Comments by "Me Here" (@mehere8038) on "Business Insider"
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@tomsullivan5663 It's used to power the charcoal creation, they pipe it from where it comes out at the top to back under the container & ignite it there, so the gas heats what's in the container to make it into charcoal.
I don't know what's released in the gas burning, but I know when I experimented & made charcoal myself, while the flame was alight, there was no smell, when the flame went out, it stunk! I also used to live near a landfill (about 1km away) & we would know when their gas flame went out, cause it stunk! Garbage smell over the whole neighbourhood! One neighbour even had the misfortune of having an open house when it was out, needless to say, they didn't get any buyers. Was zero smell normally though & that site is now a super impressive sports complex & the methane gas from the landfill underneath is actually harnessed & provides gas for the facility, so I'm just all round not convinced there's serious issues with the contaminates in this process & even if there are, at least it's being done away from people's homes, not inside them as happens when using the solid wood/plants as fuel
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I think it's reasonable to expect to be told if you test positive to covid & have the ship's doctor suggest you stay in your cabin, not tell you you're negative & go socialise with all the other passengers - which is what that ship's crew did! Also reasonable for the ship to take precautions with their new crew who had been exposed to covid! Passengers knew the cruise was between 2 countries that were covid free & so reasonably assumed they were as safe as at home
In this case even a government inquiry found they seriously screwed up! The Australian government screwed up too, but no mistaking the fact that a single week long cruise caused covid infections in every state of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, America & suspected cases in a number of other countries with low testing rates & so unable to confirm. Secondary cases from WA to Tasmania to Auckland to LA etc were all confirmed from that ship though - and not a single one of the people who caused those infections were told they had tested positive until over a week after they had left the ship & in many cases they only found out the source when the media tracked them down & asked them if they had been sick! There were dozens of secondary deaths in relatives of people who had been on that ship that were fully preventable by simply telling the over 100 people who the ship's medical team already had positive covid test results for before the ship docked, about their positive test results!
The cruise was between Australia & NZ, both of whom were covid free at the time, so there was no reason for anyone on board to assume they had caught covid while on that ship. They didn't know about the new crew members that had just flown in from the Diamond Princess to join that ship & who were coughing all over their food & infecting them with covid! Likewise when people on the RUby Princess got covid symptoms & saw the ship's doctor about it, they were tested & told they were fine & to continue enjoying the cruise, the cruise medical staff hiding from the patients their positive covid results!
Look at the videos of the people leaving that ship & the crew all lined up forcing every passenger to walk between rows of them & have physical contact with them all! Even those that attempted to socially distance cause they had cold symptoms were denied the ability to do so by that ship's overbearing crew!
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Australia solved those empty shelves prompting panic buying in a really cool way. It was near to easter time, so the toiletroll aisle was converted into the Easter bunny aisle. They spread them 1-2 deep only & literally filled the entire aisle with smiling, colourful easter bunnies. So instead of people seeing empty shelves & stressing, they walked down an entire aisle of colourful bunnies smiling at them & by the time they got to the other end of the aisle, they were feeling happy & had forgotten what they were even looking for in that aisle lol panic buying stopped completely within a week of that strategy being implemented
& as for industrial v home rolls, there are still small size rolls made for industrial uses. Not every industry has, or wants, huge rolls & roll holders, some still do normal household size, so factories just swapped to making the small ones, single ply, wrapped in paper, designed to go out in pallet lots, sent to supermarkets in pallet lots instead, where they sold for $1.50 each, put through the checkout in the same way as fruit & veg that has no barcode
All toiletpaper in Aussie supermarkets during panic buying was sold straight off pallets etc. It wasn't put onto shelves, wasn't any space, due to all the easter bunnies in the toiletpaper space, so it was just piled up at the back of the store next to the door that brought stuff out from the storeroom & when regular ran out, industrial rolls made their way out for anyone desperate enough to need them. Later once the ongoing panic buying had stopped, the industrial rolls remained in small quantities & even got bar codes for scanning at the checkout eventually, cause even now we have a little panic buying game that a handful still engage in anytime something happens. Everyone just stores extra at home now so they don't have to join the game, but apparently some still enjoy this weird little panic buying/clear the shelves for fun game
