Look, man. I have a large body. There are many folds and crevices. I’m not proud of how much effort it takes to keep myself clean, but I’m proud that I’m putting in that effort.
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I’m winning insane arguments with myself in there.
You'll have to tell me how you do that. I always lose insane arguments with myself.
If you switch which you is you you'll be winning those arguments instead.
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And then feel guilty for wasting so much water.
I want to nitpick the definition of “waste” for a moment. Yes, you are using a lot of water, and energy if the water is heated, BUT if you’re getting something remotely positive out of it (and you’re paying for it), then I would not consider it wasteful. If you genuinely want to label it as something, then let’s compromise and call it therapeutic. Deal?
Unless you're in California or any other area with a low water table. Then it's a huge issue.
Compare this person’s shower to the many farms growing almonds in the same state.
Abolish almonds
Just abolished a bag this morning.
You are right
At the same time
I can’t whataboutism limited resources
If I was Governor of California I'd push to make it so Almonds and Alfalfa can't be grown during the drought seasons.
I can live without a legume and I don't think I know a single person in my entire circle's circles who has eaten alfalfa.
The alfalfa isn't for humans, it's for high intensity dairy and cattle farming.
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You must also consider the externalities, not just the financial cost that you bear personally.
I'd like to see it that way, but fresh water scarcity is a growing problem in many areas.
I have to wonder how much impact people taking 30-minute showers would have compared to corporate [mis]use.
Corporate waste massively overshadows personal use.
Then we should take it from companies that use it to cool AI super computers, mass surveillance networks, grow the worst water to plant ratio crops possible.
You could take a shower for 4 hours and it wouldn't make a dent to the misuse by corporations.
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it's what would be described as "sub optimal use of a finite costly resource"
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The scalding water serves as a moderately acceptable substitute for the warmth of human contact I’m so terrible at cultivating.
the noise of the shower is the only thing that drowns out the tinnitus i've had for over 20 years. so yea, i'm often in there til the water goes cold.
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Okay first thing i do is i turn on the water, and hold the shower head in my hand, pointing it away from myself until the water is hot.
Then i quickly spray the water all over my body, so i am completely wet. Then hang up the shower head, and step under it.
Then my brain shuts off for an undetermined amount of time.
Then i put shampoo in my hair, armpits and crotch, then finally soap everywhere else.
Make sure to get all the soap off, then dry myself. Total of ~45min.
Then my brain shuts off for an undetermined amount of time.
Pretty much this for me.
I've gotten pretty good at 10 minute showers before work, but I absolutely blank out from time to time.
Then my brain shuts off for an undetermined amount of time.
After this, I first need to remember if I'm already done washing myself or haven't started yet.
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Hot water on skin is comforting and calming like few other things. If I could work from the shower I probably would.
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Shaving
Crying on the floor
The whole routine takes a while
falling water to temporarily wash away some of the horror of corporeal human life.
Finally! Someone gets me! 💙
I used to stare off into nothingness in the shower. It would take maybe 7-8 minutes to actually wash myself; sporadically throughout the process, I'd zone out for a couple minutes at a time.
Now, I've got long curly hair that needs frequent tending to. Unless I want my showers to be an hour+ long, I gotta stay focused. I still stare off into nothingness while brushing and whatnot, that helps take away the dread.
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Got a heat pump so now long showers use much less energy.
Now makes me wonder what the COP is during the summer, if you time the shower so that the heat pump works during the hot part of the day it should be pretty high. 30°c outside, barely needs to work to heat the water.
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I'm tryin hard going back to fish.
Dude, I'm shaving! Shaving my face and everywhere else I need. Also brushing my teeth. Still doesn't take 30 but it feels good to be hot water my god. Just like a bath or hot tub. Why rush?
Honestly, I just zone out for a bit. Especially during the winter it's nice to have warm water pouring over you
I shower for about 10-15 minutes and feel like that's "long". I literally spend half of the time with my arms over the...idk what it's called, the bar over my sliding glass doors...just letting the hot water hit my back. It's one of my favorite parts of the day, but after 15 or so min, my hands get pruney and I just want to get out. 30 min seems uncomfortably long.
I zone out and feel like I’ve been in there for hours, then I exit and it’s been eight minutes. I don’t understand why, but the shower completely removes my perception of time (normally one of my better skills). Luckily, it doesn’t go the other way.
I don't know what it is for other people, but I am hypersensory, so I am basically catatonic 90% of the time in the shower.
I have always been extremely sensitive to like, everything.
I used to get abused by my father for being "too sensitive" about almost anything, emotionally, physically, etc. So I did what any "real man" would do, and masked, masked masked. Spent decades of my life forcing myself to be hard, be strong, push through discomfort, show no pain, no emotions, no sensitivity.
As one might imagine, it didn't do me well in the long run. I was only recently diagnosed as autistic, I haven't told anyone outside my partner, as nobody would understand, the mask is glued on now, this is just me. A shell on the outside and a hidden universe inside. The long showers are total oblivion and I wish I could just stay in that water stream for days without end.
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I do it to wake up. I am a boulder. Hard to get started but cannot stop until I drop when I do.
Well at least you're the boulder. I'm definitely Sisyphus, because it's always stupid hard to start, and about when I think I've accomplished something it rolls all the way back down and I have to restart it all again. Just with less energy and hope than before.
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