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Higgie, That's a beautiful plan, but what do you plan to do when others come by (worst case scenario, I think Greer calls them 'warbands") and help themselves to the fruits of your labor? It's worst case, but it will probably happen; it's just a matter of when and how. In that case, this place will...

That's Blackland Prairie above. https://i.postimg.cc/sX1VqhKV/blackland-prairie-map-tx1.jpg This morning I went to the edge of the barbed wire fence and dug down with a spoon to see how much black topsoil there is before the light colored clay is hit. It's 4.5 inches. The tallgrass roots penetrate t...

Several of my friends have told me recently (this year) that every American city in a Blue State smells like weed, urine, and garbage. They have also told me that illegal immigrant crime/violence is obvious. It's really bad. I hope you are way out in the countryside. This is the view from the back ...

Two weeks ago we talked about the way that life throughout the modern industrial world has fallen into the grip of lenocracy—that is, a system in which pimping of one kind or another is the most common feature of economic life, or in less idiosyncratic language, a system in which every economic exc...

Probably there are many people who would look at the photos of the apartment units around my former Dark Age Hovel and conclude my neighbors are simply pigs who need to clean up their act and there are no excuses. Maybe so. The stench of pot permeates the air nearly every time I walk to and from th...

Boeing and the Dark Age of American Manufacturing Someone has been reading your posts, Higgie. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/boeing-and-the-dark-age-of-american-manufacturing/ar-AA1nlGzH He mentioned Toyota. And it seems relevant to recognize that Toyota has still been able to put out a...

A reference to this is buried in a link aeden posted. FABER: Right. And on the call, you talked about what you believe are still great opportunities, your words, for investors across a number of structural trends. I might expect that those include the likes of, what, AI? What else? FINK: Well, the ...

It's the ecologists (number 5 on the list below) who tend to be the doomiest. 5. Ecologists - Look at population dynamics of other species and conclude that humans are on an unsustainable population trajectory 6. Summary and Conclusions: It’s Really Quite Simple https://www.mdpi.com/world/world-04-...

The views of two archaeologists (number 1 on the list), Demarest, professor at Vanderbilt University, and Tainter, professor at Utah State University. This is a list of the types of specialists who might think about collapse. 1. Archaeologists - Done enough digging to realize that much of what they ...

It's the ecologists (number 5 on the list below) who tend to be the doomiest. This is a list of the types of specialists who might think about collapse. 1. Archaeologists - Done enough digging to realize that much of what they are digging up resulted from the collapse of civilizations 2. Historians ...