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Travis F W

travisfw@sfba.club

Joined 11 months, 3 weeks ago

Nonfiction audio is my main thing. Autobiographies, parenting, science, social issues, and some business or anything educational.

I consider nonfiction to be a healthier and more useful view of the world than the news.

I have a few Mastodon accounts, like @travisfw@fosstodon.org

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Brad Lancaster: Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 3rd Edition (2019, Rainsource Press) 5 stars

Note: All times used in this book…are solar time based on the sun's actual location in the sky which changes throughout the year. In contrast, clock time is based on an imaginary sun location that results on dividing time into equal 24 hour days throughout the year… for example solar 11am is 1 hour before solar noon.

Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 3rd Edition by  (Page 92)

Appreciate this small preaching on how inaccurate standard time is. And I find it hilarious Bezos is sponsoring a clock to keep "accurate" time for next millennia. longnow.org/clock/

Zach Weinersmith, Kelly Weinersmith: A City On Mars (EBook, 2023, Penguin Press) 4 stars

Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate …

I would read this as food for thought regarding alternatives to property.

To me, space is where we can finally begin to stop talking about owning everything. The alternative would be to talk about ideal collective behavior, and acceptable individual choices wrt resources and situations.

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