Son made homemade paper (yes homemade) so he could make a journal for his girlfriend on all the dates they went on the past yr and gave it to her for Christmas….
I don’t understand people who are having children right now.
The planet is cooked, there’s a virus disabling and killing everyone, we’re fast-tracking fascism, and I don’t think anyone is going to stop any of it.
Why would you put an another human into this world?
The mind of the urbanite is truly fascinating, in that their only hobby seems to be spending money. Every day must include "cute cafes" and "shopping", for no particular reason. Hard to imagine a more sterile existence.
We have supposedly “right wing” people claiming that we need to show freaks like this mercy, to “take the moral high ground”. Fuck these people. They want you dead and you’re worried about their job at Home Depot. You show these people mercy, you will lose until the end of time.
I find myself becoming increasingly impatient with even the slightest interaction with the “general public”. There are, at most, 5,000 conscious people in the entire world.
The American Chestnut was once the most important and valuable tree in eastern North America.
Now, it is nearly extinct.
This is the story of how an invasive species killed off this special tree, and in the process helped exterminate self-sufficient agrarian life in Appalachia:
"How much is the rent?"
"$1850"
"Is that negotiable?"
"No."
"But my HUD voucher is only $1700."
[What I wanted to say]: "Would it kill you to pay $150/mo to live in a nice home?"
[What I said]: "That's less than the rent."
What does this achieve? If not to put fear in migrants living in Dublin. And all over Ireland to be very honest. People talk about the “far right” as if they live on another planet. They work with you, shop in the same places as you, get on the same Luas as you. This is scary.
My truck from 1997 could have its highbrams on all the time and it wouldnt even be half as bright or blinding as lowbeams on these new cars. I shouldnt feel like im about to crash 10 times a drive because opposing traffic is so bright it obscures the road.
Smelling disgusting weed on a hike inflicts the same spiritual damage as hearing loud bluetooth speakers. Both should be treated as self-defense situations
There is a popular “conspiracy theory” about some mountains being the stumps of prehistoric trees. While I personally believe this to be true based just on pure hope, here’s why giant prehistoric trees likely are very real:
Industrial “farming” is spiritually brown. You can look these creatures in the eye and see nothing but pain. Any sane society would abolish these practices. I don’t give a fuck about how “economical” it is.
Have you ever felt an unexplainable, deep connection or kinship when looking at a bear?
Or perhaps you have wondered why the bear is the source of so much ancient folklore and mythology?
This is because bears are our spiritual brothers.
Let's dive in 🐻:
Unfortunately, the damage has already been done. Today, most Appalachians do not remember life among these trees.
Despite it being such an important part of our history, we will never again experience the true glory of the American chestnut.
R.I.P.
Putting all the unvaxxed in camps or killed was a mainstream position for these people 2 years ago. Many of us lost our jobs over that as well. You want to stop the pendulum from swinging back? Eat shit
every time i see one of these videos i am reminded that cities are mental asylums and this arrangement is extremely fragile. if the lights were to go out even for a little bit, things would get really ugly.
"Tell me about 2018 pine tree twitter, the graph, Storm King, Mike Ma, Ronymous, Menaquinone4, Austinbot, posting hog nuts at rabbis, lifeboats, Pentti Linkola..."
these people are literally golems. if you’ve ever doubted your ability to survive any so-called “collapse” scenario, remember that there are hundreds of millions of THESE types of people out there that you would outlast just for having felt dirt under your nails once in your life
It was unsurpassed as a building material because it grew straight and was highly rot-resistant, insect-proof, and weather-resistant. Some grew so large that an entire cabin was constructed from a single tree in Tennessee.
Pictured is a cabin made of mostly Am. chestnut
The American Chestnut (Castanea dentata) is a hardwood tree native to eastern North America. It is considered the finest chestnut tree in the world. Growing up to 17 feet wide and up to 120 feet tall, old chestnuts were among the most stunning specimens in the eastern forests
The American chestnut allowed farmers to raise livestock at virtually no cost for many months out of the year by applying one of the earliest forms of silvopasture in America. By having chestnut trees, rural people had money and meat on the table for centuries.
