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actually, i'm now noticing it may be cheaper for me to buy used skis than to rent them. buying used i can get it cheaper than even renting just once or twice

you could get a wood burning stove heater. as long as you have enough trees to be sustainable, burning firewood is a great way to go. and with the clean burning filters they have now a days, you'll much much better off than from the days when they used to burn fires inside a house with no container/stove/filters or even a chiminey at all! (just a hole in the roof if you were lucky.)

I think a lot of people are taking it as a precise prescription. Rather, I think it's the main idea that counts: you can downsize and reduce your expenses by quite a bit. I think this will become ever more important going into the future as the standard of living continues to erode, as it has done for the last 27 years.

i agree. but i think most people are worried about second order effects (the impact of supply chains on the whole economy) rather than whether or not you can buy 3$ shoes on temu.

i grow a couple hundred pounds of tomatoes in my backyard every year. I'd happily sell some to my neighbors.

the question is which shelves. Not ALL shelves. only 13% of our stuff comes from China. they might run out of toys and electric shavers but there will still be a lot left to buy.

let's not forget, "In 2024, China supplied approximately 13.4% of the total goods imported by the United States, with a total value of $438.9 billion. " '

And those are heavily concentrated in certain industries like basic electronics, toys, etc.

in anycase, it'll be interesting to see how it plays out.

if everyone's expecting a market crash and prepared for it (that means it should already be priced in), how can there still end up being a crash? seems counter intuitive.

Wait until you hear how many people pass away as a result of eating cheeseburgers! Only somewhat kidding here.

The number of people that die from heart disease and stroke and diabetes is far far greater than plane crashes or car crashes.

Metabolic syndrome is a large constellation of diseases and scientists have discovered that many of them are largely preventable through diet and lifestyle choices!

if you use a more reasonable calculation of inflation and calculate real GDP according to that, you'll see we've been in recession almost half of the years for the last 25 years.

Personally I prefer to use the US case shiller housing index as a good indication of long term inflation. Housing prices are so high, it is the basket of goods that matters the most.

It's good to see more studies come on this but it's not exactly news. Researchers have known for quite some time now that there's an entire constellation of diseases (diabetes, stroke, certain cancers, fatty liver disease, heart disease, etc, etc) known as metabolic syndrome that are all caused by diet and lifestyle.

We may be entering a future where there's simply less demand for SE talent. I mean, there's already a vast oversupply of SE talent. What about looking into other job functions such as Product/project management or other career options? teaching?

when people's entire livehoods are threatened, you're going to see some defensive reactions.

based on the analysis above, I'd say they're far from delivering on that slogan.

what good is it if you have a ton of gadgets and iphones all over the place but no place to live? I'd take a home with a bed over all the gadgets in the world, if i could only choose 1.

it's a fact that the housing standard of living has gone down for the last 26 years. See this graph: Nominal gpd per capita / case shiller housing index. and you'll see it's down 34% over the last 26 years!

that plus, the CPI is completely messed up.

Housing accounts for easily half of people's spending these days, especially the younger generation.

So, here's how you calculate standard of living: Nominal GDP per capita / Case shiller housing index.

Chart this and you'll see that we peaked in 1998 and have been in decline ever since then. We're actually down about 34% since that peak.

i'm no expert on this but i thought the military buys a bunch of stuff from them because there's no other choice, right? and all those airlines, their only other choice is airbus.

the industry simply doesnt compete enough, no?

fiber supplements may well help that and more but if you want to get all the benefits, eat actual real food. Well informed researchers will tell you there's a lot of research that shows those supplements aren't nearly as helpful as actual fruits and vegetables.

it sounds super sensible since metabsolic syndrome diseases people go to a doctor for are mostly preventable.

But, these days I think most companies have sufficient layoffs to where the employees don't last long enough for it to matter.

