Re:Humans evolved to tolerate smoke poisoning [pdf]
by sdfin on Friday February 17, 2017 @10:01AM
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A bonfire's smoke moves in the wind's direction. If they sit towards the bonfire with the wind in their backs, what's wrong with that?
Although if the smoke goes toward your home I understand you anger.
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Re:Humans evolved to tolerate smoke poisoning [pdf]
by Bartweiss on Friday February 17, 2017 @10:33AM
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Yeah, this seems not-terrible - most of the serious health concerns with fires are with wood stoves, where smoke either enters a house directly or leaves a chimney and settles back into it.
From the article up there I get the sense that wood fires inflict a lot of particulates even when you can't smell smoke, but open-air fires are still way safer (on this level) than in-home ones.
Re:Humans evolved to tolerate smoke poisoning [pdf]
by tyabqkwjs on Friday February 17, 2017 @10:24AM
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Prius (virtue signaling) vs. bonfire (actual behavior).
Re:Humans evolved to tolerate smoke poisoning [pdf]
by mikeash on Friday February 17, 2017 @11:15AM
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The idea that Priuses are only about virtue signaling is silly. For people who don't much care about power and handling, they're good cars that can be bought for a reasonable price and are cheap to run.