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@onebyday6065 Let me explain the basics of what microplastics are to you. Have you ever used a clothes drier? Ever collected lint out of it from your polyester clothing or polyester/cotton blend clothing? that lint is microplastics when it comes from plastic clothing like polyester! THAT is the source of the world's ocean's microplastics! Scientists that study this stuff can actually tell you where in the world a water sample comes from, based on the microplastics in it & clothing worn in the area, cause that's what microplastics are! There are in fact washing machine micro-plastic filters available that you can put onto your drain to collect the microplastics & bin them instead of flushing them into waste water systems, where they are pumped into the oceans, but they must be emptied every load & people don't want to do that, so washing machine manufactures refuse to build them into washing machines. Each time you wash a polyester clothing item without that filter (and you clearly don't have that filter, since you don't even know what I'm talking about with it), you are flushing micro-plastics into the oceans! Silk is expensive & lasts for a long time & doesn't break down with exposure to UV rays, making it FAR more sustainable than plastics in every way! If you want to pretend you're trying to move towards living sustainably, you need to understand stuff like this! GMO cotton btw also results in far less silkworm/cottonworm deaths than organic cotton does, so just some additional info for you there too IF you're serious about trying to be sustainable.
Growing your own food is good, especially if you're actually serious about that & actually grow your own calories, such as wheat. Growing your own food allows you to see the processes involved in crop production & if you buy food later, at least you understand for real the impacts of each food. Clothing is the same, best way to learn is to try growing at least one plant of each & going through the process of turning it into usable clothing fibres, that way you can actually understand what's really sustainable & what's just propaganda
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@onebyday6065 ok, so to clarify, you're on tank water & when you wash your clothes or shower, the water drains onto your garden as you do not have water pipes that take that water away from your home? Well then, you might want to ensure you don't grow your food where that water is draining, cause otherwise you're eating food grown in microplastics!
For fibres, silkworms would be a great option for you! Why not plant a mulberry tree for it's fruit & consider if you want to get some easy fibres at a later date with silkworms? Far less deaths with those than for any other crops! How many bugs do you think your chickens eat? WAY more than you would with silkworms!
Plenty of other fibres you could grow if you want to too, flax/linen is an obvious one to try, so is jute or new Zealand flax if you want fibres for tying up plants etc, hemp too if you're allowed. With any of these things, it's best to grow just a couple of plants to start with anyway & get a feel for them before deciding if you want to grow them large scale, so the tilling shouldn't really be a huge issue with that in mind. The rougher fibres used in sacks, garden twine etc tend to be perennials that don't need tilled soil anyway
& good for you for actually doing all this! Please reduce your synthetic clothes though, cause with a circulatory system like that, you are ingesting all the plastics you are wearing & that's really not good for you!
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@onebyday6065 plastic isn't nature. cotton bollworms & silk bollworms (shortened to just silkworms) are the same bugs, so if you wear cotton, same bugs die in the process, but in much larger quantities in cotton production & they do so at the peak of life & rith in pain for hours in the process. Cotton is the ONLY natural fabric produced as an alternative to silk in any sort of quantity. Wool has some issues (mulsing), but is probably the best option re animals, but doesn't directly replace silk, it's for warm applications, silk is for cool. Linen & hemp are too environmentally damaging to be able to be produced at the same levels as cotton (silk is also too labour intensive to compete). Jute etc work great for their purposes, such as sack making, but again don't directly compete with silk. Leather too, if waste product is used & it is done without chemicals, is also a great option, but it's very rare to find it chemical free & mostly only in saddles etc that need hard materials, again certainly not competing with silk. Silk is legitimately one of the kindest fabrics available to the animals, environment & the people involved. Silk is even regularly used as a viable option for women escaping domestic violence to be set up to become financially independent.
