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In a post-communist society, I think I’d be willing to accept some electricity rationing for a while if it means avoiding being down wind of another reactor

What do you think about the creation of people’s kitchens (giant public free buffets where people eat most of their meals) as a way of increasing energy and food efficiency, as well as socializing some domestic labor to help free women?

I mean sure, sounds good, I’d go to one. But not everyone lives where one of those would be practical, not every one will have a schedule that’s to amenable to one, some people enjoy being alone as much as possible and will thus want to fix their own meals at home, some people hate eating in front of others etc.

Like, it’s a cool concept but I don’t see any reason to institutionalize it the way I’m getting the feeling you’d like to.

The reason I’d want to institutionalize it is mainly just from an environmental standpoint. Idk if the planet can handle 7 billion housing units each with the modern consortium of kitchen appliances: oven, microwave, stove, dish washer, garbage disposal, refrigerator-freezer. It’d make sense to sort of centralize that to some extent, allow people to live without having their own set of those appliances in their home.

we have these already, they are called McDonalds.

Precisely! Restaurants are good! We should expand them and make them free

Only if we first abolish the restaurant

I want to be alone a lot, giant buffets/restaurants/what have you, sound like a recipe for being with people more than I want to be.

Also I don’t actually think individual households are responsible for most of the problems with energy consumption, that’s mostly like shitty industrial practices w/ cheap ass management not wanting to spring for more energy efficient equipment n’ shit, that said not having to cook would be really nice a lot of the time… maybe we could figure out a low energy cost way to deliver meals to people who have trouble with crowds/socializing (I like people but it tires me out to be social and I need a lot of rest time between seeing people)