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The most dramatic one for me was experiencing mega-fires erupt in the northwest US every year, often leaving my city filled with acrid smoke for months. While I knew it was a possibility, it was certainly an unpleasant development and a younger WRC always thought the risk was from actual wildfires,...

Great idea! We usually make pesto with sunflower seeds, as they can be had for <$2 / lb and make quite good pesto. Would recommend. Sunflower seeds are vastly underrated. Basically, pesto just needs fatty nuts / seeds, any type of greens, any type of citrus, basically any oil, garlic, and nooch. Cas...

Can you take them off and put them on a stand next to the bus that isn't in the shade? Or is that liable to cause a leaky roof / be overly complicated? Is it a lot of panels? I.e. it could be worth it to just shade the bus and then wire up different panels to your actual electric system, if it isn't...

Thanks for sharing! It must feel great to eat food you've grown yourself. I have to say that the beans in the photo look green to me. Why do you describe them as "non-green" ? Haha, yes you are right they are green in color. "Greens" can be used in gardening as shorthand for &qu...

I'm also interested in what to do about getting some sort of shade structure vs solar panels. The bus is also painted black now, which is not ideal, but does look pretty cool. I'm interested in repainting it, I'd like it not to be so heat absorptive, but also are about aesthetics. I don't know if y...

https://i.postimg.cc/ZKw9D3Vj/IMG-9472.jpg First big non-greens harvest of the season. 2 lbs fava/ broad beans. Made about 10 meals worth of veggies, beans themselves were used in a pasta dish along with loads of fava leaves for a beans and greens: https://i.postimg.cc/V6Xgj49K/IMG-9563.jpg . Then ...

@Slevin - Haha, I know a couple of Jeep Wrangler people. That seems more like a lifestyle/exercise in masochism. I think I could get into that though. Would also solve the winter/pothole issues of the local roads. OTOH, they're kinda shite on the freeway or anywhere above 50mph, though, right? Agre...

I get cashews every so often. Mrs. Ego loves this vegan alfredo. Fifty pounds is a lot of alfredo. https://thevegan8.com/vegan-garlic-alfredo-sauce/ Will try this specific version for sure. Cashew Alfredo is like the first thing I made with the cashews, it’s always such a delicious creamy sauce (us...

My old jeep wrangler ( I don’t really drive it) is kinda a bad “car” (bad mpg, loud, meant for places without roads), but it has the incredible upside of having a good amount of engine room space, uses about three wrench sizes to take apart every single piece, is incredibly well documented, has ubiq...

I've continued to think on that thread re dopamine / environment hacking and structuring that. As a small aside, to try, I went to decaf coffee to see if micro implementations help.. basically anything to reduce noise on the nervous system. To be determined.. I think the changes like "alone in...

@theanimal sound delicious. Also sounds like one of those very dangerous since I’m not hiking the PCT anytime soon . Definitely gonna be great for snacks on hiking days / backpacking days this upcoming season!

My household has recently inherited 50lbs of cashew pieces, with many more 50lbs possible. If you have any good vegan cashew recipes / uses, please send them my way.

Also a heavily considered factor in the Okinawan blue zone (and the health of japans older population in general): Older Okinawans are active walkers and gardeners. The Okinawan household has very little furniture; residents take meals and relax sitting on tatami mats on the floor. The fact that old...

describe your intuition as an image. If anyone feels inspired, I would love to hear different images. An immense Dnd style gelatinous cube, that sifts through books, blog posts, videos, basically endless amounts of information, ripping out and collecting chunks / pages of information / ideas, then ...

Should we have a different thread for talking about the autism bits? Or are we just chilling with this thread as the place to talk about neurodivergence? As someone else who suspects ASD, but doesn't want to pay 3k-5k for someone to give me a sheet of paper... I scored 33/42 on RAADS, 38/50 on AQ, a...

Yes; I wonder if a certain level of boringness is a trait to be chased in people to listen to. Fame is apparently a helluva drug. To the monetization point… it’s tough. Staying relevant in social media often requires *constant* updates, which means constant development / maintenance of ideas, which ...

Yep, exactly the part that exhibited the response. And eh, I can get distracted and focus on pedantic details of what people say instead of the overall point sometimes; responses by me are a reflection of how I read the post. So if it was off topic of the main point of the post… my bad, happy to rem...

I will eternally enter these debates and argue for process oriented development. Goals are good guiding north stars, but they are not tactics, and they are eternally disrupted by the unfortunate fact that the ideal self isn't the actual self. It's important to have goals, but you also need to be abl...

https://www.marketwatch.com/livecoverage/pce-report-march-2024-key-inflation-reading-powell-remarks-awaited/card/powell-doesn-t-see-rates-going-back-to-ultra-low-post-2008-levels-znQqbochWkUiPvtp3L1O Hopefully that holds. Good riddance to ZIRP. This also means that housing held at 2.X% mortgages wi...

@thef0x sorry I’m a bit slow on the reply here, been chewing this for a while. Yes I pretty much agree with the outlook. Deep insane dives will output the most amount of gains, but tend to burn out compliance after short periods or unless you live like a “x” monk in a village where people also most ...