It’s a feedback loop. Like with so many things genetics and heritability is complicated. Experiences (culture) and exposure can and do change heritable genetic markers through epigenetic means postulated by Lamarck. It’s a worthy rabbit hole.

I like this food forest idea.

Not only the things they let happen, but also the things they proctor and finance.

The Ukraine BS didn’t spark a world war, so let’s try the Israeli US alliance. 🙄

Not renewable diesel. It isn’t an ester. It’s the double bonded oxygen at the end of the carbon chain that can cause trouble in high concentrations. Up to 20% biodiesel is probably harmless. Renewable diesel doesn’t have that problem.

How many kW per hour? Lol. 😆

I can relate. I once took out all the internal walls of a home with a splitting maul post breakup.

If you can, find renewable diesel. They are slightly different chemically, biodiesel is an ester and as such can be rough on the seals in your injection pump and lines. Renewable is refined from biological sources, so closed carbon loop, but chemically is more pure than fossil fuel diesel. It will eliminate soot in the EGR valve and DPF.

I see an emperor black bear on a throne with mice as court jesters.

With SCR and DEF, running on renewable diesel, they are also the most environmentally “responsible” vehicles on the road.

Thank you for sharing this.

I’ll sell you a piglet or a puppy!

The possibility of single earner households?

This is an excellent point, thank you for sharing. The ability to capitalize on the fiat debasement requires a store of higher valuation fiat, best case, in the amount of the loan at the time of acquisition or prior. This is contrary to the typical use case of mortgages. For most people, if they had the necessary funds available, they would simply purchase the house. Earning debased currency concurrent to paying debasing debt gives no distinct fiscal advantage, no?

Yeah, sorry but I don’t agree with this at all. Mortgages are probably the largest wealth transfer mechanism for fleecing the poor and enriching the wealthy ever conceived. They are solely responsible for pricing anyone in socioeconomic class lower than the upper middle class out of housing. If you have enough wealth liquidity to leverage currency arbitrage there are much better financial vehicles than paying banks, and capital gains are usually offset by contrived business losses. Bottom line, the wealthy don’t realistically pay substantial taxes. This premise hinges on constant real estate appreciation which is unsustainable, and assumes that the investor is going to relocate their primary residence to a new growing real estate market every couple of years, perhaps a fine proposition for a single professional investor, but not a strategy for mainstream professional families in my opinion.

Oh yeah.

I think the idea behind militias are solid, however any militia I have actually experienced has been populated by certifiable crazy people doing dangerous things with guns. The anarchist leanings are also thoroughly terrifying.

It’s always been my policy that if you know I have a gun, you’re getting shot with it.

It is exciting. I have 60 acres and love spending my days here, I dropped 50k on an excavator just to be able to do something with the land. The price of admission is not cheap. I spent 25 years working full time and running multiple business just to get here. It’s not a survival strategy, it’s an earned privilege. #homesteading

The problem is you have to live somewhere while you work. Rent in any city? 24k a year probably with a commute. Maybe you gross 80k combined, after taxes 50k, fuel, food, repairs, etc, maybe you save 20k a year, and 150k for any home with land is pretty optimistic, probably 250k is entry level for a home needing expensive repairs. Now you’re looking at 15 years to kids, 35 if you have your wits about you at 20, few do……