We saw stoves/fireplaces like this in a bunch of taverns in Slovenia. Huge hulking tiled cubes around the center of the building that just radiated a pleasant heat from every square inch of the surface. I imagine it was quite efficient, with just a very low fire burning to keep it in equilibrium.
If it was a rocket stove, it was a very small very hot fire. I've had a bit of a love affair with rocket stoves lately (even replaced my BBQ/grill with one).
AI and robots are owned, not by users, but by owners, VCs, LLCs and corporations.
If anyone has paid attention, someone would have realized these owning entities aren't contributing anything to our general wellbeing anymore. It's the other way around. It has been for a very long time. It will stay that way, and worsen, until we revolt.
UBI will only happen when most users (say 90% of actual World population) are gone (as in permanently turned into dust). And yes, the clock is ticking.
While part of the arguments appear valid, comparison between tourism and oil fields is hot garbage, even for pro protectionist oil financed organizations.
Firstly, you need lots of oil so you can have tourism. No oil no tourism.
Second, yes, tourism is a fragile industry with low productivity. This is because tourism will mostly happen during times of peace, without pandemics. Then, most tourism services are personal, so yes, benefits aren't purely economic, they intersect with human values.
The truth is we are all moving toward a most walled and protectionist world economic system, where tourism tend to be associated with liberal values like immigration and free trade, and the U.S. is rethinking its ties with the outer multilateral world.
What a load of crap, for nothing. US population 340M vs. France population 68M. You get an exactly 5 to 1 ratio. Revise your numbers according to this ratio, there you have it.
Not even looking at the numbers you throw out, I can tell you France wins, of course, for being #1 tourist spot of the whole world. Why? Partly because of Americans.
But worry do not! By the time current US administration ends up its charade, only emigration should concern you, not the prospect of tourism. And believe me, there are places far more welcoming to emigrate to than France!
Tribalism really is the thing one has to individually overcome in order to gain some perspective, then maybe adhere to free thinking, before blooming as a free doer.
For me, it always was a voluntarily long and sinuous and silly and lonely path. It had to be.
An uncertain path as well, and one that was totally worth all the trouble it brought my way.
And as seducing as it is, the reality of crossing path with fellow free thinking/doing individuals always felt like falling for some other tribe.
Because in the end, that's what we do. While not following, we often become leaders of followers. How could it be otherwise is the only question left to answer.
My recipe for large files: 3 copies. Right now, 1st copy on external 8 to 16TB NTFS desktop hard drives, and 2nd copy on 14 to 16TB internal ext4 drives. Theses drives I power up only for copy purposes, once a month or so. At present time, my drives are 5 to 7 years old, and still good.
Main working copies I keep on 4 to 8TB NTFS SSDs (mix of sata and nvme), plugged into a PC I'm using regularly, but intermittently.
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