Cinnabar chanterelles, despite being plentiful by me, dont really taste like much.

I assume just tax money like the books in the library. They dont solicit for donations (for money or tools), and the tools are all pretty much the type you would expect for rentals (more durable than you or I would buy for something we might only need once). For example, they have all Park Tool brand bike tools. There might be liability reasons not to take tool donations.

They also have art, seeds, kids toys, puzzles, and musical instruments.

They take donations of seeds (which I contribute to) and puzzles.

It’s a library system with maybe like 8 locations, and they spread the non-book collections across the different branches, so one has the tools, another has art, etc.

I actually just found some neat stats on my local system, and the expenditure for the system’s whole collection (including books, digital media, and everything) is only 1/10th of the total expenditure. The way they lresent the numbers means i have to calculate things a little weirdly. On average, they spend $0.75 per use of an item. This is going to fluctuate year to year since I only see yearly expenditure and usage, and obviously, items last more than a year.

I dont have usage rates of the tools specifically, but something like a bike tools kit that costs $280 would need to be used 210 times to be hit the same cost per use of an item. I think that’s definitely doable because the rental periods are only 1 week, and you often need to place a hold to be able to get something.

Total expenditure of my library on collections is $8 per capita per year. I would gladly 10x that with my tax money. Obviously storage/administration isnt free, but still, it’s absolutely affordable, and I think it would be even for a small system.

Yeah, I’m not even thinking about renting, though that does have its place. I basically just really like that my local library lends out all the tools that I only need once in a blue moon.

There’s times that I want to buy stuff and just give it to my library so I dont have to store it for the 99% of the time that I’m not using it. Don’t think it actually works that way, though.

100%. You need a lot less raw material when you design things to be durable, repairable, interchangeable, and recyclable.

Couple that with combating the “everyone needs to personally own everything they want to use” notion that leads to overconsumption. Loads of things can just work through formal or informal libraries, e.g., no one needs to personally own a carpet cleaner; better to share a really nice one than have dozens of crappy ones in circulation.

I think the missing link that you two are talking past each other about is that there’s a venn diagram with a lot of overlap between “cottagecore” and whatever the whole “tradwife” thing is called.

They are both a fantasy, not a utopia.

You need the factories, and you also need logging and mining.

Lots of people who want to support the environment are reflexively anti mining and logging, even when it’s done responsibly. I think it’s often nimbyism that they don’t admit to themselves.

It makes sense that UV is only s small % of the energy from the sun, so sunscreen would only be responsible for a small change in heating.

Looks like some can inhibit sweating, too, which could be a double whammy.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5139786/

That’s the problem with sunscreen, too.

The upside to systems like this, though, is that once the infrastructure are in place, cold water could be supplied instead by a chiller plant instead of the river.

That’s true for ripe nuts at the end of the season. Right now, the only ones you’ll find on the ground are fruits that the tree has aborted. I’m not sure exactly what causes it, but the ones that are on the ground right now are no good.

My recommendation is to try to hit as many trees as possible at the ground level rather than trying to get nuts from high up on a single tree.

Nut pickers work pretty well for harvesting in the when the nuts are preparing to fall when they are ripe, but right now they hold on to the tree pretty hard, and you can do a good amount of damage to the branches trying to pull them off.

If you can actually reach by hand, you can twist them off without much trouble.

I’ve never made paneer, but I have made a lot of ricotta (well, this type of ricotta, there’s also leftover whey ricotta, which I haven’t made). I had no clue paneer was basically just pressed ricotta.

Do you ever salt it, or is that just not common with paneer?

My trouble is always ending up with too much leftover whey. Yeah, you can use it in bread, but unless you are baking like 4 kg of bread, you won’t use it all. I’ve used it in soup, too.

Pipepipe also has sponsorblock, right? I dont think newpipe does.

There’s a lot of romanticizing of agricultural work, and while some people might like “back to the land”-style communal agrarian societies, there’s also plenty of people who dont want to be farmers just for the aesthetic.

I’m happy to live in a society with a whole lot of non-farming jobs (even if personally, I really wish I had the land and time to hobby farm).

And I’ll just keep spamming this fact: the amount of land dedicated to growing corn for energy production is more than enough land to cover all energy needs in the US via solar, with land left over to return to nature.

It grows all over near me, but i haven’t tried to eat any because I think some agency might be poisoning it. It was growing fine, and then all the leaves started to die.

When I’ve grabbed it before, it’s been in the flowering stage exactly like you have. Maybe I’ll have to go out and grab some today for a test.

No plant is magic. If you cut shoots, eat them, and repeat, eventually the rhizome will run out of energy.

I’ve got loads growing around me, and I dont know if it’s the weather, soil or time of year, but garlic mustard is tasteless every time I’ve harvested it. If it was actually garlicy or mustardy, I’d be putting a serious dent in the local populations, lol.

It lives for 2 years. The first year is low to the ground and just leaves, year 2, it shoots up and makes flowers. OP harvested a bunch of year 2 plants. They are way easier to identify, so you can see them from a distance, and then identify a patch. Look at some pictures online, then start looking. They tend to grow in big bunches. Once you think you’ve found something, crush some leaves and smell them, and it should be a good way to confirm.