Summer veg is all nice and dandy but basic survival food is perennial winter food, nuts and fruit. At 8000 calories per litre, I just stashed about 1 million calories of extra virgen olive oil, 5kgs olivas muertas - that's about 600kgs of pressed olives and 20kgs of almonds. Chickens need imported feed to lay at full speed but if it ever got ugly, they can get by on forage and keep us in eggs. Meat is obviously another source of food :) but, here's an unpopular observation - if it's in the deep freeze, that doesn't count as secure food. For a bit of food in reserve, think of food sources that require no tech to store. Hope it never comes to be vital. #selfsufficient #olives #Spain #homesteading

One advantage of BTC/ lightning that may be lost on non users - there is no fear of phonecalls or unexplained refusal of perfectly innocuous payments to other countries. My first use case of BTC was buying a hardware wallet from an eastern European country. I spoke three times to the UK bank security team and each time they couldn't see any technical reason why the payments couldn't go through. I don't think they were playing dumb, but someone on a higher pay grade than them probably knew why they failed to go through.

Thoroughly enjoying the freedom of looking for movies on IMDb.com copying the TT part of the URL and pasting it on the end of vidsrc.net/embed/ thanks @🟠 isolabellart

I see that someone is trying to ruin Nostr by posting random words from burner npubs. Presumably there is a technically smart alternative to " block each one manually"

Arguably the only thing that can change the desolate direction of travel of mankind is a new fiñancial system. Review the incentives from the top down. Family, yes or no? Education or indoctrination? For sustainable profit or for Maximum profit whatever the cost? Health, entertainment, food production, transport options... the decision making on that little lot seems at its bottom line driven by the financial consequences. The financial system is inflationary, precarious by design, predatory by design. With investment for instance, we are all thrown in the ring despite being deliberately de educated from childhood about money and the system. The few best players win all at a game that is to deceive, to string along. We are a social, cooperative animal at the core. We should be deciding on our present and future options based on best incentives for all, not, how do 99.9% of us protect ourselves against a group literally out to get us without us realising, or if you do wake up, wheres the static target to aim at, address, challenge, negotiate with. There isn't one. They have all the cards etc 2. Numbers and bitcoin. And unlike the few, we don't have to hurt a fly to rebalance the game. Just wake up and make a decision. Hard money for a better life. Easy money, a shit life and arguably end of life for everyone including the few. Happy 2025 ommmmm :)

Construction, comedy, guitar and drums, that's me algo-ed by YouTube. No mention of trees, fresh air, chickens, biodiversity. No money in those.

#artstr I cleaned and buffed up this olive root. Interesting, or a bit too freaky to hang by the front door? I'm going to leave it up for a while to see if it grows on me. If so I'll wax it up to bring out the colours and replace the polypropylene string!

A very simple message to send out to the world. If you want to be successful, be humble enough to emulate a successful humble person. nurses, shepherds and basket Weavers spring to mind...

# Naturestr is magic. If this were painted, I would probably question the use of colour.