Must Love Bogs
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Must Love Bogs
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#2>Historically, we’ve associated bogs with sickness
I always associated bogs with standards.
Edit: also whisky, another thing I didn't see in the article.
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#3I wish bogs were more popular too, because it might mean more adoption for bogbook, which seems like a cool project IMO.
an open source distributed social network of signed feeds replicated between pub servers
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#4‘Bog,’ I said.
‘You may enter.’
— The Cuckoo’s Egg, Clifford Stoll
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#5I visited a peat bog yesterday! The sphagnum mats are amazing both visually and olfactorally.
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#6There are some great bogs on Dartmoor. Nothing quite starts you off right at the beginning of a day's walking like immediately getting knee deep in water at 7AM
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#7In the UK bog means a loo (or toilet if you prefer) so I was most curious if this was an article about lavatories but it wasn't what I was thinking !
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#8>Historically, we’ve associated bogs with sickness I always associated bogs with standards. Edit: also whisky, another thing I didn't see in the article.
Yeah I expected they would tell me to stop drinking peated whiskey, but now I do wonder how much bog it destroys.
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#9In Ireland (and I'd guess in most of Europe) bogs are are artificial landscapes, the result of mass deforestation and overgrazing. I don't see them as warranting any particular preservation. At least in the case of Ireland peatland preservation is just trying to preserve a very particular artefact of the agricultural revolution. Maybe it's different elsewhere... . It's about as worthy a cause to me as a golf-course preservation movement would be (ignoring the carbon-sequesterisation aspect of the argument, which I don't feel like assessing right now).
In the UK there's an lot amount of wildlife 'preservation' effort + money spent on on 'preserving' the landscape as an 18th century agricultural-industry idyll (including making sure that the actually indigenous flora+fauna doesn't get out of hand) rather than actually returning it to a more sustainable wilderness. George Monbiot has a big bit on this with his re-wilding schtick - https://www.monbiot.com/2013/05/27/a-manifesto-for-rewilding... .
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#10I wish bogs were more popular too, because it might mean more adoption for bogbook, which seems like a cool project IMO. https://sr.ht/~ev/bogbook/ an open source distributed social network of signed feeds replicated between pub servers
I'm not affiliated with bogbook. It just seems like an interesting project to me. Others have told me the name is off-putting, hence my initial comment. I'm interested in whether or not that is the cause of the negative reaction here.