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Ah damnit, the marmite / vegemite talk reminded me I forgot to order that + malt vinegar from the expat shop in finland, and now the vegemite is out of stock again, got marmite and malt vinegar tho. But then the webshop is malfunctioning, jeez is there someone out there who wants to prevent me trying these?
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The Question IRL posted:I see that this threads favorite Billionaire was in the news yesterday. Nobody ever said 6 billion would cure world hunger, that's just Musk strawmanning the original argument and nobody nails him to the wall over it in the media. I read the original argument and it was about saving the 42 million people who are absolutely worst off. So it's a total fabrication by Musk that anyone claimed 6 billion would solve world hunger, since there are a lot more than 42 million going hungry. edit: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/01/business/elon-musk-tesla-stock-world-hunger/index.html quote:"Elon Musk has offered to sell some of his Tesla (TSLA) stock "right now" if the UN can prove that $6 billion will solve world hunger. His Divine Shadow fucked around with this message at 09:19 on Nov 3, 2021 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:FWIW the post that got the woman whose name escapes me now suspended was "I loving love the Foo Fighters", posted in a Labour FB group IIRC, and the "offence" was using naughty words in an official Labour forum while an office holder. I can't even name a foo fighter song now that I think about it.
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Nov 5, 2021 10:21
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I guarantee there are at least 5 you know just from osmosis if you've consumed any media whatsoever in the last 2 decades. Quite possibly that is so, I just can't name any. I mostly listen to radio (daily) so very likely I have heard it there,
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Nov 5, 2021 10:48
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OwlFancier posted:I was also under the impression that smoke often indicates incomplete combustion and can in some cases be alleviated by improved ventilation or a secondary combustion to set fire to the smoke itself. Kinda hard to do properly with an open fire pit. To control factors like that you need to enclose the fire and also have a proper draft. One way to do it is to use a fan and blow from the bottom up, that's how I built my coke forge, I have noticed with the fan going even at low speed it'll burn wood almost smokelessly. It'd be great for an incinerator, not so much for a comfy crackling fire. Then you're back to having to enclose the fire and building the enclosure so it leads in secondary air at the right spots. I also have an actual firepit, it's 1.5m in diameter, made from an old water tank bottom.
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Nov 5, 2021 20:24
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OwlFancier posted:For sure you can't really do it if you just want to put a fire on the ground, but it seems like something you could probably do fairly easily with some bricks and a grate. Well without a fan to provide a blast of excess oxygen you will most likely need a chimney and an enclosure to produce secondary combustion or the smoke will dissipate before that has a chance to happen. You could definitely build it from bricks, you have to trap the smoke in a chamber right above the fire before it exits to the chimney, thanks to the draft you have fresh air that is sucked in from under the fire grate, but you also need to direct some of that air around the existing fire deliver it fresh and unburned above the flames, then it can wix with the hot smoke and combust again. That is exactly how my masonry* heater works in my house. With a fan you can just shove the air in from the bottom through the fire with brute force but with self-draft that won't work. But realistically speaking for a fire pit you dont need to achieve complete combustion and smokelessness. Putting the firewood on a raise up grate is good enough then you get increased airflow and it will be a good enough combustion not to smoke like heck, but not smokefree. Just a nice looking fire that hopefully won't bother the neighbors too much. ------ This is my fire pit anyway, still looks the same, paint on the outside is still good despite speanding years outside before it got cut up. I do have space and have moved it behind my new shed.   I also welded this rocket stove last spring from some trash, it was an experiment in combustion. The end result because of the material I used was suboptimal. A rectangular shape but a square or round is better. It smoked a lot like this.  I added an intake on the side to let in air around where I thought the air was gonna need to come in, and sure enough it produced a much cleaner burn:  I'd like to experiment some more with this later. I think a small camping stove based on something like this would be cool to build. Sorry I like to sperg on this kind of stuff.
