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  • Think about predators - everything: rats, cats, dogs, hawks, mink, snakes, raccoons, foxes, bears, alligators, human thieves etc - depending on where you are. They taste like chicken. Can you predatorize the coop or will you accept a certain rate of loss (be aware that once they know the chickens are there, they’ll be back). And what are you going to do with injured, not dead chickens?

    Our run has hardware netting on all sides including the top and under the dirt, and we let them out in the garden to live their best lives when we’re at home. So far this has kept predation down although we have had some curious cats.

    Also if you have kids think about whether your chickens are livestock or pets. Ours are pets that lay eggs.



  • Where is the existing building mass in those pictures? It’s all weird glass pods. I don’t want to live in a glass pod. Did we just blow up all the old brick warehouses, Victorians, old farmhouses that got engulfed by the city, etc etc?

    I want to see my little old house from the 1930s that’s been energy retrofitted, with solar panels and a solar water heater and barrels under the gutters, with apple trees and chickens in the backyard and some bicycles in front.


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    It’s still important to acknowledge that the usage in the medical/health sectors is also dehumanizing. It’s so disempowering and alienating.

    I work in the health sector not in the US and I would never refer to a patient that way no matter what language I’m speaking.










  • We are from Scandinavia and right now we are in the Alps, later we are going to Italy.

    There’s been work on the railways that has changed our itinerary and caused some delays but otherwise it has been ok.

    We are not huge travelers but previously we’ve driven in our little car or flown and rented a car (ie Iceland, visiting family in the US). My main concern was changing so many trains with children and luggage but they’ve done really well (they are tweens). They are used to trains though.

    Pros:

    • I don’t have to drive for hours and hours (I am the only driver in the family)
    • not having to go through security, also we have been inside the Schengen area so no passport controls
    • you can get up and move around in the trains and it is more comfortable than in a plane
    • not as much queueing as at airports
    • night trains can save an overnight at a hotel
    • you get to see the landscape you are crossing, and even if it is just fields or industry it is better than freeway or clouds
    • other travelers seem more chill and less stressed than when flying

    Cons:

    • you can’t bring as much with you as in your car and you have to handle your own luggage when changing
    • there’s still waiting around and risk of missed connections
    • it takes more travel time out of the total itinerary than flying
    • still risk of motion sickness especially with seats where your back is to the direction you’re traveling
    • still not cheap

    I would do it again but there are still some destinations where I would prefer to drive, such as far out in the countryside or where the public transportation is not great.