"Chestnuts roasting on an open fire" would produce a delightful aroma that spread through the hills. In the 1800s to early 1900s, you could hardly walk through Appalachian hollows in the fall and winter without smelling chestnuts baking in people's homes.
Forests are only a semi-renewable resource.
Yes, trees can re-grow when you cut them, but you can never replace the holistic system that has coevolved with us for thousands of years.
The earliest use of the chestnut was probably as a fencing wood - few woods split easier and straighter while being as light and durable. Early colonial settlers built "Virginia rail fences" out of chestnut, which required no posts and lasted a life time.
Hogs were easy to raise in the mountains as they were sent to roam free in the woods to feast on the abundance of chestnuts littering the forest floor. "Mountain pork", which had a special flavor from their chestnut diet, became a highly sought after commodity.
Spreading at an astounding rate of 50 miles/year, it only took ~30 years to eradicate most of the American chestnuts in the eastern U.S. -- approximately 4 billion chestnut trees were killed by the late 1930s.
This photo (date unknown) shows a chestnut grove devastated by blight.
Lastly, and perhaps most interestingly, bears are often observed sitting still for long periods of time looking out at vistas or sunsets. While incredibly common, it has no scientific "explanation" -- beyond the idea that they may simply appreciate beauty, much like we do.
When European settlers arrived in the New World, the American chestnut was likely the most common tree they encountered. In some areas of Appalachia, nearly 1 in 2 trees in any given forest was an American chestnut.
Humans also frequently consumed chestnuts. With the first frost in October, children were often sent to the woods to collect sacks of chestnuts, which were either roasted or brought by wagon to country stores to be sold or exchanged for other commodities.
Life without chestnuts was almost unthinkable; the tree had been so deeply connected to life in Appalachia for centuries.
No longer able to raise hogs and cattle in the woods or gather chestnuts for sale, rural people increasingly looked to the urban center for salvation.
Its uses go far beyond just building, though.
Chestnuts are highly nutritious and were a staple in the diet of animals in the region, providing most of the fall food for wildlife such as the white-tailed deer, wild turkey, and the now extinct passenger pigeon.
In the years since, biologists and foresters have been attempting to cross-breed and modify the chestnut to improve its resistance to the blight. Many of these projects were abandoned by the 1960s, but some still remain today.
When chestnuts began dying off in large droves, many locals thought the entire ecosystem was dying.
In a way, they were right. Turkeys began disappearing, and squirrel numbers decreased to a tenth of what they were before.
Black bears never seemed to get as fat as they used to.
Around the turn of the 20th century, an invasive pest known as the "chestnut blight" was introduced to American chestnut trees in New York City through shipments of Chinese chestnuts from East Asia.
It spread rapidly, as the American chestnut had no resistance to the pest.
It became much more difficult to maintain a self-sufficient, agrarian life in the mountains. As industrialization rapidly expanded, the death of the chestnut seemed to extinguish mountain folks' last hope at maintaining life as they had known it for four centuries.
Similarly, many parts of the American chestnut tree were used as medicine. The Cherokee used leaves to alleviate heart troubles, and the sprouts were sometimes made into a tea to treat sores and wounds. The nuts were also used to treat ailments such as whooping cough.
Many organisms relied entirely on the American chestnut tree to survive. At least seven native moths became extinct in southern Appalachia, including the American chestnut moth.
Hollows in old-growth chestnut trees were massive. One account from an early ranger in the Smoky Mountains said of a large chestnut, "A man lost some stock during a snowstorm and later found them safe in a hollow chestnut tree."
Life among these trees was looking up.
the mainstream “environmental movement” is a disgrace. it only exists to quiet real ecological concerns while selling you more product. anyone pushing more technology and carbon taxes to “fight climate change” should be dragged into the street. these people are scum.
Farmers and woodlot owners were encouraged to harvest their remaining chestnut trees quickly, as their value decreased rapidly upon deterioration. This may have sped up the extinction process, as trees with a small amount of blight resistance may have been killed off.