baremetal

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by baremetal 3y ago
>Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth I grow my own food and meat. I think growing your own food is the single biggest way to reduce your impact on Earth. All that industrial farming and transpor
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by baremetal 3y ago
>Most people don’t have very much of a yard, and even a relatively large garden, say a fifth of an acre is not going to replace much industrial farming. Even 1/5 of an acre or less will yield more produce than your family and severa
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by baremetal 3y ago
>I do not care about the future of humanity and nature, I try to live as hedonistic as I can and do not desire being a father. Perhaps I'm being presumptuous but it sounds like you are in a state of hopelessness. I will pray for you
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by baremetal 3y ago
We have no way to hold our leaders accountable. On either side of the aisle.
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by baremetal 3y ago
>The only possible thing is becomming true eco terrorists and genociding 99% of the world population somehow. Ideological capture. You have been convinced to act against your own self interest.
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by baremetal 3y ago
> contractors for my neighbor just dumped a shitload of old asphalt and cement shingles on my 80 sqft garden You should go talk to the contractor. He needs to clean that up. >but I think it’s a relatively small part of the climate cha
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by baremetal 3y ago
Converting single family lawns into small gardens would do more to help with climate change than these ideas. So much pollution is generated by industrial farming and transportation of the food to city folk. Everyone who is _serious_ about
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by baremetal 3y ago
If I was you I would start with javascript and worry about the rest of the stuff later. Learn things as you need them, to achieve specific goals.
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by baremetal 3y ago
>Increasing misinformation on social media, platforms scaling back content moderation and the rise of AI are converging to create a perfect storm for the 2024 elections that some experts warn could put democracy at risk. TFA seems to be
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by baremetal 3y ago
> Throughout the day, I take veeery slow sips of Beer
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by baremetal 3y ago
In reality, I try to minimize my exposure to known carcinogens. This one is quite avoidable.
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by baremetal 3y ago
Sucralose found in common sweetener damages DNA, may cause cancer [1] [1] https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/sucralose-found-in...
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by baremetal 3y ago
I learned carpentry and gardening. Very grounding. Still requires mental acuity but gives you the opportunity to use different parts of your brain, and it rounds you out as a person. Very grounding and it has been good for my mental (and ph
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by baremetal 3y ago
Drain your water heater every 3 months or so. Change out the sacrificial anode once a year.
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by baremetal 3y ago
In Idaho. And no permit was pulled, building codes are fairly relaxed out in the country.
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by baremetal 3y ago
I'm building a half acre permaculture pond. It's about 10 foot deep at the center. And should hold somewhere between 300k-600k gallons of water. I dug it out with a backhoe. You wouldn't believe how scary it is driving a back
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by baremetal 3y ago
>and I realise that there's increasingly huge amounts of information out there on sites that Google may have crawled before and knows about, but doesn't want to show me for some reason. I wonder what that reason could be.
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by baremetal 3y ago
Rails
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by baremetal 3y ago
Build your own home. Just do something simple like a gable roof 20x50 or something small to start you can always add to it. In the meantime pickup an RV and live on the land. Used RV's should be cheaper right now.
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by baremetal 3y ago
The way things are going, its possible that the farmstead lifestyle will be one of the highest standards of living available to the common man. The alternative might be living in 800sf apartments in a 15 minute city eating whatever food is
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by baremetal 3y ago
Just cool yourself out for a minute bro. We are all friends here.
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by baremetal 3y ago
>your retirement plan must involve children or some community inheriting it and taking care of you in your old age. My farmland pays a rent dividend on the order of 2-4%/yr and I don't even have to be there or even show up to c
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by baremetal 3y ago
This is a specious argument. AI is not a species. What drives this need to deify AI?
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by baremetal 3y ago
I don't use my phone for anything but calls and texts, and occasionally looking something up. I meditate or engage with people standing while in lines. If I'm gonna spend time on a computer I do it on a laptop at home. All my HN b
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by baremetal 3y ago
You can grow surplus food in the yard of a single family dwelling. No one has to move anywhere.
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by baremetal 3y ago
No need to have to grow all their own food, any kind of a supplement at all is a positive. Plenty of single family dwellings with grass yards. And time commitments/work involved? I guess they aren't serious about climate change. T
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by baremetal 3y ago
Trying to win every time is getting trapped in a local maxima. Sometimes you learn more taking the low man position. Sometimes that is the only way to learn certain things. If you are truly trying to optimize you will drop the premature opt
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by baremetal 3y ago
Then why aren't you pushing the "grow your own food" mantra rather than the "get rid of fossil fuels" mantra. We wouldn't need such volumes of liquid fuels if not for industrial agriculture and transportation o
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Sizeable trades face scrutiny especially in light of leaks. Would be pretty obvious if someone bought a lot of puts right before a leak. And that is just a singular event. If they had a habit of doing that...
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by baremetal 3y ago
>No one cares if the dakotas don’t ban them if no one will build them for just their market. New producers of diesel vehicles would show up to cater to those markets. Econ 101. >Think in systems. Find lynch pins and apply maximum forc

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