Seems like work with no up-side, since no potato.

You could add a lemon to your potato for the same effect I guess. (But for real just the water vapor does the job 100% a bowl of water would do the job but making a potato wastes less energy because you are making food)

Wait wait. Do people not just cook a potato and wipe it down after as cleaning?

My whole life when the microwave needs a wash, you put in a big potato in a bowl of water, like an Idaho, or up to three Yukon gold or baby reds (whatever fits your bowl)… you prick them with a fork, put them in a large soup bowl with like a half inch water, and microwave for 11 min on high.

Let sit for 3 min after it’s done and eat as a baked potato or mashed potato, whatever you like, it’s a potato.

But then importantly you clean the microwave because the steam from 11 minutes of potato loosens all the shit and you can just wipe it out.

Cleaning is as easy as making dinner sometimes.

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That’s because none of it (the good stuff) was accurate and we are all very sad about that…

So we need to eat the rich is what you said.

I’m on board.

Don’t correct me. I’m not listening anymore.

Yes and no.

My city has a separate license for game birds (like quail) vs chickens. But my city also allows chickens if you get 1/10 permits (I got one so I can start my flock, because I have a unique town property that isn’t flanked by residential, and thus barely qualified for it, with permission from my one neighbor)

Quail are mostly quiet tho so if you keep them inside, nobody will know other than a male screaming now and then, but it’s not a noise people would recognize (it sounds like he’s drowning, honestly, it’s loud enough I can hear it from upstairs, and it scares the shit out of my cats, but it doesn’t sound like a bird crowing in the same way a rooster does.)

Mostly they sound like frogs. I’m not at all joking. There’s a super solid chance all the native frog ribbit sounds I heard growing up along a waterfront were quail and not bullfrogs. Largely the same sound.

So yeah you could easily keep a small\medium covey with nobody knowing. Probably a few dozen birds easily if you wanted. I’m sort of doing that now because I don’t want my entire house to be inspected by the city and I don’t want to keep them outside (infections happen in nature), meaning they aren’t a game bird, but a pet. But a license for them would be $5 since I’m already approved for chickens, so it’s sort of meh for my situation, I just choose to skirt the law. And literally none of the people who want to buy my eggs are going to say shit about it, because eggs are -so expensive-

They need about 3sqft each bird to be happy and comfortable, multiple floors made of boxes or wire mesh are fine if the route is big enough for them (I use bricks, they work well)

They lay eggs wherever they feel, I give them a nesting box but they don’t usually lay in it. Basically it’s just a big poo for them, they aren’t really broody or anything, and they don’t mind you taking their eggs. Most they do if you handle them is try to scratch you with their big dumb chicken feet.

Heck yeah! Once they hatch they are even stupid easy to raise, they take care of themselves mostly (in case you may consider that option in the future after you try them)

With eggs being so expensive around here, a lot of people who never would have tried something new are in the “sure I’d try it, it’s eggs that taste like eggs right?” Camp. Which is fucking amazing because people who never left their home town aren’t people who try new things readily.

But you fuck with eggs, man.

I haven’t had quite that interaction, but I’m equally blasé about it. It’s literally just part of life.

“In the past year have you had thoughts of suicide?”

broad gesture if you haven’t you probably aren’t paying attention… but I’m apathetic, not active. Not that it would matter because when I was actively suicidal it took 6 fucking months to be seen by you chucklefucks…

They always get that concerned face and I have to reassure -them-… like no it’s fine this is just normal for me…? I live with chronic pain, I live with chronic poor-ness, it’s just chronic life (and not the fun drug kind, even). I’m not into it, but I’m not actively thinking about doing anything about it, either. Doesn’t mean I want to be resuscitated if shit happens, tho… and I don’t… (any more chronic issues would be probably one too many, and then I’d get active…) I even know exactly what probably painless method I’d go with, because suffering is dumb. And it’s something I can act on quite literally any time I want with zero effort on my part other than going to the store, so that I’m still here is a great sign!

My current doc (Va changes my doctors every couple years) was the absolute first, out of dozens of people I’ve told that to, who was like “ummm… that’s actively bad… so what is your mental health plan? (Told her I don’t have one, other than suck it up) I’m going to give you an open-ended referral to some outside groups who may be more able to help you, especially on short notice… I get why you don’t trust our mental health… so if you ever want that, just send me a message and I’ll put in the referral for you. Also here’s a list of non-profits that aren’t directly affiliated who may be better suited to help you…”

Fwiw, whatever it is in your life that causes these things, I hope they stay at or below active-planning level. If you ever want someone totally random to vent to, my DMs are open, and I’ll reply with commiseration rather than gaslighting you about things not being that bad, because… well I get how pointless that would be 😜

They taste like eggs, maybe slightly creamier yolk. But otherwise indistinguishable. They seem to cook a lot faster. They are little nutrient bombs though, super full of healthy.

Kind of tedious to open, as you need special scissors (thin shell, thick membrane, makes for an egg that smooshes if you try to crack it like a chicken egg), and 1 chicken egg is like 2.5-3 quail eggs in volume, but worth it overall, as you can comfortably keep 4-5 hens in a 50 gallon aquarium, and they start laying at 6 weeks from hatch which is wicked fast compared to chickens (18 weeks).

I’ve had a ton of people asking if I’m going to keep bees as part of my homestead, and I have to explain that while somewhat useful, they aren’t native and so I don’t want them. Only way I’d be willing to keep honey bees is if they are completely contained in my greenhouses, and frankly that’s a lot of work I’m not willing to do.

People tend to get confused until I tell them about the dozens of native bees and other pollinators that are struggling to maintain populations in the region… I want to encourage those to hang out by my crops. They need a lot less from me, and are significantly more useful because they belong there.

I watched Oni: thunder gods tale. It’s really good, and only 4 episodes of roughly 35 min, so basically a long movie.

I also got some of my cleaning done, which isn’t really an accomplishment considering the state of things but I did it and felt like I got something done so I’m counting it as a good thing.

And I have more quail eggs arriving today, hopefully they hatch better than the last batch I got, cuz these are “fancier” (by just a bit) and thus were significantly pricier.

I’m like this with soy. It tastes fancy. It’s the only milk I get when I get a coffee from somewhere. It’s not the same making my own tho so I use whole milk for that.

Blindsight is awesome. I was so pumped he made his works freely available.

Have you read the rifters trilogy? It has a mildly odd voice, imho, but overall a great series.

According to this link (idk how accurate it is, and it’s from 2018), it’s been in place for over 75 years. It’s affectionately referred to as the “constitution-free zone”.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2018/03/23/two-thirds-of-americans-live-in-the-constitution-free-zone

It’s worse than that… nearly 2/3 of the total population is under border jurisdiction. But it’s 100 miles, not nearly double that…

A dam or pipe about to burst often drips from the same spot for a while prior to fully rupturing.

Just a fun unrelated fact.

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You can try at least once! For science!

Oh no.

Who has man made supervolcano eruption on their 2025 SHTF bingo card?

Nobody? Shit.