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I think we (yanks) have a possible Victory Gardens 2.0 situation emerging, except the soil is poisoned in a looooot of places now and having arable land is a crazy luxury to people who can't afford to buy a home and who don't own property, and, well. you know. even if the homestead act hadn't ended in the 1970s (80s for Alaska) they'd have to buy or steal the lumber to build a shack and squat long enough for ownership rights to apply. anyway look into sweet potatoes

cellsofearthwindand

good year for learning your local shelf stable foragables

iatrophilosophos

Screenshot bc annas archive urls have been unreliable lately so. This: https://annas-archive.gl/md5/d326a6a470b017eccb5c180b9e89f76b but if the link dont work, go to the Wikipedia page for annas archive to find the active urls and then search. Anyway

dont like a lot of what this guy has to say about the world & the actual practical $25ish system that ppl across the continent already use for offgrid life, diy events etc can fit on one page. But its a pretty good book for at least one person in ur friend group to have read because you can glean a lot about biological soil contamination and like just Generally not getting fuckin. Cholera n shit. Less helpful for heavy metals and whatnot.

Sweet potatoes are dope as FUCK because they propagate super easily which means you can use scary squat garden soil to grow plants to produce cuttings to grow in safe soil 👍 i have friends who do this.

Im not tryina front like a Food Expert but ive spent a lot of time around people whos entire deal is food system revolution & from those folks, perennial food sources > conventional modern gardening, nuts and fruit and whatnot, but i think it really depends on where somebody lives. Along the lines of what prev said... might be a good time for folks to get together with their friends and just like, walk as far from home as you think is reasonable/sustainable, make note of food sources available there vs how many other people are also in that area, and uh. Maybe think and talk about that some?

This article is by some of them Plant People and its very much written to be non-overwhelming

estrolatte

Oh my god yanks are so fucking annoying. Have you considered maybe fighting against your government and actually working to build a mass movement to genuinely make change rather than individualist bullshit like making human shit compost for your garden ??

Like holy fuck it’s good to garden yes but why is a personal garden always your guy’s fucking go to

intactics

great idea! let's all post our names, addresses, and operation plans on TikTok, too, just to make extra sure the feds notice us

iatrophilosophos

The mass movement will magically eradicate e coli from the soil and water 🙏 why would we learn anything about skills relevant to the reproduction of daily life when we can be temporarily embarrassed vangaurdists and chide people online for not being more like Rojava or the Zapatistas or--

Wait im getting some new reports. Wait what. They did what? Oh no.

(Theres a lot more abt food systems & revolution including global stories in the actual Almanacs which u can download for free on the site. If you fucking care. Which this person does not.)

coyote-mom

Who needs veggies when you have a.. mass movement? Sustain yourself on revolutionary fervor, comrade.

maidslime

Ok like. Imagine life without ads. You wake up, check your messages across a variety of apps, no ads. You get up and put on the tv while you prep your breakfast, no ads. Maybe you drive somewhere and switch on the radio, no ads. Maybe you drive a long distance, yet somehow, not a single billboard on your path. You pick up a newspaper or magazine to pass the time, no advertisements only articles. You turn on your game console, the home screen is just about your games, no ads to buy more. You open a streaming app, you don't pay extra for no ads, there's just no ads ever.

Think about how much of your time is spent looking at ads. "Download ublock" yeah I know, I have. But that doesn't change that the world is covered with endless advertising. Imagine never seeing that again. How much better our lives would be.

dishwasherh

Break from artfight lolzies

weaver-z

I think the only person I've met in real life with 100% career satisfaction was this gal I knew who was a presenter at a children's science museum and delivered every line like she was running a WWE match. Every time you passed the room where she was giving a presentation, you'd hear something like "WHO'S READY FOR CEPHALOPODS?!?" and the kids would go absolutely nuts cheering.

snowiferart

Sandwich time

friendlyfrankenstein

the scariest thing about old tv isnt really the racism or the sexisim because you kinda go in braced for that it's all the scenes where suddenly an actress is holding a lion cub or a chimpanzee is in the same room as a toddler, or suddenly theres a lion, or there's a chimpanzee again but it's driving a car, or holding a lighter, or holding fireworks. You just kind of watch in horror as over and over an actress performs with only 1960s tv film shootings best animal handling between her and the opening to Nope.

retroactivebakeries

kiradical

This is how I learn that the famous chimp my dad got my nickname from tried to kill Reagan. Fuck yeah.

clytemnestraaa

hi this drives me crazy

canon is what happens in the text. e.g. merlin tries to poison morgana

a headcanon is a fact that you have personally made up as an elaboration of canon. it is your invention. e.g. i think morgana and gwen had a teenage lesbian situationship before the events of canon. or, i think modern morgana would love evanesence.

an interpretation is how one reads the existing text. it is not an invented fact nor is it a headcanon, it is a reading. e.g. i think merlin tries to poison morgana out of misplaced self-hatred. or, i think that one line was delivered with suppressed malice and shows a nuanced relationship.

fanon is the general fandom’s accepted headcanons and interpretations that elaborate or recontextualize canon. e.g. merlin is a badass waif and morgana is a bitch.

these are all different words with different meanings.

justdecadentcollectiondestiny

and a cannon is a large mounted gun, usually on wheels, that uses explosives to fire projectiles.

redstonedust

for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.

ralfmaximus

Neural Nets have existed for decades and are genuinely useful. It's a form of AI that recognizes patterns, and can do stuff like identify cancer cells, tell whether an egg is fertilized or not, detect fraud, and optimize routes.

Those are Expert Systems, tuned to do exactly one thing. If you (say) ask a medical expert system a question about financial law, it's useless. The autopilot that flies a 787 has no idea how to drive a truck on the freeway. A Coulter Counter is excellent at identifying lymphocytes in a blood sample but can't predict the next card in a blackjack game.

And so on.

The problem with so-called generalized AI (AGI) is that we don't have that yet. It doesn't exist. It MIGHT some day, but AGI has been "10 years away" since the 1980s. The goals keep moving as we learn more about how people and machines process data.

But the current crop of AI techbros have been selling generative Large Language Model AI (LLM) as AGI because generative systems do a good job of faking it. There's no actual thought going on, merely the illusion of thought via predicting the next word in a sentence accurately.

If you let a human toddler listen to 800 hours of YouTube car influencer videos, that toddler might end up sounding like a car influencer. They'd parrot horsepower numbers and 0 to 60 times, mention EV range and MSRP numbers.

But they wouldn't understand any of it.

That's ChatGPT.

And yeah, it's worse than useless because it doesn't even know when it's lying or hallucinating. It just babbles convincingly until you stop it.

But for techbros to make money selling that as "AI"? It's the perfect scam, especially if you don't understand how it works.

I fucking hate it.