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Post by spinifex on Feb 6, 2024 19:47:05 GMT 10
The amount of health one has is inversely proportional to the amount of wealth one has..... Um ... no.
The vast majority of obese and unhealthy people are low socio-economic. Due to the food they eat and amount of TV they watch.
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Post by spinifex on Feb 6, 2024 19:44:49 GMT 10
Just to have a bit of fun with this as I tend to favor playing devils advocate: I don't think it's quite all the fat - 10kg bodyfat = 43 days of food in Kj. So being fat in a situation is natures way for hard times and Preppers dream. - Stress, unhappiness and low socializing [which reduces stress] is far more likely to reduce your lifespan than obesity. Best sources of happiness, being in nature, with friends, exercise. So walk with your mates in the forest, go fishing with your mates by the river, etc to live longer. - Low Vit D levels are chronically bad and are very important for immunity and cancer reduction as they are fuel for T cells. As you age, you convert less sunlight into Vit D. This is probably a factor in deaths and most importantly if your D levels are higher, much less likely to catch the various colds that are around... Vit D takes 21 days to get into your system [so daily dose 1000-2000Iu or use the rapid Vit D, which takes hours] and is helps regulate inflammation [associated with cancers] and also immune response to diseases etc. Some viruses are associated with cancers. source - Expert in the field who spent a lifetime studying it. - Food soothes stressed people, we reach for food when stressed. Is the cause the fatness or the stress? [its probably both]. To agree Yes I do otherwise agree. Increased inflammation and decreased overall health, though I think the factors are multiple and having a little fat on you is natures prep for survival. The reason the islanders are often good at storing fat is that for long sea voyages in canoes, those who survived were those who stored fat the best for the long trips.
What would average fat Content for an adult be? Is 10kg of bodyfat ok?
I'm 6'2'' and 93kg and feeling ok, but felt crappy when I briefly went up to 100kg. I lost 7kg just to feel better. But I carry fat only in my core, limbs are always just muscle.
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Post by spinifex on Feb 6, 2024 19:35:24 GMT 10
My 10 cleared acres along the river just keeps sounding better and better. One of your preps should be plenty of 20kg sacks of MAP or DAP and a 20kg carton of trace element mix. A bulker bag of ag lime wouldn't go astray either.
Once you've juiced up the soil with added nutrients you can then recycle your own plant growth as organic fertiliser.
You own a tractor and implements yet? It's like next-level prepping. Its pretty satisfying owning thousands of litres of diesel and a full suite of machinery to go farming on an abundant scale for survival.
Having said that ... I'm still setting up stealth gardens along local roadsides. For when the Chinese come to hunt us like rabbits and take all our stuff.
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Post by spinifex on Feb 6, 2024 19:13:54 GMT 10
My luffa vines have withstood 40+ degree days on several occasions without complaint. As well as humid conditions which caused my cucumbers, zucchini and squash to be stricken with powdery mildew. Its also not affected by 28 spot bugs which beat the heck out of all my other cucurbits. I'm waiting to see how my gourd vines perform ... I planted them very late.
Not sure if its significant but my soils here are a mix of red desert sands (where the vegetable patch is) and river silt (which I'm also going to establish a garden on for experimental purposes).
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Post by spinifex on Feb 4, 2024 19:46:57 GMT 10
My favorite bolt action that I own.
.308
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Post by spinifex on Feb 4, 2024 11:01:16 GMT 10
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1. New vegetable patch on new property in Riverland SA. Getting used to dealing with frosty winter nights down to minus 4c. Brocolli works great in winter. Snowpea planting will be earlier and later this year as I discovered the plants are frost tolerant but the blossoms and peas are not. Planting an early snowpea crop right now. Will to a late one in june. Also in this pic are a patch of pontiac potatos and in the background a mulch/compost layer of weeds which will be buried in a trench together with dead carp from the river. I also use mulched clover that I collect in big quantities from the fruit block. 2. Some of the harvest in september. By this stage, frost was over and the snowpeas set huge amounts of pods. 3. Summer harvest. Lots of sweetcorn cobs, cucumbers, green beans, yellow squash and an angled Luffa. 4. Cherry tomato harvest. 2 weeks worth of fruit from a single plant. Being processed for drying. 5. A few luffas. These things are a revelation. Exceptional plants (see pics 6 and 7) that don't get attacked by pests or diseased and produce a lovely vegetable that is like a zuchinni crossed with a stringless green bean in flavour. Texture is similar to zichinni but firmer. 6 & 7 are the Luffa vine and fruit. 8. Okra in flower. These grow very well here too.
