But that’s one way it used to be, making connections that requires effort to engage with (calling, emailing, etc). If you want to give up the convenience of any particular online social network you have to do the work to foster those relationships differently.
Give your email out to people. Ask for theirs. Send the emails. Call them if they give you their number.
Why not start with the book youve been recommended? Amazon reviews suggest it covers everything from produce selection, to growing tips, to establishing a root cellar in your home
Daniel Raab from Naperville Illinois
The only moral theft is my theft.
How can someone know which mfg are good and bad? Or those who have changed?
They are looting their company for him and each other. Simple as.
I feel your premise remains flawed with these examples. The average consumer is not tinkering in the ways you describe, regardless. The average person isn’t following traces, looking for broken pins, or guessing how devices work.
You may have an intimate understanding of the technologies of your youth/life but that is not a universal truth amongst people of the time you are referencing.
The same people repairing their VHS in the 90s are replacing their android smart phone screens or batteries today. As the other posters have mentioned, tinkerers today are even creating their own competition products or major revisions thanks to cheap compute modules, arduinos, 3d printers, and cheap electronic parts from China.
Check yourself, you are assuming life was better in the past when the reality is that today features far more opportunity at an affordable cost with copious resources/tutorials for any individual to manipulate their technology.
Wordpress makes up like 40% of the Internet depending on the source of the claim. I’m pretty sure it’s used for more than just blogs.
A friend who is local to the area asked one of the guardsmen and supposedly their firearms aren’t loaded. This circus gets worse every day.
Uhh it’s not like the UK is actually any better in this situation if it’s true that they are sending random migrants to Rwanda
And then 34 tomorrow. Lol, lmao.
FYI, lots of people have different grocery needs so a broad statement like “grocery trips are $N these days” is pretty meaningless without the context of your purchases or needs.
A better example might be “my grocery bills are up 50% this year with no changes to what I buy!!”
My grocery budget has changed the last few years, but from $65 average to now $85 average. That said the supplemental food I buy (occasional orders out, etc) has risen significantly more, probably upwards of +60% at times.
That’s kind of hilarious since 20 years ago, western gamers were rejecting games for being “too anime.”
Today too! I’m still not really interested in the anime art style. I’m glad the enjoyers do have lots to choose from though.
Rae Drummond has a reported net worth of approx $65m as of last year.
The top 1% of United States net worth starts at $12m. She is just inside the top 0.1% of us net worth which starts at $62m.
Your comment is doing the same (and so is mine).
Why complain, just scroll past?
Your insurance benefit offered after health milestones isn’t 30-130% of your salary though
Running 30km (18.6 miles) in a month earns a bonus equivalent to 30% of their monthly salary. Moving up to 40km (24.8 miles) pushes that to 40%. Hitting 50km (31 miles) earns 100%, and the top tier of 100km (62 miles) is 130%
Fortifying foods is very important in Africa and lots of ongoing research and rollouts are happening there. Neat to see China doing it as well successfully, but they are not the only nation trying to solve nutrition and hunger
Agreed about corn fortification coming from China specifically being interesting.
I went and didn’t see what you meant. Most every comment agrees with the video.
It’s funny, you are us vs theming. You are doing what the video talked about by making sweeping generalizations about a specific community based on your perception of their surrounding culture (reddit).
where the share of people in working age will go down significantly
That’s happening in most developed nations, btw.
I think you misunderstood. Trump wants to send troops back to the sandpit. He wants one of our bases we gave away back. Or something.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/29/afghanistans-bagram-airbase-why-is-trump-desperate-to-take-it-back