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The Question Concerning Technology: Heidegger on Tech

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Goats, Thoughtstylings
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...echnology’s telos, say Mark Zuckerberg’s social media, for instance, might lead us to conclude that it’s more about capital accumulation via harvesting our attention than connecting people as Zuck likes to claim. It might also lead us to consider the dreary, unpoetic qualities of much of the internet. If I were a good blogger in the, long past, golden age of blogging I’d conclude this post with a convenient listicle, “10 ways Heidegger can help yo...

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Getting Out

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Thoughtstylings
...n prepare called Getting Out, Your Guide to Leaving America. We completely understand the sentiment of wanting to get the hell out of this proto-fascist banana republic we live in and we endorse this book for those who don’t want to hunker down and do the homestead thing. SurviveLA even has a former colleague in Chanai India who got out of the US several years ago and now has an interesting job and his own ultra low-cost homestead. Despite the all...

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Essential System #9 – Hydration

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Preparedness
...microorganisms have the nasty habit of giving you very bad diarrhea which leads to . . . dehydration! The Katadyn filter has a tube which you stick in the suspicious water and a hand pump which directs the water through a filter and out through another tube which you stick in a bottle that you supply. You can also kill Giardia and Cryptosporidium by boiling water for at least one minute – perhaps with your handy Pepsi can stove. Instructions for...

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Breaking News

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Animals, Chickens
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...foreground of the picture above–laid her first egg–that is, our very first homestead egg. Go Stewpot! Of course this event would happen when Mr. Homestead is out of town & in possession of the camera. The lay site was a difficult to access cranny behind the coop. It may not have been photograph-able anyway, but I will report that the egg was deposited quite attractively in a shallow bowl of yellow and brown leaves. I got it while it was still warm...

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New Project: Making Bitters

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Domesticus, How-to
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...I’ll share the recipes I develop as I follow this path. In the meanwhile, making your own bitters is really easy. You may be able to throw a few experiments together just using things you find in your spice cabinet. Since these are flavoring, not medicine, you don’t have to be as careful with the quantities and timing as you must be when tincturing herbs for medicine. Yet at the same time, it’s a great introduction to that essential herbalist’s c...

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