Joe Resident

I think maybe a lot of the consternation by SWEs about AI is really overshadowed by the fact that most are spending their professional life building something they don't really care about, for the money. But that's a hard void to stare at.
So they subconsciously paper over their discontent by pretending it's all about the craft, and wax poetic about it. They are alienated from the fruits of their labor, in fact, don't even care fundamentally about the fruits.
I wonder how much the narrative for these people would be different if they were spending 8 hours a day building something they actually cared about, and suddenly with AI can do it faster and better.
Not trying to make any accusations at hodlbod here, I appreciated the post's thoughtfulness. And I don't know what he works on anyway. Just general thoughts

2026-10-13 08:08:24 UTC

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Btw these judging 'peers' don't actually exist, its mostly a psyop, which then becomes self-fulfilling as insecure people step in line

2026-10-13 08:06:05 UTC

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Celebrating most big holidays with enthusiasm risks the judgment of your oh-so-sophisticated peers.
Believe the pilgrims were worth celebrating? How colonial. Columbus? You oppressor. Resurrection of Christ? How quaint. Now we have butt plugs and depression, get with the times. Independence Day? You must hate brown people. Birth of Christ? Sky Daddy much? What gives you the right to continue the traditions of your ancestors?
So normal spineless people who still want to feel the magic of shared narrative and celebration with other people flock to Halloween with a lot of pent-up energy. It's empty enough to get no criticism, so it's safe.

2026-10-11 18:39:18 UTC

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Oof that's an AK-47, hardly American

2026-10-11 18:38:13 UTC

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A true sovereign walks among us

2026-10-10 20:06:54 UTC

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Looking good!
I was on the edge of my seat when you started burying it. Maybe I worry too much, but I'd still be concerned about it caving in. I looked into a bunch of methods to make retaining walls after your earlier post, didn't find anything super minimalist..
I was gonna suggest something like makeshift soil nailing, where you fill in about 2 feet of dirt around the shelter, then add a layer, or even just one-foot slabs every few feet, of concrete. Maybe some rebar to connect them, and rebar tapped into the undisturbed dirt. Then once it's set, fill another 2ft and do the same thing, until it's filled. Could probably get a way with 2 or 3 bags of concrete if you used more rebar..
The idea is to make the dirt webbed together so it stays together, as one block, doesn't shift and put pressure on the shelter. Not sure it would work.
I guess the die is cast now though, good luck!
With the current design, I would suggest marking positions of things well so you have an early warning if things start shifting.

2026-09-24 22:09:15 UTC

Don't let tomato take puree from you
#nevent1q…6uwm

2026-09-23 00:41:02 UTC

Don't let tomorrow take today from you

2026-09-22 17:45:38 UTC

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Get you some incense, take up meditation, and discover the secrets of the universe. And smell the incense smoke

2026-09-22 00:22:20 UTC

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7x9 down six feet would be a lot, but just a narrow place to sit/sleep might be more doable. Re: the warm nook within a larger dry, cold shelter idea

2026-09-21 19:39:44 UTC

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Wait did I just get got by another not account?
Jev pilled huh? Jumping on the astroturf bandwagon I see

2026-09-21 19:38:01 UTC

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Uhh, pray tell how routstr magically creates marketplace pressures that didn't already exist?? Or have you just barely discovered there are a million ways to pay per token already?
Magic, huh? Very few, huh? Color me dumbfounded by the sudden appearance of the invisivlble hand, heretofore hiding its brilliance and wisdom from us
Look I'm all for routstr but this is cringe

2026-09-21 19:33:03 UTC

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Wow
Didn't realize this was dinosaur dystopia we're living in

2026-09-21 18:06:23 UTC

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I suggested going for heat capacitance with a stone hearth before, but I was assuming a small shelter. 7'x9' is pretty big, you'd need to do a LOT of fire babysitting, and burn a LOT of wood. How much wood do you have? You might run out
Banking on heat capacitance also probably necessitates you waking up at least once or twice in the night to stoke the fire again, otherwise you'll be toasty in the first half and miserable the second half.
Insulation on the other hand is much more passively helpful, no chores to keep up once it's there. But it's hard to make sure you cover all the gaps, and is probably more expensive, like you said...
My main thoughts are:
1. Smaller shelter makes everything easier. If you go for insulation: less to buy, easier to get all the gaps. If you go for thermal mass: it heats up faster, less wood to burn, stays warm for just as long. The larger the shelter, the more heat waste, any way you slice it. Also makes the roof more complicated to have to span multiple pallets.
-you might consider a large-ish precipitation shelter (tarp/teepee), but then focus your heat-shelter resources to a smaller area within that, just for sleeping and maybe sitting. If things go warmer than expected, you could enlarge the heat area within the sky shelter. A warm bed within a cold, but dry, room.
2. The tractor is a bright spot, because the deeper you go into the ground, the closer the earth will stay to about 50°F, year round. This is another orthogonal dimension to play with along with heat resistance (insulation) and capacitance you add. It's basically free heat capacitance from the summer stored in the earth. For reference, in northern Montana, it stays at about 43F mid winter at 6 feet down. Keeping yourself warm in 45F conditions is pretty easy, as you know. Seems like you need to get down to at least 4 feet for any real benefit.
7x9 might be a pretty big bite to chew... Makes me nervous

2026-09-21 02:52:51 UTC

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The internet is a series of tubes.
Magnets are part of the internet.
Ergo, the internet is a series of rail guns

2026-09-20 00:14:05 UTC

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Adding a bunch of heat capacitance is complimentary to whatever shelter/insulation approach you take.
As long as there's room. But then, an adobe/rock hearth could protrude out of the shelter, and make it easy to store/load wood from the outside

2026-09-20 00:07:31 UTC

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The hot-rock hearth is the move. I've been sweating in below freezing camping conditions because I buried some hot rocks under my tent. Would make winter way more seamless

2026-09-19 23:59:15 UTC

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You might consider moving the outhouse a bit further away from the garden
(something something soil leeching)

2026-09-19 23:47:24 UTC

Surely, people who lived before pickles were invented:
Woe is us, that must continue in a hard and dreary existence

2026-09-15 15:15:57 UTC

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Lol delightful

2026-09-12 03:04:02 UTC

Does #amethyst or any other client have a feed mode which is all your follows' follows?
I tried Global but it's too noisy and slop/scam ridden to be interesting
#asknostr

2026-09-11 14:47:57 UTC

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But I'm being picky, both very wise goose words, delivered with poise and wit

2026-09-11 14:46:37 UTC

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Imho v1 was more theatrical. And enlightening.