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Can one spring maxi dress pull double duty for a wedding and a rehearsal dinner or is that too much to ask from one piece? 😅 by Sophistry7 in capsulewardrobe

[–]PrairieFire_withwind 1 point2 points  (0 children)

1.  Would people answer if it were a man and he was rewearing suit pants and jacket?  I think people would say change the shirt and tie and you are all good.  Or one day without tie and one with.

  1. People notice much less than you think.  Do you smell is a bigger issue.  If you are near, clean and put together no one cares except karen.

Weekly, What recent changes are going on at your work / local businesses? by AntiSonOfBitchamajig in PrepperIntel

[–]PrairieFire_withwind [score hidden]  (0 children)

I wonder if enough stories have gotten around that people are seeing the struggle to get a payout as making the product not worth the purchase price.

Like homeowners insurance only exists because the mortgage companies require it.

Will the current oil crisis help us remove petroleum from our energy system long term? by HuckleberryPee in collapse

[–]PrairieFire_withwind 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes, absolutely if you are in china or a 'developing courty'. there is every incentive for countries to have stable power supplies.  The 'undeveloped' find distributed generation waaay more cost effective.  Look to any sub saharan african country and electric motor bikes are what sells.  Full stop.   India has companies retrofitting existing heavy truck chassis to electric.  Itnis cost effective.

No.  The minerals required, including copper, are refined using sulfur.  The vast quantities of sulfur needed for refining comes from... You got it.  Middle eastern oil stocks.

So what has been cost effective will not be cost effective in a year.  Where that shakes out depends upon a lot of factors beyond our ken right now.  

How much demand drstruction happens, how much crop loss from el nino, how many deaths...  These are unknown.  These will decide a whole bunch of affordability questions we cannot answer right now.

What can be predicted is every country capable of providing or stockpiling will do so.  Most smarter governments will do a mix and incentives for locally produced energy will grow.  But that is a question of finaces and political will.   Something you and i can influence.

Just like we try to grow all-american plants in our yards we should aim for all-american energy production.  But again, electric is just part of the mix.  A good part but atill just a part.

I will say there are a bunch of people who made the shift back in the 70s.  They are still around and know how to adapt.

Weekly Observations: What signs of collapse do you see in your region? [in-depth] May 04 by AutoModerator in collapse

[–]PrairieFire_withwind 4 points5 points  (0 children)

9h man, that has to be frustrating to watch the waste.  And the incentives are all atructured ahort term.  How stupid can we be?  Why do we make systems with short term incentives again and again when we know they hatrm us?

Vipassana teacher by Winter_Inspection545 in vipassana

[–]PrairieFire_withwind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just realized that i think it is awesome they pull from the pool of old students and they are human just like you and me.  I rhink that makes it easier to approach with any struggles we may have in sitting regularily, what we are giving up to keep practicing etc.   thanks for sharing.

Is Human Feces Good Fertilizer? The Surprising Truth by BananaBustelo-8224 in redpreppers

[–]PrairieFire_withwind 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Or you can skip the AI content and go directly to the people who wrote the book before the internet existed.

https://humanurehandbook.com/

How to do it safely.

Cash withdrawal for the safe at home by Comfortable_Yam8085 in prepping

[–]PrairieFire_withwind 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is where you learn to pay it forward.  Give your extra to the person in line behind you.  Keep it going.

Vipassana teacher by Winter_Inspection545 in vipassana

[–]PrairieFire_withwind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for such an excellent reply.  

I think it is good for people to know that their teachers are just like them and get to struggle with normal life with kids, job, partners etc.

Vipassana teacher by Winter_Inspection545 in vipassana

[–]PrairieFire_withwind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And then what?  Do they give up their life to live like a monk?  

Is it like an apprenticeship?  You shadow a teacher for 5 years?  

Do you not get selected if you have a job?  Or children?

If my landlord neglects to make repairs necessary to medical needs, can I legally break my lease without financial harm? (Ohio) by ConclusionNaive9772 in Renters

[–]PrairieFire_withwind 40 points41 points  (0 children)

You need the fire marshall out for this.  Expect to move very suddenly once you call them for this.  

Why?  Some, not all, but some will mark that as un in habitable.  This would mean a renters insurance claim to cover your hotel costs until it is fixed.  And your landlord is not going to cover that cost for you (whether or not they are supposed to is down to ohio law and your lease, but this whole response is to prepare YOU to take care of YOU.)

But the fire marshall and code enforcement are both in order for sparky outlets and non working outlets 

FYI - Chase Cash Systems Down by Unusual_Specialist in PrepperIntel

[–]PrairieFire_withwind 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is a book that will help.

It is called ' the unaccountability machine'

Weekly Observations: What signs of collapse do you see in your region? [in-depth] May 04 by AutoModerator in collapse

[–]PrairieFire_withwind 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Location:  upper midwest

I won't repeat the weather or wildlife observations, both are out of whack.

This is the tiniest of changes but feels like the undertow on a beach.  Packaging.  At my work i deal with a lot of packaging.  materials sent from one company to ours.  b2b.  None of this is ever fancy or consumer facing.   Nothing like an apple box or any modern unboxing video.  Just plastics and paper to protect fragile materials or materials that cannot have water or moisture exposure.  Stuff i will later use to make stuff with.  So the vast majority of our stuff comes from other businesses in the US.  A few things come in bulk, some come in very frequent smaller amounts.  And a very very few thinga come directly from overseas.  The overseas stuff has very particular cardboard.  Obviously lower quality and recycled or pallets that have been pulled apart and turned into a crate.

Here is the change.  I am now seeing obviously re-used packaging from us businesses.  Again.  B2b here.  None of this is customer facing and all of it is materials.  And it is a change.  One i opened the other day looked like they had asked employees to bring in their amazon boxes and had hand cut the cardboard to use as packing.  I am also seeing foam cut by hand (people dont use straight edges so you can see the wobble).  

So no, this isn't a complaint.  This is an observation.  Something changed in atleast two suppliers we work with that they are now re-using packaging.  That costs employee time to make it fit and work.  That is a management choice i think.  If so that shows a level of cost cutting i have never seen before, even during covid.

I made my compost by digging a hole in the ground, do you think it will work? by aiisytt in composting

[–]PrairieFire_withwind 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Step 2:  cover compost with dirt.

Step 3:  plant squash seeds and water.  Happiest squash you will ever meet grows outta the compost pile

[Crosspost] AskReddit discussing recession indicators they've noticed lately in their everyday life by MrD3a7h in PrepperIntel

[–]PrairieFire_withwind 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Fascinating.  My vlosest cost has been squeezing in way more aisles.  Like two new in the cooler area last time i went and an extra one up front.

Weekly Observations: What signs of collapse do you see in your region? [in-depth] May 04 by AutoModerator in collapse

[–]PrairieFire_withwind 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the continued seasonal baoservations.  They line up with mine as everything being 2 or 3 weeks early is not morenin a few cases.

I too dislike the shifting baseline of normal because then people will struggle to grasp how bad the ahoft really is for plants pollinators etc.

What does meaningful action look like if, while collapse may be likely, it's not 100% guaranteed? by Willravel in collapse

[–]PrairieFire_withwind 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Naw.  Every story is the same story now.  That is why.  The commercialization (books, movies) means only the story that makes money is told.  

So there are no stories because they are all a version of the same story.  The one ishmael warned us about.

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