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Soylent Yellow posted:I tried to make one of those rocket stoves a couple of years ago, but could never get it to draw properly. Sounds interesting, empty propane cylinders are cheaply had, got photos? Re: rocket stoves, I think the design with a separate bottom air intake is probably better than the one which has the air intake in the angled part.
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fuctifino posted:https://twitter.com/guardiannews/status/1457827954919198733 Put this in your ublock custom filter list and you will also not see that annoying message. somethingawful.com##.ignored
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Olpainless posted:Yeah, this. (Read LabyAmbien's post in the news thread, it's loving damning) What news thread?
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Nov 11, 2021 10:03
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c0burn posted:I assume it'll be the excuse for not voting for Labours motion I read that as Starmers excuse. Which I could definitely see him doing.
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Nov 16, 2021 16:57
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fuctifino posted:The 9 Insulate Britain protesters have been sentenced to 3-4 months each in prison apart from this guy: what a oval office of a judge IMO
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Nov 17, 2021 13:47
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Noxville posted:Wonder what the ‘support Labour no matter what’ lot think of this "Before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times." ... "Five times man?"
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Nov 19, 2021 13:26
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Vagabong posted:Isn't the E.U bank essentially run by France and Germany, the two biggest economies? I'd imagine a UK with the Euro as the currency would have similar levels of pull. The euro is bad for basically everyone except the Germans, it's also bad for France. And it has really put the EU in a problematic position. It was the EUs biggest mistake IMO.
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Nov 19, 2021 21:41
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Ataxerxes posted:Yeah, Finland has jobs for IT people especially and the income limit for a visa is 3k€ I think, which is at the very lower end of IT wages. And having lived in the UK for 5 years I can say that housing tends to be better. Man if I had 3k wage I'd consider myself rich.
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Nov 19, 2021 21:43
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The Question IRL posted:Just to circle back to this, I'm not 100% sure the Euro is bad. Even the euro architects knew that the euro would create a crisis, their hope was the crisis would mean they could create a banking union to solve it and integrate the EU further, boy where they wrong... Like using the same currency, that's the step that'd come even after full federalization of the EU. They totally put the horse before the cart here. It just can't work without all the other structures in place before to support it and before the economies are integrated enough. As an side, without the euro, there wouldn't have been a greek crisis to begin with. It's also why southern europe is screwed.
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Nov 21, 2021 18:35
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forkboy84 posted:It's important to remember that driving & car ownership drives people loving insane. Just encourages the worst most selfish behaviour in people. Personally I think it's just you're living too densely with too many people in one area. Humans where not made for it.
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Nov 24, 2021 12:01
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forkboy84 posted:Wish I was living densely I honestly don't. The less I am exposed to these socalled conveniences the happer I am.
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Nov 24, 2021 12:35
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God I miss that. Or more accurately the conveniences that come with that.
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I'd say in the past it was more common to buy groceries for longer times at a go rather than doing everyday shopping, it'd often be basics like flour, salt and the like that kept. And you'd make more from scratch instead of buying readt made goods. It was also easier to get your goods and groceries from your local village then, now they're all out of business in favor of big centralized stores so you need a car to get there. Most people in the past could never do everyday shopping. And everyday shopping IMO does to peoples brains something similar to what cars do, it normalizes mass consumption culture, it's an addictive behaviour. His Divine Shadow fucked around with this message at 12:50 on Nov 24, 2021 |
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Nov 24, 2021 12:43
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OwlFancier posted:I mean this is a general theme among speculative fiction authors, they all, seemingly invariably, operate under the belief that the only thing people can be interested in long term is loving or murdering. I like that idea. And I think it's implied in the books that there are people like that.
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Nov 26, 2021 07:27
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:My power is out, the apocalypse is in fact already here. Can't wait for the power to go out here, been waiting to show my SO that the old pressure lamp I renovated does have a practical value!
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Get fuuucked!!!!!!!!!!!
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