Mmmm! Good point about the supply price changing. Most of my business involves service in some manner, but with larger customers I do have to get wholesaler’s commitments before I bid/invoice.

So you’re saying basically mundane items. That would be possible, but you’re probably going to see some sacrifice. Instead of Bounty towels and Charmin tp, you just get towels de jour and tp de jour. You also would get your items from a local retailer, but there’s very few local factories. The American consumer has backed themselves in a corner in that regard. You can’t go to the fishmonger or the wheelwright anymore. The Spatula City joke comes to mind lol

A monthly “sample of your city” order would be pretty cool, but the startup costs would be astronomical and you’d have to get hundreds of producers to buy into the idea.

Cool. Mind me asking a couple examples of items you’d subscribe to? I’m currently looking to up my game. We aren’t a hardware store, but I can extrapolate concepts from specifics. We haven’t restructured our shop in about 10 years. The joke back then was we got “into the 21st century.” There’s a lot that could be automated, and a lot of consumer perception has changed away from small shops.

One thing that has changed for the worse on my end is that the suppliers almost universally have moved to volume and market share. I can’t get a good deal by being their oldest and most loyal customer. Often, I can just buy something on Amazon cheaper than I can from my wholesaler. I do that sometimes. Sad but true. 😅

Moral of the story, if you’re a hornet don’t mess with a man thats already frustrated by rusty bolts and can’t find his 10MM socket.

Discovered it when I was trapped under a car and started getting dive bombed by mud daubers.. words were said, oaths were made, they all died an awful death. They get completely disoriented and start trying to sting themselves, but their anatomy won’t let them.😆

Well, some of that propoganda is truth, some is complete fabrication, and most is about halfway between.

I’m not all about killing bugs whenever I see them, I like snakes, I like bees and wasps, but I have kids and I expect them to garden with me. As a compromise, I try to mitigate things and get rid of what I KNOW will make it miserable for them. If you can’t get to your own harvest without getting stung to kingdom come, there’s no point in having a garden.

They may be meat bees. Miserable.. half of them sting you and the other half just want to saw off a bite of your flesh. Generally I don’t mind wasps and hornets, but they don’t need to be IN the garden. Gardens should bring joy.

There are many pollinators. Some wasps pollinate. Other wasps don’t pollinate at all. The worst kind of wasps are the ones that rip the flower open to get the pollen before other pollinators. Those kinds use the pollen, but don’t pollinate because they destroy instead for create.

What does this type do at night? Bed down in their hole?

Brake parts cleaner kills wasps and hornets better than wasp and hornet spray. I know it’s a miserable thing to be spraying around the environment, but it doesn’t leave residue like the bug killer does either.

I’d wait til night time if they all go to sleep there. Then put the red tube on the can, get it down in the hole pretty good and basically just try to fill the hole with fumes.

Split into a separate note because I’m long winded and this is a separate conversation. Would you be willing to spend more and shop local if you knew that the item was delivered from a local business to you buy someone local like a locally owned grubhub business model type clone? Or is it the “local shop” experience you’re after?

Great! Find a way to distribute it. Everyone I know that’s done farm to table, or CSA etc dreads delivery day. I run a specialty shop, and I’d love more local business but I’m not driving $5 of product across town. I have 2-3 people that would buy produce from me. Begging in fact. I’m not driving a half hour to meet you, and I’m not spending a half hour chatting about $10 of lettuce. I even like these people, but I like my family more and I need to get paid so I can hang out with them and feed them.

Ideally, you would sell ultra local and 15 minute cities would be perfect for this. What happens when you want my specialty product? I serve a niche group. For example, your Swiss steels in the background picture. Even in a major metro, there’s probably only enough Swiss steel enthusiasts to support one or two Swiss steel makers.

In reality, Amazon has taken very little of my business. I also do service, and it’s even more niche than the sales, and also more lucrative per job. Most of all, it’s more mentally demanding per job, so I don’t mind that Amazon is undercutting me because if I’m working on a $200 job and someone walks in the door my concentration is broken whether they want to give me another $200 job or they want to chat with me for 30 minutes about which 75¢ part to buy.

I guess what I’m saying is, I do appreciate people shopping locally, and people do shop from me locally. I’d LOVE to have you shop from me locally! You said you are willing to pay more.

Most people that want to “support local,” they’re really saying that they don’t like to pay shipping. Many still want it the same or cheaper than Amazon, which is honestly kinda insulting. I’m worth more because I’m better not just because I’m local.

She said one thing I agree with in the whole two hour trainwreck. “Put vocational classes back in our schools.” Good Job Nikki you have my vote…. for county school board. This. Is. A. Presidential. Election. 😆 So tonedeaf. (Can we still say that, even though it marginalizes people that can’t sing?)

And it’s at this point I see your 💯 and wish nostr had edit. 😆

I think that’s Derek’s point. If somebody is programmed, you gotta interface with the right language or you’re taking the wrong mixed simile to the dog hunt.

#cluckstr

MySpace was basically a Xanga clone but it tried harder. Xanga didn’t have image hosting, so it was doomed to the way of the dodo but nobody knew it until it happened. Everyone used imgur or photobucket and just used html script to imbed the photos in their Xanga posts. Drastically different times on the Internet.. There may have been other functionality added, but when Tom said “here’s a platform you can host pictures AND talk about them” everybody migrated immediately.

I suspect Nostr has blind spots or is tone deaf in some aspect. I think since it is a protocol instead of a platform, Nostr can adapt way faster than Xanga could have. We shall see.

Damus on mobile bro! My thumb muscles have thumb muscles.

Sadly no, I don’t believe so. This is Xanga.

Remember Xanga came before MySpace? Neither does anybody else. I don’t know if nostr will continue in primacy among this type of media, but if it doesn’t we have the leg up. Just the same way as early adopters of Xanga became the cornerstone influencers of MySpace and Facebook, we have a seamless transition. Imagine all the Karens waking up and realizing they needed 20sats to angry face a FB post. They won’t know how to fund their wallet, they probably just won’t react to any posts, and they’ll wither away societally. They will have a hard time adjusting. We are already there.

I’ve seen a lot of things come and go. Bulletin boards, and then forums. Xanga, and then MySpace. “Email” over ham radio, and then emails on your smart device. The biggest example, intranets, and then the Internet. Welcome to the future. It’s already here.

The social thing has never appealed to me either, but that’s because modern society is contrived. Here it feels so different, raw and real though. ..Almost enough to make a man believe dead Internet theory is at work in other places.

The algorithm would never have shown a Poe😱 to a Jed🐸. I don’t know your real name, what you do for a living, what continent you’re even on. Doesn’t matter. We happen onto eachother, and here we are talking. You seem more real to me than people I’ve actually met and then friended on FB. Nobody can act real on legacy media, whether they’re real or not.

I’m just glad that those around us are so approachable. You don’t see Gates in chat asking you about your windows experience..

No worries! You and I are like the first customers thrown in with the devs. It’s kinda interesting to see how the sausage is made I guess… We have a rare opportunity to look behind the curtain of something, but in reality I could care less about the hash and the latest nip and all of it. Their knowledge will sink into us through osmosis, and we will be l33t by the time others arrive. The OG nostr überchads.

I cant remmeber, except they were suede yellow, and also really ugly 😆