Bootlickers are already defending this shit trying to split hairs on the “kinds” of sexual assualt/harassment as if it still doesn’t mean Biden is a rapist. They really want us to choose between two rapists in November…
also… this is what is said later in the same article
I’m gonna take a moment to talk about the greenhouse link above. Greenhouses can be quite a bit of work, time, and money to build - and they take up space - so some thoughtful planning and research can ensure that whatever you build you’ll get the most out of.
Most people, when first approaching greenhouses, just build a generic shed that has clear walls and a roof. That’s what you see in the blog post above, while the author kept mentioning how incredibly hot it is. The author is located in central Washington state, USA.
Greenhouse with no ventilation/cooling or heating or electricity or gas, in a hot climate summer climate, cool winter. While conventionally attractive, it is not particularly functional, and is only useful for a relatively short period of the year.
How best to design a greenhouse can depend on factors like climate and latitude.
If your greenhouse is located someplace very cold, you’re looking at issues with heating it, or else not using it at all during that time. There’s multiple ways to heat greenhouses, traditionally methane or propane gas, although in emergencies, and if it is wired for electricity, electrical heat may be used. Some people have even used wood furnaces (this is less than ideal) For any place with long winters this quickly becomes very expensive. Thermal mass is the clever trick to solve most, if not all, (depending on climate) heating issues in winter - no fossil fuels or deforestation required.
If your greenhouse is located someplace very hot, you’re looking at issues with cooling it, or else not using it all during that time. There’s multiple ways to cool greenhouses - fans/vents and shade cloth being the most common. Thermal mass can also help with this issue too.
My favorite website on greenhouses (which longtime readers may recognize) is Penn and Cord. Heating and cooling greenhouses so you can use them for more than 6 weeks a year can be very expensive and very energy intensive - unless you start looking at passive solar greenhouse designs, such as those by Penn and Cord. You do sacrifice some space in the back greenhouse for the thermal mass aka giant barrels of water.
Can be built out of used or scrap material.
Above, barrels are on the left, hidden behind the plants. Below, this is what the wall of barrels looks like before plant beds are installed.
These 55 gallon drums filled with water and painted black, all along the north wall, are the “battery” that keeps these greenhouses usable year round. The roof angles are designed so that these receive direct sunlight (hence why they are painted black) in the winter, the sun heats the water, and they help keep the greenhouse warm all winter long. They’re working at high elevations in Colorado which means 1) wild temperature fluctuations 2) it’s pretty cold in winter there, down to -30F/-34C. The barrels also modulate the hot temperatures in summer. There are variations around this idea, but hopefully the concept makes sense. Sometimes people will create the northern wall out of concrete, and then put the barrels or bottles of water in front of it, for a similar “battery” or modulating effect. The interiors are painted bright white, to reflect as much light as possible to the plants.
Granted, this extremely energy efficient and far more sustainable greenhouse style does not have the same “aesthetic”, but the space is actually far more usable. Penn and Cord and their crew are growing 365 days of the year, in greenhouses mostly made out of used materials. None of these greenhouses obviously have electricity or gas installed, but they don’t actually need it either, thanks to their clever and regionally-appropriate design.
We out here roasting journalists cause half of them never focus on things like the war on drugs and it’s many problems, the prison industrial complex, massive corruption, and so on. They focus on whatever narrative suits their company be it Fox News cnn or whatever stupid ass website idc about cause they also talking boring crack head bs instead of risking their life to reveal to the world about things like the Panama Papers
Honestly I used to be surprised at how willingly people narc’d out their neighbors in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Communist China and like all of these other totalitarian regimes.
But now that we’re in this ‘Rona Lockdown I’m seeing so many people narcing on their neighbors for being outside. And it literally will not in any way effect them if they’re staying inside.
Its like an elementary school taddle tale “hey Jimmy isn’t playing hopscotch right” kind of buffoonery.
Also if you’re inside why does it matter if there’s people milling about outside.
Outside of appearances and advertising, colleges have no vested interest in producing graduates
A graduate is a lost opportunity to collect more tuition, whereas the perpetuatal student guarantees a profitable future income
The next time you find yourself being intellectually tortured by a mandatory humanities class proctored at a 4th grade reading/writing level, know that an already overpaid academic bureaucrat who doesnt care about your future in the slightest gets to live that much more comfortably for it
Keep that in mind as you approach your fifth year’s worth of class requirements for what was supposed to only be a four year degree
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