The caterpillars go into their cocoon & totally transform. Their heads come out a different shape & instead of being squishy, they come out hard. While it's hard to study & confirm exactly, it's really not believed that it's possible for their brain to be in any way functioning while it's being completely transformed like that, hence why they build the cocoon to protect themselves for that period where they have no brain function. They therefore can't feel pain if they die during that process (unlike the cotton ones that die while actively eating & moving around prior to building cocoons)
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@onebyday6065 lol not very good research! You've got the land, so I suggest you grow all these various crops, at least one plant of each & actually learn for yourself the reality!
You can grow Egyptian cotton if regulations stop you growing GMO cotton. I very much doubt there's any regulations prohibiting you growing regular cotton, but tree/Egyptian cotton will get you around any you think exist & no-one's going to be checking your greenhouse for a single cotton plant anyway! You probably should be asking why those regulations exist though, cause what you'll find will add to your education on the issues with these fibres.
You can also grow linen/flax, there is absolutely NOTHING stopping you doing that! That is the simplest one to grow. Notable how you keep ignoring my suggestion to grow that isn't it! You're deliberately choosing to claim to want to grow problematic fibres, instead of the fibres that are viable for you to grow! You can also grow New Zealand Flax & Jute without any issues at all! Bamboo is useless for you to grow as a fibre, you cannot possibly make it into fibre yourself! There's a reason bamboo fibre only became a thing in the 21st century, it is simply impossible to make into fibre without very advanced machinery & chemicals & industrial processes. You're just trolling when suggesting you will grow bamboo for fibre! Same with wood! You can of course also VERY easily grow your own silkworms & make silk! You can also grow a range of other animal fibres, such as regular wool & humane angora wool from goats or a couple of well cared for bunnies & using sheering instead of ripping the wool off them, leaving them bald & bleeding (which is how industrial angora is produced). You can also make fibres from plants like nettles & do so MUCH more easily than from "wood" or bamboo!
Cotton is the only natural fibre produced at scale for clothing, so to address your ridiculous claim that it can be grown in greenhouses, the world produces 27 million tonnes of cotton per year, at half a tonne per hectare (that's a football stadium sized building) so no, you can NOT grow it in greenhouses at the needed levels can you! Cotton makes up less than 1/3rd of fibres used globally, cause even 27 million tonnes doesn't come close to global needs, so most fibres are produced in plastic factories instead. You're also missing the complexity of the harvesting & ginning equipment needed for cotton production & it's size & incompatibility with greenhouses
GMO is your best bet if you want to reduce bug deaths with cotton, as GMO can be designed to dead the bugs as soon as they bite it, therefore preventing them being able to multiply to begin with. Still more harmful than silk though
Exactly what is your objection to sticking some linseeds into the ground in this land you claim to own?
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@onebyday6065 indoors? You've now moved from being able to grow it in greenhouses to fully indoors? You're going to build 50 million football stadiums to grow cotton in???? Cause that's the size you need to grow current cotton harvests indoors! You can NOT build that many buildings to grow cotton in! Anything can be grown in greenhouses or indoors, but it is simply not viable to do so for the vast majority of farm production! Your cotton clothing that you buy will NOT be coming from indoors, unless YOU grow it, which you have already made excuses for not doing. Yes, there are major pest issues with cotton & so regulations around growing it because of the amount of bugs that already need to be murdered to produce it, let alone if some hippy grows plants & refuses to cull the bugs on theirs & lets them get into nearby crops! Notice how there are no restrictions on the growing of mulberry trees or silkworms? That's cause there's no issues with bugs with them, no pesticides needed on the trees, FAR less animals dead from silk than from cotton! There is not going to be an issue with growing 1 cotton plant in a greenhouse though is there! When you do that, you say you can stop the bugs getting in, therefore also stop them getting out, therefore authorities aren't going to have an issue with you growing that are they! They will also not have any issues with you growing your own linen, yet you still refuse to do that, ranting about wood fibres, which you know (if you've done the research you claim) that you cannot use to produce fibres & clothing for your family! Linen, cotton, silk & wool are the only fibres feasible for you to use to make your own clothing for your family (along with nettles, hair etc etc if you really want to go down the path of using true traditional options)
