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The Ultimate Eurozone of Culture, Chaos, and Continental Excellence
A glorious gathering place to celebrate (and lovingly roast) the lands, peoples, quirks, and contradictions of Her Most Magnificent Europa. From the fjords to the Med, the steppes to the Atlantic spray, this is a shrine to everything that makes Europe gloriously weird, wonderfully diverse, and occasionally passive-aggressive in 24 languages.
Here we toast:
🇪🇺 The progressive Union of Peace (and paperwork)
🧀 The freest of health care
🍷 The finest of foods
🏳️🌈 The liberalest of liberties
🌍 The proud non-members and honorary cousins
💶 And the eternal dance of unity, confusion, and cultural banter.
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Pellets are a scam, man. Wood fuel for a standard wood stove is all around us. In the states, I can pull a forest permit for like $40 and go harvest enough firewood for the winter. It requires effort and sweat equity, but all good things require that.
Somehow, they created pellets (made from sawdust -- the byproduct/waste of the mill industry) and sold this generation on the convenience, but now a necessity for life is a commodity and they can fuck with the cost as much as they want. Eg temps drop to single digits so price of pellets go up equals maximum profits. It's the bottled water equivalent of wood heating.
Ditch the pellet stove for wood stoves.
Pellets helped my grand parents survive a winter when the power went out for an extended period of time. They were too old to just start hacking at the forest but they still had access to an offline source that was easy for them at an old age.
Everyone keeps pointing out exceptions to the rule. Obviously enfeebled elderly folks benefit from pellets if their children/grand children arent hacking down trees for them.
It's like me saying "prepackaged single serving items are a scourge on the planet" and then someone clapping back about how they're disabled and need single serving pre cut apples or pre-peeled bananas or some shit. Like, yeah, of course in that situation it makes sense.
No it’s like you are saying apparently everyone has children and grand children ready to start a logging op on the fly…
As if everyone has equal access to trees and equal physical ability to log them at the necessary scale.
Meanwhile in reality… your poor understanding of prepared foods doesn’t scale to folks actually heating themselves in real life…
Manufactured wood bits aren’t the way but they have a place in a world where you’re bs doesn’t create a silver bullet either.