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> No one in the US, for instance, has any excuse because it is all very very affordable As another comment pointed out, median income in Pine Ridge is $4k per year . I don’t think really any of your advice is compatible with that income level.
Beans and rice in storage is directly compatible with that income level.
For some context from someone who's been on that Res, its population is highly vulnerable with no margin for mishaps. It's a place of generational, crushing poverty, crime, illness, genetic-exacerbated substance abuse, broad lack of economic opportunity, cultural isolation, and federal disinvestment. Free federal healthcare is available, but only at an IHS hospital in Rapid City 1.5 hours away in good weather: it's a…
> genetic-exacerbated substance abuse Could you expand on this a bit? Not a concept I am familiar with
>Could you expand on this a bit? Not a concept I am familiar with
Its profitable to pretend that personal choices have nothing to do with drug addiction. Then you can "treat" them forever collecting a monthly check from the government. I say this having grown up in a drug house and leaving as a 16yo teenager with nothing. I already regret this comment not because it isn't true but people detached from reality are going to get all bent out of shape.
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Snow drifts can go 20 feet or higher with no place to shovel the snow to
Could they dig or melt a tunnel to the wood? If the snow were melted and then refroze as ice at the bottom of the tunnel, one could then slid the wood back to the tunnel entrance... Hardship breeds creativity. Necessity is the mother of invention (except under excessive government intervention, which may be at the root of reservation problems). Maybe if we could calculate the present day market value of all the land…
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They cannot afford to stockpile fuel. I listen to a podcast by a man who grew up on that reservation. While he was back visiting his grandmother, a propane truck was filling her tank. He told the driver, "Whoa! Stop! We can't afford that much!" The driver told him, "Don't worry, it's free. Venezuela is paying to fill everyone's tank." Those propane tanks are mostly empty unless Venezuela is paying (before Venezuelan…
What's the name of the podcast? Sounds interesting.
Many of their older episodes are very good, so IMO worth listening to back episodes.
Recently (last couple years?) they merged the, "Red Power Hour" segments into the main podcast feed (it was a separate podcast). I skimmed several of these, but now just skip them-- they were things like (Hollywood) movie reviews and folks in conversation where I didn't feel I learned anything. So, don't discount the whole podcast if the first episode you listen to is one of these. The episodes hosted by Nick Estes are the ones I found the most informative (most of the early episodes fall into this category).
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Your salary has very little to do with your credit score. Length of history + history of repayment.
Of course, but also it is a little ridiculous that someone with $170k+ salary is totally unable to rent at most places due to automatic credit score rejection, despite pretty much everything being below the rule of thumb for rent and salary.
She goes back into debt right after.
In her youth, she didn't make much. She has since become a skilled professional though and now makes a very good salary.
She is still in debt.
I have friends who make mind boggling amounts of money and also have amazing debt. As they have made more their debt has gotten worse, not better.
A credit score says whether or not you have paid back your debts. Making more money does not fix the broken behavior - it often times makes it worse.
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Even though it's not technically wrong, but I also don't see how viewing a people (or worse, viewing yourself) as a perpetual victim is in any way useful. There's no rewriting the past. Saying "I'll never amount to anything because of what happened 50, 100, 200 years ago" denies your agency, and thus a fundamental aspect of your humanity. Some people seem to think that the bigotry of low expectations is "social justi…
Put someone in a village 100 miles from the nearest town, deny them the basic infrastructure you provide for everyone else, deny them proper education, skimp on government job programs provided to other struggling towns that would eventually lead to wealth flowing in and free enterprise, and let this wealth divide grow for decades and you’ll see you’ve successfully made a hole to trap people in. It’s not bigotry. Eve…
I know you're saying that countries can't develop themselves without external support, but I'm not convinced that a richer country = better quality of life for people which is an assumption you made.
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> 3 day reserve battery for the house ... All my heating and cooling would be electrical I don't think you've run the numbers here, at all. Battery storage that can provide off-grid heat-pump heating for a single dead-of-winter design night is bordering on impractical. Creating a buffer that could last 3 whole days (4-5x the size) would be blatantly prohibitive. Batteries only make sense for daily cycling to deal wit…
I have run the numbers and with proper insulation and lower sq footage it is completely practical. That recommendation is for people with the money to do it, which is most of us here. I was replying to someone talking about most “rural” people and extended the reply to be relevant to people here. Given I sleep most nights in a hammock in woods backpacking and travel around nonstop, and have no trouble in sub-zero wil…
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Not sure how they can deliver firewood when the roads are impassible. And in very heavy snowfall -- esp dry powder that you get when the air is, and stays, very cold -- you'll continue to get significant amounts of snow on the roads long after it stops snowing as the wind blows it onto the road. Additionally, a well-maintained suv with 4wd and snow tires isn't a cheap thing to own and maintain. And if you get your ca…
In the winter the firewood should be stored right next to the house, some of it inside the house. In fact the wood that you intend to burn now should be inside the house otherwise when you put it on the fire it will depress the fire. I have one day of firewood stacked next to the woodburner and several weeks in the vindfang (an unheated porch with doors both sides). The rest is stacked at the back of the house and it…
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What's the name of the podcast? Sounds interesting.
"The Red Nation Podcast" by The Red Nation https://therednation.org/ Many of their older episodes are very good, so IMO worth listening to back episodes. Recently (last couple years?) they merged the, "Red Power Hour" segments into the main podcast feed (it was a separate podcast). I skimmed several of these, but now just skip them-- they were things like (Hollywood) movie reviews and folks in conversation where I di…
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I knew about the alcoholism rates, but had always assumed it was a socio-economic / situational driven thing. I understand that historically it was used in some sense to control and indeed damage the Native Americans by the colonists? To what extent alcohol was completely new etc I do not know
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