> folks here would likely howl socialism with a 3rd place run by the city.

It is not socialism, the problem is the lack of that.

My city does a good job of running a 3rd place as part of their library, it is right outside the library in a big seating area meant for phone calls & talking in general.

But they have 3 full-time security staff, the police station is across the street and the social case workers have an office in the same building.

Outside of a decent coffee, the place has everything for me to walk in with my kids in the summer and work while they roam the hallways as if it was their own, meeting other kids from the same school district. There's even a no-cars allowed trail connecting the place for kids to cycle safely to.

However, take away the constant enforcement by security + social case worker hovering, this falls apart because it'll have the etiquette of a subway car.

The homeless are there btw, but they tend to be non-disruptive and mostly there to get help with something (like a cancelled EBT card).

> bangalore 2023 worked because entropy was high and friction was low

Go a whole decade+ back, it was the Leela coffee shop which opened till 1 AM.

> we maynot recreate that on a discord channel.

IRC + freenode did the same decades ago, back in the day when the computers wouldn't fit in a backpack - people would just lurk socially and not really join a channel for a purpose.

Most of #linux-india was a third place after midnight, though not a physical one.

> Don’t abuse rules to force a puritanical or tyrannical lifestyle

I really like the CGP Grey's "Themes" instead of calling a rule [1].

The concept of a "trends towards healthy" is much easier for me than "eat healthy".

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVGuFdX5guE

> So the latent heat is conducted away by the cooling apparatus, it's just not explicitly stated, to sound more sensational.

In theory, if that makes it hotter than ambient air in the process, that would be a good thing - usually we have to cool things down below ambient air to get moisture out.

Not a good thing if you want to measure maximum moisture extraction, but cooling something to ambient temperatures is a much easier task.

> those rates amortize and distribute the cost of storm recovery

Not exactly when it is a farm out there away from a town.

My experience is from a different era (90s) and a different kind of farm, but I spent a bunch of summers in one, which had power outages whenever the monsoons picked up.

The trouble was that there was a single line feeding the farm from about 6km away, so if that went down a single farmowner complained - the rate payers who were in a denser urban area always got priority, because there were 600+ people who shared a transformer.

The generator ran a lot when winds knocked power out, but the generator only ran when there was a big power need like running the well pumps or one of the winnowing mills. Even the winnower had pedals, because work doesn't stop.

Every bathroom had a light with a 30 minute battery in it, which came on when the power went out - I guess if they had LEDs those same batteries would be 6 hour lights.

They would have killed for solar + storage, because shipping fuel in for the generator was one of those annoying things you had to keep doing over and over again.