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I have grown Jerusalem artichokes in my home garden a few times. Each plant easily produced two pounds of tubers before boiling and cleaning. Plant spacing of around 9 square feet per plant. That comes to over ten TONS per quarter acre. They are amazingly productive.

I highly recommend "How to Grow More Vegetables: Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine" by John Jeavons.

Every year, my garden produces an ever increasing portion of the food for my household and this year it has expanded to provide a significant amount of food for a small flock of chickens. Important things that aid my productivity and reduce the time it takes are a heavy mulch to minimize weeds, improve soil fertility and reduce water consumption as wel as drip irrigation on timers.

There are plenty of people using sustainable techniques to produce more food than they can eat if you look around on the internet.

You must be refering to those tiny deer back east. Here in the west we have mule deer, which dress out to over a hundred pounds. You're looking at over 70 pounds of meat. If your family of four eats two and a half pounds of meat a day, every day, they may not be actual humans. An elk will net around 250 pounds of boneless meat.

Beans and rice. Big bags of each got me through many a lean time when I was a university student.

I live in the mountains and learned from dad to park the truck downhill so you can drag the carcass fairly easily. No ATV needed, unless you just want to scare the game away.

And this is how we get Skynet...

Wrong time of the year to eat wild rabbits. Wait until a few weeks after the first hard frost, else you run a risk of contracting tularemia.

Unfortunately, I missed the small window to get a hunting license in my state this year, it closed in Feb, before CV-19 was much of a thing. Fortunately, no license is needed here to hunt rabbits. From what I hear, the same is true for feral hogs, which are becoming a bit of a problem in some parts. Next year, I am definitely putting in for an elk tag. I got a 4x4 largely so I can get into the areas where they hide.

The problem with a sudden nuclear scale explosion is that it could trigger a nuclear exchange.

Care to link to any of those studies? I'd love to read them.

Clearly, an ounce of prevention is worth a ton of cure.

Add asteroid strike at with the energy level of a nuclear warhead to that list. Fortunately, it is 71% likely to come down in the ocean.

Transformers are safe unless they are connected to cross country wires, which act as giant antennas, collecting energy from an EMP or a solar flare.

Because there's no place like home.

The problem is that this slush methane is going to melt with global warming and is a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2.

> Wind doesn't produce energy when the wind doesn't blow.

There is never a time when the wind doesn't blow on some part of the interconnected grid. If the wind stops everywhere at once, there's a much larger problem at hand.

There are a number of cases where creators of popular works have been granted substantial sums to create subsequent works through crowdsourcing.

Edit for examples.

Cyan, creator of Myst and Riven, had two very successful Kickstarter to fund new works. First, they raised $1,321,306 to make Obduction, then $1,433,161 for Firmament.

Elite: Dangerous raised £1,578,316 for a modern remake.

Yes, it works for books, too: https://www.kickstarter.com/discover/advanced?category_id=18...

SD is thermal. So neither optical or magnetic. Parent seems like clickbait.

Or a "tax cut for all", implying it is a flat rate cut.

The best experience is from a POV that doesn't intersect with IG.

True, but if you encounter one daily shopper, two weekly shoppers and twenty monthly shoppers, it will skew the results. Same if the numbers are reversed.

"Distributed" will become a new buzzword. Nothing like breaking a fragile JIT supply chain to drive this point home.

Whole new markets will arise providing middleware to help suppliers, shippers, warehouses and sellers find each other and ensure degrees of separation.

I had one as a kid. It was surprisingly fun, but every time I played it, all I could think of was the red LED eye of the Cylons. The original BSG was airing when this toy came out.

The absense of evidence is not evidence of absense. The article didn't provide any actual evidence of anything, just speculation. Surely studies have been done by to test for antibodies vs immunity by now.

In the competitive giant pumpkin world, all the largest entries come from northern regions, due to the increase number daylight hours in the summer.

One way lathe ways get worn is if the user uses an abrasive wheel to grind without covering and cleaning the ways.

What's interesting is that this small Chinese company is planning on firing a 60,000 pound thrust engine by the end of the year. Definitely something to watch over the coming months.

This is true. Back in the day, COBOL was marketed to businiess people as an easy to learn code to just get stuff done. Serious programming was done with FORTRAN.

You can use a hammer to make a screw driver.

Guns vs Gardens. It's really about different mindsets.

The argument for guns basically boils down to a zero-sum game mindset. It's all about taking or protecting a limited supply.

Gardening is a positive-sum game. A single seed can produce tens to thousands of copies of itself. No other investment has such a high ROI.

Fact is, you can't eat bullets or guns. Growing a garden and preserving food are not only valuable skills, but also good for you in so many other ways.

Indeed, and Hurd is still supported in Debian. It seems the underlying Mach microkernel is still in active development and most Debian packages have been ported. I was tempted to give it a try back in the day, but it wasn't far enough along for my lack of skill. Maybe now is the time.