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Post by spinifex on Feb 2, 2024 16:32:56 GMT 10
What State? The Taurus Judge comes in .410. Not after a pistol.
But they certainly are cool.
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Post by spinifex on Feb 2, 2024 16:29:50 GMT 10
I'm in the market for a .410 multi shot firearm - pref more than a double barrel. Purpose is for rat control on the fruit block.
Anyone have any recommendations or experiences on specific makes/models to share? And availability.
I was looking at an Adler lever action but there seems to be supply problems
Is it not more efficient to bait the critters, or get an air rife thermal night vision. Yep. Baiting rats happens too. And I already shoot them with air rifle when they're in the sheds.
I want the sport of detonating them when they herb around in the open at night.
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Post by spinifex on Feb 2, 2024 16:25:06 GMT 10
With what little reading I have done, I think, Winchester, Henry, and others make a lever action 410.. They seem mostly set up for 2 3/4" shells only because of the traditional action size and feeding systems.. Mossberg has a pump 410 shot gun that I believe will handle 3" ammo.. Remington 870 and 1100 also, but they are incredibly expensive.. Now what seems the hard part.. In North America 410 ammo is incredibly expensive and hard to find.. How about there ?? I live rural where .410 long arms are fairly common. I've not had trouble getting ammo in the past to use in borrowed guns ... but I haven't bought any for about 3 years so I'll check the situation out in the next few days.
Good to know about the chamber length. Hadn't considered that. I usually use the 3 inch shells in the single shot I borrow and would like to stick with that since then can use the shorter ones as well.
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Post by spinifex on Feb 1, 2024 17:11:58 GMT 10
I'm in the market for a .410 multi shot firearm - pref more than a double barrel. Purpose is for rat control on the fruit block.
Anyone have any recommendations or experiences on specific makes/models to share? And availability.
I was looking at an Adler lever action but there seems to be supply problems
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Post by spinifex on Jan 30, 2024 7:41:06 GMT 10
Well it was bound to happen. With the uptick of home gardens, it was only a matter of time before it was to be complained about, and I'm sure around the place there will be a pollie or two who will take this to heart and want home gardens banned or highly regulated. news.yahoo.com/carbon-footprint-homegrown-food-five-200247599.html?guccounter=1record.umich.edu/articles/study-examines-carbon-footprint-of-urban-farmed-food/Growing your own food in an allotment may not be as good for the environment as expected, a study suggests. The carbon footprint of homegrown foods is five times greater than produce from conventional agricultural practices, such as rural farms, data show. A study from the University of Michigan looked at how much CO2 was produced when growing food in different types of urban farms and found that, on average, a serving of food made from traditional farms creates 0.07kg of CO2. The impact on the environment is almost five times higher at 0.34kg per portion for individual gardens, such as vegetable patches or allotments. This study would be based on the “home garden supplies industry” model where according to shops one has to buy 47 different products worth $3961.09 in order to grow a dozen radishes. The worst offender of those products would be bagged organic fertilisers and soil additives that generate shitloads of methane and nitrous oxides during production. These gasses being hundreds of times more potent than co2.
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Post by spinifex on Dec 13, 2023 19:47:27 GMT 10
If I'm home I can evacuate in 10 minutes. We keep all critical items (ie paperwork and USB's) in a metal box ready to be grabbed at any moment. For everything else (food, shelter, tools) there is off site caches.
Basically as long as we get that box out of the house in the event of a fire we're all good. Even if we don't ... there are cached certified copies of ID documents and copies of insurance policies etc. kept off site.
