@Babygravy9 Wood burning stoves draw air from the room and send it up the chimney, removing indoor air pollutants in the process. With adequate ventilation, indoor air is continually replaced with clean air from outside. (And they bring independence from big energy companies.)
@ComradeDoom1 There are fruitful analogies with eukaryotic cell walls and the walls of ancient city-states also.
With hard self/nonself boundaries, cooperation is possible within. Without them, it's a Hobbesian war of all against all.
@Babygravy9 Wood burning stoves draw air from the room and send it up the chimney, removing indoor air pollutants in the process. With adequate ventilation, indoor air is continually replaced with clean air from outside.
(And they bring some independence from big energy companies.)
@Medical_Nemesis@abiroberts@DickDelingpole@JMCDelingpole@kitesrfun @Goldentoothed @AnnaWoolf7 @mattletiss7@fitnessfeelingz Ivan Illich thought medical innovation was good for humanity until mid 1950s, thereafter it became captured by institutions and became good for medics and big pharma but not us.
I'm tempted by something like this view. Handwashing, antiseptic on cuts: good. Drugs, vaccines:bad.
@AnnaWoolf7 Gentrified London butchers are always going to be a ripoff.
Try the Pie Keys, it's what they know. FB Marketplace has ads from cheeky Danny Champion of the World
types in our area
@AnnaWoolf7 Hare is a bit tough, needs pressure cooker (or long simmer) to get good results. Goat also.
We just like the variety and it's got to be more nutritious than factory farmed stuff.