You're not inspiring anyone, cause you're not doing it! I personally HAVE grown cotton, linen, silk, angora wool & others AND I have a wooden weaving loom I made myself, AND a drop spindle I made myself (6 of them actually, cause more than 1 is needed for easy plying) AND I have actually completed the entire process from seed to material piece with the various fibres, and knitting btw is MUCH faster & more efficient in making clothing than weaving on a hand made loom, no matter how well you make the loom! Because I personally have the experience, I can easily see through your excuses & see that you have no intention of ever actually making anything & quite frankly don't even appear to be growing any of your own food, like you claim, given you are now saying you're not allowed to plant any plants in your state! I also grow all my own plant based foods. I have only a tiny garden, but I use efficient space techniques & indoor growing techniques & mushrooms to maximise my yield. I only buy in meat, I do intend on growing a batch of chickens myself for food, so as to see the whole process & understand it & also get the bi-products, feathers etc for use as well, but I haven't done that yet, only meat I've grown to date is bugs. I don't make my own clothes from scratch, there's just no way that's viable! I've done the process to see how it works & from that I know it's not viable. It's not like whacking some potatoes/sweet potatoes in the ground & harvesting 100kgs of food out of it! Fibre production yields VERY little & needs LOTS of work to turn it into clothing! Far worse than even dehulling grains is! (if you genuinely grew your own food, you would know what I'm referring to with that comment! You don't I'm sure, but you would if you were legit
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@onebyday6065 & btw I grow my own bamboo too, but it's for SENSIBLE, viable uses, such as garden stakes, NOT for fabric! For plant ties to the bamboo, if making my own, I use hair or silk from the outside of cocoons. That can be very easily hand twisted together to form a reusable rope/tie that will last basically forever. Certainly outlasts the stakes, even when using bamboo, as opposed to sunflower or native ginger or yacon stems, that I also frequently use as single season stakes either while growing, or the following season
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@onebyday6065 Do you have any stores near you that sell foods package free in quantities of your choice? We have those where I am, stores where you go in & scoop from bulk containers of grains & beans & put into paper bags & then pay for by weight. I suggest going into a store like that, if you have one, & scooping from every container that has a whole grain/bean & planting. I did that many years ago, scooped just a small amount, in many cases too little for it to even register, in other cases around 5cents worth (I did speak to the staff member before doing it & asked if I could just scoop some of everything into a single bag & just pay the most expensive price for the lot, but stupidly she said no, so weighed each of the 50 or so bags I had individually). I also bought the most diverse birdseed I could find & planted that & later also found a bulk/select & pay animal produce store where I could do the same thing with any remaining grains I hadn't grown yet. So I personally have grown almost every grain & bean available. In most cases, I grew 2-3 seeds in 1 kratky hydroponics set up milk bottle, so as to save space, easily lable & avoid weeds & know for sure what I had in each. I was surprised how many of the dried beans were dwarf beans, everything from pinto to navy to soy are dwarf! The grains surprised me with how long they took to dry after growing, I was thinking how fast they were to produce, but then had a 3 month wait on the plant while they matured/dried, rice being the only exception to this, drying very quickly & being ready for harvest in about half the time of all the others, like wheat, spelt, oats, amaranth, quinoa, millet, panicum, sorghum etc etc, then of course came the hard part with grains like rice & spelt & oats, with needing to dehull them before they could be eaten. I would highly recomend growing 1 or 2 of each plant in this way if you want to understand growing processes.
