Yeah, I rarely use an accelerant when I start a fire. It’s a crutch for a bad foundation.

That’s a good description of it, actually. It’s controlled chaos.

Use your fingertips for an extra forearm workout.

You can still get a decent burn with wall push-ups.

Those two quotes are almost certainly them covering their ass legally. It’s like how every medical professional will tell every woman on hormonal birth control to use a backup method if they’re on antibiotics even though only a very specific combination of the two will decrease the effectiveness of the birth control.

Oh, I know. Fire was my hobby as a preteen/young teen, to the point that my mom let me bury a grill so I could burn stuff in it. I was also in the scouts, and won every “start a fire with a single match” competition I was part of.

Last month she had me over to burn a burn pile for her, and she had a 5 gallon canister of diesel that she expected to use all of to start it. I walked around the pile, took 4oz of it, poured it in one spot, then lit a match. The pile was ablaze in about 15 seconds flat and burned out within 2 hours. The diesel wasn’t even necessary, I just used it because she had already poured it.

Building fires is my specialty, and there has never been a fire that I’ve built that would have benefited from the log cabin method. Even the teepee method is unnecessarily complicated.

You don’t need structural stability for a fire. In fact, it’s usually a hindrance. You want it to collapse in a specific way and be able to stir it up.

That’s why you start with a pile of shavings, then add a pile of twigs, then a pile of increasingly bigger sticks up until about 1in in diameter. You don’t put anything heavier on until the base fire is caught and has coals.

This is an oversimplification, of course, because you have to account for airflow.

You are if company policy dictates that’s all you can use.

The teepee shape actually gets the fire going more efficiently, though.

If this is news to anyone, I have a bridge to sell them.

I’m not extremely familiar with the USB-C handshake, but isn’t it between the device and power supply?

I will always recommend one when sailing the high seas. Even if the ISP doesn’t catch you, the government might.

But you’re right, my VPN is mostly for if the system has to use torrents because my newsgroup doesn’t have a specific release.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/is-the-full-course-of-antibiotics-full-of-baloney-2017081712253

There you go. And some quotes from the article:

Compared to those who received longer courses of antibiotics, patients who received fewer antibiotics had either the same or a slightly lower risk of being colonized by antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

In most conditions, shorter courses of therapy resulted in cure rates that were the same as longer durations of antibiotics.

Setup sonarr and use NZB instead of torrents. And a VPN, of course.

It’s not a failure to default to a safe level if it can’t negotiate properly. That’s a feature.

I felt like this when I was bulking and eating healthy. Eating 5k Calories of healthy food a day is a fucking chore.

I’m pretty sure this is just a way of utilizing abandoned rail lines that aren’t fit for full size trains.

As an aside, there’s growing evidence that not taking the full course of antibiotics if the infection is already resolved is the best course of action.

I believe the theory is that by continuing to take the antibiotics, you kill off the bacteria that isn’t drug resistant and just leave the drug resistant bacteria behind.

It also acts as an anti-inflammatory agent.

Oops, my bad. My eyes fucked up the comment levels.

I figured it would be a long shot that my pun would be caught.