Jason Snyder

Good morning, it's a perfect day to conquer any resentment in your heart with gratitude and to give your will to God

@RolandGunnTN Sweet. Are you going to grow seedlings?

Sketching out a plan to be a local Johnny Appleseed for American Chesnut hybrids.

@ggraham I’m steadily making my way through a 12 pack of PBR

@cognazor I’ve drank many a beer on that beach. ❤️

Family spending our 20th anniversary camping on Hunting Island, SC

@TornadoNate All the way from the Midwest, impressive!

@cognazor that place is wonderful we did vacations there growing up

@Oroborous2 I added a 2nd egg lol

@cognazor Light breakfast!

Homegrown breakfast season has started

@goinggodward I really liked Knoxville the brief time I spent there

Everyone in Knoxville, TN is beautiful.

Sage advice. Probably, if you are reading this, you are a nobody from nowhere. Nobody cares about your viral twitter post. But, but, in God’s eyes, you are a child of the Kingdom, build up your treasures there, for it will even spill over here, in those unexpected moments

@NigelBest5 I’m sorry man

Grim post. Today, around 3:00pm while visiting my old school redneck friend and neighbor marking fence post locations, I let Juni the heeler pup out for a few minutes. I called her back in she loaded back up into the truck. We proceeded bullshit for 10-20 minutes. Walking back to the truck she was ass in the air, thought she was digging in the seat. When I got there, she had shit all over and was convulsing/seizing/slobbering. I asked him if he had any poison out. Unfortunately he did have out a fly bait concoction mixed with soda to kill coons, possums, skunks and any other lurkers by. I loaded up, called my vet’s cell followed by three other area vets. No doctors in on Friday, universal. Got to the house, tried agitating, keeping upright, compressions, breathing into her nose. She was stone dead 15 minutes in. Vet returned my call after. It’s an organophosphate poison (nerve agent), atropine is the treatment, I don’t keep that in the kit and wouldn’t have considered it. Took the DR mower out, cleaned up the pet cemetery and buried her. It was a violent and unnecessary death. I’m still in fight mode, walled off, avoiding, sipping through a fifth of Jim Beam. Not adjudicating right now. Mrs crushed, readily judgemental. Jimmy the cat (sparring partner) lost, just a huge dent here. Probably muting this post, shit.

@wrowclif We’re letting them down by living the soft modern lifestyles that don’t require constant regrowth

How come finger nails just are always growing and need trimming. Why are they like that

@TornadoNate @RizomaSchool Today was the first day it was safe to plant most vegetables, and coupled with most of my fruit getting zapped this year it got me considering

@cognazor Jason coming back strictly to bait @RizomaSchool

I really love food producing perennials - they are beautiful, come back every year, and compound over time - but they do carry some risk relative to annuals. Some years you get a bad harvest due to erratic Spring weather. With annuals you can wait for the right time to plant

@gplewis @BigMeanInternet I'm mostly just a gardener

@BigMeanInternet @cognazor worth listening to

Who are some of your all's favorite ecologists, one who can represent the discipline's perspective on the probability of AI-induced human extinction?

It is looking like Thursday night is the last threat of frost for the season. This means of course that I am taking off Friday from work to plant things

@resrvtions0nly I could get behind that

Simple: you don't hold it you don't own it. Applied to housing, if it's vacant for more than a month, up for grabs. Homestead 2.0

@ggraham @grok Markets should be embedded within the commons, not the other way around. As long as it fulfilled that criteria, it would be fine and useful

@cognazor @grok TBC, I think institutional private equity would still exist without insane money printing, it would just have a much smaller role in our lives and we'd be bitching about different things.

Perhaps my most authoritarian opinion is that short term rentals and investment properties should be banned. Homes for full time residents only. In addition to making housing more affordable, it would help to prevent the real estate boom and bust cycles

@ggraham @grok By definition monetary policy of any kind is “interference”. I see that as more of a bad policy choice. But if you think good monetary policy will prevent hyperfinancialization and squash Airbnb, then it sounds good to be

@cognazor As one example, inflationary monetary policy lowers cost of capital for those with the most access to capital, so institutional private equity can buy a $200k house more "affordably" than a regular person. @grok Fact check me on that.

@ggraham How does market interference cause hyper-financialization, and how would it be avoided without interference?

I see today's hyper-financialization as resulting from market interference, so I am suspicious of more interference as the solution. It's just going to cause more terrible things, to which people will respond by calling for more interference, and the cycle will repeat until we are all Harrison Bergeron.

@ggraham I’m in favor of all that anyway. But I still think the financialization of housing is a big problem, a moral blight. And I hate short term rentals with a passion, they ruin neighborhoods

Where there is demand for housing, make it legal to build homes. Make it legal to build neighborhoods like the historic ones that were built before the authoritarian's took over and that people pay a lot to visit. Re-legalize renting out a room in your home. Eliminate the regulations that increase construction costs by 25% to 40%. The list of authoritarian interventions is enormous. The dwindling list of liberties is short. Imagine how much meals would cost if they were regulated in a similar way as construction. Imagine the quality of the meal. We'd all be starving on meager portions of bland food substitutes.

@ggraham What do you propose?

@cognazor Can we maybe for once try less authoritarianism in housing? The authoritarians have been jacking up this market for well over a century now. Can the freedom people have a try for a while?