A great first step might be to post some original content with some suggested solutions, rather than just being primarily a reposting npub

I was pretty happy to find out that the spaghetti squash that I thought I had perhaps harvested too early on account of powdery mildew that stopped the plants in their tracks in early September, ended up being more than sufficiently ripe, and baked up really nice. It came out with a fork in nice long strands, and the seasonings and spices I used worked out great. Olive oil, Garlic Plus, salt, pepper, paprika and a little brown sugar. 40 minutes at 400F.

Such an easy plant to grow, and yields a good amount of edible mass. Plus lots of seeds to use or toast up.

Two down, 14 still in storage. It’s hard to believe that with a vertical trellis, 16 squash only used 4ft square of bed space. The closer of the two trellises pictured were Long English Cucumbers.

#gardenstr

A good reminder to not live in the past.

I think even well intentioned non-race focused people in the province might have an intractable problem, ever being able to successfully reach a widespread agreement with the country’s first people that would enable Alberta sovereignty to ever go forward. There would have to be some pretty solid assurances of fair representation for all. I just don’t think we can ever agree on what fair representation and fair outcomes are, enough to ever solve it. Too much protectionism and promise of riches for all parties.

That, healing the injustices of the past in a fair way, and achieving mutual agreement on availability of titled ownership of land for any human that has been born in Canada are pretty contentious. There’s too much of a spectrum of moderate vs radical belief on what reconciliation looks like, on both sides of the round house, for first peoples and the colonists generations to ever bridge the gap, in my opinion.

However it shakes out, someone is going to feel a sense of injustice and loss. Likely many from either group.

As much as it pains me to say, I see what decades of misaligned incentives and misallocation of capital have done to divide natural born Canadians of all colors from First Nations brothers who have an equal contempt for The Crown.

I hope we can take our republic back and for Canadian of all races be a unified wall against government overreach. That’s my dream for Alberta.

Saw all I needed to see in Ottawa and Coutts. Bunch of brainwashed goon order takers.

Credit to one of nostr:npub15879mltlln6k8jy32k6xvagmtqx3zhsndchcey8gjyectwldk88sq5kv0n ‘s guests” ideas, and a few pertinent episodes from The Survival Podcast

I started a pre-loadable life coach profile txt that sets the tone for LLM conversations. The profile that I worked up called “Future Self” was built by asking the model to ask me 30 or so questions about what is important to me as far as lifestyle and other things go. It’s pretty cool. You can build a whole board of advisors.

If you say so bud

That “something” right now is the pursuit of food, water, energy and monetary sovereignty. That’s all that’s worth doing this point aside from teaching our youth about these things.

Naw. I don’t advocate anything that those guys specialize in. We have so much we can do to encourage mass non compliance before we ever get to that point. Starting with the money.

I swear if I knew half of what I know now about the nature of our relationship with government when I was 18, before I had dependents that would suffer if I weren’t around, the country would have had a persistent problem for at least a few months.

Maybe I’m just pussing out right now, but martyrdom at this point to achieve nothing just doesn’t make as much sense as spreading awareness and focusing on achieving food, water, energy and monetary sovereignty.

But the need remains to educate young men and women about the traps that lie in store for them in this system. And the importance of practicing non compliance at every turn.

After all, it’s a beautiful world. We just need to take it back.

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I hope that someone at APP eventually comes to the conclusion that any new Republic of Alberta needs to embrace a hard money standard or at least stay out of the way so we can grow the parallel system without capital gains taxes for spending.

Unfortunately my only in person conversation with APP’s CEO months ago about Bitcoin was met with talk of the usual normie FUD and “bananas taped to the wall.”

It’s amazing actually how many 60 somethings still have never read The Creature from Jekyll Island or ever even heard of Mises or even Ron Paul.

Wise move

Yeah I used to walk down the sidewalk in my home town with my .22 rifle on the way to the creek valley I’d plink cans at or hunt small game. If someone did that today there’d be a SWAT team on the way from the city.

OK after a long time contemplating it and failing at various methods of introducing Bitcoin to people, I’ve finally found a simple way to spark further conversation about Bitcoin if someone asks you about it, for example, in response to seeing a company Bitcoin hat or a shirt logo on or near you. Or maybe something company related you are holding in your hand. It’s not pushy and it initially doesn’t even employ the word Bitcoin. It also quickly qualifies if you’re talking to someone with a genuine interest or whether they are looking for an opportunity to spew FUD or talk to you about their shitcoin.

Now I generally don’t advocate displaying Bitcoin swag in public because it makes you a potential target, but if you know you’re going to be in civilized company and perhaps have an opportunity for discussion, it’s not a bad thing to wear a monogrammed shirt or something like that, in my opinion.

Step 1: Make it local. People’s interest in a topic can often be sparked by seeing something with a local flavour that they’ve never heard about. Particularly in small towns. For me the magic bullet appears to be some monogrammed shirts that simply has a ₿ logo on the left breast, then immediately below that, the name of our town or region followed by the word Bitcoin. For example, Tri-City Bitcoin, Napa Valley Bitcoin, or even a specific town name. If you are not an already established business, then guaranteed almost everybody that sees it will know there is a new company or educational organization in the area that they’ve never heard of. If they’ve ever had even a passing interest in Bitcoin but not known where to start in the learning journey, it will almost invariably result in at least a simple question: “Hey Dave, what’s Tyler TX Bitcoin?”

Step 2: Keep it simple. When the question comes up and someone asks you what this organization or company (represented by the logo) is, you simply say

“We teach people how to protect their savings from inflation.”

Then don’t say another word for at least 3 seconds. Let the person pursue the topic if they wish. If not, simply say:

“If you ever want to learn the basics, I can give you a call sometime.”

Pushing the main conversation to a later date or time eliminates the possibility of it turning into a confusing, dry conversation on monetary inflation, a “FUD deflection session” or otherwise. in a group setting it also eliminates the possibility of someone in earshot coming in from the side and derailing your conversation.

The initial goal is to simply plant as many seeds as possible and inspire interest by not making it look like a sales pitch.

Anyway, I’m sure there’s a million variations on this, but I think the concept of planting seeds rather than getting into lengthy conversations initially, is a pretty good way to go.

If the individual is really hungry for knowledge, go for it. But Bitcoin itself employs “sly roundabout ways”. Maybe we need to be subtle too.

#bitcoin #grownostr

Step 1: trap 1 coyote

Step 2: dispatch the trapped coyote

Step 3: hang coyote on rear property fence

Step 4: urinate on coyote

Step 5: repeat as needed

https://knowpreparesurvive.com/survival/skills/coyote-trapping-tips/

What a shot. GM

It’s likely why I’ve watched Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino three times this month while the weather has been shite.

I’ve been dreading that day when I have to spend a half day relearning how to SSH into my new Start9, poring through old forum posts because I never have to do it under any other circumstance.