@nnzp1730 @Empty_America Turkeys got enough meat for 2 meals for a big family, rabbits and quail are less than one meal per big family.
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@brenthalonen2 @Empty_America Yes the ones I know have multiple tags for deer, hunt quail, rabbits, turkey etc.
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If you really wanted to feed yourself from the land I would select somewhere in the East with immediate access to public forest land and very liberal limits on deer.
Parts of NJ or CT would work oddly well, and you can get seafood if near the coast.
FDE (Feudal Age Peater)@fde_enthusiast7
Alaska since European contact has never been about “living off the land” bc it’s simply impossible in most of the state without imported food The Alaska territory was always about resource extraction like gold and fur
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@nnzp1730 @Empty_America We get a lot of fish from my father in law who is a charter captain, but I am not sure I could stomach fish every day. Venison is good, but tags limit out and a family of 6 would plow through a couple of deer rather rapidly.
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@brenthalonen2 @Empty_America I know people in Michigan and Illinois that almost exclusively eat game meat and caught fish.
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@Empty_America haha, would be a nightmare to park though, luxurious if you don't have such concerns.
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@Empty_America Some of the people had boats, but not all of them. River fishing is incredibly productive during the runs.
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@brenthalonen2 Coastal versus interior is a big difference.
Although those people often have quite the investement in boats and motors, etc.
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@Empty_America Problem is that it can only be the US. The EU can open its borders all they like but they are still conservative. Hard to imagine China doing this and they are already getting old. Russia? Africa? Brazil? Argentina? India?
Red White and Blue.
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I'm sure this will trigger many, but doesn't it seem as if there should be at least one place that is uniquely "open" as a land of opportunity?
Also seems like this particular place will naturally tend to become the "capitol" of the world.
The NYC effect, etc.
Hugh@HMBrough_
The whole point of being in America is that we don’t do the blood and soil sh*t. There are a ton of Old World countries you have to do that sh*t in. Why can’t we just have one place to be a land of opportunity?
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@Empty_America This is with the cheapest finishes. If you want something classy it is gonna be $1M.
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The fact that it straight up costs $450K to build an 1,800 sq ft. house to modern standards seems very under-discussed.
That is BEFORE talking about land cost, permits, etc.
That is what the materials and labor cost on the open market.
No easy answer to that one.
foley (follard)@follard
It seems almost impossible make money building a single family home on an infill lot in Austin right now. The quick math on an 1,800 square foot home that sells for $1.2 million: Land: $450,000 Site Prep: $25,000 Soft Costs: $50,000 Construction ($225 psf): $405,000 Financing, Insurance, Tax: $60,000 Broker Commission (5%): $60,000 Total Cost: $1,050,000 Potential Profit: $150,000 The risk? Massive. $12k / month in fully loaded interest payments once the build is complete. 120 days to get under contract and close? There's a third of your profit... gone. Cost overruns on your project? Cooked. Why is land so expensive right now? Why does every new development project have 2-3 homes being built on that lot? Economics. It's nearly impossible to make money unless you are building 3 structures on a single family lot. Land owners know this and it's priced in. Expect fewer and fewer single spec homes on single family lots in the future.
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@shagbark_hick In my area, absolutely not like that. 20 years ago when I moved here my friends in the trades would get laid off in the winter, now everyone has work year round.
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A possible Canary in the coalmine:
Here in rural Upstate New York, it is not true that "nearly everyone who wants a job has one" anymore.
We had a few years in recent days during which everyone was hiring, nobody could find decent workers, etc, but that season appears to have ended.
My cousin, for example, has 12 years of construction experience, 3 years in the Mason's Union, 5 years as a Railroad Maintenance of Way Foreman in a supervisory role, every OSHA cert under the sun, is a carpentry instructor and has a 6-month union-approved certificate from a major Masonry training center. His references are immaculate, he's a strong interviewer, and he is a HARD worker.
He has applied to over 125 jobs in the last six months, and he has received 4 call-backs. Two were to inform him that he hadn't been hired, two resulted in interviews. Of those, one resulted in a job offer at half his current salary with zero health or retirement benefits, the other yielded nothing -- no callback.
3 years ago or so, he was getting called by everyone in the industry. People were begging him to come work, but he was happy where he was. Now? Those companies have either scaled back their labor needs, left the state, or gone under.
Judging by this, the mainstream economic indicators that say "the economy is great" don't seem to be showing the reality on the ground. My cousin's experience is not singular, either; he says the rest of his buddies in the various industries he's worked in are seeing the same problem.
Basil🧡@LinkofSunshine
The permanent vibecession is here to stay
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@htmx_org @yacineMTB Easy solution is to just white list GraphQL queries to those that are present in your UI code.
