I generally prefer fermented fruits and honey. Although I suppose rhubarb is a vegetable, and one of the things I grow with hand tools.

I have been home brewing for a few years and looked it up out of curiosity. Fucking hell the taxes and regulations are oppressive if I wanted to try selling anything. Then there is distilling that I would probably not even be given permission to do and the vast majority of the cost of your end product is gone to alcohol tax and VAT.

Also all the ingredients I use? Illegal if I wanted to sell any product made with foraged berries. So I couldn’t even sell jam.

I was thinking more of a side business than full time. Possibly a semi retirement option if I pay off the mortgage in several decades.

If you can do it faster you still make ten hours, but if it’s slower you still only make 10 hours.

So cut as many corners as you can probably get away with. What a great incentive…

I only did 1 of those and managed to get a house by my late 20s a few years ago.

Greentexts are a lot cheaper though. Kinda like self medicating with alcohol.

Glad I didn’t go to uni. Wish I did an apprenticeship sooner.

Watch a cure appear rapidly once it effects Europe…

Go 25mph then. At some point it just seems like looking for excuses. Tbh I hear the same sorts of excuses here from people trying to justify why they “have to” drive 800m to the corner shop.

It doesn’t have to by killing people violence though. But just going on a parade isn’t doing anything on it’s own.

It could work to show how much support a movement has, but you need something to follow up if demands are not met and you actually want something to change.

A strike or blockade isn’t violent. Non violent also doesn’t mean legal. See how many non violent terrorist pensioners the UK is locking up.

Because you have to click to work out wtf anything is.

Yeah, expectation of them doing HP style bullshit makes me want to refuse the entire thing.

Plus as long as hand tools do a good enough job there is something rather satisfying about using them. So much quieter too, I can hear the local cats if one of them turns up and wants a head scratch. Or if I have gloves on, a tummy rub.

Not just China is it? Nuclear projects seem to always get delayed and run over budget. Meanwhile wind and solar seem to do much better in comparison.

But that could be due to nuclear being much larger and you hear more about something going wrong. A single solar farm having delays isn’t really something to be overly concerned with.

I should play it again, had a few expansions since I last played. Which means learning what all the buttons do again…

Sure, but I could use the extra time from not having to work as much to forage for berries and make tasty foods with them.

What kind of cheese though?

Petrol generator is probably cheaper. But still expensive.

I really hate proprietary batteries on powertools, so corded is tempting. But I can’t get power 250m away across a road and several other peoples gardens.

Jackery/similar are a far higher capacity than I would realistically need to run a few tools for a fairly brief duration but you need the big ones to have a high enough current limit to reliably run any kind of garden power tools I may need.

I found another solution though. Return to tradition! Got a hand scythe. Also working to remove most grass areas. Not 100% sure what to do with the space over winter when veg isn’t growing. More rhubarb? At least weeds don’t grow as much over winter either.

Looking at the meat consumption per capita in the US I can’t help but think its a skill issue.

Gotta have protein bro! Look at all this protein. Eat 3 chickens for breakfast! Gotta build muscle!! 8 steak milkshake! Protein!!!

What you guys need is fiber. Eat some oats. They cost fuck all. No, not the brand named sachets of oats, get large bags of plain rolled oats.

You have to ask?

Aren’t US ebike regulations super generous, like to the point its pretty much just an electric equivalent to a 50cc bike with pedals on it.

Ours are so restricted I don’t even see the point of a legal one outside of disabled or elderly users. Once I am up to speed I usually cycle at just under 30kmh which is above the speed limit for pedal assist ebikes, IIRC most of Europe has that sort of limit. If there are a lot of stop/starts then maybe it could be more useful, but I tend to avoid roads like that in the first place.

I could say the same thing about America.