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- Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:29 pm
- Forum: Technical Skills & Tools Questions
- Topic: Hunting for Food: A Primer
- Replies: 46
- Views: 11691
Re: Hunting for Food: A Primer
I just discovered that Steven Rinella (of Meateater) wrote a two volume series directly in line with the theme of this thread. Thanks for posting this resource. Although I did purchase a crossbow, I didn't have time this past year to go hunting. However, with my semi-retirement in the next few mont...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:23 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: bostonimproper's journal
- Replies: 425
- Views: 119499
Re: bostonimproper's journal
Perhaps people are looking for title or status but sometimes we are looking for greater responsibility. I know that my job satisfaction grows with increased responsibility, as long as I am given the authority to execute the changes I desire. It is also eye opening to see things from different level...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 10:19 am
- Forum: Housing and Transportation Questions
- Topic: Buying a home without a job after retirement
- Replies: 7
- Views: 602
Re: Buying a home without a job after retirement
If you're looking to finance it may be easier and cheaper to get a margin loan than a traditional mortgage, or pull assets from IRAs, which can't be put up as collateral. Can you elaborate on this? 30 year mortgage rates are between 6-7%, while Fidelity margin loan rates are 9.5% for assets from 25...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 4:54 pm
- Forum: Housing and Transportation Questions
- Topic: ERE City (US)
- Replies: 470
- Views: 158844
Re: ERE City (US)
Grist, not an argument: Simon Sarris on culture/movements/scenes being created in small spaces and then assembled in larger ones . Interesting article. I'm not super well-read in Silicon Valley history, but I know it's something that has been covered extensively. Everyone is always trying to create...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 7:01 pm
- Forum: Emergent Renaissance Ecology
- Topic: 4th, 5th, 6th Person Perspective
- Replies: 157
- Views: 48453
Re: 4th, 5th, 6th Person Perspective
Whereas I look at abundant, cheap, DIY friendly energy collection and storage, and think “Why would I limit my energy use? Why not size up the system, and see how the world changes with unlimited heat and hot water? Why wouldn't an ecovillage be built around the efficient collection/distribution/st...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:20 pm
- Forum: Inspiration
- Topic: Heat your House with a Mechanical Windmill
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2264
Re: Heat your House with a Mechanical Windmill
I think hooking the windmill up to an air compressor is more interesting. https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2023/07/human-powered-air-compressor-and-energy-storage-system/ Thanks to the Amish, conversion kits, albeit expensive, are available to turn common electric tools like table saws and routers...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 4:33 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Insane Propane vs. Microwave Mania
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1047
Re: Insane Propane vs. Microwave Mania
A pressure cooker combined with a hay box probably is the most efficient way. Bring the pressure cooker up to pressure for n minutes less than it takes to get the food ready. Switch off the heat. Put the pressure cooker in the hay box for n minutes. I think the most "efficient" method usi...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 11:03 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Insane Propane vs. Microwave Mania
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1047
Re: Insane Propane vs. Microwave Mania
The microwave is almost always going to be more efficient for heating/cooking small amounts of food. However, if you really want to reduce your energy consumption when cooking something that requires long and slow heat (like beans), I recommend looking into thermal cooking strategies. The basic idea...
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 10:58 pm
- Forum: Emergent Renaissance Ecology
- Topic: How is the FIRE movement doing?
- Replies: 337
- Views: 128885
Re: How is the FIRE movement doing?
Substitute triggering/outrageous for interesting or entertaining. The algorithm would count it as attention all the same. If you find inter-tribal collaboration engaging, then the algorithm will show you more of that. It is hard to completely avoid low-information density outrage, but I learn a lit...
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 10:20 pm
- Forum: Emergent Renaissance Ecology
- Topic: How is the FIRE movement doing?
- Replies: 337
- Views: 128885
Re: How is the FIRE movement doing?
However, I would agree that the trend towards work-from-home has somewhat obliterated the largest carrot offered by FI. In my social circle of millenial/gen z mostly yuppie peers, this is the biggest factor that stops them from having any interest in FIRE. I'd imagine if MMM lived his younger worki...
