miguel

@kersploosh@sh.itjust.works I've test ridden those, and found them to be too problematic with unbalanced loads (like groceries) and a poor choice on road surfaces as ugly as mine. Appreciate the suggestion, though!

I'll keep test riding all the locally available options. It'd be nice to not require a car for my longer grocery trips.

@DrBob@lemmy.ca That sounds like the consensus.

@kersploosh@sh.itjust.works Shared rear axel seems a lot less complex than the mess required to do steering to two wheels, but safety for sure makes sense.
I drove trikes (the motorized variety) and while I never crashed, I have seen plenty. Is there really enough speed to do that?

"We're going to take a mid fast food chain that pretty much only exists in california and take it someplace else in such a way as to make sure that we burned our bridges in the only state where people care"

Who?

Netscape? I don't think it worked out for them, if that was the case :D

I'd agree with that.

When my anglo friends went to summer camp, my family always sent me to pick stuff. My siblings and I got to keep the money at least, but yeah. Farm work is freaking hard, even when you're used to it. Esp when paid by the bucket (still one of the most common metrics)

I think you're absolutely right. I suspect people, in general, don't really have much grasp of ag. There's mega industrial, and they understand that. There's backyard/community, and they get that, but livestock? That's probably outside the exp of probably 70% of industrialized nation people.

I always wonder about these. My parents had 120 acres when I was a kid, and we raised corn, veg, 2 cows, and sooooo many chickens.

There's no way you're feeding cattle on less than a hundred acres, even if you dedicate most of it to pasture. We had to supplement our cow and calf (because you have to have a cow with a calf to keep milk production) with bales of alfalfa/hay every week and they still managed to keep 40 of those acres nice and trimmed.

However, you can definitely get a tremendous amount of corn out of a few acres - more than you can easily eat yourself. Chickens are an amazing use of space, you have 30-40 of them and give them the run of the place and you'll have eggs for days and a chicken for the pot every month (depending on how your replacement rate runs, we had about 20 hatch and survive every spring).

You have to rotate your growing production regularly to make sure the soil gets what it needs, and it's so much freaking work. A saying when I was a kid was "If you're bored, there's always a fence that needs mending"...

The best part was when the foods I liked were in season, because we had loads of them. The worst part was when I got soooo tired of canning :D

I'd do it again, but I'd prefer a close knit neighborhood so that I could trade things. All of our neighbors raised the same sorts of things we did... well, and/or meth... so we still had to go to the grocery store every week. Just not for squash, potatoes, corn, blueberries, etc.

I noticed the same. The old macbook that I restored to become my 'writing' machine can sit asleep for a week (as I found out by accident) and just pops right up when opened. My windows and linux laptops have so many sleep issues.

I've been stopped at in-state border crossings since 2016. Yes, it worries me enough that I literally moved so I wouldn't have to cross the checkpoint regularly.

I don't fear going outside, but I certainly wouldn't say I'm living my best life in this dark era. Even pre-colonial citizens have to prove ourselves, but really... That's not so new. The new wrinkle is that more anglos used to be fine with victimizing non-anglos, so I'm sort of optimistic