The Solution to all our Problems
Today in America we are faced with the prospect of global war. Our demented political leadership is demonstrably doing everything it can to cause this war, bombing Syria, Iraq, Somalia, and Libya this year, and providing $B's to proxies that are bombing Russia, Gaza, the Ukraine, and Lebanon as well. If there's more these war profiteers could be doing to kill us all, I am not aware of it.
Well, throughout history we see that populations faced with such demented leaders have revolted and re-asserted control over their countries, and we also see that this drumbeat of revolution and civil war is continuously beaten by our enemies, the propagandists that own the media, the enemedia, today. That violent war and revolution from pole to pole on Earth is what the corporations and psychopaths that own them want, because that will cause orders for weapons and materiel to flow in, massive influxes of money to be sent to them to make weapons to kill us all and profits to fund their yachts.
That is not going to do us any good. Don't support it. Don't pick a side in the battle coming and give your life for the profits of madmen. Those massive armies, nuclear bombs, and aircraft carriers that make them huge profits have become obsolete in war today. What wins wars today are little FPV drones, that we can print on our kitchen tables and deploy ourselves against enemies we target ourselves. Print some drones for freedom today.
The bad old days of war and revolution were driven by economic necessity. All the blessings of civilization, automobiles, heated homes, hot and cold indoor plumbing, have been possible because of collective labor in large factories with industrial machinery that required massive capital expenditures only rich people with lots of money could corporately fund. All of this depended on centralizing resources, pooling them together to fund massive factories, industries, and countries. This was the result of the laws of physics, that slowly has advanced technology through centralized industry that began with agriculture tens of millennia ago, when people began planting huge fields of crops that could be stored over the winter to feed big populations that could field large armies to defend them from enemies, and attack other populations and take their stuff.
Overlords were necessary in centralized industry to concentrate the resources necessary to fund the industries, armies, and countries that enabled people to raise their standard of living and quality of life.
But the laws of physics have today mandated decentralization of the means of production is the best way to increase productivity and provide the blessings of civilization. The pipes that bring water into homes and create hot and cold indoor plumbing can be printed at home by the people that need the pipes. The electricity that provides the energy to light our homes in the night can be produced by solar panels on the roof of the house, or a windmill in the back yard. The food that feeds us all can be grown with aquaponics in our garage or living rooms to our exact specifications, and no longer needs to be grown in massive fields, displacing nature, doused in pesticides, and profiting overlords. All those massive factories and fields have been shown to destroy the natural ecosystems that we are part of, so much so that in previous centuries we perceived civilization as a war with nature.
But that war was the war of centralization with nature, not civilization, as we see by the decentralization of the means of production burgeoning today. The mandate of physics makes them more productive than massive factories run by slaves profiting overlords. It is our overlords that are at war with nature, not us. When we make stuff ourselves, feed ourselves with aquaponics, we're not eliminating huge swaths of nature to plant fields. We don't need to displace a single blade of grass to grow our food. Cargill and Monsanto do. When we buy our food from supermarkets, we pay overlords to destroy nature. When we grow our food ourselves using aquaponics, we not only don't destroy nature, we can feed it, add to it, increase it's expanse, health, and fecundity. We can treat what we eat well, as non-psychopaths, rather than profiteers that will commit any atrocity for another pfennig/unit of profit.
We don't need to conquer countries in wars. Overlords do. We need to conquer our homes, our personal spaces where we live, and wrest control of them from overlords who destroy nature, so we can protect and increase the verdancy of nature. Decentralization of the means of production is the solution to all the world's problems we face today, war, destruction of nature, and tyranny that threatens to reduce us to, or keep us, slaves enthralled to overlords. Those problems are all benefits, those bugs are all features, to overlords.
Don't listen to your enemies telling you to support them in their victory over you. Win instead. Grow your own food using aquaponics in a way that doesn't harm nature, but helps it. Make your own power rather than buy it from destructive industries that wage war for control of mineral resources. These decentralized tools and means of production are just beginning to become available today, but even the crude beginnings of this technological revolution are more productive of wealth for us than wage slavery, because they eliminate the parasitic losses that are feeding our production to overlords when we work for taxable wages, to buy products, that profit overlords, through taxable sales, and all those taxes are funneled to overlords (who don't pay any taxes) by government contracts with corporations overlords own.
