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I’ve had the same supper for 10 years

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Post by scubbo »

Jtsummers wrote: post #72
scubbo wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where do you live where you _have_ been leaving your home for non-essential reasons? I recognize that different countries have had differing levels of effect from COVID, but I'm not aware of any that hasn't had at least _some_ impact.

The US. While many businesses (especially restaurants) shuttered in 2020, most retail businesses reopened rather quickly though usually with a limited capacity (Home Depot, a massive store, was permitting something crazy small like 200 people in at a time here last spring and early summer). Hiking trails and state parks in CO opened up by late spring or summer 2020. Restaurants and bars were really the places most im…

I live in the US too. I wasn't asking "where wasn't shut-down?", I was asking "where was it _safe and responsible_ to leave your home for non-essential reasons?". Just because a facility has opened, does not magically make it safe to attend.

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Post by forsakenkraken »

flatline wrote: post #57

> She has two carers who come in four times a day, and they are wonderful. My dad arranged something similar for my mom in the advanced stages of Alzheimer’s. It is nearly impossible in the US, I don’t even know if you can still do it without being wealthy. It required long term care insurance prepaid for years, and it was still a nightmare of weekly paperwork to manage all the claims. The care for his sister, and tr…

This is pretty common on the NHS. Also, as Wales is a devolved nation, we can plough more money into the NHS than happesn in England. Also less privatisation.

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Post by falsaberN1 »

mellavora wrote: post #612
jim-jim-jim wrote: post #452

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Are you talking about European or Australian magpies?

Shouldn't that be: “What do you mean, an African or European Swallow?"

I know you are referencing something, but in this case it's a very legit question, Eurasian magpies are corvidae (and remarkably clever ones at that), while the ones found in America or Australia aren't.

Now if I could find who decided to name them the same...

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Post by forsakenkraken »

auslegung wrote: post #5

This guy is a saint. To have that kind of contentment and peace is the goal of most religions. Honestly I'd like to hear more of his life, would love to talk to him.

Come and visit Wales, specifically Mid-Wales, like say Lampeter, or Newcastle Emlyn. Go to a pub in the evening and have a chat to some of the local farmers, if you buy the beer, they'll be chatty enough.

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Post by astura »

celticninja wrote: post #408
usgroup wrote: post #286

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I appreciate the romance, but those of us who have children leave behind much more than stone walls we built in our 20s. He’s a 72 year old Batchelor who’s once stepped foot outside a Welsh valley. If happiness is a lobotomy then credit to us who don’t choose it.

Children learn from their parents and if this is your attitude then I expect your children will inherit it. Will the world be better for them and their perspective of it is the same as yours? I very much doubt it. Hopefully your children will learn how not to judge others for different life choices, perhaps they will be more humble and not assume superiority over others just because they had children. In case you had…

This person's children are so fucked, its obvious they don't see their children as human beings with thoughts, feelings, dreams, and emotions of their own - just as a way to extend their own personal ego. It's an emotionally damaging way to be raised.

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Post by forsakenkraken »

max_ wrote: post #387

What most people don't realize is that farmers have alot of free time. Most work of the day concentrates between early hours of the morning and lates hours of the afternoon. Most of your day is usually free-time. Better than a 9-5 IMHO

At the same time you basically never have holidays, unless you have family who can look after the farm for a week. Or you say farm chickens, then it's not hard to arrange a few weeks between raising a batch.

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Post by forsakenkraken »

mrmincent wrote: post #41
cfqycwz wrote: post #38

A britishism I've never come across—does anybody know what "sandwiches with paste" are?

My mum spent a couple of years in the UK and refers to peanut butter as peanut paste. Could be a term for ‘spread’.

It definitely isn't a term for 'spread'. It specifically refers to meat or fish paste sandwiches. The paste comes in little tins. Meat is most common, but when I was a kid I loved crab paste.

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Post by forsakenkraken »

ckdarby wrote: post #540

Sounds like a much simpler life that for a lot of the readers here is doable. I purchased 3.3 acres of land this year to begin the process of simplifying. I'm leaving the software world over the next couple years to have a life of homesteading.

Farming isn't any easier than software I'm afraid. However I live in the countryside and work remotely and I love it here. Just down the road from the chap in the article.

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Post by hycaria »

flatline wrote: post #57

> She has two carers who come in four times a day, and they are wonderful. My dad arranged something similar for my mom in the advanced stages of Alzheimer’s. It is nearly impossible in the US, I don’t even know if you can still do it without being wealthy. It required long term care insurance prepaid for years, and it was still a nightmare of weekly paperwork to manage all the claims. The care for his sister, and tr…

It’s not really a sustainable solution though is it?

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Post by I-M-S »

mrphoebs wrote: post #628
867-5309 wrote: post #495

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we will have left earth (and inevitably our sun) long before 4 billion years away, most probably as a hybrid species by then on the theorised heat death timescale humans have only been around for less than infinitesimal fractions of quadrillionths of a percent of their potential. what's to say we don't in that time escape it by transiting to a new, younger universe?

Or, you know an asteroid hits us causing the 6th Extinction Level Event killing humanity. As long as we are doing wild speculative Sci-Fi the Great filter in our future is a real possibility to consider. For now, we are an incredibly young species who has time and again demonstrated our penchant for chasing after short term incentives at the cost of longterm harm. We are making the earth unliveable faster than we are…

> But humans are inventive and resourceful

What's the benchmark?

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