to clarify: the heating in here is done via hot water. so, it's a water based temperature system, and it's not crazy to wonder if there's cold water piping under the floor.
essentially, i can't tell if the floors are cold like this on purpose or not. and, they are cold.
Saturday, July 20, 2019
so, what am i doing tonight, then?
i've been noticing for a while that the flooring in this space seems to get fairly damp, and while i initially feared the worst, i'm convinced at this point that it's "just" condensation - "just" because it's still a threat to all my stuff, be it books or electronics. i'm going to rip some things apart, do some cleaning and take a first step at dealing with it.
the problem seems to be that the floor is cold, and i could probably mostly fix the problem by turning the air off upstairs - which would be my preferred approach, but is not a realistic choice. so, what is happening is that the hot, humid air is coming into contact with the cold floor and converting into water. it's not a catastrophe or anything, but i want it to stop, and i don't want to decrease the humidity in the space, because i'm very sensitive to dry air.
what i want to do is make the floors warmer, not reduce the humidity in the air, and the way to do that is to utilize some kind of flooring or carpeting. that way, the humidity in the air won't condense when it comes into contact with the floor. i'm being informed that vinyl flooring is particularly good for this task. so, that's what i'm going to be focusing on.
i'm going to want to ask some questions first, though. is there a cooling system under the floor? can he turn it off?
i've been noticing for a while that the flooring in this space seems to get fairly damp, and while i initially feared the worst, i'm convinced at this point that it's "just" condensation - "just" because it's still a threat to all my stuff, be it books or electronics. i'm going to rip some things apart, do some cleaning and take a first step at dealing with it.
the problem seems to be that the floor is cold, and i could probably mostly fix the problem by turning the air off upstairs - which would be my preferred approach, but is not a realistic choice. so, what is happening is that the hot, humid air is coming into contact with the cold floor and converting into water. it's not a catastrophe or anything, but i want it to stop, and i don't want to decrease the humidity in the space, because i'm very sensitive to dry air.
what i want to do is make the floors warmer, not reduce the humidity in the air, and the way to do that is to utilize some kind of flooring or carpeting. that way, the humidity in the air won't condense when it comes into contact with the floor. i'm being informed that vinyl flooring is particularly good for this task. so, that's what i'm going to be focusing on.
i'm going to want to ask some questions first, though. is there a cooling system under the floor? can he turn it off?
at
22:37
i was going to see torche & baroness tonight, then go dancing afterwards, then hit the marching band show in the morning, then go to tessellations & sunsquabi in the afternoon, and then head home.
unfortunately, the overnight dance party was canceled (well, they changed it to an afternoon bbq, which is just painfully boring and lame) due to concerns about a police raid. parties seem to be getting shut down almost every weekend at this point, and the weather appears to be very unsettled, meaning it seems like i'm looking at a lot of rain. the torche show is also kind of expensive....
there's a couple of other options, but i'm less keen on them, or biking in the rain to get to them. that long wait between the end of the party at 4:00 or 5:00 and the marching festival in the cut at 14:00 is looking pretty daunting, but if the party lingered to 7:00 or 8:00, i could almost get away with it by stopping to eat and getting to the cut a little early. or maybe going down to the russell early to get tickets. even that is really a stretch. as it is, i don't want to schedule myself a 9 hour wait in detroit in the rain.
regardless, you know i'm a little crazy. if it was a different band, i might push myself. i've seen torche a few times, and will probably see them again, but i'm a passive fan - it's more of an experiential thing, and that intersects pretty strongly with the weather. it's not that huge a loss.
so, i'm in tonight. decided.
and, we'll have to see if i can even get out tomorrow at all.
unfortunately, the overnight dance party was canceled (well, they changed it to an afternoon bbq, which is just painfully boring and lame) due to concerns about a police raid. parties seem to be getting shut down almost every weekend at this point, and the weather appears to be very unsettled, meaning it seems like i'm looking at a lot of rain. the torche show is also kind of expensive....
there's a couple of other options, but i'm less keen on them, or biking in the rain to get to them. that long wait between the end of the party at 4:00 or 5:00 and the marching festival in the cut at 14:00 is looking pretty daunting, but if the party lingered to 7:00 or 8:00, i could almost get away with it by stopping to eat and getting to the cut a little early. or maybe going down to the russell early to get tickets. even that is really a stretch. as it is, i don't want to schedule myself a 9 hour wait in detroit in the rain.
