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Agorist The space between… John Nash Friedrich Hayek Noam Chomsky Ayn Rand RD Laing Hannah Arendt Samuel Edward Konkin III

The Wiccan faith has a few prosperity fables as well. They must all be rich! 😏

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yes

I do love those Juniper trees. I grew up with the sagebrush, bitterbrush, and rabbit brush. 😊

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Utah? Eastern Oregon?

https://proton.me/legal/privacy

I think for most use cases their security is pretty good. The transparency seems to show a fairly proportional increase in accommodation of requests as the user base has expanded. Almost anything is better than running unencrypted traffic through your ISP directly.

So this is interesting. The salt throws preference to lactobacillus an anaerobic beneficial bacteria, the sugar throws preference to yeast, a dual anaerobic or aerobic fungus, and the vinegar throws preference to acetobacter, an aerobic bacteria. Washing the vegetables and boiling the water effectively sterilizes the environment making it a roll of the dice about what organisms capitalize on the carbohydrate energy in the veggies. I suppose bases are covered, but why not be intentional about the type of fermentation you want to do? Acetobacter metabolizes alcohol to vinegar, and will only thrive with oxygen after yeast has converted sugars to alcohol. Oxygen kills lactobacillus which is arguably the best of the three unless you are producing ethyl alcohol for consumption, in which case you don’t want acetobacter there. Salt also inhibits both yeast and acetobacter. This seems like the worst way to preserve anything. Just salt to 2.5 percent by weight, rinse your vegetables, and use an airlock to prevent oxygen spoilage.

Riddle me this: Why has no one marketed a kitchen countertop with a slight incline from about one foot all around the sink? There is never a time that I say, I sure wish that splashed water from washing something in the sink would just sit there and breed bacteria, or require me to wipe it up!

I mean, it did go from roughly 70k to roughly 18k. If you bet the farm on 1M around 70k that stung a bit. Better to dollar cost average, but not everybody does, particularly those quick rich types. 😏

Pro/Con of “Private” Email

Protonmail

Pro: Allows Tor, Many use it so network effect of proton to proton encryption

Con: Huge increases in data handoffs to governments makes you question how much data they can get, some question if it’s a honeypot. Even if not, you’re potentially targeted for even being there, and they have a bad track record.

Tutanota

Pros: Better track record than Protonmail

Cons: Bans Tor and many VPNs. Severe Browser fingerprinting annoyance when signing up. They auto-delete your account if you don’t login for 6 months, but you can get around this by adding 2-factor authentication TOTP with KeePass XC

Skiff

Pro: Fast sign-ups, very easy to get a burner account

Con: They use Cloudflare. Cloudflare intercepts all traffic, so 0% private. This company is essentially propaganda.

Mail in a Box (software)

This is self-hosting using open source software on a VPS

Pro: More private than any provider. It does most of the setup work for you

Con: Requires $5 to 15 a month on a VPS (but can be split among friends). VPS provider can still access emails by snapshots of memory. Unless you put it in a docker container, you can’t do anything else on the VPS

Luke Smith Scripts (software)

Pro: Fast way to get an email VPS setup

Con: Requires it to be put directly on the server, which can mess up OTHER things you got going on there, like using aaPanel

aaPanel (software)

Pro: Easy to manage a lot of services going on, including WordPress or databases with your email

Con: Not worth setting up this whole thing up for JUST email.

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Proton, bad track record because of the French activist incident?

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Many people don’t make sauerkraut because they think they don’t like it or they are afraid their process will result in food that causes illness or distress. Here are some tips:

1. Use one red cabbage, one red onion, three cloves of garlic, two jalapeños, one habanero (if you like some spice, otherwise substitute a jalapeño) one medium ripe tomato.

2. Weigh a large bowl, tare the scale, write down the weight of the bowl, chop the ingredients to the size you prefer to eat and put the chopped ingredients into the bowl. You can add any spice you like at this point. I like black pepper and cayenne. Paprika is good in this as well.

3. Weigh the mixture, multiply the weight minus the bowl weight by 0.025. It is easiest to work in grams here, take the result of the multiplication and weigh that much sea salt, higher quality is better, non iodized is essential. Add to the bowl. Wash your hands thoroughly and mix the vegetables squeezing them in your fists as you mix. Let it sit at room temperature for two hours covered, mix again, let sit for another two hours.

4. Put 2” of vegetable into a 0.5 gallon large mouth mason jar, compact with your hand or a wooden spoon. Repeat until the mixture is at the canning fill line. Find a glass weight or weights, I use food grade glass marbles and fill the jar to the top. You could use well washed river rocks or stones from gravel. You will need a large mouth airlock top. There are all varieties available on EBay.

5. Now for the magic part! Red cabbage juice is a pH indicator. Purple will be the initial color because the pH will be about neutral 7.0. As the lactobacillus bacteria work in the saline anaerobic environment, they will acidify the mixture turning the cabbage bright pink. Take picture of the starting color for comparison. Keep the temperature 68 or above, preferably not hotter than 72 for a couple weeks. When it’s pink, it’s ready to eat! It will keep in the fridge for 6 months or more. #homestead #homesteading #foodstr #foodpreservation #fermentation

I figured it out, the app vs protocol difference is still a bit confusing to me, I created a separate npub, just to avoid potential confusion for me. Did it show up ok?