The two main causes of people missing limbs are cars & wars which are fought for dead dinosaur fuel for cars, which are a transportation medium meant for speed over safety, and super inefficient, with a very low payload( passengers & cargo )/vehicle ratio. Most of the energy a car uses is used to haul itself, at high speed, so heavy armor is necessary.
End cars. End wars. End missing limbs.
Oil things must pass.
End cities.
Bicycles /w bamboo truss frames & solar batteries. 🌻
@jhavok living 2 miles from a grocery store is an artifact of car-centric society. You are far from your grocery store because cars need to live around you.
Maybe we could fix that. Maybe you could have a grocery store within walking distance.
@jhavok @bobdobberson @audubonballroon
I've lived in many places in America, and the Catskills mountains of New York were particularly memorable. I lived 5Km from the nearest people, and my next door neighbor visited once a year, to hunt white-tailed deer in season.
Places like that let one live in town, or in near isolation. Only ride your electric vehicle ( bike/trike/whatever you like ) into town for supplies, if that's your style.
Video of a ride to my cabin:
https://lone.earth/w/sBz2QQVK6v1uWBBxcEtTaG
@purrperl that sounds like a lovely place to live...
@bobdobberson @jhavok @audubonballroon
I had the most creative times of my life on a sabbatical for ~ 2 years. Coding, sleeping, cooking, walking, getting high, smoking, drinking coffee, going on walks, taking photos, 24x7, without being bound to any clocks, budgets, schedules, or people, in particular. Once my gf was visiting, and we were surprised at breakfast by the neighbor knocking on the door to introduce himself, beaming, and holding a freshly killed deer haunch as a gift. Venison Stew!
@purrperl I'm going on 5 years... it has been exceptionally helpful to have this time.
@bobdobberson @jhavok @audubonballroon
Good for you. That was a long time ago for me. I had to go back into the fray, and do heroic battles again, to regain some Slack.
In any case, I don't get what people mean by "retirement".
I've got better things to do, than to watch TV, have a couple of brews.
I can't stop, won't stop in retirement. Just getting started with creative fun!
Got many good decades in me, God willing, and many fun things to do, thank God.
So many books to write/read, for one.
@purrperl I've taken a sabbatical to lean into my discombobulation and to process a lot of the trauma that has lead to my discombobulation.
I am nearing the beginning of my recombobulation project, but I am not quite ready to pull the trigger on that.
I can coast on the luck-plane for a while longer, if need be, but I think I am approaching an end.
I've given myself 1 more year to get a job where I would really like to work, and then when I have proven to myself that blacklists are real, I will move on to looking elsewhere...
@purrperl and there are so many toys to play with these days. So many electronics projects, androids, arduinos, raspberry pis, and all the cool gadgets and gizmos.
Lots to be creative with outside of that too, the arts, writing (which is an art), the science -- we still don't know everything, collectively -- still lots to discover and preconceptions to challenge.
Anyhow... Yeah... I don't get 'retirement' either.
@purrperl both in that I don't 'understand' it, and I likely won't be able to afford it. But that's ok, things I enjoy doing are things people are willing to pay for.
@purrperl in my new frame of reality, the pay is commensurate with the amount of bullshit I have to endure to accomplish the goal.
@bobdobberson @jhavok @audubonballroon
The thing is, I was very much in my game, when I got unhoused.
I have a whole lot of new technologies to drop and am looking for collaborators.
I have this co-op registered in Hawai'i
https://gitlab.com/we-glue-earth/we.glue.earth
(Do check out the video link.)
And here's a partial vision map for more offerings:
https://rant.li/ashwin/visions-for-a-new-web
Thoughts?
@purrperl I will process this and get back in a bit. My mind is elsewhere, but from the summary, it sounds rad.
I'm just not a fan of Hawa'ai, too warm... Beaches get boring... The jungles would be cool as fuck though... I dunno... I'll look things over and hopefully remember to follow up.
@bobdobberson @jhavok @audubonballroon
Oh, I was thinking this would be a remote first organization of global nomads who work around the clock and meet up once in a while informally at some beautiful location.
@purrperl sounds pretty good to me. Sounds a bit like a consulting agency, which I could get along with. I'm mostly interested in term gigs, where there is a project to finish or a task to accomplish and then on to the next thing.
@bobdobberson @jhavok @audubonballroon
I have the same background and had the consultant mindset.
This is a passion play, not employment. If you are sitting around spinning wheels, join forces with others and collaborate on an egalitarian co-op. If it succeeds, all succeed. Otherwise, it's a good way to keep skills sharp and have some skin in the game, rather than sitting around at home, just chilling without much focus. This is a big project, which need missionaries, not mercenaries.
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