Line it with ground cover fabric and you don’t have to care about material, rot or anything ;)

I built a wood planter on legs with no bottom, attached ground cover fabric in a sling/U-shape that hung a bit away from the wood in all sides.

A dm of LECA, then soil and compost as per usual. LECA makes for nice drainage and water reservoir.

Keeping the soil away from the wood made it so I’ve had no rot or degradation at all for 6 years as air comes in around to dry it all out.

Sizewise I covered the whole short end, and made it deep enough to fit the door and other furniture, about 40x60x195 cm.

Check out figure 2 it shows equivalent cooling in energy units. Meaning how much energy is carried away by perspiration, and showing it for different levels of humidity. I read it as between 5-10% lower at higher humidity.

Compare that to the radiant heat difference (from 32 degrees to 22, as per the cooling chart) which cools you about 286 % more. And with convective cooling we expect even more at higher temperature differences.

(Calculated with Boltzmanns law for 310 K body temperature)

Check the source, net difference is 10%

You are unfortunately wrong in your scepticism, they’ve been used for millennia to great effect, and are even part of how ice was made.

In a modestly arid climate (like a mountainous region) with 30% ambient humidity, you can achieve, a 12 °C drop, that’s a lot more than the ~10% of lost sweat cooling.

Alternate plan (as it would be a shame to waste a dam): Keep the dam, flood the Baltic sea until Kaliningrad is under water?

And in case your brain works in a way that needs steps, for a practice trip I’d suggest these steps:

0. Prepare everything you need according to your boat, waters, weather, safety needs and trip. Make sure to double check that you have everything you need before casting off.

… Get out on the water, prepare the rig you want to practice, etc…

1. Pick a direction you want to go in, note a landmark, buoy, or something stationary to steer towards. If you don’t pick a direction straight against or with the wind, the rest will be easier.

2. Try adjusting your sails to give you some speed. If you have a common Bermuda rig, start with your foresail, it’s going to be easier to see when it’s good, and it will give you speed enough to steer. I usually teach it as: take the sail in until it gets that nice billowed curve, and then let it out again until it just about can’t keep it. Then do the same with the mainsail.

Note that if the boat changes angle against the wind, you’ll have to adjust the sails and/or start over. When you’re starting out, you’ll have no chance to keep the boat going straight for long enough to both hit your landmark and trim your sails.

3. Check your course against your goal, try to adjust course a bit (10-15 degrees) and adjust the sails as needed.

4. Now try keeping course against the wind rather than the landmark. Can you sail with the wind straight from the side? How do you adjust the sails for that? How does that affect what you need to do with the tiller to keep straight?

5. Repeat for different wind angles. Also, note that winds change around obstacles, sails, and with time of day. Typically not a deal breaker, but enough to be confusing if you’re not aware.

This is probably enough for the first dozen trips. Remember to save energy to be able to get back, moor, and set everything ship shape again.

As you get more comfortable, you can try doing tacks (same sail adjustment procedure), then try doing a tack so that you only need to adjust the foresail, then maybe trying deliberate listing, sailing donuts (with continuous sail adjusting) with a gybe, and then onto maneuvering tasks like stopping at a buoy, doing a figure of eight Man-overboard maneuver, picking up something out of the water.

And somewhere along this you start doing actual boating, learning to moor, anchoring, cooking, planning your days, routes, planning for weather, etiquette with other boats, etc.

You’re (almost) book right, but sailing wasn’t made by or for people reading/writing about it.

Most seamanship is actually about managing poor conditions, poor weather, poor alertness, lack of judgement due to weather fatigue/boredom/hangovers, but also changes in weather, wind, currents, equipment failure etc.

I would suggest you start from the opposite direction, see your boat as a tool, and explore what you can do with it.

Try what happens if you pull in your sail or not in the current wind, where is a nice sweet spot?

Do you know how to find the wind direction without your instruments? How precise can you get?

How does the tiller respond, what happens if you turn fast or slow or in between? Is there a difference up against the wind or down? Is there a difference to port or starboard?

How straight can you steer? How straight does the boat go when you steer straight? How does this change over different winds?

If you don’t try this with a comfortable/skilled sailor, you might want to avoid some things with risk of injury, like:

keep to low to moderate winds, with mild gusts, when practicing (or the forces and noise will make things unhelpfully harder),

only do tacks/turning against the wind for now (turning with the wind behind you can have the boom launch you off the boat, and wind you or even knock you out), and

Do have backup emergency equipment, if something goes bad you do want to be rescued even if your SRC got wet, mobile lost signal, and you fell overboard. Prepare according to your size boat and waters, signal whistles, flares, or automated beacons can be good. Also make sure that someone will look for you, leave a plan with check-in times with someone on land.

(A plan with check-in can be as simple as: I’m going out thereabouts over the weekend, I’ll send you a text on where I anchor in the evening, and I’m expected back late Sunday night. Here’s my number, here’s the number for the rescue service)

Estimate a week ago was that a counteroffensive can come next spring earliest. Might just be information warfare, but Ukraine is currently on the back foot.

*in the US.

Homesteading in other parts of the world has had it’s share of cults and loonies in modern times, but it’s also been the norm for subsistence for centuries, if not millennia.

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Friendlier states tend to have higher cost of living

#savedyouaclick

I get that the topic evokes a lot of emotions, but I don’t understand why the reasons are offensive, are we not all making the beat decisions we can with what information we have?

For some there might be reasons and considerations more important than granting their offspring a life without strife (and thus make different moral judgements). I’m not trying to judge one choice over the other, I’m curious as to why the topic gets so personal and passionate even with people who otherwise are level-headed and well reasoned.

Yeah, I’ve gathered that the topic is contentious, but I don’t understand why.

Just as child free persons have their reasons, most parents probably have theirs, be it conscious, normative, or pressured. And at least to me, the discussion is about the choice and reasons, rather than any judgement.

I was hoping not to stir the pot, but to get a better understanding on why there’s such heated feelings.

A slightly left turn topic: How do you feel/think about people who are voluntarily child free?

The Chinese rank 60th in happiness, which is ahead of Greece, Russia, Turkey, India and other market economies.

There are other ways to care for your population than making them compete for basic necessities. It’s unfair to judge by your own lens.

But then again, this is probably much too much nuance for this thread.

Is the problem 30x worse than it looks? Cus, it’d still be covered then…

I use Newpipe, it’s not as good as Vanced, but better than reVanced. And good enough that I recoil in horror at the stock app.

It already has?

And the everyone burst into a “hallelujah, lord!”.

Assuming the same density, about three times as much gravity.

Gravity scales linearly with volume which scales with the cube of the width, (3/2)³ is about 3,4.