Well, as an experienced gardener I can tell you that growing perfect broccoli and cualiflower is very challenging, growing leafy greens is not.

if you have a desent sized garden and are constantly growing stuff in it, you will almost always have greens one way or another. all those failed broccoli result in a consolation prize: the leafy greens that come with the plant. and when they do go to seed, the plant gets super huge delivering pound after pound of leafy greens. similar things happen to lettuce and many other greens. and if you take the time to identify all the weeds growing, you'll notice that many of them are edible and can be added to the garden salad. the beets whose heads never developed properly, still have lots of green growth on top. and those french sorrel plants, once properly rooted will be hard to get rid of and you'll have pounds of leafy greens. Just keep growing and you'll see.

I've experienced this myself. Most of the year, i have waaayy too many leafy greens (much of it from failed brassicas, various weeds - which by the way are very nutritious) than i know what to do with and harvest at least 1/2 lb per day.

We don't need to have a system where there are only 2 terrible choices.

if the federal government wasn't so large but rather a looser organization such as the EU, then each state would be a sovereign entity and the presidency wouldn't matter so much. then you would have 50 or more choices (50x2=100)

if you're concerned about getting enough micronutrients, I did create a tool that helps me discover the foods that are highest in any particular vitamin or mineral or combination thereof and normalizes the data to 200 calorie servings for ease of comparison. it uses a weighted formula that you define with sliders on the left: https://kale.world/c

Vitamin C is also one of the most abundant vitamins. there's a ton of vegetables and fruit that are very high in vit C (you can check my nutrient finder: https://kale.world/c ) . Rather than jumping straight to supplements, I prefer eating leafy greens. they're loaded with so much stuff: antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, fiber, etc. and, i've read so many times that often supplements don't provide the same benefits as the original foods.

besides, growing greens isn't that hard.

with regards to who you follow in nutritional circles, just beware that there's a lot of social media content out there by people who are really good at business (seo, social media content gen, etc) but haven't read much nutritional research. Meanwhile the real scientists who know a great deal, have very little social media content, if any at all.

Personally, I follow the advice of Dr Micheal Gregor, one of his most recent books has over 13,000 citations! Their team has read over 20,000 nutritional papers!! And he'll tell you that whole grains and beans are an excellent staple of a healthy diet.

And with regards to Saturated Fat and even dietary cholesterol, he said, to make a really long story short, that they're really bad for you. There's way too many specifics to list but his 500+ page book (How not to age, and How not to Die) goes into great details and backs it up with a ton of research.

that might be true for completely passive income.

but, how about growing a fruit tree. An apple tree for example can produce 200 lbs of apples per year about 500$ a year and all you have to do is pick them off the tree and water them if you don't get enough rain.

ok, so we have a loooottt of time to do that. for now, i think humanity already has waaaayyyy tooo many problems to deal with before we need to worry about that.

I admit, this is very impressive: "AI models performing at PhD-level on some tasks" but it remains to be seen as to whether all this intelligence actually leads to greater productivity and whether that "productivity" even translates into higher earnings in a meaningful way.

the way I see it, virtual goods (games, digital goods, etc) will continue to be ever more free and lower cost, while nothing much changes in the real world.

why do you like spaceflight? i don't see that as addressing any major human needs

> has eventually revitalised the desolate site into a thriving, lush forest.

That's an understatement. every hard core gardener knows organic matter is the key to wonderful soil which is the key to wonderful produce. We want as much of it as possible (to turn into compost). Personally, I keep all my orange peels, all my fruit refuse/kitchen scraps, every last oak leaf that drops on my property and thensome (suprisingly no one wants them!). I compost pretty much every last drop organic matter that comes onto our property.

Yes, Most people don't know why. But nutritional researchers like Micheal Gregor (he and his team have read over 20,000 research papers! just for one book - how not to die) know why. The problem is all the people who get the most views on youtube, TV and social media are the people who are best at operating businesses and SEO. they often don't know all the research (and even give bad advice sometimes) and hence we get all this back and forth that we see all over the place. Meanwhile, the real researchers who know what they're talking about and are very knowledgable about nutrition and health don't have time for SEO and running a successful media empire. they're content doesn't get viewed very much.