I grew up there, I think it's the lack of sun causing depression and other physiological effects. You look at Inuit mythology and it's similarly dark, and I estimate it comes from the months of pure darkness.
Yes, we have literally evolutionarily adapted to cooking as a form of external stomach to save energy at this point. Same reason why predators don’t have 4 stomachs like ruminants and we don’t have a cecum like gorillas and other primates.
If you're going to compare stuff like that, tho, you should compare pricing with Hetzner and openrouter.ai/models . For me and my rip-off $0.50/kwh electricity pricing, it's often cheaper or break-even to run on cheap clouds vs. my house, and I don't have to maintain it.
Human body can survive on non-optimal conditions and has a lot of compensatory mechanisms and redundancies. You can give yourself a biotin insufficiency from eating raw egg whites due to an enzyme in them that goes away from cooking for example.
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