I used to live in a major Midwest city in the US and each Wednesday night a local sculptor opened up his large yard to the neighborhood for bring-your-own-beer drinking and live music. Great lighting as only an artist can do, sculptures and artwork, and about 80 cool informal people enjoying life.
The cops raided it for violating liquor laws.
I think Americans would get together more, but it's strangely regulated out of existence.
America is a police state to a degree that few Americans want to see or care to admit to. Cops just follow their marching orders with little discretion or humanity. It's sad really...
We really are a police state…in many places in Commifornia you can’t gather in a public space for a common purpose of fun and association with others without a permit!
Well done Mrs. Sukwan!!!! Thanks for sharing pieces of your life in eastern Isaan, great that you're having a good subsistence existence! So, a few thoughts here, I'll share; there will definitely be higher electricity costs, and likely some interruptions. Packaged goods (food related) will become scarcer as costs escalate (units of energy, manufacture of plastics, tin plated steel (food tins), and shipping which is mostly diesel fuel). Thailand is very dependent on primary fuels for electricity. Essential services will take priority over the local consumer. Commercial fertilizer will be a major issue, and without it, high yield crops become low yield. Mechanized farming requires allot of fuel and "spare parts", it may become expensive, particularly with reduced crop yields.
I think the primary weakness will be experienced in "potable water". Gravity cisterns wise. Medicines will become an issue, unless the government backstops them. Things like "soaps" (dish & clothes washing) will be hoarded. (You can make this stuff with fats and lye, and lye can be made burning wood). Refrigeration is largely dependent on electricity, so have a backup of "sun dried fruit, fish, and meat", and salted eggs, fermented foods. Your neighbor is your best resource.
Several bicycles (with good tires) become more than convenience, over walking. Hand tools that don't need fuels or electricity are valuable! You're in a great place to weather what's coming.
Wish you and yours the very best! The locals there know how to live without modern conveniences!
IMO the data centers are to manage the masses during an engineered Western world plunge into neofudalism aka Smart Cities/Digital ID. Even odds they will collapse the West's currencies as well as your access to food.
In Georgia the state has taken 330 homes by emminent domain for a dara center, the people have been told they have no recourse.
DO NOT LET THEM BUILD.
Bernie Sanders is introducing a AI center moritium bill, please support him. Some data center info
I live amongst farmers and ranchers so am not worried at all. Also, I don't trust the news so not sure about what they are telling us regarding shortages/pipelines/tankers. JMHO. Glad you are living in food abundance! Do you speak Thai? I went to Bangkok and loved it, the food was amazing. I think the best foods are actually Mexican, French, Thai, Indian, at least when I've traveled. I thought I would like Italian the best but not so. The food there was expensive and they are stingy with condiments etc. France and Mexico had zero bad food, it was all amazing.
The stingy with condiments thing had me! You have to be able to personalize your meal! My worst experience with Mexican food ever was in Seoul, South Korea, at their airport. I know I get it obviously they are horrible at Mexican food but I'd had a craving and was curious. The burrito tasted like some sort of weird sweet cabbage with a little bit of pork in the middle and there were absolutely ZERO condiments offered whatsoever. I was starving and threw most of it out anyways. Perhaps I was dreaming of the Salsa Verde, salsa roja, limes cilantro and whatnot from a proper Mexican restaurant somewhere else.
I speak Thai nit noi. I doubt I'll ever be able to speak it without some horrible obvious accent. But I am getting better at getting my point across. Sometimes hilarity ensues...
😂 South Korean Mexican food. 😂 Probably Mexicans would have trouble duplicating Korean food too. On top of condiment hoarding, the portions in Italy were really small. But their chocolate was to die for. I mostly drank hot chocolate and ate chocolate confections while I was there. In one restaurant there the cook asked a customer in line to pass us the bread he forgot to put on our plates and the customer almost dropped it. Eww, how do we know he washed his hands properly? No thanks, we didn't eat it.
I still j’adore French chocolate from a friend in Paris, though there was also a guy from Marina Bay Sands in Singapore who had some divine stuff. I discovered yesterday that Laos has really good bread. They don’t put a drop of sugar in it, unlike Thailand, that thinks bread and even cheese needs sugar for some darned reason. Yes Mexicans would probably be like Pho? What is that? I went through that stuff with my Thai husband. I don’t make Thai stuff right. I forget what order to cook the food in, for example. Meanwhile Ka once made me a sandwich out of plain white bread that had sour fermented fish and sugar. It was like he was trying to come up with the worst combination on Earth so…
I used to live in a major Midwest city in the US and each Wednesday night a local sculptor opened up his large yard to the neighborhood for bring-your-own-beer drinking and live music. Great lighting as only an artist can do, sculptures and artwork, and about 80 cool informal people enjoying life.
The cops raided it for violating liquor laws.
