I have a very early series Dynavap, an Epic Vape E-Nano log heater, and a Volcano. I’ve used the Epic Vape E-Nano the most, then the Volcano, then the Dynavap. I rarely use anything outside the home, so the plug-in vapes get the most use. If my friends vaped I’m sure the Volcano would get more use.

I also use the E-Nano for heating essential oil for making the room smell nice. If I had to get one and didn’t care about mobility it would be the E-Nano. It’s warm and cozy to hold when my hands are cold. I like the wood look.

The thing about tolerance though is very real. You really need to reset your tolerance before switching to dry herb. I liked getting a lot of high cbd low thc flower so I had something to practice with while resetting. Don’t expect to get absolutely blasted first time out, you’re getting only a few mg of THC per chamber. If you’re used to +100mg from a bowl hit, this will feel a lot less powerful until you reset your tolerance.

The other thing I like about dry herb vaping is using it while it tastes good but stopping before the burnt popcorn stage, and using the vaped flower to make butter. So I’ll get maybe 6 hits on a chamber, then make some pretty strong butter with the same flower.

Between the two this feels like the best of both worlds. I’ll sometimes take a butter pat and then vape a bit to ease it in, saving the vaped flower in a jar to make more butter.

In the USA the big cities are fully paid, the suburban areas are a combination, and the rural areas are fully volunteer. I’m in a combination department, where the paid staff handle most of the medical calls and both respond to fire calls. The biggest issue with growing income inequality is folks just don’t have as much free time to volunteer so it’s hard to get enough members to fully staff an apparatus. That means paid staff but those are expensive and require a lot of logistics to maintain.

I started out thinking firefighters should all just be paid and it’s unreasonable to expect folks to volunteer. I’ve come back around and think it should be “volunteer or pay”. We obviously need the money for expensive gear and apparatus maintenance. Also it’s helpful to not have to get out of bed in the middle of the night when tomorrow is a work night

On the other hand, I think it’s extremely beneficial to have the resilience of a lot of skilled firefighters in the community. When there’s a big call you want as many people as quickly as possible. I also think it helps with PTSD to be able to just take time off from calls without losing your job. So I think there should be a lot more volunteers and an easier path to getting enough skills to become a volunteer.

I consider doom scrolling to be an unhealthy way to consume news and an ineffective tool for political change. Protests, strikes, and voting change politics. There is little to be gained by algorithmically filling my body with cortisol and adrenaline.

My head is not in the sand because I read apnews and reuters periodically.

I prefer for lemmy to be an enjoyable place to visit. If it was an endless feed of doom I would uninstall and read a book instead.

Every time I see a politics news or comic or meme I block that community. It’s great my entire feed is fun stuff and cool art

play stupid games win stupid prizes

what are you most excited about this year

Wow this takes me back

From one chaotic to another, may you be blessed with a peaceful soul and find a deep and healing rest

Maybe Attack Pack?

https://hotwheels.fandom.com/wiki/Attack_Pack

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echo "no clankers" > CONTRIBUTING. md

For example

that’s cool I’ll have to check it out

I don’t remember, I’d just put some raw bacon in there on a rack and eat when it was cooked and smokey

https://www.themudhome.com/mudbuilding/how-to-make-a-cob-oven-and-avoid-the-common-pitfalls

https://theyearofmud.com/2009/09/12/outdoor-cob-pizza-oven/

There’s a book too, if you want more detail, that’s what I used when I first made mine like 12 years ago

https://permies.com/t/223763/Cob-Oven-bible-Build-Earth

The simplest explanation is you pile sand into a dome shape, then mix clay and sand and pile it on the sand, then mix clay sand and straw and use that for the outer shell. After the walls dry you can scoop out the inner sand dome.

I highly recommend renting a cement mixer, doing it with foot stamping takes a very long time.

lawl absolutely true, but also it gets below freezing here and rebuilding it only take a few hours so it’s nbd. I’d rather just rebuild it every few years vs stress out super hard a fancy one cracks

I built one with just clay and straw, used it every weekend for years, it cracked, rebuilt it, used for another two years, cracked again, rebuilt it a third time. I’ve moved to a new house and already miss it. Even if I’m not making pizza, it’s great just for an outdoor fire while sitting in the hammock. It’s contained and uses like 1/4 of the wood while not being as dangerous.

A great way to spend a weekend afternoon is to fire it up and loaf on the hammock. I’d also use it to bake bread, make peach cobblers in cast iron, and smoke bacon. Great times. Maybe I could get the parts to rebuild it this weekend…

What an excellent thesis. I really have been resonating with Quaker philosophy that is more open and welcoming to everyone

To start it’s going to be spring planting: cabbage, kale, sprouts, lettuce, and arugula. But then switch over to cucumbers and peppers in the summer

This weekend I made a wattle wall to use as a raised bed. I’ve just finished what is two beds, 18’ and 24’ each. I left the middle unfenced and I’ll just use wood chips to fill in that area. We’ll see how it works when I put in the soil, but for now it’s looking good