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 2:27 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Buying a New Computer + A Sad Story
- Replies: 62
- Views: 11808
Re: Buying a New Computer + A Sad Story
Another concern was the tremendous power consumption of modern computers. Summer room temperature gets above 85F+ here and I wanted to avoid adding a 700W space heater on top of the afternoon sun. Also, the GPU could have been cheaper (EVGA 1060 for around $75 used + the power draw of that is low e...
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 5:25 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: Chenda's sober ramblings.
- Replies: 88
- Views: 7437
Re: Chenda's sober ramblings.
This is a very interesting thread for me to read through. It seems alcohol serves a different function for different people. I still drink, however for me alcohol is and has always been a "social drug". I never get an urge to drink when I'm by myself and can go weeks without drinking if I ...
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 5:04 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: 7Wannabe5-Take9-One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts
- Replies: 123
- Views: 14092
Re: 7Wannabe5-Take9-One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts
Anyways, I agree with your observation about mind-body relationship, and it is my intention to focus on increasing my fun with "movement" while not focusing on my weight or similar movement-metrics. I think Slevin wrote on some thread here that body-building/weight-training is the male eq...
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 2:04 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: How to be a Cheap Date: Ideas For Free, Creative and Frugal Dates
- Replies: 37
- Views: 3305
Re: How to be a Cheap Date: Ideas For Free, Creative and Frugal Dates
True enough. The cold weather hypothesis is interesting. I just picked up a copy of "A Really Big Lunch: The Roving Gourmand on Food and Life" by the great writer, Jim Harrison. He also hails from Michigan, was quite attractive although heavy-set, and I was recalling his take on how you n...
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 1:53 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: How to be a Cheap Date: Ideas For Free, Creative and Frugal Dates
- Replies: 37
- Views: 3305
Re: How to be a Cheap Date: Ideas For Free, Creative and Frugal Dates
@7, given your recent studies and your big interest in dating dynamics, you should be a data scientist for a dating app. Although they'd probably prefer a guy, since it's guys who have it hard there, to the extend of paying to get preferrential treatments (IOW, men are customers, while women are pr...
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 5:19 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: How to be a Cheap Date: Ideas For Free, Creative and Frugal Dates
- Replies: 37
- Views: 3305
Re: How to be a Cheap Date: Ideas For Free, Creative and Frugal Dates
Basically you need to starve yourself in a very specific (and relatively expensive) way, and only weight / resistance train in an incredibly specific way. Pretty much this. The most impactful thing that the average guy can do to improve date prospects related to health is likely just to lose some w...
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 4:29 pm
- Forum: Philosophy and Lifestyle Questions
- Topic: Less is more
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2197
Re: Less is more
Fewer belongings make moving / travelling easier. If you can pack everything into a few suitcases, or even one bag, imagine how simple moving house is. Also travel is more comfortable because you can take most of what you own with you, so you don't feel like you're missing anything. Smaller dwellin...
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 3:58 pm
- Forum: ERE Journals
- Topic: What I Spend
- Replies: 903
- Views: 196111
Re: What I Spend
There's a lot of additional detail I was missing. I've chilled out on trying to live purposefully, and it's a good time. Especially when I'm supposed to be rest. I'd guess in the next 1-3 years, I go for a 4k setup with PS5 or some other hotness. Since my screen tethered career ended, the video gam...
- Thu Dec 21, 2023 2:40 pm
- Forum: Technical Skills & Tools Questions
- Topic: Sedentary indoor cold wear
- Replies: 114
- Views: 75244
Re: Sedentary indoor cold wear
I’m looking for recommendations for sedentary indoor cold wear for women. Although in theory Refeigiwear coveralls should be unisex, in practice they were not at all and we had to return DW’s pair because the proportions were all wonky. Refrigiwear makes women-specific overalls, our unfortunately no...
- Wed Dec 20, 2023 8:56 pm
- Forum: Friends, Family, Relationships, and Community Questions
- Topic: Tips for toddlers?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1926
Re: Tips for toddlers?
Instead of getting your toddler one of the typical trikes/tricycles, get them a balance bike. Then, when your toddler is ready you can get them a regular bicycle and skip the training wheels all together. There are videos of 2 and 3 year olds riding bicycles with no training wheels, so it’s very ach...