I think Americans would get together more, but it's strangely regulated out of existence.
America is a police state to a degree that few Americans want to see or care to admit to. Cops just follow their marching orders with little discretion or humanity. It's sad really...
We really are a police state…in many places in Commifornia you can’t gather in a public space for a common purpose of fun and association with others without a permit!
Well done Mrs. Sukwan!!!! Thanks for sharing pieces of your life in eastern Isaan, great that you're having a good subsistence existence! So, a few thoughts here, I'll share; there will definitely be higher electricity costs, and likely some interruptions. Packaged goods (food related) will become scarcer as costs escalate (units of energy, manufacture of plastics, tin plated steel (food tins), and shipping which is mostly diesel fuel). Thailand is very dependent on primary fuels for electricity. Essential services will take priority over the local consumer. Commercial fertilizer will be a major issue, and without it, high yield crops become low yield. Mechanized farming requires allot of fuel and "spare parts", it may become expensive, particularly with reduced crop yields.
I think the primary weakness will be experienced in "potable water". Gravity cisterns wise. Medicines will become an issue, unless the government backstops them. Things like "soaps" (dish & clothes washing) will be hoarded. (You can make this stuff with fats and lye, and lye can be made burning wood). Refrigeration is largely dependent on electricity, so have a backup of "sun dried fruit, fish, and meat", and salted eggs, fermented foods. Your neighbor is your best resource.
Several bicycles (with good tires) become more than convenience, over walking. Hand tools that don't need fuels or electricity are valuable! You're in a great place to weather what's coming.
Wish you and yours the very best! The locals there know how to live without modern conveniences!
Your health and those you care for is Numero Uno!
Def seat #2. I would bring my own flask, can't drink those sugary white russians.
IMO the data centers are to manage the masses during an engineered Western world plunge into neofudalism aka Smart Cities/Digital ID. Even odds they will collapse the West's currencies as well as your access to food.
In Georgia the state has taken 330 homes by emminent domain for a dara center, the people have been told they have no recourse.
DO NOT LET THEM BUILD.
Bernie Sanders is introducing a AI center moritium bill, please support him. Some data center info
https://theblackswanfiles.substack.com/p/economics-of-ignorance-data-centers
https://theblackswanfiles.substack.com/p/why-the-rest-of-the-world-is-not
https://theblackswanfiles.substack.com/p/black-swan-destroys-the-data-center
For the global South nations reliant on fuel, chemical fertilizer famine will come, but neofeudalism may or may not be their fate.
LOVE the memes, fuel data and quisine!!
I live amongst farmers and ranchers so am not worried at all. Also, I don't trust the news so not sure about what they are telling us regarding shortages/pipelines/tankers. JMHO. Glad you are living in food abundance! Do you speak Thai? I went to Bangkok and loved it, the food was amazing. I think the best foods are actually Mexican, French, Thai, Indian, at least when I've traveled. I thought I would like Italian the best but not so. The food there was expensive and they are stingy with condiments etc. France and Mexico had zero bad food, it was all amazing.
The stingy with condiments thing had me! You have to be able to personalize your meal! My worst experience with Mexican food ever was in Seoul, South Korea, at their airport. I know I get it obviously they are horrible at Mexican food but I'd had a craving and was curious. The burrito tasted like some sort of weird sweet cabbage with a little bit of pork in the middle and there were absolutely ZERO condiments offered whatsoever. I was starving and threw most of it out anyways. Perhaps I was dreaming of the Salsa Verde, salsa roja, limes cilantro and whatnot from a proper Mexican restaurant somewhere else.
I speak Thai nit noi. I doubt I'll ever be able to speak it without some horrible obvious accent. But I am getting better at getting my point across. Sometimes hilarity ensues...
😂 South Korean Mexican food. 😂 Probably Mexicans would have trouble duplicating Korean food too. On top of condiment hoarding, the portions in Italy were really small. But their chocolate was to die for. I mostly drank hot chocolate and ate chocolate confections while I was there. In one restaurant there the cook asked a customer in line to pass us the bread he forgot to put on our plates and the customer almost dropped it. Eww, how do we know he washed his hands properly? No thanks, we didn't eat it.
I still j’adore French chocolate from a friend in Paris, though there was also a guy from Marina Bay Sands in Singapore who had some divine stuff. I discovered yesterday that Laos has really good bread. They don’t put a drop of sugar in it, unlike Thailand, that thinks bread and even cheese needs sugar for some darned reason. Yes Mexicans would probably be like Pho? What is that? I went through that stuff with my Thai husband. I don’t make Thai stuff right. I forget what order to cook the food in, for example. Meanwhile Ka once made me a sandwich out of plain white bread that had sour fermented fish and sugar. It was like he was trying to come up with the worst combination on Earth so…
Hard pass on the fermented fish. ewww. I think he succeeded! 😂