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dave, aspiring peasant

@aspiringpeasant

16 Nov

One guy I worked around in Afghanistan got off the ch47 on his first op, saw some farmers clearing their irrigation ditches, and unloaded half-a-dozen CS gas grenades at them. Later he fragged himself with 40mm into a tree.

Result: Bronze Star, #1 rank at command, now a CIA para

Another guy I worked with ran away from every firefight, got addicted to opiates from the local bazaar, shot at me multiple times on different ops, and just disappeared on a helo one day never to return to our fob.

Result: Bronze Star, made Master Chief early

Another guy invited chaiboy parties (pedophilia celebrations) onto our fob and got so drunk/touchy we all had to leave. Also ran from firefights and regularly got lost on routine patrols.

Result: Bronze Star, promotion, and is likely to become a Commanding Officer soon.

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dave, aspiring peasant

@aspiringpeasant

24 Jun

Thinking about the idea that when the environment is easy, algae and fungus go it alone.

But when times get tough, they form interspecies alliances (and become lichen).

Times have been easy, so we've forgotten, but we CAN team up with other organisms and become stronger.

1/n

That's the idea behind locally-centered small-scale regenerative farming.

Reduce our energy requirements and begin to find new old ways of living within the ecosystem instead of sand-blasting it into straight rows of inedible corn.

2/n

Modernity is fragile because humans act like we're above the world.

But everything we eat has grown - taken energy from the sun and nutrients from the soil. No amount of corporate obfuscation can change this.

Despite our pretensions we are 100% reliant on the ecosystem.

3/n

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dave, aspiring peasant

@aspiringpeasant

24 Apr

If you're thinking about getting a few chickens, you probably should just do it.

Not only are they entertaining, but they eat your garbage (food waste, weeds from the garden, etc) and turn it into eggs and compost.

They're also super easy to care for.

They need food, water, and shelter.

For shelter, give them a coop that (1) keeps predators out, and (2) keeps them dry. Everything else is a detail.

Can be a shed or an old packing crate or even a recycled playhouse like these ones.

The three most frequent chores are:

1) cleaning water
2) cleaning/replacing food
3) letting them out into the run in the morning and closing them up for the night.

But you can drastically cut down on these to make chickens way less work and more convenient.

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dave, aspiring peasant

@aspiringpeasant

23 Apr

https://twitter.com/cognazor/status/1385398562448711683

Best way I know to get people in the right mindset:

- backyard chickens
- start a garden

Makes you start to see the world as more integrated. This was my path.

Got chickens and a small garden on an aesthetic lark. Mostly an homage to Eleanor Roosevelt's wartime cause.

https://twitter.com/cognazor/status/1385398562448711683

But that larp quickly turned earnest when I found that my post-war mind was ACTUALLY PEACEFUL when I was checking on the ladies and inspecting tomatoes for horn worms.

I wanted to feel that way always, so I asked myself what that would take.

I turned our 1/8th acre in San Diego into a lush food forest with avocado and mango and passionfruit and grapes and cherimoya and stone fruit and banana and everything else that grows.

60+ fruit trees with an understory of herbs and flowers, patrolled by a dozen hens.

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