Some seeds I wasn't able to get in this way, or the ones I got weren't fresh enough to germinate. Cotton I got from a local agricultural show, where they were giving away little packets of seed to kids to encourage their interest in cotton. After chatting with the guy about growing & how I was curious & growing all my own crops, just to see the process, he gave me about 10 packets of seed, cause he liked that I was interested. I only had space for a couple of plants, but it was still great to get the seed tehre, cause previously I'd only managed to get the tree/Egyptian cotton & after 2 years of growing, I had a nice big shrub/tree, but only 2 pods of low quality cotton. The agricultural show seeds grew nice & fast & yielded nice & high, but it still made it abundantly clear how little yield is achieved per plant & how much space is needed for cotton crops. Same with soybeans, I was surprised at how low the yield was, but researched to find that 20 pods per plant is the average in commercial farms - that's 50 individual beans total per plant!
Mulberry tree I grew from seeds in a punnet I bought to eat. I keep that to only a small shrub, as I don't have space for bigger. I harvest the berries as food each year & then bring my silkworm eggs out of hibination & feed them all the leaves & prune the tree in the process, ready for next year. I keep some bugs to breed & with the rest, I fridge (which puts insects to sleep but doesn't harm them) & then once I've ensured I have males & females & they've breed, I put the sleeping bugs into the freezer, so they don't wake up again. If I don't havve the males & females, I get some more from the fridge & take them out & they begin their growing process again once removed from hibination. Having done a lot of wild lizard rescues with a wildlife rescue organisation, I'm quite aware of bug management, fridge to slow them down so the sick reptiles can catch & eat them is a nesesary part of that. Only exception I've found is with maggots, even in a low level freezer, their life cycle doesn't pause. Anyway for the silkworms, I put them to sleep, then freeze, then put the cocoons into the sun once they're dead, so as to remove all moisture, then I store until I have enough to actually spin the silk, cause otherwise it's too wasteful, with each cocoon being a different length. The fluff around the outside of the cocoon I use immediately for stuff like plant ties. Once the eggs have been laid, I leave them to turn grey & then fridge for next year & the moths I feed to birds (not that there's anything at all inside them for the birds to eat). Without inducing their death in this way, the males will get excited & flap themselves to death, or if there's females within their reach, they will rape them repeatedly, leaving them bleeding & eventually dying from this (mating lasts 12 to 24 hours in silkworms & the boys have a barb that connects them, so that the girl can't escape, no matter how much she tries to crawl away from the attached male)
Most of my other plants I've obtained seeds, cuttings or plants from either grocery stores in the same way as the mulberry seeds, including plants like sugarcane, sweet potatoes & herbs, or from heirloom seed places eg yacon & painted mountain corn, or from regular seed suppliers & then in most cases I save my own seed for the next year & I grow as food the plants my experiments show give me the best yields & fit well in various parts of my garden. My back garden gets no sun in winter, so it only really grows oyster mushrooms during that time (in bags that I manage intensively). I also have the mulberry & other berries that go dormant in winter out there & manage to keep plants like lettuce sitting there, therefore staying fresh far longer than after harvest, even once the direct sun has gone for the year, so as to extend my growing season. This winter my coffee plant has had massive numbers of berries on it all winter too, not sure what's going on with that, still figuring it out. I got 3 coffee beans off it the year before last, then nothing the next year, then this past spring a tonne of flowers, taht became beans & now a year later, those beans are all still on it & all still green, so it's either a crop that produces only once every 2 years & takes that second year to mature the fruit, or that's what I get in my climate/garden, which is technically meant to be too cold to grow coffee. Anyway, it will be interesting to see what happens with it & I've already experimented with the 3 beans I got last time to at least partly know the process after harvest. Linen also goes well put out there in winter. I'm still trying to figure it out, but it's one of the many plants that grows until daily sunlight levels change, so I've actually had linen up to 6 to 8 feet tall when grown out there at the right times, which tbh, is then a bit of a pain to try to reet. Grown in regular sunlight or times of year, it's generally only a couple of feet long & matures faster. White & blue flowering versions seem to be about the same in linen quality, snails being my biggest problem in reducing the quality, due to eating the linen off the stem. New Zealand flax is much easier to grow than regular flax & no snail issues, but I'm still figuring out the options to reet/process it, other than for getting course, grass skirt fibres. It seems to be a much tougher fibre & is a perenial that needs next to no care. Native grains, likewise are really tough & need next to no care, but yield to space is much lower with them I find.
