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Anarchists Are Building DIY Heaters to Keep Unhoused People Warm

26 points by Victerius 5y ago

notch656a 5y ago
Neat DIY guide Overall. Are there commercial offerings of something similar to this? When I was homeless, I used an MSR international stove for cooking (can use gasoline, kerosene, white gas). It cost me maybe a day or two of day labor to buy it. I know building DIY stuff can be difficult for homeless, whereas coming up with $10 or $30 from doing some odd labor can be easier to come by than acquiring the tools to build things. It'd be cool if they can find a way to sell these. I'd be curious in knowing as well what the risks are from using denatured alcohol. I would be very worried about vaporous methanol contaminating my breathing area, but perhaps that fear is unfounded.
908B64B197 5y ago
That does not look safe at all; more like a fire hazard. This will send people to the ER with severe burns. Or worse.
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- Doxin 5y ago
  Guess what sends people to the ER too? freezing half to death. Being unhoused is inherently unsafe.
Day1 5y ago
Precisely why entrepreneurial movements will always contribute more to society rather than the strong institutional movement we currently have coming from the left.
- bitwize 5y ago
  That's not the left, that's the UnitedStatesLeft which is basically the right with better marketing. Left-anarchists oppose ALL forms of power hierarchy, state and corporate alike.
- kelseyfrog 5y ago
  The (US)left is an internally fractured group. There are many highly politically engaged US Leftists who would like nothing better than to see the left less represented by institutionalists. This internal division would never make its way to mass media because it isn't in corporate interests to display it. Corporations love strong institutions because businesses are built on the legislative and judicial institutions which create constructs that benefit those same corporations. The end result is that most people see a very watered down version of political views centered on corporate interests regardless of political leanings. There's probably a Chomsky book on this or something.
- the_biot 5y ago
  It's not an entrepeneurial movement in the slightest. There is no profit motive.
- empthought 5y ago
  The builders of the heaters themselves confess that their work is unnecessary, relative to the more institutionally suited project of housing construction and provision.

26 points by Victerius 5y ago

Neat DIY guide Overall. Are there commercial offerings of something similar to this? When I was homeless, I used an MSR international stove for cooking (can use gasoline, kerosene, white gas). It cost me maybe a day or two of day labor to buy it. I know building DIY stuff can be difficult for homeless, whereas coming up with $10 or $30 from doing some odd labor can be easier to come by than acquiring the tools to build things. It'd be cool if they can find a way to sell these. I'd be curious in knowing as well what the risks are from using denatured alcohol. I would be very worried about vaporous methanol contaminating my breathing area, but perhaps that fear is unfounded.

908B64B197 5y ago

That does not look safe at all; more like a fire hazard. This will send people to the ER with severe burns. Or worse.

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Doxin 5y ago
Guess what sends people to the ER too? freezing half to death. Being unhoused is inherently unsafe.

Day1 5y ago

Precisely why entrepreneurial movements will always contribute more to society rather than the strong institutional movement we currently have coming from the left.

bitwize 5y ago
That's not the left, that's the UnitedStatesLeft which is basically the right with better marketing. Left-anarchists oppose ALL forms of power hierarchy, state and corporate alike.
kelseyfrog 5y ago
The (US)left is an internally fractured group. There are many highly politically engaged US Leftists who would like nothing better than to see the left less represented by institutionalists. This internal division would never make its way to mass media because it isn't in corporate interests to display it. Corporations love strong institutions because businesses are built on the legislative and judicial institutions which create constructs that benefit those same corporations. The end result is that most people see a very watered down version of political views centered on corporate interests regardless of political leanings. There's probably a Chomsky book on this or something.
the_biot 5y ago
It's not an entrepeneurial movement in the slightest. There is no profit motive.
empthought 5y ago
The builders of the heaters themselves confess that their work is unnecessary, relative to the more institutionally suited project of housing construction and provision.