The Path of Totality: The Last Great Adventure
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Published on The Doomstead Diner August 12, 2017
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On Wednesday August 16th at 8:00 AM, I am scheduled for the long awaited Hearing with the SSA to try and resolve the dispute on how my SS Bennies were figured after I received my Workman's Compensation Award. After that I have booked and planned a trip down to the Lower 48 to Witness the TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN☼ at a prime location for this, right on the line of the Path of Totality. It remains an open question however whether I will achieve either goal.
On my own, there is no way I could pull it off. I have been in bad health for years, but the last few weeks have seen an enormous deterioration. I am fortunate though that I got a couple of friends who are going to try and help me to make it there for the Last Great Adventure of my life as a Meat Package Walking the Earth. I don't know if we will be successful with this as of yet. Every day becomes harder to even […] Continue Reading…
Campfires in Collapse 1
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Published on The Doomstead Diner August 10, 2017
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This is the first video in a series of 4 about how to use a typical campsite fire as a means to warm up your Mobile Domicile, in this case my Stealth Van SaVANnah. All the same techniques could be used in many other types of mobile dwellings of course, besides such dwellings as Geodesic Domes, Yurts and TeePees.
In the series, we also discuss Cooking Techniques for working over an Open Fire without burning the shit out of your food if you make one big enough to also do the heating task besides the cooking task. Generally speaking under ideal circumstances, cooking fires should be small ones using small wood, while heating fires should be big ones using big wood. But when Boondocking, you can't always get both or have the ideal situation.
Your Tools and your Knowledge are the most important things in terms of making the best use of the fire you make, and getting the most out of the Energy that is released in the […] Continue Reading…
60: The Life & Times of a Boomer Doomer
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Published on The Doomstead Diner August 9, 2017
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My 60th Birth Anniversary Month of August has arrived, and I am getting Prepped for a trip down to the Lower 48 to see the TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN☼ My original plan was to post this Full Biography on August 31st, my Birthday after I get back, but these days I am not sure I will make it through until tomorrow, much less down to Idaho or back up here to the digs after that. Every day is a challenge staying above ground now. In the Drafts here on the Diner is my Self-Obituary. One of the other diner Admins will need to publish that after I Buy My Ticket to the Great Beyond.
So to tidy up here just in case TONIGHT is the one the Grim Reaper finally arrives, here's the Full Autobiography of RE. It's only around 13,000 words, so not complete detail here, but it should give the casual reader some of the Flavor of my Life these last 60 years. There are also many other autobiographical articles of mine […] Continue Reading…
This Week In Doom August 6, 2017
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Originally published on the Doomstead Diner on August 6, 2017
“Negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election. Sorry, people want border security and extreme vetting."
― Donald J. Trump
It's not a premise particularly new or unique, but I will say with some pride that I had it early.
What Donald Trump wants to do above all else is hold onto his base, meaning a roughly 35 per cent approval rating in public polls. No matter how bigly he or his surrogates want to describe his inauguration crowds or his popular vote victory, he is a minority president opposed by well more than half of the country. In that way, he will retain the loyalty of the Congressional "Freedom Causus" of libertarian-tinged free- market fundamentalists, and ride out any legal unpleasantness that may come his way.
Of all the things Trump may or may not be, Trump is most certainly a TV guy. He pays attention to Nielsen ratings, he knows how to promote, to capture attention with outrage, and how to play the media. He made his bones saying,"you're fired!" By now it's axiomatic […] Continue Reading…
Boondocking the Last Great Frontier 4
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Published on The Doomstead Diner August 6, 2017
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I was going to do all 7 Days of the Last Great Frontier Boondocking Adventure in detail for every day, but I think after 3 days the techniques have been pretty well elucidated. So I will tidy up this series with a recap of the last 4 days of the adventure.
Day 4- I determined not to spend ANY money, either on food or a campsite. My choice for this day/night was the Mickey D's which is right across the street from the Wasilla Lake Park. It was another beautiful day on the Last Great Frontier, and I spent most of it in the Park, scarfing up one of the nicer Picnic Tables for my Outdoor Diner Office and Command & Control Center. My food for the afternoon was the last 1/3rd of the Subway Spicy Italian Hero I bought at the beginning of the week. It was a little soggy by this point, you really should try to finish one of these in 2-3 days, not 4. But it still tasted OK and didn't […] Continue Reading…
I Spy Doom Vol 2 Issue 3: Improving Personal Heaters
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Published on The Doomstead Diner July 26, 2017
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In our last episode of I Spy Doom, we looked at ways to make a very simple Personal Heater from just a Soup Can, a Rock and a source of heat like a Tea Light Candle or Can of Sterno. In fact you can use about anything that you can burn as a source of heat in one of these things, from Twigs to Newzpaper. It's not a huge source of heat, but in a very small space like a 2 man tent or a refrigerator box for the homeless, it will make a decent difference in the overall warmth of your shelter. You can of course also use more than one of them at a time, just be sure you put it somewhere you are not going to knock it over. A good way to do that is to hang it from the ridge line or roof of your shelter. Cut holes in either side of the can and make a hanger from some piano wire.
