I'm just keepin' on keepin' on. Nothing new this week. TY and God bless.

Nice list - thanks for this!

"Anarchy doesn't mean no rules, it means no rulers."

V4V? Once again, you're talking over my head. I'm a simple old gal who is taking advantage of the fact that I can get meat from down the street at below market prices to profit on making a treat for people, and it helped me get through the pandemic quite well, while enjoying the process of making something by hand for people who enjoy it. If the butcher's prices ever change to the point that I can no longer handle or they do something to piss me off, I'll quit and do something else. It's not my life.

PS - I did consider what was in the market, but didn't give you my thought process: When I used to buy jerky in stores, it was about $4-6 per 3 oz pack and I've been selling mine by the 2-pack at $12/pack and haven't increased my prices since 2019 because the profit margin is still great.

I started making this stuff because of the low sugar aspect as previously mentioned, and since I'm diabetic and I like to eat a whole 2-3 oz jerky at a time, and the stuff in the stores would make that about 20 g carbs per pack, whereas mine is more like 1 g carbs per pack. It's also not really comparable to others as it's a unique product that's made by mixing lean ground meat with spice blend paste (each flavor created by me), then rolled thinly by hand between parchment sheets, then each sheet is dehydrated after scoring into strips and the meat never touches the dehydrator trays, and packaged into BPA-free 2 mil vacuum sealed bags for extended shelf life. I can't explain the taste/texture except that it's kind of like a much drier fruit leather except a bit more chewy and slightly thicker, and made with ground meat.

Still getting/finalizing vendor signups for the next Outdoor Agora that my Freedom Cell group is hosting Sep 13

Begging people to buy my jerky (@ beejay on nostr) because I need to clear my inventory before the market so I can make all new fresh batches 🤷‍♀️

I don't study cost-plus pricing or other bitcoin wank-speak, because my brain is too busy with website tech and other things.

But I asked myself how much a package of jerky was at the store, for the same weight. Back in 2019 before I was even in BTC world, I decided on $6 per 2.5 oz package because of a few things: The labor I put in to making the product, the price I pay for the meat at my butcher (which is literally down the street I can just walk there), and while sometimes you can get a 2.5 to 3 oz package of Jack Links or something on clearance, their ingredients are cheap asf (and mostly sugar), whereas my ingredients are clean, no sugar, usually organic herbs & spices or else I buy them from people I trust, so the $6 covers that.

I price everything in sats, although I still have customers who pay in fiat, and both options are enabled in my checkout page (I built my own site, btw, none of that Shopify shit), and 99.9999% of those are lightning. I have only had a few people use on-chain as a backup because they had trouble sending a certain amount via LN.

Bitcoin users can get 10% off if they apply a code at checkout, which I try to promote on nostr all the time, but so far everyone has paid full price 🤷‍♀️

Absolutely right. This is in line with circadian living, which is something I ascribe to. I don't have my first cup until after I've been up a while and done my chores and eaten breakfast.

I'd can all manner of things with my pressure canner which also works as a water bath canner.

Things like: Chili Soup Salsa Pickles/veggies

And I'd make jerky (I do make it and sell it for bitcoin)

For $14.99 I get 3 lb bags of 93% lean ground beef at a butcher literally down the street from me and make jerky out of it and that makes twelve 2.5 oz packs of jerky.

PS - $20 a day is a FUCK TON since I spend about $40/week on food. I can walk to my grocery stores (just under 3 mi) if I have to, so that zeroes out gas/transport... but if the buses are running, that's an added $2, a ticket which works on round trips and transfers, and lasts 2.5 hrs.

I think it is realistic, but it is a challenge that not everyone is up for. Building an agorist community locally might be a start, but with the onset of things like nostr and other online communities, there are people selling things for bitcoin every day, so it's possible, but again, a challenge. I know a few people who more than likely would sell or trade just about anything for bitcoin, including ride services, lawn care, grocery shopping, herbalism/tinctures/extractions, books, etc.

Currently just testing new jerky flavors, the ones in the works right now are...

Jerk Chicken

Mango Habanero

Additionally, on the Agora front, we had an AMAZING day at our local Outdoor Agora Market yesterday. We are planning another in September, and the final one will be held in October. However, we were approached by someone with a venue indoors, and are looking at a couple others, so we can continue our crazy anarchy activities thru the Minnesota winter. More coming soon, to https://tcfreedomcell.com/

Thanks :)

The mowed path through the meadow reminds me of something similar... my sister and cousins and I walked through a path like that in my grandparents' back yard as kids.

I saw this phenomenon of people withdrawing inwardly years ago, before the wireless earphones were even a thing (at the height of the iPod)

I do not see this anywhere but cities, which are congested with noises from traffic, trains, airplanes, etc., as well as human noise, people bustling through corridors and talking on buses/trains etc. and I noticed that I wear my wired earbuds and play music into them from my phone out of habit, whenever I board a bus, just because there's always people talking more loudly to their seat mates than they need to.

If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't wear them. For context, I'm a single woman over 50 who works from home (self employed in tech, as well as sort of an urban homesteader) and rarely need to go anywhere farther than someplace I can walk to, as I live in a very walkable area.

Oops, I voted no by mistake.

Cursive handwriting is important. It's now almost a lost art (not lost yet, going to be lost in future generations). There are a few younger folk out there who are discovering and learning it, hopefully they carry it on to their own kids.