Fuck them. Make the world a better place by conquering your home, your personal production, and increase your quality of life by setting yourself free from overlords. Early adopters of these technologies find ways to improve them, which improves them, and that benefits us all by making them simpler, easier to use, and more productive. New 3D printers now have lidar to locate the printhead, multiple materials to make more complex products, and are orders of magnitude faster and more precise than models just a few years old. They're only a couple hundred bucks, to the low four figures, and generate $1000s in wealth when you use them to make stuff you need.
This is the toothpaste coming out of the tube. If you take advantage of it you'll prosper ever more going forward and benefit all humanity and the natural ecosystems we all depend on. If you don't, you'll be crushed in the tube being squeezed. Get out in front of it and benefit, and create benefits for our posterity that come after us.
Get a 3D printer that you can use to make the parts of an aquaponics system to grow your food, to make the backyard windmill, or the solar panels, that can make your power, to make your flying car, that is just a quadcopter scaled up to carry you. We can't yet print electric motors or wires, and although that is coming soon (3D printers manufactured Terran 1, the first 3D printed spacecraft launched off Earth in March, 2023), these components are still available inexpensively from the remnants of the centralized industries that are being deprecated and replaced. Take advantage of that transition and advance your own personal economic interests. Make your freedom yourself.
Every bit you make yourself eliminates parasitic losses that strip your production from you and give it to your enemies that want to profit from sending you to war with other people that would also be better off making their own stuff instead of making profits for their enemies. Don't wage military war. Wage economic war. Don't conquer countries of other thralls to overlords. Conquer your home and free it from overlords. Don't fight your fellows. Fight your overlords and become free.
That's how we solve all the problems we face today. All our production is the fight to enslave us all to overlords, or the victory of economic freedom and prosperity. Every dime you send overlords is tribute. Stop paying to be conquered. Become free.
Dear @valued-customer !
I think I know why the overlords of Japan 150 years ago trembled with fear and anger after seeing your ancestors!😅
The overlords of the East Asian world have been creating religious, philosophical, political, economic, and scientific ideas and systems to keep East Asians as eternal slaves for 2,000 years.
From the perspective of the overlords of the East Asian world, you would have been recognized as the most dangerous element that must be eliminated!🤣
They must have felt that peaceful coexistence with you was simply impossible!
I wonder if the war between the overlords of the East Asian world, which has a history of 2000 years, with my respected senior @valued-customer will last until the end of the world!😨
Yes. I control my production, as do we all, and when we keep what we make, overlords cannot possess the wealth and power necessary to violently oppress us. They only get that wealth and power we give them. Cut them off.
Thanks!
Dear @valued-customer !
As I looked at you, I understood why your ancestors migrated to a distant new world to escape their European overlords!😆
Yes, and they kept all the value of their production from those overlords, and all their children, and grandchildren, ever since.
When I looked at you, I was reminded of The Last of the Mohicans!
Do the Europeans who abandoned their homelands and migrated to the distant New World to escape the rule of European overlords claim to be descendants of the great Mohicans?
Looking at you, I felt that the white people of the New World were a different race from Europeans!😮
Very interesting. Most Native Americans can't grow much facial hair, so the stubble on that guys chin in the opening is a little jarring. The black and white artwork that shows next is from my early youth, the Natives there made such art on totem poles, canoes, and blankets.
Elizabeth Warren claims to be descended from Native Americans, but turns out to be 1/1024 Native ancestry. I am not convinced. My family tells me that I am 1/64 Chippewa, so I could join the Cherokee tribe, as I have documents showing my great great grandfather carried off an Indian Princess and they had kids that were my forebears. Sometimes I'm jelly, TBH, but then I flick on a light switch, run a hot bath, grab a snack from the fridge, or jump in my truck to go 40 miles, and I'm not jelly anymore LOL.
Americans were largely originally derived from English settlers, mostly Anglo-Saxons fleeing the Normans who were imposing more rigid hierarchies in England, but all sorts of Europeans came to America for centuries, increasing the diversity of Europeans here, while Europe remained largely separated into it's several nations. For the last century Native Americans have been increasing in number dramatically, and are also possessed of tribal reservations that have the status of foreign countries, insulating them some from government regulations. Very recently this has enabled them to build casinos and some tribes have become very wealthy as a result of skinning the rubes that come to gamble.
