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[–] Person@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago

i dont know how to describe how im feeling without describing the events that have happened to me in the last 7 days but that is way too much info and i dont want to doxx myself when there's a decent probability that some authoritarian government is gonna use my internet browsing habits to put me in a work camp some day

[–] Person@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago (10 children)

im gonna gro a mullet not jsut to spite you

[–] Person@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Person@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Person@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Person@hexbear.net 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Person@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Person@hexbear.net 35 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Hexbear is a little weird/embarrassing

[–] Person@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Person@hexbear.net 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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.

[–] Person@hexbear.net 13 points 8 months ago (4 children)

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

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