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i tried to warn you
intercoolerjs.org/2016/02/17/api…
kache@yacineMTB
Graphql is genuinely the most retarded idea ever. There used to be an entire career around graphql Honestly the best part about automating programmers is that I don't have to hire people, which means that I don't have to tolerate bad engineering decisions
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@yacineMTB also anything in controls has a super long testing time, so endurance to put up more cycles of testing is very real. I've done automatic dip line controls (think crane plus a bunch of tanks of various chemicals) and the amount of time to test is insane.
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Wrong
The big problem holding back robotics software is severe skill issues in all departments
Jebrim@AgileJebrim
The big problem holding back robotics software is the lack of hard real-time guarantees being met. It’s a quality issue that neither ROS nor LLMs manage to address. Without that premium quality, you’ll get hardware and software out of sync and none of your algorithms will work.
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@Empty_America I think low level white collar work resembles homework, but high level white collar work involves a ton of persuasion, critical thinking, and teamwork.
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@Empty_America The first professional job I ever interviewed for a lady from upper management came in and talked to us (group of people that got brought on site). She said if they only hired on resume they would hire all women.
They avoided this because men performed better as they aged.
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I hated elementary school, but I recently had the chance to observe it, and it's nothing but a direct preparation for the office, which is the life most avidly aspire to.
There are assignments, you need to look busy, they make power-point type stuff, there are rules and "HR."
roger lamarre (Ray)@roger_lama79345
For the past 10 years I observed women gradually replace the old men in the white collar environment. They seem completely in their element. Thriving. Doing a good job. Why fight this? Here is an infinity-homework lifestyle and women are volunteering to do it, and you seethe?
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@lymanstoneky I actually think paternal leave policies are --bad-- for fertility in many cases. Creates social pressure to be done having kids. I've heard my friends that have long paternity breaks get "once in a lifetime" or similar comments.
If you have 10 children you hear about it!
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IFS: people should have more babies
Libs: if you really believed that you'd advocate for more parental leave
IFS: *travels back in time to issue a detailed policy document on how to expand maternity leave to 18 weeks even for moms with incomplete work histories*
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I do agree the U.S. leave situation is yeah not great Bob!
But note that the official @FamStudies plan, which we wrote up in detail and published 6 years ago, is 18 weeks to be allocated between parents!
ifstudies.org/ifs-admin/reso…
Jill Filipovic@JillFilipovic
This is insane and anyone who claims to care about children and families should be making reasonable paid leave their number-one priority.
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@Empty_America I’m grinding away everyday mobilizing this tech to metal finishing and manufacturing. Save a ton on office work with AI order entry (who would ever like an order entry job).
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So basically we need to eliminate half the jobs.
Build the data centers.
VB Knives@Empty_America
I have 4 kids but to be quite honest, I DOUBT we would have done that if both parents were trapped in full time jobs. Maybe 1 or 2. More just seems hellish for too long. Just as studies show, having household income of ~150K would have in practice reduced fertility.
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In America, everyTHING is cheap, but getting an American to do something is expensive.
VB Knives@Empty_America
In a country with high and relatively "flat" wages, nothing really feels affordable. The USA sometimes looks like Brazil, but it actually has a wage-price structure more like Norway or Switzerland. There is no cheap "working class" below you. Any functional person costs $.
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@Con78705 @wil_da_beast630 I know plenty of welders, truck drivers, carpenters, etc supporting families.
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@wil_da_beast630 but societally the man is expected to be able to financially support the family. The way the economy's going that's just not feasible for most young people.
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I'll throw a shot at the guys here: if we want ~~virgin brides without independent debt, we should maybe propose before 33.
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@GRONreturns @Empty_America Why bother have your bikes have bikes, they show up every year for nearly nothing.
Sources indicate that it takes 1.5-2 acres of managed hay to support an adult horse. Hardly too cheap to count.
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@brenthalonen2 @Empty_America Lol they are so cheap, the cost of adding more animals to a herd is difficult to even put a number on
Those bikes don't have bikes
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There is a lot of farmland in this country that readily pays for a late 19th century standard of living, but simply cannot fund a normal 21st century lifestyle with all the industrial comforts.
Thus the Amish "emerged" to colonize this niche.
Eric Richards@EricRichards22
The Sandy River valley is awash in amish. Five horse buggies on Rt 2 this morning Makes sense, I guess; it's decent farmland but nobody could grow anything that would actually pay for itself and comply with laws
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@GRONreturns @Empty_America Hay and fodder for the winter ain’t free. Grazing land ain’t free. You can get literally free bikes that can be stored in a small corner of a garage year round and can be ready to be ridden in a few minutes.
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@brenthalonen2 @Empty_America Those things aren't reproducing themselves for negligible cost increases
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