Yeah, if you build with conventional stick and fibreglass.

Thermal mass and earth-cooled air and shading can achieve a lot.

We grow a grape vine on the south wall, over a large window, using a set of stand-off cables. Warmth and light in the winter and green shade in the summer.

We are growing it for the foliage, but the delicious table grapes are a nice bonus.

Yes, I had a really nice canon slr and a rollei compact with the good zeiss glass, but went on a long cycle trip and grams counted, so I reused a disposable camera: plastic fixed lens, single speed, reloading it inside the sleeping bag at night and sealing it up with duck tape. Developed at whatever one-hour available at the small towns we passed through.

Turned out okay, but great shots. I sold many of those photos. Because I had any camera at all.

Anyone who hosts websites can check the logs and see the bots hammering away at wp/admin primarily, even if you are not running any WordPress. Low hanging meat? Fresh fruit?

It really is a matter of degree, though. Even fancy perfume has horse piss in it. It doesn’t mean you might as well wallow in the pigpen.

No maybe Mullvad can’t control the flow of that money into dangerous hands. But the customers can, if they organize.

This is the core running gag of a lot of the tv series The Good Place.

The answer, of course, is just keep trying.

Critical thinking is based on treating problems as opportunities to improve. Endlessly.

Yes, absolutely! I have an ever shrinking list of suppliers for my business and the household.

It’s not an on/off situation.

The point of any such action dealing with complex consequences is simply a statistical approach. Deny custom with the oligarchs whenever you can, and it adds up in aggregate.

Buy local, barter, buy from vetted independent companies, use boycott apps, keep a shitlist and consult a company family tree if you are wondering about a product.

Smaller scale family farms are less likely to poison themselves, they live close to the fields; buy direct from them when you can. Farmer’s markets. It’s less convenient. It’s culturally richer.

There are hidden costs in cheaper products. It’s not as big a sacrifice as it seems to avoid oligarchs whenever you see them.

Nope. It’s Lions Bay, British Columbia, Canada

Most likely maps based on Natural Resources Canada data.

It keeps sending people up my driveway to a place that doesn’t exist. Labels my neighbour’s driveway as a road too.

That definitely happens some of the time, in some places. Journalism still exists, however.

Product reviews require more than a ‘test drive’.