We're supposed to be centrally supplied – that's the wish of those who profit from these centralized systems. Electricity from the central providers, water, gas, oil from the large companies – and then ideally, we're supposed to consume a lot of energy so that the centralized systems can deliver a lot. It doesn't have to be that way. We have many ways to regulate our energy consumption to our advantage. One ...

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Most of us have heard of Schulz von Thun's "four ears." Not that he actually has four ears; he describes more of an aspect of interpersonal communication, saying that we can hear a statement as an instruction, a hint, criticism, or a personal comment—in four different ways, almost as if we had four ears. ...

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Some say physicists don't argue politically: "A vehicle's fuel consumption is the direct result of its total resistance to motion. This includes overcoming inertia (Newton's Law), drive friction, road types, rolling resistance, and air resistance." Resistance and more resistance—we ourselves sometimes experience resistance to motion, so we want to simplify things. ...

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