Im looking mostly in oregon. the plan is set up co-op situation mixture of community and personal land bulk buy for lower price per acre. west coast is mostly overpriced though on a per unit of bioproductivity basis so still considering other spots. underground weed economy crash is bringing lots of cheap per acre properties on market though

I’m open to suggestions. A lot of it will just be people i’ve known for long enough to know their quirks and dependability so i can get things started like that.

From what ive seen with communities that have any longevity they seem to converge upon similar process.

1.some type of contact like phone call/email/application figuring out if they seem sane and functional enough to have that basic interaction . this screens out some nuts and gets info for criminal background checks to make sure not convicted sex offenders or habitually violent danger.

2. visitation period usually under 2 weeks stay , part of this is because laws about short term stays mean you can kick them out whereas longer stays can require legal eviction even if there is no contract or rent exchanged legally you establish residence. So interact with them for the 2 weeks and have them automatically required to leave the property. evaluation by everyone in the community come to consensus for longer stay probationary period . This stage weeds out the impulsive perverts, drug addicts, alcoholics and some worse off mentally ill

3. probationary period These can be from 6 months to 2 years. Get consensus for full membership. This weeds out more of the adept cluster B personality disorders and degenerate free riders

Because there is so much convergence on that pattern i will just assume it is the best construct.

as for what the actual selection criteria are ,thats a whole other can of worms.

Yeah libgen, scihub, wikipedia, wayback machine etc… thats where i get most value. occasional obscure forums. “internet” as a tech is cool, but i think a local area network with info access served by a local datahoarder could provide 90% of the utility

“I wish I had the money it would take to garden my yard properly”

What requires money? , just take seeds and cuttings of anything you buy at the store to eat and plant them. a bag of lime and fertilizer will pay itself back x100. If you have a yard you are already 99.9% there just get a shovel. You could have the thing running full speed by spring

hey now boiz, keep it professional, this isnt reddit or 4chan. If you want to talk shit go over there and do it

What from what i posted do you find silly or naive?

Everyone knows to diversify.

Diversifying by country wouldnt have done a lot for you in world war eurasia. Correlations go up in market crashes. Systemic risk is a company- or industry-level risk, Systematic risk is the risk inherent to the entire market. Did you even read it or look at graphics?

And then you throw bonds into the mix and even the global financial crisis is not a problem anymore.

Bonds cratered along with stock recently with interest rate increases and inflation destroying trillions of value. Certainly much worse outcomes over the long run than stocks

Bonds don’t play the same game as stocks. Bonds are your trust in the government, not in business. Thus up and down cycles in bond markets are different than these cycles in stock markets.

different but not inversely correlated. Its suboptimal versus true hedge. also see inflation adjusted returns on bonds .

Yes, bonds have lower returns and bonds alone are a bad investment. Everyone knows that. But bonds tend to grow rapidly during financial troubles thus dampening negative effects of stock market failures (because central banks tend to increase rates to combat inflation).

Central banks increasing rates lowers value of prior issued bonds. and bonds growing in financial crisis is just a noncausal correlation thats not a fixed way things work. In the macroeconomic position we are entering it doesn’t make sense . Look at how TLT was down like 30+% during this crash that just happened in stock and bonds .

I understand what you are saying about diversification but it makes no sense to put money in bonds when you can have other hedges that have true mechanistic inverse correlation and bonds are negative real yield. Show me any diversification set up using bonds and i can show you a higher yielding setup that has lower risk.

They tend to know this stuff better than you and they bear legal responsibility

definitely they don’t. Most of those people are idiot parasites stealing from financially illiterate people.

There has been a number of “we got this” claims for green nitrogen production that ive followed for some years and tried to get data from but every one of them has narrative to spew and zero math to give an idea of energy cost of per unit of N which lights up my bullshit meter. an example of a company https://jupiterionics.com/our-technology/ though i see they changed their website since last time i checked so maybe their is data now. The fact that none of them will give figures to compare makes me pretty sure they are all worse than Birkeland–Eyde process which is not dependent on fossil fuels in the same way as haber bosch process.

1 lb nitrogen per 43lbs dry corn grain, 1lb nitrogen per 150lb potatoes production.

According to wikipedia With 1kwh in birkland eyde process you get about 60grams of Nitric acid so ?13.333? of elemental N (if i did the chemistry conversions right).

So a 1kwh solar array in oregon would get about 5kwh per day in the spring ramping up to 7.5kwh in summer which happens to track plant N needs since its light dependent . so if we just use a 6kwh average for may-september growing season we get 900kwh x 13 = 11700g = 11.7 kilos elemental N which is 25.13 kilos urea or 33.4 kilos ammonium nitrate (check my chemistry)

Bringing us (sorry switching back to lbs instead of kilos again) a solid 25lbs of N which is good for about 1075lb of corn grain or 3750lb of potato which is adequate for a single persons yearly calorie rations.

So overall i think it could make economic sense as a survival enhancement to get a cheap 1kw used solar panel array connected to a home brew Birkeland–Eyde nitric acid generator bubbling through a limestone/dolomite pea gravel bubble barrel (calcium nitrate) fed to a mazzei injector to fertigate a home self sufficiency garden.

Thoughts anyone?

amortized across 25+ years in food value versus retail it pays for itself many time over . costs versus just buying 1 ton pallet of 20 kilo bags of fertilizer , maybe not as advantageous economically but certainly a cooler project than explaining why you have an entire ton of ammonium nitrate in the shed

Nitrogen fertilizer production consumes about 5 per cent of the global natural gas supplies, which arent supposed to peak until 2034ish, so we probably have a good decade runway ahead still

Weve replaced the nutrient cycle with a drain to waste system unfortunately , our cities commingle out urine with toxic waste in the sewerage systems and its not economically recoverable.

Iiving rural its illegal to use and probably near impossible to legalize.

so its accessible only to rural outlaws, its not a systemic solution and still leave N deficits that have to be made up for with synthetic fixation.