'll have to shove something down my throat just to satisfy hunger, I'll get very depressed very quickly.

Housing. (Again)

Spices. Very much spices. If I was limited to like 5 good ones I'd make do but I have a drawer with like 50 spices in it I use regularly and it's my happy place.

Air conditioning. Near the coast in Texas it's more or less a lifesaver.

I don't know, maybe oxygen.

• Air conditioning
• Chocolate
• Coffee

All 3 are things that are reasonably likely to have troublesome accessibility in my lifetime.

Chocolate.

Proper chocolate, not the shit that Cadbury turn out since it was bought by the cheese people.

No wonder they lost their royal warrant. That's the first thing that Charlie has done since the Prince's Trust that has really impressed me.

Hot showers and a bidet.

Music, without a doubt. Specifically, being able to choose particular songs to listen to. I'd get pretty miserable after a few days.

My headphones. I just love listening to music way too much.

Toilet paper.

Soap and clean water

Literally, depending on where you draw a line between luxury and important but not mandatory for most people, it's air conditioning. We have three people in this household that do very poorly once heat and humidity starts to climb, including myself. Plus, uncontrolled humidity in the south ruins things, so there's an increase in costs associated with whatever decrease in power usage would save. For us, AC is right on the edge of being a necessity, as in a medical thing.

But in a more literal luxury that serves only pleasure or want, chocolate. No nutritional necessity, and it isn't like we all can't do without it. But gods damn, it would hurt. A nice piece of good quality dark chocolate is the ultimate mini reward for me. Do something incredibly painful and time consuming, that bit of chocolate is enough to turn it from something that I'm weeping in pain trying to finish into something I'm able to get through before I break down. That's a luxury, but fuck me if it isn't something I lean on heavily as a crutch. I really don't know what I would use to coax myself through really bad days where I'm barely functional but still have to function.

Indoor plumbing and summer time AC