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Merry Christmas

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Good luck! Let us know how the next experiment goes

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Man I wish there was a save post button, gonna have to save the link on YouTube because I don’t want too many browser bookmarks.

This is good content, thank you for sharing!!

This and “Dirt the Movie” was very good

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Also pro tip:

Google / YouTube started adding tracking numbers to their YouTube links, giving a unique identification code for every viewer. When you share the link without altering it, you let Google find out what IP addresses / devices / general locations are communicating and sharing with what other IP addresses / devices / location.

Luckily the solution is quite easy. First of all, use a VPN like cyberghost or NordVPN, or even something free like AdBlocker to block some tracing via cookies and other IP reading mechanisms.

But you can also prevent tracking from sharing YouTube videos be simply altering the link like so.

The new YouTube link structure goes as follows, using the link you shared as an example (don’t click this one):

https://youtu.be/ShXNJM6uHLM?si=G2-pCRBo1aaH3Bd6

Everything after “?si=“ is the tracking code. “SI” stands for “sharing ID”.

So you just alter it like so, deleting everything after “?si=“ (this one is safer to click):

https://youtu.be/ShXNJM6uHLM

For web articles and webpages, you can also use AmputatorBot to get rid of Google Amp tracking in articles and links you want to share.

https://www.amputatorbot.com/

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Nice! Thank you for this, this is actually super helpful

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Make sure you’re not overwatering, check to see if the bottom of the plant near the soil looks whiter than the rest of the plant or if any part of the plant looks soggy. Tomatoes need plenty of water, but being downhill it is possible to overwater them. Adding something absorbent on top of the soil like mulch could help, you might also want to check the amount of nitrogen in the soil, and check for tomato worms. Introducing ladybugs to any garden to prevent other pests can be a huge boon to the garden.

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Baking soda made into a paste also helps a lot to dissolve toxins at a bite, sting, or wound. Black cohosh as a poultice specifically helps with snake bites and spider bites (to a point, it’ll help with brown recluse and other more easily survivable bites, but if you get a really nasty dose from a rattler or severely venomous animal, head to the ER if you need to— I know, we all feel hesitant these days after what happened over the last 3 years, but no use cutting off your nose to spite your face in a real emergency). Garlic both internally and externally helps thin the blood and mucus and get toxins out of the system faster, and milk thistle internally helps keep the liver clean so it can remove toxins when an emergency like this happens. Black drawing salve (mine usually has black cohosh and garlic, in addition to plantain, comfrey, a carrier oil like olive or coconut, activated charcoal, green clay, and sometimes honey and/or tea tree oil)— does wonders for drawing out infections from ulcers, bites, stings, and other wounds that can get infected.

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That’s a good point. A back-up generator that stores charge for *any* energy source you use is a good idea, but especially so when it comes to solar. I personally wanna built a home that relies on electricity as little as possible (wood heater and biomass, cob housing with tadelakt plaster, above ground rain water cistern with an above-ground water pump, electrical option but also manual option, and many gravity filters, wood stove and clay oven, etc). And then just have a solar / wind or other renewable option, plus maybe a backup gas powered generator, to have for optional electricity for things. My idea is make the home as easy to live in if SHTF and electricity becomes scarce— so not reliant on electricity— but is compatible with electricity when times are reasonably stable (“reasonably”— the egg hasn’t cracked wide open yet but it has a few hairline fractures and it’s leaking man 😂)

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That’s totally valid! Different solutions will work for different people. Was mostly suggesting it for the benefit of the community and anyone leafing through the comments, because I know plenty of homesteaders do go solar when they go off-grid. That’s definitely valid if you’re not interested in solar, I kinda figured you would come to your own conclusions about what works best for you. Your idea is also a terrific option!

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There are electrical versions of the same thing, in-line shower heaters, if you want a hot shower while you’re living on solar panels. There are always options, you just gotta do your research for what works for your living situation

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Very well said!! Here here. If you want some of mine, pick up a shovel or rake and contribute, unless you are literally elderly, extremely physically disabled, or an infant, and are part of my community and we have surplus. Nobody should be expecting a free ride when SHTF because they mocked everyone who was warning them this would happen, for years. Y’all had time to prepare, you blew it off on your “act like normal” lifestyle.

Just as Noah once warned the people before the great flood and no one listened.

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Well said, both of you

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“Gorgeous but too many people have pooped in the pool.” Exactly my sentiments about California, New York, Minnesota, Vermont, Hawaii and so many other places. California and NY are by far the worst though. I feel bad for the people there though, I know so many good people from these states who aren’t the problem, and while not all of them are conservative most of them aren’t nutcases either, not deep into any Democratic party ideology. They see the problem but feel powerless to do anything about it because of the insane amount of retaliation against anyone who does anything and how blatantly rigged the electoral process is, and that it’s too expensive to uproot and leave. God help them.

It takes courage to decide the benefit outweighs the cost in terms of getting the hell out.

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This ☝️ Well said. Penske is a decent option, and if you can compare prices between your destination and departing places, whether it’s California or any other expensive place, rent from the destination place if they’re cheaper.

How much space you need depends on your necessities, medical or work equipment etc., but I agree with people saying one long standard u-haul should fit most of your stuff.

The last time I did an interstate move was before the pandemic. Before that, even moving countries was easier than moving states in some ways now (with lockdowns and whatnot). And it’s more expensive and more red tape. Places that are less regulated aren’t necessarily always better because some of those places are targets for the next “natural disaster” and the lack of regulation isn’t for the people’s benefit but for the benefit of developers and wealthy people looking to take advantage of a crisis.

I’m wishing you luck, you have my prayers 🙏 Hopefully you can move soon and the place you go is a lot safer and better for hunkering down than where you are now. Believe me, I’m in the same boat as you now with my husband and I looking to move

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* Ivermectin. I don’t think it’d be appropriate for a topical wound, seems to work better for certain viruses.