Recently massive waves of immigration from all over the world, Africa, the ME, Asia, and, of course, S. America, have inundated N. America, and things are changing very rapidly in a lot of cities as a result. I think the USA thought of itself as the True England that England had ceased to be because the Normans from continental Europe had taken over England, oppressing the earlier Anglo-Saxon invasions from the 3rd and 4th Centuries, but I don't think that true today.
America no longer has a cohesive culture, and has been divided by it's new conquerors.
Hello! So many questions...
Printing drones for what purpose? Who will identify the target?
Do you use alternative energy sources? Why are they 5-7 times more expensive than grid power?
Have you dug your own well to irrigate your hydroponics? Why do organic farm fruits cost many times more than chemically produced mass-produced fruits?
Where do you get your seeds? How do you know those seeds are not gmo, is someone responsible to you for that?
Do you know that plants do not feed on water alone and it is unlikely that you can produce all the necessary micronutrients for a nutrient solution at home? Do you have experience?
About 3D printers!
Only the hull of the spaceship was printed on a printer, and that's not even half of it.
When you buy a printer, you become dependent on the manufacturers of the materials for it. Correct me if I'm wrong there is no printer printing from recycled materials.
It's a vicious circle. To buy a house with land - you need money, to buy a printer, a generator, aquaponics with fertilisers, seeds, you have to go to work as a slave! And slaves are not paid enough to achieve independence!
I agree that it is worth striving for, like any good utopia. It will cease to be a utopia when there is a legal way to earn money for everything you need in a legal way
Who can afford it?
It's simple! Go to America as an illegal immigrant, close to New York.
If you don't spend your social allowance on booze and drugs, in a couple of years you will be able to buy land with a house, solar panels, hydroponics and a 3D printer that will print it all for you in a third world country.
You can even steal it all from the shops there, if you steal for no more than $1000 at a time!
How much do you need? 15-20 shoping trips like that and you're on a roll.)))
But if you go to jail, you'll experience the whole colonial past of a democratic city on a hill, working for Ronald McDonald or Coca-Cola.
More positive, not everyone gets caught!
HaHa
Thank you, but I'm not of an age to take such a risky venture, and it doesn't fit with my beliefs.
Most American post I've seen all day.
Thanks!
It was meant for another user.
I guess he's not American and he might be interested. At the very least I find it funny.
Did I do something to offend you?
I am American from my sole to my topknot, and could not less be offended by insightful perception of the rot at the core of America. I thought I lavished you with the greatest praise of which I am capable, and would banish any perception of irony or criticism you may have taken.
American, that's probably a good thing. I've never been an American.
I don't associate the politics of a nation state with the ordinary people of this country.
If you're an American for your rights and freedoms, that's cool. If you're one of those Americans who wants to weaken Russia for their own interests at the cost of Ukraine, we wouldn't be friends!
Many Ukrainians are called Nazis when looking at my blog information for example, and you know there are some good analogs here. I am not offended by this because I know that there are grounds for such statements, and it has nothing to do with me because I do not have swastikas, appropriate tattoos and I do not honor Hitler or Bandera! But I do not deny the obvious things - Ukraine is a Nazi terrorist state.
It is strange that you, knowing unpleasant facts about your government, do not accept jokes on this topic. I thought you learned the truth not yesterday.
But in any case, I apologize if my sarcasm about the situation in the U.S. hurt you personally. I don't think you are somehow to blame for what happened.
But any consequences always have a corresponding cause!
Have a nice day.
I will try again. You did not offend me. You pointed out things, with wit, I also note, and am more salty about because they are injuries I suffer in America. I, pretty obviously, am about rights and freedoms, and this is why I consider government - all of them - criminal organizations.
It is your forthright acknowledgement of facts that causes me to admire your character, even if we do not always agree. I am never offended by disagreement. On the contrary, I am aware I will never learn anything from anyone that agrees with me. I will only learn from those that do not, and failing to learn is a death sentence.
Whew. I'm exhaling! That's good.
Obviously I misunderstood somewhere the meaning of what you said earlier.
I didn't intend for my humor to catch anyone, but to take seriously everything that is going on in the world today is fraught with consequences for the nervous system.
