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BIG_RAIN_THUNDERSTORM wrote

i figured, but if i asked for books and i got a reply which kinda parses as "listen to a chud podcast while the world dies" i'd be displeased👽

i get confused by a lot of weird takes without having a good background in shitty-but-popular historians. like imagine not knowing about the Black Book of Communism when somebody starts telling you Stalin was worse than Hitler. it's just easier to map their "tree of beliefs" as one of my professors once called it

also Revolutions podcast is pretty great I'm sure they've got some material on WWI events but they cover uprisings in general :) good luck in your quest for knowledge

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BIG_RAIN_THUNDERSTORM wrote

He seems to admire Winston Churchill despite going over what a raging alcoholic bastard he was in his "inebriated history" episode. No comment on that. I do like the idea of podcasting about different historical figures who were absolutely off their tits, he mentions Dr. Feelgood, everybody's favorite bourgeois pharmacist

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Moonside wrote

I've had to, actually. But I am curious about the answer, as well, so I did a little research. Supposedly if you use an incandescent bulb with a lower voltage, you make the coefficient of efficiency worse but you simultaneously extend the lifespan of it by quite a bit. In a oven, low energy efficiency is not a major problem as the waste heat just gets to be used in heating the oven itself. So perhaps the lamps are quite usual but just get used at a lower voltage? Or perhaps the filament is thicker so it burns slower. I didn't arrive at an answer, but have few plausible conjectures instead.

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