[-] mbelcher@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

Decathlon? They used to carry somewhat decent wool shirts. The ones I got from there still hold up.

[-] mbelcher@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Not sure of the 20 hospitals, but here’s the wire service article about the school being bombed this week.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/least-6-people-killed-israeli-air-strike-unrwa-school-gaza-2023-10-17/

[-] mbelcher@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

It’s easy to set it up as a mobile “off-grid” wifi access point to host a calibre library of banned books.
https://github.com/hydroponictrash/Tiny-Banned-Book-Library

[-] mbelcher@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

This is good, but more work needs to be done to hook up private, home based solar and wind systems to the grid. Some local power companies still drag feet to tie home solar to their grid.

[-] mbelcher@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago

Far-right instances Gab and TruthSocial are also technically mastodon. By this metric mastodon also has a nazi problem.

Any software that allows people to communicate over the internet will be used by horrible people to do horrible things.

[-] mbelcher@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

You need to pull your usage records from the electric company to have a baseline of what you will need in terms of Kw over the course of a month. It should be on your bill.

Then figure out what you can cut, and what size generator/solar panels/battery backup you'll need to get by. Make sure to figure out what you are going to do in the cold months and the hot months.

THEN figure out if you are even allowed to be "off grid" in your area. You may be required to keep the electric line running to the house, but you can shut this off at your breaker box so you won't use any electricity. You will still get a monthly bill from the electric company for the hookup (it's usually very small, $5-$15).

best of luck!

[-] mbelcher@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

For thousands of years humans have lived in "15 min villages" where almost everything has been nearby.

And most 15 min city definitions I've seen includes some sort of bike option.

I encourage everyone who lives in a city (or suburb) to look up routes from their home to groceries/pharmacies/schools/etc on google maps. I just did for myself and I'm already in a 15 minute city.

What's lacking is the infrastructure for people to safely get to these places without a car.

mbelcher

joined 1 year ago