• elgordino@fedia.io
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    These are such a good idea. It works by having a heater behind the mirror which prevents the condensation.

    Ps. Excuse the multiple posts. fedia.io was having a moment. I’ve deleted them now

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        5 days ago

        You can achieve the same thing without wasting any (electric) energy by rubbing a bit of shaving cream onto the mirror and buffing it out. Works for a while.

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          You can achieve the same thing without wasting any shaving cream by rubbing a bit of testicle onto the mirror and buffing it out. Works for a while until the testicle becomes cold.

        • 𝕛𝕨𝕞-𝕕𝕖𝕧@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          i’ll be honest the amount of energy it took to produce, ship, and then sell that shaving cream to you dwarfs the cost of the power for a hairdryer that’s only on a few seconds. if you’re wanting to be pendantic about it that is overall more harmful to the climate.

          not in a rude way i’m just sick of these BP-personal-climate-calculator-core takes about environmentalism. just because you prostrate yourself doesn’t mean it’s actually doing anything to help. live your life. we’re all gonna die within a couple centuries if we don’t overthrow oligarchy, tho.

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            Interesting experience to be shamed as an environmental extremist for this take.

            The idea is to shave whatever and then use a tiny bit of that shaving cream on your mirror, since you will not be able to fully use 100% of the batch and just wash it down the drain anyway.

            That makes the additional cost = 0.

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          That’s definitely the better long-term solution!

          If my bathroom mirror is fogged up, the only reason I’d want it clear is to blow-dry my hair, so my method works out perfectly for me (and since it’s ~10s of extra power usage, it’s negligible). Otherwise your way is better :)