SomeAmateur

So what would be your recommendation instead?

A lot of people use substack

It was made for the colonists

Indubitably

EDF! EDF!

Yep, cities are great because there’s almost always someone you can call on to get problems dealt with almost immediately. Police, fire, utilities, landlords, homeless shelters, therapists, hospitals, exterminators etc etc

In the country you simply don’t have that. Churches are basically community centers. The govt doesn’t have a huge role so country people are okay with smaller government. Cities can’t imagine life with a smaller government because they rely on it in tons of ways to keep society functioning

Many people in cities think something like owning a gun without the intent to commit a crime is insane because they can call the cops.

Many people in the country think not having a gun around for emergencies is insane because any first responder is 15-40 minutes away, and until then you and your neighbors are it

Like you said it’s not so much right vs left but city vs rural mindsets

I think it was LA? If I remember right people were calling and observatory and some people thought they were UFOs

True, just makes it harder to send

Thanks to light pollution and pollution pollution just seeing the stars can be hard enough for many

I feel that, but how close are you to the nearest salt mine lol

My neighbors are homesteaders, but not the type you see online. It’s work at first but honestly the benefits are awesome once they got the ball rolling

They do a lot of gardening, have chickens, apple trees and just built a small sawmill to make and store lumber. I buy eggs and firewood off of them

It seems that a lot of the real hardcore lifestyle people don’t spend half of their day filming and posting about it

Companies with my personal info

and some people don’t get it works both ways

ChatGPT chats have the blurb on the bottom that says “ChatGPT can make mistakes. Check important info.”

I like CharacterAI’s because it seems more honest to most LLM interaction. It says “This is an AI chatbot and not a real person. Treat everything it says as fiction. What is said should not be relied on as fact or advice”

I’ve seen Amish:

Burn chemicals and paints in a pile behind their shop

Have dumpsters full of plastic “sawdust” from a shop that makes plastic furniture

Rebrand cheap chinese electronics and batteries to sell in their communities (MillerTech)

Zip around on a one wheel

Ride electric scooters

Log out relatively pristine forest to make more farms

Log land that isn’t theirs, without permission, for weeks before being discovered and confronted.

Vote down school levies repeatedly until the local schools shut down

Open a retail store in a mall

These days the amish button isn’t nearly as great as you might think…still funny to think about how everyone would react though

I was joking of course, but I will say that a cool thing about gardening is you know exactly what you used on your plants instead of taking an industrial farm’s word for it

Or are you naive enough to think everyone should be growing their own Victory gardens?

Yes.

Play Arma Reforger, you’ll figure it out!

Damn I’m getting called out

“Oh cool they use openstreetmap data! See babe that’s the map I’m always editing and…”

People: Why are bees and fireflies dying in droves?

Also People: Better hose my yard with chemicals and mount floodlights until it looks like a baseball stadium