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is it a tent situation primarily or are there other structures that can more readily be insulated?

A mix of both, but probably mostly tents. I think the generator provides electricity to multiple tents so that's the main advantage, plus it being the only option really for folks who don't have wood stoves at the moment.

There are certain design principles necessary for a rocket stove to be a rocket stove

Yeah honestly I don't think a rocket stove is actually what I meant to discuss here anyway. It might have been a rocket mass heater that we were discussing, although we also discussed trying to employ ondol heating which might be a bit easier.

Admittedly, I need to read more on the pros and cons of all of these options. Just wanted to check with people here to see if there was anything else I should explore - or if people have had experience with these projects in the past, what pitfalls to avoid.

Thanks for your taking the time to write this all out, it's helpful.

If they make Italian cuisine a World Heritage Site before they declare video games to be a World Heritage Site I'm gonna be so pissed

I think it's actually cool and good to judge historical figures through a modern moral lens, and we should do this more often

i love downloading textbooks for free and i can't stop doing it. i'm scared libgen will be gone one day so i've compulsively saved ~4000 textbooks lol. gonna go do some more

oh hey, i've been doing this too. it weirdly is fun for me, at the moment. i think mostly cuz for the past 3 years, i've been telling myself "i really need to lose some weight", but i could never sustain it for more than like 2 days, cuz i love eating food so much. but somehow something flipped in my brain and i've been sticking with it for 2 weeks now. i don't even really feel hungry? i hope i don't have a tumor or something.

i wanna quit my engineering job and go to school to become a doctor instead. or maybe just a nurse or something like that. idk, i'll just do whatever the first person who responds tells me to.

Hexbear is a little weird/embarrassing

Anyone have recommendations on what I should read as a per-requisite to understanding Baudrillard's Simulation & Simulacra book? It looks way too cromulent for me as someone who's read very little philosophy.

I keep hearing about the book though and the concepts seem tantalizing to me, at least as read on Wikipedia. I'd love to engage with the actual text

But also like, when have Pro-Palestine protest movements in the US called for violence?

I would be amazed at this point if Peter Theil had not funded some stealth startup to make an anti-woke LLM (like Grok but more openly fascist) to start spamming the internet with reactionary rhetoric. I try to not default to blaming everything on bots, but it really is only a matter of time until this happens, and I feel like the influx of batshit takes I'm seeing online does not correspond to the change in rhetoric I've seen from libs I know IRL.