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by baremetal 3y ago
Paradoxical dogmatism. It's a paradox because dogmatism typically implies a fixed perspective, whereas a refusal to be dogmatic typically suggests an openness to various perspectives.
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by baremetal 3y ago
Not if it is a slab. You have to saw cut the slab and run new plumbing and pour back. And if it is a tension slab, you absolutely cannot cut into it.
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by baremetal 3y ago
I hear you, it does suck having to drive a bit if you need something. >I don’t think being a helpless idiot correlates with living in any particular place. It isn't so much that you or I or others aren't helpless people, it&#x2
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by baremetal 3y ago
Well the rural area where I'm living is booming, and all the people around me have 3 and 4 young children. And surprisingly they do it on 1 income. That sounds sustainable to me. Can't do that in the city on 1 income. If you like
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by baremetal 3y ago
>There WILL always be failures, ups and downs, the question is how it is mitigated. Privatized profits, socialized losses.
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by baremetal 3y ago
Worrying about whether a "sassy" PM hates you? That sounds demoralizing as all get out.
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by baremetal 3y ago
Are you joking or serious? We have had multiple bank failures this year. And so many banks are holding large amounts of commercial real estate and also long term bonds they can't mark to market without suffering monster losses.
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by baremetal 3y ago
I don't think most people fully grasp what is likely coming down the pike. Normalcy bias is a helluva drug.
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by baremetal 3y ago
Having remodeled commercial buildings I can say adding plumbing to a finished commercial building is a nightmare.
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by baremetal 3y ago
You would be surprised what you can learn given sufficient curiosity, time, and resources. I don't work a 9-5 job most years, and I don't have dependents or a mortgage. And also I would take jobs as an apprentice for 6 months and
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by baremetal 3y ago
Rural areas still have high rates of family formation and child birth. And self-sufficiency is highly valued. Cities will have trouble getting service providers to do electrical, plumbing, hvac, roofing, etc. They already do have trouble wi
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by baremetal 3y ago
I'm inclined to agree. That's why I moved away from major population centers and I am setting up my own private infrastructure on defensible ground. And I learned how to do my own plumbing, electrical, carpentry, food production e
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by baremetal 3y ago
>It's orders of magnitude less destructive. Citation needed. I'm not sure you've ever been around industrial scale mono-cropping agriculture. The amount of pesticides, fertilizers, and herbicides is astronomical. And you a
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by baremetal 3y ago
Corn subsidies also go to producing ethanol. Which is arguable a gigantic waste when compared to using it for animal feed. Roughly 40% of corn is used to produce ethanol[1] [1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/
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by baremetal 3y ago
Chickens turn kitchen waste and other garbage into nutrient dense eggs. I raise chickens and feed them my kitchen and yard waste. They also eat bugs. Two chicken eggs can power me all day. Reason about that "trophic energy loss [gain]&
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by baremetal 3y ago
China is permitting 2 new coal plants a week[1]. Yet it's cow flatulence that is the problem. How people get convinced to act against their own self interest I'll never understand. [1] https://energyandcleanair.org&#x2F
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by baremetal 3y ago
I bought farmland and raise my own beef because of this type of thinking. Absolutely, _no one_ is gonna control whether I eat beef or not.
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by baremetal 3y ago
>Much of the land use for raising animals would not become a lush forest if left alone. There's a reason it is being used for animals and not crops. With scrub land, that is about the only agricultural use for it. Putting cows on ar
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by baremetal 3y ago
> That is, the implicit assumption that all conversation on the web (and increasingly real life) is a formal debate, where every participant is an expert on every subject. It's odious and a hinderance to real discussion. Perhaps thi
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by baremetal 3y ago
Ah I missed that detail, my apologies :)
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by baremetal 3y ago
>The "problem" is that when this purist meritocratic approach has been tried, it results in more white men being hired, not less. What an ignorant and bigoted thing to say. Next your gonna say the same thing about Asians. Merit
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by baremetal 3y ago
>As an Anarchist, it's my job to support the dissolution of any hierarchy that is not democratically operated in a way that supports people attempting to live while also creating communities founded on democratic incentives. Can you
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by baremetal 3y ago
I will be restoring my newly purchased antique tractor. And framing an addition to the barn so I have somewhere to park it.
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by baremetal 3y ago
Meanwhile China is bringing on a new coal plant every week. Actually, 2 new plants a week [1]. But you suggest we stop selling gas to people. https://energyandcleanair.org/publication/china-permits-two-...
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by baremetal 3y ago
>I’ve been using Hotwire, stimulus and bootstrap... on top of rails This is what I use as well. As a backend guy, it makes front end development a breeze.
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by baremetal 3y ago
Pretty sure giant tech organizations can entirely work from home, as witnessed by the past several years. Your argument is a non-sequitur. And many large retail firms have closed down and left. I can produce citations if needed.
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by baremetal 3y ago
You are correct there are very few people living on small farms. Most people in rural areas live in small towns, are very poor, and yes transportation is an issue. Many should and do move to cities to find more opportunity. Why is your land
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by baremetal 3y ago
>Are there multiple acts of terrorism a week, caused by plain-clothes insurgents? Gang shootings every day? >Are pensioners lining up on Market Street every day, to try to sell strangers their fur coats and toasters and jewelry No the
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by baremetal 3y ago
If you have masses of people living in tents on the street and open air drug markets.. people shooting drugs in the street. That is lawlessness. Even many third world locales don't have those issues. So yes it is a reasonable definitio
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by baremetal 3y ago
>Rural living gets constantly gassed up as this incredibly serene, peaceful place to live It is indeed peaceful. It is just a lot of physical work and being in the sun. At least half the year or so. Lots of people are leaving the cities.

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