Generally […] Continue Reading…
Boondocking the Last Great Frontier 3
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Published on The Doomstead Diner July 30, 2017
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The early part of Day 3 of Boondocking wasn't a whole heck of a lot different than Days 1 & 2, another early trip to the Alaska Club followed by a trip to the Library to do some reading and surf the Doom-o-sphere on their FREE Wi-Fi. I did dispense with the trip over to Kalahdi Brothers Coffee for one of their expensive Coffee Drinks to save a little money. I have been spending pretty profligately here over the last couple of days. I also am planning on spending $15 today on a For Pay campsite, which I really do not have to do but I wanna make some Videos for the I Spy Doom series and this location is a real good spot for making those vids.
I ate a real big breakfast for me of Sausage, Eggs and Homefries, so I am not at all hungry when the afternoon rolls around and really probably could go the whole rest of the day on just that meal, so the remaining 2/3rds of my […] Continue Reading…
I Spy Doom Vol 2 Issue 2: Small Scale Heating
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Published on The Doomstead Diner July 26, 2017
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In the first episode of Volume 2 of I Spy Doom, we discussed ways to Self-Insulate, so you personally can stay pretty warm even in Freezing temperatures just by conserving body heat. This is the MOST important thing to do if you live in a cold climate! Your Preps MUST include good cold weather clothing, in layers you can wrap on as the temps drop, or strip off as they rise. You NEVER want on so many layers you start to sweat. That makes you uncomfortable, and makes the clothing start to stink also. Then you need to wash it more often, which beats it up faster. Your goal in self-insulation is to stay just warm enough you are comfortable. As night falls, this usually means adding one or two more layers before you crawl into the sleeping bag.
Here in Episode 2, we discuss the most simple, cheap and "primitive" ways to make personal heaters good for very small spaces like a 2-3 man tent or refrigerator […] Continue Reading…
Boondocking the Last Great Frontier: Day 2
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Published on The Doomstead Diner July 23, 2017
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Day 2 of Boondocking the Last Great Frontier has arrived, and after waking up at the fairly late hour for Boondocking of 9AM in the Walmart parking lot and doing some personal hygiene cleanup in the for Cripples toilet stall in the Men's bathroom, I buy an Egg McMuffin at the Mickey D's inside the Walmart for breakfast for $3. I am almost able to consume 3/4s of this disgusting but calorie laden food sitting in the driver's seat of SaVANnah, with my Mobile Desk attached to the Steering Wheel to place the McMuffin on and surf the web for Doom Newz while I eat breakfast. Then I fire up SaVANnah and drive over to the Alaska Club to do some swimming rehab and take a Sauna and Steam Bath again.
My early day tasks now complete, I prep up for today's overnight parking, which will be another FREE spot, this time one of the Public Use camping spots you can find around almost any state, although there are more of them in Alaska then […] Continue Reading…
I Spy Doom RETURNS!
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Published on The Doomstead Diner July 19, 2017
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It's been quite some time since I did an episode of I Spy Doom on Diner You Tube. I am renewing the series now however in conjunction with my blogging series on Boondocking the Last Great Frontier. The vids will be appearing in the middle of the week on the Diner, while the articles are published on Sundays for the Diner Sunday Brunch collapse meal.
The first videos are concerned with STAYING WARM and heating your mobile living arrangement in an economical fashion. One of my greatest FEARS and a source of many nightmares since I became disabled was that I would end up as a Homeless Cripple Freezing to Death on the Streets of Palmer, Alaska. ©
There are many ways to do it and many choices possible beyond just idling your engine, which was how I mostly did it when I was living the OTR life as a professional trucker.
In our first installment of the series, we will cover what comes BEFORE adding auxiliary heating systems, which […] Continue Reading…
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Collapse Step by Step, Part 4: Political Positions
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Published on The Easiest Person to Fool August 6, 2017
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Adapting to energy decline and economic contraction.
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In my last post I talked about some ways of expressing the nuances of political positions. I started out with the basic left-right spectrum and then moved on to the "Political Compass" , which gives us a two dimensional map of our position, using the left—right axis and the libertarian—authoritarian axis. But without too much sweat I was able to come up with four more axes that, along with those two, define what I think are the most important aspects of a political position.
There are probably more, but in this post I'd like to focus on how a government's position on each of those six axes might determine how successful it is likely to be in adapting to the challenges that face us during the next few decades. Challenges that it seems very likely will lead to the collapse of industrial civilization.