LOL
Excellent questions!
I point out that drones are the most effective battlefield weapons today. If they're your drones, you will identify the targets.
I do. I have solar panels on my trucks for use in remote sites where shore power is not available. They're more expensive because mass production of expendable fuels is less expensive per unit. However, they're free if you make them yourself. In 2008 DIY solar panels were invented. I have no idea how long ago wood gas generators were invented, but people were running cars on them in droves in WWII. A variety of geothermal solutions are becoming available today, heat pumps, and they ARE expensive. Windmills are as expensive as you make them. Kites that spine bobbins can be almost free to $10's or $100's of thousands, depending on whether you make one yourself or get a commercial network of them. I learned to make a windmill in the 1970s from a Pinto rear end and a generator, using planks for the rotor, that was almost free. Similar parts remain almost free in junkyards around the world today, and the tech is still as simple. No rare earth magnets or highly engineered propellers are required, unless you're trying to scale up to grid-sized commercial production, which isn't where wind scales best. Vertical shaft windmills are extremely simple, and all the maintenance of the business end is on the ground, which makes maintenance simple and cheap. They're basically a Tibetan prayer wheel that is geared up to drive a generator, and can be made of planks and bedsheets with bicycle wheels as bearings for starters (bedsheets won't last long).
I have hand dug my well before, for a homestead innawoods. I did not grow food there, as I am surrounded by farms, who do it better. Organic farm fruits are more expensive because they are varieties that put more of their energies into defending themselves from pests, so they do not require so much pesticide use, but grow slower as a result. Another reason is that pest control is more difficult and labor intensive without resorting to chemicals. Hand picking pests, washing individual leaves with soap, and other organic methods of pest control are much more expensive. Finally, organic fruit are attacked by pests, and wormy apples aren't salable. Organic fruits that are salable are necessary to price higher to compensate for lower yields. There are more reasons for all these things, and there are classes you can take in organic gardening to get more information and depth of understanding.
I get them from local feed stores, because I want seeds suitable to the local climate. Then I overwinter some of the crops, so I can have seed for coming years, or seed bulbs for onions, garlics, potatoes, and etc. Crops that don't produce seeds, or don't produce well here, I find different seeds for, or grow different crops. I have a tiny space for a garden, ~10^2 feet, and am mostly keeping a few things growing for seed in the event I need to provide my own food. I depend on farmer's markets and local farmers as much as I can while they're common hereabouts. I stick things in soil like root veg, celery, onion ends, garlic bulbs, if they start to shrivel from being in the fridge too long, and see if they grow. I found out I can grow sweet potato here, although it won't survive winter, that way.
Aquaponics is not merely hydroponics. The nutrients for the plants are provided by aquatic species such as catfish, tilapia, prawns, or crawdads, and their waste is then pumped up to the plants where the water is cleaned of the fish wastes that are the plants fertilizer. I have seen aquaponics systems locally that were growing about 10x what they needed, which they sold commercially. This was in a 3bd apartment with a sunny window wall, and they also used lights. The 3x2000 gallon tilapia tanks were kept in an unheated garage. There are also plans for systems that take advantage of chickens, rabbits, and even larger animals like goats for aquaponics, but I have no experience with them. I'm not even sure if they qualify as 'aqua' since they're not aquatic species, even though their waste is mixed into water fed to plants as fertilizer.
IMG source - dzen.ru
It can be even simpler, as a 55 gallon drum with catfish in it fed table scraps will feed you pretty good all year, and you can dip the water out in buckets to water plants.
I continue to garden in soil, but am working on becoming more productive and bringing it indoors for reasons I have stated. I am discouraged from growing my own food by locally available products, fish, and meat from hunting, but strive to be prepared to transition in the event something changes.
https://www.relativityspace.com/glhf
Manufacturers are now using 3D printers to make rocket nozzles, because the intricate fuel/coolant passages inside the nozzles are extraordinarily difficult to piece together from parts robustly and reliably, while such passages are far easier and more robust when simply printed into the part as it is made. Hall effect thrusters used to maneuver satellites and spacecraft having reached orbit are 3D printed for this reason.