Anyway, in reality, no-one's going to be fining you if you keep a single plant in a controlled way a single time & do what you need to with bugs to prevent problems, which in your case would probably mean giving your chickens regular access to it, but there are PLENTY of options available to experiment & the way to find them is to look at what people have been primarily using for millenium, along with what grows most easily/what you can most easily find in stores & sticking it in the ground & seeing what happens. It's up to you if you're serious about growing stuff & experimenting or not, but actually growing stuff is definately the best way to actually learn the processes & difficulties.
If you think that cultivation of the land for planting is a problem, then you might want to look up holistic grazing & do that with your chickens or get a couple of goats or sheep to do it with. Just putting them into a small area every night for a few weeks should leave you with that area ready to plant out without any additional work needed from you, so nice fast way to convert as much area as you want to. Best option is goats/sheep into the tiny area to trample it well for a few weeks, then rest if for a week, then put the chickens in there to eat any new weed shoots or maggots etc in the settling manure slurry & add their manure to it, then it's ready to go. You could even throw some wheat or linseed or barley or corn or whatever in their for the chickens & anything they miss will grow & give you crops of that (you'll want to add additional seed once the chickens have been locked out of the area, cause they'll get most, if not all the seed you put in). Tree planting areas can be prepared in the same way too, although personally I've had zero sucsess in getting any fruit from apricots, peaches, cherries etc that I have grown from seeds in bought fruit, even after many, many years growth.
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lol seriously? You think you invented the idea of putting a shopping mall into an area with other services? um that's what the rest of the world had ALWAYS done & why the rest of the world's malls are thriving while yours are dying!
We enclose our major ones in Australia though, tried having them open air, especially in beach areas decades ago, but as they grew, they have all become enclosed & many stories higher, although maintaining fresh air flows through them in a lot of cases, in other cases they're fully enclosed, but are joined with other community facilities & transport hubs etc by council run pedestrian malls for people to walk through, that host pop up markets on busy shopping evenings, such as Friday night & all day Saturday & for a week or 2 before Christmas & roads that used to be major roads in the past have been either totally closed & turned into pedestrian only, or reduced to 1 lane only, with wider footpaths in the place of the closed parts.
The whole world outside the US does this stuff as standard though, you're not inventing anything new here, other than a new name for what the world outside your country has always done when building shopping facilities
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@johnrussell7996 Is Madagascar really richer than Australia in terms of raw resourses? Australia rates extremely high in this regard! I mostly bring up this comparisom because even if Australia wins, if Madagascar is in the ballpark, then Australia shows the conditions it's people should be living in, or would be in a fair world.
Thanks for your info here, the foreigners monopolising the market i hadn't really thought of or heard of till you mentioned it, but that would make perfect sense & fit in well with what was shown in the video in the difference in farm to next step up, even when the next step up seems to be trying to support the people, which is the impression I got from the video, both in what they were saying & also looking at the workers at that facility & they looked to have decent conditions/were smiling & not just sitting, stone faced, working to the bone
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@Jason Walter I'm not even talking about ethanol v bio diesel though am I! Where did I use those terms? You speak of "animal fats", so lets here the numbers on how many gallons of bio-fuel are produced from animal fats in the US each year!
Not only is ethanol produced in MUCH higher volumes than bio-diesel, but bio-diesel is primarily produced from plant based oils too! Now sure, that's soybeans, not corn, but soybeans are grown in rotation with corn, so if soybeans are in the ground growing vegetable oil for bio-fuel (and 99% of all soybeans grown in the US are used for bio-fuel, NOT eating), then that means those fields are NOT growing corn for food while doing so! Wheat is grown in different conditions, so doesn't compete with corn & soy for their growing space so I'm not going to include that in the discussion. Wheat competes for growing space with barley, that is used for beer & bio-fuel & the US has recently dropped it's wheat production so as to increase barley production to sell to China for beer production
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