Acknowledge Limits <—> Deny Limits
We are already nicely into a crisis caused by the end of economic […] Continue Reading…
Fake Newz Kills
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Published on Cassandra's Legacy on July 19, 2017
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When Fake News Kill. Mata Hari, the Spy Who Never Was
One century after her death, Mata Hari remains for us the prototypical figure of the female spy. An extreme case of “femme fatale”; she is seen as someone who not only seduced men for her lust of money and power, but also for the greater lust of having them killed by the thousands on the battlefield. But she never was what she was said to be. Rather, she was one of the first victims of what we call today "fake news," also known as "propaganda", a set of techniques of mass manipulation being developed at that time and which today have reached near perfection.
A hundred years ago, on July 24, 1917, Margaretha Gertruida Zelle, known as Mata Hari, was sentenced to death by a military court in Paris on the accusation of being a spy for the Germans. She was said to have passed to them information that caused the death of “maybe fifty thousand French soldiers.”. She was shot a few months later.
Today, […] Continue Reading…
I Told You Not to Worry About the Climate
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Published on The Daily Impact June 20, 2017
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“This is the Captain speaking. First, let me make this absolutely clear: there is no reason to worry.”
On a mid-morning in May, the telephone rang in the modest home of the mayor of Tangier, a village of 470 people on tiny Tangier Island, 12 miles off the coast of Maryland in the Chesapeake Bay. It was the president of the United States calling. If you lived there, you would not know which to think more odd; that the president was calling James “Ooker” Eskridge, or that Ooker was in his house to take the call, on a fair-weather weekday, and not on the water crabbing (he had been warned the call was coming).
If you live anywhere else on the planet Earth, you will be hard put to decide which part of the ensuing conversation was the most strange.
The President had seen something on television, which is what stimulates his cumbersome thought processes. The piece on CNN documented the fact that Tangier Island was slowly but inevitably […] Continue Reading…
Maya Theater States
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Published on Peak Surfer on July 9, 2017
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"What generally occurs when a civilization over-extends is not a complete disappearance but a rapid decline in complexity."
Detroit: Theater Ruins
The collapse of the Classic Maya period, around 900 CE, is an active academic field, with many conflicting theories and a mountain of literature. While traveling in the Yucatán we are reading Arthur Demarest’s Ancient Maya: the Rise and Fall of the Rainforest Civilization (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
One of the terms Demarest uses to describe the period is a “theater-state.” The ruling elite, known as the K’uhul Ajaw, or Holy Lords, were relatively hands-off with respect to economics, social welfare and trade but devoted lots of resources to legitimizing their political and religious authority through monumental architecture, art, pageant, sports spectacles and warfare.
This resource misallocation — taking away from the real needs of the populace, especially in times of stress — led to swelling the elite class, enormous diversions to unproductive types of labor, depredations from unnecessary wars, resentment from disenfranchised youth who were relegated to javelin–fodder, and, of course, ecological decay — as previously elegant eco-agriculture microsystems (using 400–500 species […] Continue Reading…
Collapse Step by Step, Part 3: Political Compasses
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Published on The Doomstead Diner August 1, 2017
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A couple of years ago I wrote a series of posts titled "A Political Fantasy", in which I talked about what might be accomplished if political realities weren't what they are and it was possible for governments to simply do what is needed to get us through the coming collapse and energy decline with as little grief as possible. I didn't think back then that many of the things I was suggesting were likely to happen and I still don't.
I've been promising to take a look at the other side of this and write about political realities for a while now. In my last post I talked about the likely end points of collapse. The rest of this series will be about how we'll get from here to there. Since politics is going to play a large part in that, this seems like a good time to address the subject.
First we'll talk about politics in the western democracies that I and (I suspect)my readers are ost familiar with. If you are a citizen […] Continue Reading…
Svalbard Global Seed Vault: Seed Saving-Cum-Taxidermy (part 2/3)
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Published on From Filmers to Farmers on July 26th, 2017
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With a bit of ice on the floor depositers could almost ride the seeds right on in
(photo by Global Crop Diversity Trust)
As odd as it sounds, I can't help but think that it's so ridiculously easy to point fingers at the short-sightedness of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault that not only is it also all-too-easy to label it as the "Vault of Doom", but that this can lead one to miss out on the much more dire issue of what the Vault represents in the present.
