No soil. Might as well grow food in a building.

kakistocracy (plural kakistocracies)

1. (political science) Government under the control of a nation’s worst or least-qualified citizens. [from 1829.]

Remember to visit the range on windy days, folks.

My mother’s village of 800 people, they hung partisans from each corner of the town square. Regularly. It was stressful and fucked up for a little kid, and my grandfather was a partisan.

down the Xitter it all went

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Impermeable layer, usually skookum pond liner style, on top. Drainage. Ventilation and heating. Lime wash. Light helps if it can be managed in the design.

As always:

Follow the Money

Doing just what you’re paid for and not one bit more is called “Work to Rule” and it’s just total bullshit that it’s an effective labour tactic of resistance, because it implies that exploitation is part of the expectation in capitalism.

People want to do a good job and employers milk that.

My daughter, who is kind of broke and physically disabled and a student, just told me she feels wealthy because of the social connections she has: good friends from childhood, new friends from school, and a cohousing community that she’s staying at that has kind of adopted her as an honourary member, plus all kinds of our old family friends who she’s social with and trusts.

She gets it. In the end it’s how well you loved as much as how fine you lived.

Yup, dude even gets disappeared just for being in the wrong street at the wrong time.

Right about what? I don’t think he makes any definitive arguments or assertions, other than maybe that some people are like that.

I know a few people who can be seen in that light, as marginally re-wilded. Rather extraordinary people, so I would not say they are representative of anyone else, but do illustrate the existence of the urge.

We define human ideals to guide us in most cultures, and in english, at least, it does reference this narrative quality to the word ‘humane’, as more human-like behaviour than behaviour that is bad for the species, such as cruelty.

KS Robinson addresses this in the Mars trilogy. With adequate aging suppression and some post-scarcity on a thinly populated planet, a movement of hardcore primitivism emerges, tempered by brushing up against the modern. For some, it’s still an instinct.

Even Alexander commented that if he wasn’t in his social position he might live like Diogenes, naked and wild. It’s an old conundrum, a million years of wild vs. 80,000 or so of settled.

Get ready for the new Underground Railroad eh.

It’s not the rage at all. A minority of misinformed people in Alberta and an even smaller percentage in BC and Saskatchewan are back on their hoser soapboxes.

The people against it are very against it. But whatever, it’s not going to happen without violence, as most of the lands don’t belong to the provinces, it’s mostly treaty or crown, and it triggers some very high feelings.

Not so much insulation, as thermal mass. It takes a lot of energy to change the temperature of that much earth.

They are excellent resilience, low-tech dwellings for places with temperature extremes, like prairies or high altitude.

The engineering needs to be sound.

However, they are dark inside and usually low-ceilinged, and can be damp if not well managed.

this has “with us or against us “ energy

kakistocracy

Noun

kakistocracy (plural kakistocracies)

1. (political science) Government under the control of a nation’s worst or least-qualified citizens. [from 1829.]

Region is Canada. TV is connected to an AppleTV and a media server. Forced to use mostly apple stuff for various reasons.

Free and generally ad-free Apps:

• CBC Gem (free tier but login)
• DW (news/docs)
• France 24
• Al Jazeera
• Kanopy (via library card, all good movies)
• NFB for the best shorts
• Knowledge Network (free in BC)
• Local news channel apps

For self hosted media files I access a SMB share with the Infuse app for a full video player experience. It’s the only subscription I pay for an app, worth it.

Left Netflix last year. Left Prime this year. It’s all shit sandwiches over there.

There is very little ’Alberta’ that is left over after you map out Treaty lands and Crown land.

The Treaties are older than AB and take precedence.

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