shit that's cool, how does a zapstream work?

hahaha

visiting my wife's gramma who is in her 80s is great. it's a wild reminder of how close to the past we are. she mentioned her grandfather who was born in 1866.

Sorry to hear that, it's something I'm familiar with. I wish them well. That's really great that your visiting them daily.

Thank you! I will.

Yeah I think that would be a good idea. I sort of make the comparison but without much research with the colonial American farm family. But it would be really interesting to see what that was like.

I can see how this thinking could look overbroad and yes I should be more specific about "Europeans" I mean the Christian religion that came to dominate the land area we call Europe. For a little more context on that thinking.

The first Nations where on this continent long before and while Europe was becoming heavily Christian. It seems to me that the First Nations through their more prevalent cultural ways of thinking and practices where less destructive to their environment than the Christian Europeans to theirs. Maybe it's just that there was way more land here to spread people out. But I suspect it has more to do with different culture and religion than just space.

In terms of "human population management" I agree that can certainly sound unwell. A non gross way to say it might be. A peoples that are individually and collectively sensitive to their surroundings and caring enough to think about whether bringing another life into the fold would be a burden or a welcome addition to their immediate world. Both a burden to that new person and the environment. I think women being treated equally or far more equally and having a culture of birth control would play a large role in that.

To contrast that. I grew up homeschooled and not taught any religion. So I grew up being like "what are these different religions into?" We interacted with a lot of Christian's that where a bit extra. Like I heard parents refer to having a lot of kids as having "a full quiver". Meaning a full quiver of gods arrows. They were not violent but they where literally referring to their kids as weapons for god. Also these where very patriarchal Christians. Growing up I didn't know what that word meant so we just called them sexist. Like one time we tried out a new homeschool group where we met in a church. They separated the kids into boys and girls. My brother and I played basketball and dodgeball and shit in the gym for the 4 hour group. In the car ride back we asked our sister what she did. She said they taught the girls to fold laundry and sew and shit. As a kid I was like wow that's fucked up. We didn't go back.

Describing a Mohawk village in the 1600's sounds a bit like how a large farm family in early colonial America might be. Except they'd most likely be Christian and pumping out as many kids as possible. I'm in eastern Pennsylvania and there are lots of little clusters of stone farm houses that are like within 100 yards of each other. But they didn't move they stayed and kept degrading the land. Living in small villages and being all up in each others businesses seems like a pretty common thing of those times.

Sorry if this was too long, I'd like to be more concise but it's hard.

my brother and I make a little extra income via selling books. we usually get them for free by offering to haul them out of people's houses who are elder.or moving or family members handling the estate of their deceased families members.

This is from a pretty old book printed in the 50s maybe. But the picture was taken in the 1880s and is of a Barron.

pretty suacy

thanks! no rush, I hope everyone is OK.

Cool,

Sorry I'll try to explain my thoughts better.

It seemed to me that Europeans had a very hierarchal system that treated people as resources to be used to get more power. More people = a more powerful kingdom, expand the kingdom take over more land, extract all the resources from that land make more people so on. It always seemed shitty to me.

It seemed to me to live in balance with nature a people had to be aware if they where growing the population too much by having too many kids as a group. If they got too big they'd have to upset the balance by taking too much from the land.

From what I've read there was really well designed and curated food systems in place on the continent and possibly not any over hunting or destructive agricultural practices that where common place in Europe. Like The UK used to be pretty much a giant forest and that got ruined fast. No deforestation, no hunting certain species to extinction, no destroying soil to the point of famine. It makes me think a peoples with that for site and awareness might also be aware of whether or not they should be expanding their population or letting it naturally diminish based on how everything else is going.

Sorry if this doesn't make sense.

that's cool you got to talk with the author! do you have an interest in first nations societies?

I've been harboring a theory that many first nations cultures had a sense of human population management and intentionally did not exceed the lands carrying capacity. mostly been reading about Houdenosaunee culture were woman had full bodily autonomy access to many forms of birth control and culturally believed birth control was postponing a birth not ending it.

original sin of the decloration of independence. the part they ommited

"All white land owning men, are created equal, everyone else can be treated like shit and will have to fight to attain equality for hundreds of years to come"

does this give much anthropological information on the Algonquins?

what is that quote from?

Yeah it's kind of funny that he seems to be implying Bitcoin's decentralization has failed and it isn't what it used to be, but also he didn't buy enough, but also it's not going to go up much more, but also....but also....but also.

As you said he has a data analysis company with government contracts but also he is a libertarian...

Here seems a better place than any to put down these thoughts. @DzambhalaHODL posted on X how excecutives knew recycling was a red herring. In other words more lies under the cover of plausible deniability.

Yesterday I was angry with myself because I wasn't assertive enough with the tri axle driver delivering stone to my job site. It's Me and me alone working on the site and responsible for all things that take place there. So I had to shovel 6 of the 12 tons that I let get dumped to correct my fuck up. It was about 95 degrees in full sun and I wanted to blame the driver as I started shoveling. I got over wanting to blame the driver around 15 minutes. I was worried that having to do heavy grunt work before laying the first course of retaining wall block would cause me to succumb to more mistakes.

Because I do most construction or farm work alone I noticed it's difficult to transition between grueling heavy labor and skilled work or planning. It requires a mindset shift and that shift isn't as easy for me when I need my mind to be focused on my body during the heavy labor.

As I drove away from the jobsite at 3:30 (peak heat) I saw 2 guys on a roof laying shingle. If I was in a life where the only way I could support myself was roofing or robbing houses in affluent suburbs I'd choose the later. I'd probably go to prison and I'd still prefer that to roofing.

The executives in the plastics industry had many many career and life choices they could have made besides lying to the entire world. But they lied and lied for some amount more career advancement? They above nearly every other type of person should live with the threat of prison, of physical violence for bad decisions that negatively affect others.

Because those used to a life of physical brutality and instability are in general the least perturbed by the prospect of physical confinement and living with violent unstable prison mates. If someone thinks roofing in 95 degrees and full sun is not physical brutality they should go do it.

In my view those most removed from physical brutality would be those most detered by it as consequence of their actions. It seems unlikely that we will reform the prison system. We might as well make proper use of its ugliness and make it a very real threat to criminals in corner offices.

give them some Calvin and Hobbes.

I flipped through them for years reading what I could and piecing together context for the more complex words that Waterson does not shy away from.

Fucks sake.

Great article by the way. Thanks for your work.

Jesus Christ is that picture real?

The past 30-40 years has been a cultural push towards go to college so that you don't have to work with your hands.

It's not just about reading the manual it's about thinking that you should even be attempting to fix anything in the first place.

I went from working at an online travel company remotely and renting to buying a trap house for 25K and renovating it with no where near the amount of tools I own now.

I could do that because my parents built the house I grew up in and did house projects over the years. If you know it's possible and have some familiarity you're more willing to do it.

If you grew up and your parents never touched a tool and told you if you didn't go to college you'd end up like the plumber fixing your toilet flap for $150 bucks then you've got a pretty skewed view of the world.