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But my point is that even when living the life of a subsistence farmer, there are land uses that are also not agricultural. Even if you can grow all you eat, there is the issue of where you live, how much water you use, the fuel you use, the waste you need to process, and all the land that produces...

My dead broke sister, who earns more money than me , and her boyfriend buy everything organic and vegan, Even hairgel !!!! I have absolutely no issues in the modern scientific medicine and the associated diagnostic tech (I am not including curing tech), but I believe there should be space for other...

@Mae- May be we can come out of the mould of thinking that only the West is clean and everyone else in this world is dirty. I do not like to pick fights but may be we can be more restrained in conveying our thoughts :) Even after so many years of ending Colonialism and achieveing so called enlighten...

IRA, from my view, 7.5 acres for one man isn't excessive at all. Dedicating it to very inefficient farming practice is just lacking in imagination, though. I do not know from where you get that impression that it is not excessive. India has seen social movements to redistribute the lands from the w...

Not sure if they qualify for ERE lifestyle, but they are one of my inspirations for moving back to land and thought of sharing it. For those who are lazy :) to click on the link, pasting the content below and the link does have some pictures of those who we are talking about. I follow one of their b...

Continuing with more interesting observations after 5 months of living in Poland I am observing this a lot. My colleagues are just too close to each other while at a work break/ having conversations in the pantry/kitchenette/ office cubicle space, invading "private/personal space", some m...

Vegetable Biriyani/Pulav/pilaf This is one dish which wields its influence or a common link starting from Persia/Iran all the way till South East Asia. In fact one of the stan's national dish is this. It has many stories on how it originated. Some say it was developed in the Medieval battle fields ...

Interview techniques Is this backed up by experimentation? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_language#Detecting_deceit Hope you get convinced after reading this small entry in Wiki. Please do not try to be making jokes/clever/sarcastic. You know most authorities like their "power" and wa...

May Spend % - 18.45% Started investing in Equity Market - a major step for me personally. For a start, Bought Stocks of well known Companies and Mutual funds both based on 200 DMA in the Indian Market for 3K USD. My mother had a bad experience from the dot com bubble market crash. The compensation f...

have a vegan multivitamin that includes B12 leftover cooked rice from the previous day/night fermented in just water throughout the night have loads of B12. Indian rural folks who works for the whole day out on the fields under the scorching sun used to have this as breakfast with some dried salted...

Pics for the first and second Potato fry recipe posted earlier. http://i63.tinypic.com/s33lsn.jpg http://i66.tinypic.com/qp1cm8.jpg The same above dish combined with the Lemon flavored rice recipe whose recipe was again posted earlier. Sorry for the over-saturation of the picture. http://i65.tinypic...

whole wheat breads baked when I was in US. Over a period of time, it had become a weekend affair to bake breads for the busy work week breakfasts. These are the NYT no knead recipe with as much as seeds and nuts added since I am vegan. Nothing special or extra added. The Lodge Cast Iron Combo Cooker...

Thank you Wolf and 2B1S. @2Bird1Stone - Is there a saying in Polish or in any other European languages that with one stone, I am going to hit two birds on a tree which is what I assume you mean by your user name in this forum? In my mother tongue, it is a popular saying, though instead of "bird...

I heard some horror stories from friends and acquaintances about these interviews… trying to explain your basic research to a scientifically illiterate bureaucrat Been there thrice/four times and know a bit or two about it. Do not worry too much over it. Keep your head high and respond with your in...

woah - how time flies fast. We are past 1/3rd of the month already. @Bankai - I do not own a blender/mixer and have never felt a real long term need to invest in it for the Indian cooking I do, so your recipe is for some time in the future. But going by what I visualise in my future Indian kitchen s...

@JennyPenny - shall I know for what reason you want to skip using those terms? I am not from US and EN is not my mother tongue. I had to find their meaning in google when @TimeTravel mentioned them. Are these words against Forum policies or you just want to not label your country with such words? Ma...

With all the facts well laid out in the open not by any government, but by IAEA, why did the GOP backed establishment still pull out of the nuclear deal. This is not a business whenever the environment turns sour, we can either pull out of a contract or renegotiate. This is a government commitment a...

Running into visa issue - I hold a National D Type Visa in Poland currently and this allows me to travel within the Schengen area without any need for an additional visa. There is no concept of Sabbatical in my employer's policy and so would have to exit the organisation if I want to travel by land ...

April Numbers Spend % - 21.41 I bought Kgs of all kinds of nuts for long term daily consumption which spiked the spend by a nice percentage. I got so much excited to see 1 KG packets of nuts at Auchan Supermarket since the last four months experience left me thinking Europe is totally opposite to th...

@zork97 - I saw you are already FI and being employed by choice and staying in AR for SO. my eyes gleamed when seeing those words of you :) sure. looking forward to meeting you somewhere down the line. Road-trip part- let us see how that has been shaped in the past month in my next post. Continuing ...