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Post by spinifex on Nov 1, 2023 8:04:49 GMT 10
Expecting another woke casting train-wreck ... where "culture" trumps merit
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Post by spinifex on Oct 28, 2023 18:25:23 GMT 10
Don’t think this is what it seems. I see they are saying ban doesn’t include existing contracts. Surely supply to Oz is under existing contracts?
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Post by spinifex on Oct 23, 2023 20:12:08 GMT 10
Anyone else's hair standing up on the back of their necks at the moment? nup
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Post by spinifex on Oct 18, 2023 16:33:41 GMT 10
Hal Turner Remarks: Folks, this is shaking me to my very core. I now believe Peace has been taken from the whole earth. I earnestly hope YOU have prepared. I suspect and deeply fear, this shockwave of anger will reverberate around our entire planet. NONE of us is safe. Get right with God. Clean your guns. Zero their sights. Prepare mentally. There is no telling WHERE this anger will erupt, or who will be attacked when it does. YOU must be ready to protect yourself, your family, and your property against all who would do you harm. DO NOT INITIATE VIOLENCE. Merely prepare, mentally and physically, to do what must be done in the event you are attacked.
For what it's worth, at 7:00 PM EDT tonight, UN Sanctions on Iran’s ballistic missile and drone program expired (7pm ET, 12am GMT).
Iran can now legally buy an ICBM from China or sell missiles/drones to Hamas, Hezbollah, and Russia.
On with the show !!
And ... Again ... Cheer up fella! Pessimism kills morale. I'm off to sit on the front porch with a nice glass of red, some lovely company and a cheese platter to contemplate my fruit orchard and livestock. Even if WW3 or societal collapse happens by 4pm tomorrow ... I'm not fussed. Because I'm ready. As are you. And many others here. Our little lives will ramble on in a New Normal.
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Post by spinifex on Oct 18, 2023 16:31:14 GMT 10
Prediction time. Hamas opens a 2nd front along with with Hezbollah and challenges Israel. Russia surreptitiously joins in. USA sides with Israel and WW3 begins between East and West. China fence sits...... Israel has stated that they have delayed the ground incursion due to preparation on Lebanon border. China will wait till armies fully engaged then attack Taiwan in the Chaos. Iran will be getting smashed by the US and Israel and then nuke Israel starting a nuclear exchange between all parties.. Expect nuclear EMP all comms and internet down, riots and civil war - China and Russia will not have to do much as western countries tear themselves apart, and all the home grown extremists take advantage of the situation. Historically every major empire has collapsed - it is now the western world collapsing, what will rise in its place? likely a one world new order.... Which will also fail as things have gone too far. If we are able to live through it, we will witness the greatest war and historic change to mankind. WW1 was supposed to be the war to end all wars.... WW2 was just a warm up to wat is coming Cheer up fella!
Pessimism kills morale. I'm off to sit on the front porch with a nice glass of red, some lovely company and a cheese platter to contemplate my fruit orchard and livestock. Even if WW3 or societal collapse happens by 4pm tomorrow ... I'm not fussed. Because I'm ready. As are you. And many others here. Our little lives will ramble on in a New Normal.
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Post by spinifex on Oct 12, 2023 19:31:30 GMT 10
Good video.. I miss my 1916 BSA sporterized Enfield.. I put many miles on it around the bush.. I liked the power of the 303.. I took care of ..bear issues.. a number of times with it.. Just too bad ammo was so tough to find.. I remember as a kid in the 1970's and 80's Australia was awash with ex-mil .303 ammo. Lots of .303-25 as well. Then by the 90's the tide was going out on those calibers.
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Post by spinifex on Sept 24, 2023 17:50:33 GMT 10
Er ... the demo does NOT make these clips look faster to load than using singles as the process looks fiddly at best of times and in a rush probably much worse.
Concept great. Execution lacking.
Simpler solution: Carry more actual mags.
I want to see someone make a 30 shot drum mag for that rifle. That'd be cool.
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Post by spinifex on Sept 21, 2023 20:09:11 GMT 10
Cash will always be around. It works when the grid is down. And even dopey Govt understands it helps maintain order and stability in times when the grid is down. I lived it several years ago when power and data networks in my part of regional SA went out of action for 3.5 days.
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