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Cake day: September 19th, 2024

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  • Kinda. They are better than most, but don’t score that well on Ethical Consumer’s grading. (I could look up why, if anyone’s interested.)

    And while they do offer free repair, which is wonderful and something i genuinely command them for doing, the results can be hit or miss. I had a pair of jeans with pretty standard areas worn out come back from a repair with a massive piece of mismatched denim covering almost the entire upper part of the pants. Unwearable. I ended up having to pay a local shop to redo the repair properly. And the Patagonia customer rep didn’t seem to see the problem with the repair and offered… 15% off my next order.









  • A thing you can use which gets forgotten often in the conversation is “natural” / physical batteries, or better put stores of latent energy. Essentially, “push heavy thing up hill, make it come down later”.

    I know little about it, but you can release the kinetic energy stored in heavy objects at higher altitudes basically whenever, using say a dynamo on the wheels of a wagon of heavy rocks you previously pushed uphill.