If we look at the Vault's layout, it turns out that the access tunnel from its main door was designed and built to slope downwards, a rather questionable idea when you think about the effects that gravity tends to have on permafrost and snow when they get above 0℃. Why in the world was the Svalbard Global Seed Vault designed in such a way? As put by Hege Njaa Aschim of the Norwegian government (owner of the Vault),
The construction was planned like that because it was […] Continue Reading…
Mismodelling Human Beings
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Published on Credo Economics on July 21, 2017
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“rational economic men” in love, politics and everyday life
This chapter explores the assumptions about human nature on which mainstream economics is based. The description of “rational economic man” ignores most psychological and psychotherapy understandings of people.
Key to the conceptual confidence trick are assumptions about what people in general are like. It is all based on an implicit modelling of human beings. Certain types of behaviour (the type that allows economists to model people and markets) are called “rational”. Now, you might think that this description of people is meant by economists to be applicable only to economic and market activities. Certainly this was the point of view of one of the founders of the famous Chicago school of economics, Frank Knight. Although committed to the alleged virtues of the market, Knight was not naive about how far you could take economic analysis. In his book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit he concluded that economics only applied to the satisfaction of wants, and that this business of satisfying wants by no means accounted for all […] Continue Reading…
Q is for Quotidian Fluctuations in a Teacup
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Published on 22 Billion Energy Slaves on June 12, 2017
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Here in the UK, things have been a little weird over the past week. People have red rings around their eyes and they get angry at the slightest provocation. You may have heard that there was an election, and that the result was somewhat unexpected and confusing. You may have seen some news about it and experienced a fleeting sense of bewilderment, wondering whether it was relevant in any way to your own life. And then, deciding that it wasn't, you will have instantly forgotten about it. But if you're even a wee bit curious as to what is afoot, here is an explainer of sorts. I will summarise the election twice. The first summary will be incredibly brief. In fact, it will be one sentence. Should your curiosity be piqued, the second summary will be a bit more in depth.
Summary 1
Nobody is in control and the politicians are running around like headless chickens emitting a strange gurgling squawk from their neck holes as they hold up banners saying 'Situation Normal […] Continue Reading…
Mining Asteroids
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Published on Cassandra's Legacy on July 19, 2017
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Mining the asteroids: how desperate can we become?
A silly idea that seems to be coming straight from a science fiction story of the 1950s. Mining the asteroids wouldn't just be outrageously expensive; the problem is that there is nothing to mine there. Yet, some people seem to take the idea seriously
It seems that, when we are in trouble, we tend to revert to our childhood memories, seen as happy times that, somehow, could return. That may explain why President Trump is dreaming of an impossible return to coal. He may see the idea through his memories of childhood as a time of happy miners and prosperous families.
Some others, instead, may revert to memories influenced by the science fiction of the 1950s, when the idea of "mining the asteroids" was commonplace. Jerry Pournelle wrote a delightful essay on this genre in 1980 under the title "Those Pesky Belters and Their Torchships". You may also remember the 1981 movie "Outland" starring Sean Connery and taking place in a mine on the moon of Jupiter, […] Continue Reading…
Turns Out We Won’t Always Have Paris
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Published on The Daily Impact June 3, 2017
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Turns Out We Won’t Always Have Paris
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In the movie Casablanca, Rick and Ilsa had a great time in Paris, then the world descended into war. In real l;fe, we really aren’t going to have any reason to remember Paris.
Politicians around the world have perfected the art of appearing to do something about a problem, when actually doing something about it would harm the financial interests of their industrial sponsors. This was never better illustrated than by the Paris Climate Accord.
If anyone is paying attention to words any more, please note that the thing is called an “accord,” or “agreement,” not a treaty — because treaties are binding, and cannot be violated without consequences. An “accord,” on the other hand, is a statement of a wish, as in “wouldn’t it be nice if we had world peace?” A treaty says, “If you attack my friend I will beat you to a bloody pulp,” whereas an accord says, “I really wish you wouldn’t speak harshly to my friend.” […] Continue Reading…
Svalbard Global Seed Vault 1
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Published on From Filmers to Farmers on July 21st, 2017
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Not the "Doomsday Seed Vault" But Rather the "Vault of Doom" (part 1/3)
Well, at least it was made sure that the Svalbard Global Seed Vault looks real pretty
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The sheer sensationalism of doom-laden Internet headlines doled out by journalists raised on Hollywood disaster movies (and now clickbait) recently reared their ugly head again, this time in regards to the venerated Svalbard Global Seed Vault. I'm no fan of what some have misleadingly nicknamed the "Doomsday Seed Vault", but with journalists narrowly clamouring on about some recent hiccoughs that the Vault experienced does the greater catastrophe that the Vault represents get obfuscated. Those recent hiccoughs are certainly nothing to scoff at (as I'll explain), but by missing out on the greater implications they imply does the fundamental problems of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault get missed, those being that not only is the Vault not a "Doomsday Seed Vault" but, and as I'll explain in part 2, that it transforms seed saving into something akin to the art of […] Continue Reading…
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