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It’s clearly about mocking decentralized home made solutions to problems, and of the people who opt for that approach. It’s an insult to every Amish person on earth and to home mechanics who shy away from garages. It’s also, by far, the most downvoted thing I’ve ever posted so thanks for using your other accounts to hit me for my acidic and savagely inappropriate comment

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Their point was why are people being FORCED to produce a diabetes bio-hack instead of getting insulin. Neither your wife, Amish people, nor home mechanics are forced to make their own bread instead of buying it - they are all choosing to even though bread is cheap and easily available.

It’s clear from your responses that you seriously can’t handle logical disagreements to your point on online forums and choose to get offended instead.

The replying comment is right, it’s irrational & you’re filled with hubris to think that you could replicate world wide supply chains in your back yard. In no universe does growing yeast == replicating a global supply chain.

Growing wheat and grinding it out into flour isn’t something I’ve ever heard anyone take on as a hobby before. Having all that actually cost less (including time) than buying bread would be a huge achievement!

Adam Ragusea actually just did a 2 part video on growing his own bread from scratch in his backyard. Part 2 just came out a few hours ago.

Spoiler :P it definitely took way more time an effort than buying flour from the store and making bread. And the final product was a pretty poor loaf of bread because he couldn't find a way to buy the same type of wheat most farms use and had to settle for "animal feed" quality seeds.

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlPm7JtaxE4

I imagine the guy who built his own toaster from scratch probably also contemplating rebuilding the entire pipeline to produce the input to the toast. "Step one: acquire the ore. Step two: smelting iron ore..." http://www.thetoasterproject.org/page2.htm

At that point we're basically talking about Factorio.

I'm not sure why you are projecting that, but it's not there.

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