regardless, you know i'm a little crazy. if it was a different band, i might push myself. i've seen torche a few times, and will probably see them again, but i'm a passive fan - it's more of an experiential thing, and that intersects pretty strongly with the weather. it's not that huge a loss.
so, i'm in tonight. decided.
and, we'll have to see if i can even get out tomorrow at all.
at
18:32
i personally think that this is very silly, and don't imagine much of any context where i'd have much time for a ritual that upholds my freedom by reciting pre-written lines that somebody is feeding me. but, that's not what this actually is; this is a way to substitute the social role of the church into the lives of atheists, and it's success depends on the success of the community.
there has always been a reaction against religion, and one will continue to exist for as long as religion does. and, in fact, as religion is the state, a continuing reaction against religion will continue to exist so long as the state does.
in antiquity, you had the philosophers and mathematicians, who argued against superstition by appealing to naturalism and observation. they organized into cults, like the pythagoreans, and met at academies that countered the monasteries. when the christians and muslims destroyed all the knowledge of the ancient world in a fit of mass stupidity, this role was taken over by the northern barbarians, who had been slowly developing a concept of individualism and freedom to overpower the roman systems of servility and slavery that the textbooks mistakenly refer to as "civilization". france is named after the franks, which was not a barbarian tribe in the ethnic sense but rather a confederation of "free men". and, when the barbarians were finally defeated, an era of relative peace, the renaissance, brought the philosophers and mathematicians back again, culminating in the revolutionary movements associated with the masonic lodges of the enlightenment.
i made this point during occupy, and i'm not sure how many people listened, but camping in a park struck me as a lesser concept then starting up a lodge. neither the french nor american revolutions could have happened without the lodge as organizing body, which is why the church-state went to such great lengths to demonize them, in the end. and, the point is to keep it a little bit underground, so the cops can't come in and break it up.
but, there's a danger here that we saw come out of the reign of terror and the fake religions set up in the aftermath of the collapse of the ancien regime: the religion of reason was every bit as brutal as the religion of contradiction, because the root cause of the brutality is not the theology but the ritual.
so, it's tempting to see these as revolutionary bodies, but in the end i would advise treating them like any other religion, because the truth is that they'll act like any other religion should they gain any influence.
if you have friends in this movement, you should be helping them to reassert their individuality away from this group identity and encouraging them to avoid their scripted talking points and learn to think more for themselves.
https://globalnews.ca/news/5488632/satanic-temple-canada/
there has always been a reaction against religion, and one will continue to exist for as long as religion does. and, in fact, as religion is the state, a continuing reaction against religion will continue to exist so long as the state does.
in antiquity, you had the philosophers and mathematicians, who argued against superstition by appealing to naturalism and observation. they organized into cults, like the pythagoreans, and met at academies that countered the monasteries. when the christians and muslims destroyed all the knowledge of the ancient world in a fit of mass stupidity, this role was taken over by the northern barbarians, who had been slowly developing a concept of individualism and freedom to overpower the roman systems of servility and slavery that the textbooks mistakenly refer to as "civilization". france is named after the franks, which was not a barbarian tribe in the ethnic sense but rather a confederation of "free men". and, when the barbarians were finally defeated, an era of relative peace, the renaissance, brought the philosophers and mathematicians back again, culminating in the revolutionary movements associated with the masonic lodges of the enlightenment.
i made this point during occupy, and i'm not sure how many people listened, but camping in a park struck me as a lesser concept then starting up a lodge. neither the french nor american revolutions could have happened without the lodge as organizing body, which is why the church-state went to such great lengths to demonize them, in the end. and, the point is to keep it a little bit underground, so the cops can't come in and break it up.
but, there's a danger here that we saw come out of the reign of terror and the fake religions set up in the aftermath of the collapse of the ancien regime: the religion of reason was every bit as brutal as the religion of contradiction, because the root cause of the brutality is not the theology but the ritual.
so, it's tempting to see these as revolutionary bodies, but in the end i would advise treating them like any other religion, because the truth is that they'll act like any other religion should they gain any influence.
if you have friends in this movement, you should be helping them to reassert their individuality away from this group identity and encouraging them to avoid their scripted talking points and learn to think more for themselves.
https://globalnews.ca/news/5488632/satanic-temple-canada/
at
15:22
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