Do not think the first thing made by a new method is the end of the advance of that tech used to make it. Terran 1 was the largest 3D printed object ever made, and the first to reach space under it's own power. It was a significant achievement, and just the beginning, of many and more firsts coming from using these methods of manufacture.
All methods of manufacture do. My skilsaw cuts wood. My tile saw cuts tile. My torch cuts steel. I can't use my skilsaw to cut steel, and although my torch will cut wood, every time it has I had to put the fire out quick. However, 3D printers are very versatile, and most printers can use a variety of different materials. PLA, ABS, and literally hundreds of different kinds of filament are available for use in 3D printers, from dozens of manufacturers. Many people also experiment with making filament from recycled beverage containers, shopping bags, fishing line, and etc. There are also printers that use pastes on the market today, and this suggests that soon all kinds of locally sourced materials, clays, cements, or just compacted soil, will soon be usable on a table top scale. There are ongoing experiments to tame wire feed welding to be used with 3D printers, as such welders are very inexpensive. The real problem there is the extremely high heat such welding produces, and how to protect the printers, and the workshops they're used in, from burning down. I have seem much larger printers with print beds 8' wide in commercial settings - much more expensive and space hungry than consumer models - that handled such temperatures by being in commercial spaces nominal for the purpose.
I don't think the materials available for 3D printers are a limiting factor, for the above reasons.
The financial markets and the cost of real property is a weapon being used against us, and IMHO that was behind the 2008 financial crash and the QE used to pump huge amounts of money into stonks. This has caused investors to become exponentially fiat wealthy compared to wage earners, and that is behind the increasing unavailability of real property. There are a variety of ways to solve this problem, and there are a lot of reasons that real property values should decline (such as old homeowners dying off). I strive to use goodwill instead of money and do not pay rent, property taxes, or most bills most people have because I exchange services for those bills being paid by folks that do use money. Finally, there's just squatting. The concentration of real property ownership in an investor class through the use of fraud and scams as has been done isn't lawful, even IF it's technically legal. Just taking what we need to live and can't get another way is just, when the taking isn't from individuals but from large corporations, and it's not blatant profiteering.
When governments are criminal, laws are crimes, and vice versa.
I am old. I am not going to lead charges on the battlefield and become a hero our posterity puts up statues of someday. I am not going to claim Asteroid Psyche and become fabulously wealthy by developing it. I'm not colonizing Mars, or Venus, or ever leaving Earth for the exciting diaspora and colonization of the solar system coming. I am not the One. That doesn't mean what I have learned is useless or wrong. I don't advocate everyone do everything, but that people seize the means of production suitable to their circumstances. In my circumstances, I should probably 3D print my casket, LOL.
I may not lead the charge, but I can cheer for them that do.
Thanks!
The problem is not so much the generator, but the storage of the energy produced.
Without batteries, we can only use energy when the sun shines or the wind blows. Normally we need power more often. So is the ability to schedule production without depending on weather conditions.
Batteries have a limited life and are expensive! Good batteries have a longer recharge cycle life, but also cost considerably more.
As a result, is it much cheaper and less labour intensive to feed from the central grid than from your own alternative sources?
How much power did the generator you made have and how much does your household consume per day? How many homemade generators do you need in the end, how long will it take you to produce themб and how time you need to change bearings and bedsheets?
I guess off-the-shelf solutions are more practical after all!
I'm trying to do organic gardening, so I know how labour-intensive it is - there's no time at all to build a generator, although I only have to finish the blades and base! But I am not at all sure about the naturalness of the seeds I buy!
The hydroponics method you describe requires some specific skills and a lot of space for equipment. Again, it costs a lot of money to organise it all, which I don't see how to get without being a slave!
About the spaceship! I think you're manipulating the data.
85% of a spaceship's mass is made up of its hull! And the hull of a spaceship isn't even half of what it's made of.
Yes, I've seen printers that can print a house, it's a promising technology. But it's not going to become massively available any time soon. So it is hardly worth citing this factor as one of the elements of independence.
Having such a printer at your disposal, you can create a business that will provide and organic fruit, and the purchase of aquaponic farm itself, and geodesic pump, and batteries with solar panels in the necessary volume. But it all comes down to money again!
I agree with much of the above, but the moment with financing of all these good ideas remained undisclosed.
I moved from the city to the countryside for the same reasons. I want my survival to be as little dependent on the system as possible.
