alzymologist

Don't get me wrong, I'm trying to figure out how exaclty to deploy gift economy - I've gave away some bread and booze to neighbours, some returned with similar gifts, but I'm just looking for a path to bigger network. And competing money-free with exactly same stuff going on - thrift stores where people just rent shelves for pennies to sell their junk for pennies, in a sort of sick but rewarding game - sounds disruptive not in a good sense, but in a bad one. Maybe if I could just somehow put emphasis on information exchange instead of stupid petty cash exchange, and probably also cook something in place...

Interesting. Now that I envision something like this, I totally see one of the retired enterprising guys just grabbing bunch of stuff to sell in one of our many thrift stores just nearby (if anything, just to mess with younger and poorer people, what else to do for a boomer when they've got theirs?), and general thrift store population maybe getting upset for free store stealing their business. It's not even big capitalists, they don't care about our backwater - that's why we have so many people-to-people non-free junk stores.

I mean, this could spark some kind of direct action, but probably just beating up old farts is not really fun community building activity.

but I'd do it on secondary

Lambics are very special style, with 6+ biological agents working simultaneously, none of those pure clones like brewers yeast. It's not even cherry centered really. And, judging by commercial beers quality, I'm afraid it's about to become lost art.

Christmas beer is magic, just go crazy and see where it gets you!

You are right, it is the time. I'll share what idea I'll try this year if I get to design something.

So proud that my country is already opposing! Don't have to do anything now (except for spreading the word, naturally).

It's the government's job, we pay them for it, why should I be wasting my time for free to do their job, after all? Just fire your governments and hire someone better suited for the task!

Haha, great to see success! Looks inviting to drink.

Be careful with propagation, without the 1-cell steps occasionally, it's certain to get contaminated eventually. This particular strain does not even seem to have a killing feature to suppress other microbiota other than by starvation.

Yeah, the company is over and this was the last shipment. Actually the Posti lost the shipment and this was some informal sample I just made at home as a replacement long after operations stopped (so no fancy labels anymore!). Such an adventure.

But if someone needs the yeast, I still keep the library as a personal project, so DM.

They are perfect for people in bad situations who just moved unexpectedly. I gave a ride there to so many newcomers in the city (and shopped there myself long time ago in similar situations). Also setting up a new office is great there. So it's kind of almost social support thing.

In less metropolian areas, mutual help and used stuff rotation beats IKEA 10/10. We should strive to the world where community does this more, but big cities are no solarpunk yet.

For the last time?! These "modern scientists" are sure not history researchers then!

I understand that matrix.org organisation is funded, the protocol itself is implemented by nobodies. Just don't use matrix.org, there are plenty non-political reasons for that. Host your own, like I do.

My friend was planning to sail transatlantic alone on a tiny sailboat. I know he is capable of this mad shit, both in skill and in level of recklessness, but I don't know he did it (he has adhd so hard that listening to his accounts of things happened is a rare and chaotic experience). But from what he said, mortality rate in these single person adventures is non negligible. He was in some sort of chaotic depression mood at that point.

I understand many people in Scandinavia sail to Americas occasionally. There is famous Greta, I think, who did it with a tiny crew? With crew and radios and reasonably sized boats, it must be much safer these days. I don't like traveling myself, so it's mostly second hand knowledge.

Wait, Merlin did not hash the password?

https://doc.dalek.rs/merlin/index.html