Alas, my state has “prior appropriation” water rights and capturing rainwater is explicitly illegal! (That water “belongs” to senior water rights holders in the watershed the rain falls upon.)

I definitely agree that household autarky will be increasingly important in the mid-term future, as any products or services we rely on become points of late-stage capitalist exploitation. Most will have difficulty decoupling from the economy when it comes to housing, food, energy, education, transportation, water, and networking.

Your insight into the immediate future is quite accurate, Ben. Thank you for contributing. Do I understand that water rights are a first-come privilege?

I think 3. Will there be an answer? Also, if a horse gallops through a forest and no one hears it, did it clop at all?

So sorry, Robert. Welcome to my world – everything is a puzzle. Read my response to Marty; the puzzle is a bit of Schrodinger because one rear hoof and one front hoof frequently make a simultaneous sound and unless one consults an equine specialist, we can’t be sure.
Share your answer with mariner’s: William Tell Overture is a favorite with you, too, right?
Maybe you are a natural onomatopoeist . .

skipper

I’ve been watching this year’s World Series. You’d be amazed at the number of AI “services” (apps, whatever the term is) that have been advertised.

Aldous Huxley had a lot to say about Savages in Postmodern Society back in 1932 and I think he had a finger on the pulse of humanity even then (and how much has happened since?)

My hot take: there’s no such thing as an uncontacted tribe and hasn’t been for a couple decades at least. Traditional Amazonian tribes have known civilized South American poachers, loggers, rubber harvesters, slash-and-burn farmers, fishermen, soldiers, pilots, and God knows who else for generations. There’s no unexplored corner of the globe. Low-earth-orbit satellites map those “real, unsynthesized” jungle huts and foraging spots hourly.

I’m sorry, but real, unsynthesized humanity is launching the satellites and burning the carbon and dynamiting those aborigines from above. Allowing the 196 tribes to live in peace would be a very human gesture, but it seems unlikely. Assuming those tribes even prefer to avoid contact in the long term … I mean who doesn’t want a car and some antibiotics, even in the depths of the Amazon?

Nice writing elder bro’ .