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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

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

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.

I have a few friends who have mentioned to me that they barely do any work at their job, especially remote workers. One of them says they literally only work 6 hours a week.

Is this common??

For the past like 3 years I've been at a very micro-managey company that incessantly tracks time, so I've been pulling a solid 40+ hours a week. Job security is good, but damn, if I could go work somewhere where I can slack off more, that time would be invaluable. I'd love to read more