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'Building a Fire' - XKCD (imgs.xkcd.com)

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

That's why you start with a pile of shavings, then add a pile of twigs, then a pile of increasingly bigger sticks up until about 1in in diameter. You don't put anything heavier on until the base fire is caught and has coals.

Basically just a lazy teepee, and I mean "lazy" in the most flattering possible sense.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

That's a good description of it, actually. It's controlled chaos.

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