I need an alternative generator, but as long as I have electricity on the grid it will always be cheaper to use it!
My house and land costs $5,000. All off-the-shelf off-grid solutions cost many times that!
Thanks for the detailed answer and interesting article!
What a great exemplar you are for humanity! I am deeply moved.
Consonant with the great trend towards decentralization of means of production is the very recent advent of supercapacitors made of cement with lamp black. It is difficult to conceive of a less expensive or more DIYable solution to storage of electrical energy. I lament I cannot carry a slab around in my truck, but have had to purchase expensive batteries instead.
I do take advantage of shore power where it is available here, as it is very inexpensive due to being generated by hydropower on the mighty Columbia. On jobsites I don't have to pay for it at all, and this enables me to charge my batteries without any generator whatsoever, while I do have 600 watts of panels on my primary work truck. The fact my inverter supplies 2500 watts to my draw reveals the inadequacy of (mobile) solar to supply the totality of my power needs.
However, I have tried to point out that sabotage will eliminate off the shelf solutions, and that will make DIY provision of the blessings of civilization their exclusive source. Take advantage of relic provisions as exist while they remain, to stand on the shoulders of the centralization giants when creating subsequent to their unavailability.
You must have missed the part about the 55 gallon barrel of catfish fed table scraps. Nothing more skillful than the ability to shoot fish in a barrel is necessary for that. The miracle coming is the application of AI to manage independent means of production, which will eventually create automated production that doesn't require personal attention. That is a ways off, but early adopters will be early adapters and profit best when it arises.
You cannot imagine my shade of green regarding that. It's not 1% of the price that has been imposed on N. Americans for comparable real property, worse in Canada than the US. Because I use goodwill extensively I paid only $100 for my home, but this neglects the goodwill entirely.
I note that it is difficult to conceive of a chain of production tooling starting with a 3D printer that ends with autonomous production of all the blessings of civilization, particularly before automation of means of production is potential. It is salient that adoption of means of production in the current environment should only be done as suitable to your personal circumstances, and DIY is always a fraction of the cost of buying turnkey, but only in currency, not in work. You are absolutely going to acquire such means of production your understanding and circumstances enable you to profit by, and not bother with those unprofitable to you by the circumstantial metrics you value.
That being said, it is likely that information is most able to change your relevant metrics, because learning curves are walls until development gentles their slopes.
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It's available now.
https://cocoapress.com/
While meant for culinary use, it is adaptable with facility to clays and similar pastes, not for home building but for an dizzying array of ceramics, such as dishes, tiles, and more.
Printing houses with cement will be unlikely to ever be useful. The evolution of services continually creates new architectural ideals, and it is always in tension between robust and novel. Cob is just too easy to make with a tarp and some dancing for 3D printing to ever be competitive with.
What is more mind blowing is the ability to print living cells, which, combined with table top CRISPR (rather, it's recent replacements less prone to flaws), will inform every tech tree that exists, from building houses to seeing behind you, or ever will.
I wrote that I absolutely agree that both the autonomy of one's own estate and the decentralization of production are worth striving for. To the best of my modest abilities, I am moving in the directions in which the situation allows. Now I am forced to try myself in cattle breeding, although it is not something I would like to do, as I have more of a technical mindset.
You write about interesting and promising things, but the start-up capital even to buy junk for the subsequent DIU is still beyond my reach. Current expenses eat up all the few incomes....
But the most important thing is that we have enough to live on and in this place we are happy
Thanks for the detailed response!
interesting article, as always in depth!
But I think it would be more appropriate to post a picture of bainen instead of a picture of zelensky. It would more accurately convey the essence to the goyim of which side they should choose.
Because making a choice when the outcome is predetermined and quite natural is just for the goyim!
There are plenty of guides to approved political choices for goyim.
My point is all of them are bad.
Thanks!
Are there some good ones?
Only unofficial bootleg versions.
we've 3d-printers, and it's a good step towards independence:)
a nice pic. I saw definite info about it, so I do undertand you.
Your example inspires me.
Thanks!
Well, your post reminded me of this video below. LoL
I wish the Frescoan vision had been as unbounded as what will actually eventuate, but that would have cast the Venus project as adrift of funding as real decentralization is.
Thanks!