return to monke kingludd • 1 year ago • 94%

Monke Challenge: Look at fire. Light a fire and gaze into it for at least a moment or two. Try to feel if there's anyting primal left in there. It can be a match, a candle, a lighter, a barbeque, a campfire, whatever. Do it safely but do it. Don't scroll past and go 'o haha monke' but rather put your phone down and go look at fire and feel the monke within. Don't make a tiktok about it or an instagram post and don't share to all your friends. You don't have to post about it here. It's just for you. Reconnect with who you really are. Maybe it's dumb but just go do it already.

Fuck Cars kingludd • 1 year ago • 93%

So suppose we don't like cars and want to not need them. What are the transportation alternatives for rural areas? Are there viable options? Edit: Thank you all for interesting comments. I should certainly have been more specific-- obviously the term "rural" means different things to different people. Most of you assumed commuting; I should have specified that I meant more for hauling bulk groceries, animal feed, hay bales, etc. For that application I really see no alternative to cars, unfortunately. Maybe horse and buggy in a town or village scenrio. For posterity and any country dwellers who try to ditch cars in the future, here are the suggestions: Train infrastructure, and busses where trains aren't possible Park and rides, hopefully with associated bike infrastructure No real alternative and/or not really a problem at this scale Bikes, ebikes, dirtbikes Horse and buggy Ride share and carpooling Don't live in the country Walkable towns and villages Our greatgrandparents and the amish did it A lot of you gave similar suggestions, so I won't copy/paste answers, but just respond to a few comments individually.

return to monke kingludd • 1 year ago • 93%

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A hermit known as River Dave — whose cabin in the New Hampshire woods burned down after he had spent nearly three decades on the property and was ordered to leave — has found a new home in Maine. David Lidstone, 82, has put in windows and is working on installing a chimney on his rustic three-room cabin, which he said is on land he bought. “The foundation needs repair work," Lidstone, who received more than $200,000 in donations following the fire, said in a phone interview on Monday. “It's just an old camp, but I enjoy working (on it)." Lidstone, who grew up in Maine, declined to say where he was living or provide a contact for the landowner. A search of Maine county registers of deeds did not show any recent transactions involving Lidstone, but a cousin confirmed that he had moved to Maine, and a Facebook post had photos of Lidstone with a family member in his new home. “He's working on putting it together, and clearing land, and planting gardens, and he's got some chickens. He's moving on," said Horace Clark, of Vermont, Lidstone's cousin. Lidstone said he had to leave Canterbury, New Hampshire, over his dispute with a different landowner since 2016 over a patch of forest near the Merrimack River that Lidstone called home for 27 years. A judge issued an injunction in 2017 for him to leave after the landowner, Leonard Giles, sued him, and another judge recently ruled Lidstone would receive a $500-a-day fine if he didn't move. There have been many delays in the case. Besides the pandemic, Lidstone didn't always show up for court, and he was in and out of jail as he resisted the injunction. It also was difficult to serve Lidstone with a notice to appear in court. There's no road access to the property, which is about a mile and a half (2.4 kilometers) into the woods. In January, one process server slipped, fell down an embankment and injured his leg in his attempt to reach Lidstone, according to a motion filed by Giles' attorney. In March, a judge said Lidstone would face the daily fine if he didn't leave the area by April 11. The judge ruled Lidstone also has to pay some of Giles' legal fees. Separately, Lidstone faces trespassing charges in connection with the property. Giles, 87, of South Burlington, Vermont, died in July. It wasn't immediately clear if his death changes the status of the case. His attorney didn't respond to a request for comment. Lidstone said he was sad to hear that Giles died. “I had nothing against the old man," he said. But he seems to be embracing his new life. “I’ve got all kinds of friends up here," he said. “I’ve had friends every weekend, all summer." Last August, while Lidstone was in jail over the property dispute, his cabin, which had solar panels, burned down as it was being dismantled at Giles’ request. The local fire chief said the fire was accidental. Lidstone agreed to collect his remaining possessions. He had secured temporary housing as he figured out where to live next — he had offers — and believed that he could not go back to being a hermit. But late last year, he returned to live in a shed on the property that had survived the fire, prompting more legal action. “Sometimes, you have to stand up for what is right,” he said in January. Court records said the undeveloped property has been in the Giles family since 1963 and is used for timber harvests. Lidstone, who represented himself in court, had claimed that years ago, the current owner’s father gave his word — but nothing in writing — allowing him to live there. He also disputed whether he was on the property in the first place. https://news.yahoo.com/river-dave-banned-hampshire-moves-141657550.html

return to monke kingludd • 1 year ago • 100%

paulsellers.com

"We make personal choices all the time. Some are designated to involve us the more and some are designated to almost take us out of the loop altogether. The latter might well be to eliminate a person’s involvement and is a good plan for any business to work economically and keep a competitive edge, I am sure. The ultimate goal birthed through the Industrial Revolution was to minimise the need for skilled workmen and women and wherever possible to replace them with machines to produce the goods needed for a global feed into the economy’s insatiable appetite for making money, and are we not still moving constantly along that same trajectory? Is this not the very nature of technology in industry? Objectors then became classified as Luddites––degenerates who hated technological progress. Even though crafting artisans were well in the majority and supported the conservation of a traditional working culture in every craft of the age, there would be no democratic vote for it. It was never a democratic consideration but more a control of the workforce being shunted head-on into the factories that needed cheap, controlled and compliant labour on minimum wage. "

return to monke kingludd • 1 year ago • 91%

www.plough.com

If you've not read his work, check it out. It's accessible, heartfelt, and down to earth writing about our connection to place. His essay on why he won't get a computer impacted how I think about technology today.

return to monke kingludd • 1 year ago • 81%

If you don't know, should you maybe give it some thought?

New Communities kingludd • 1 year ago • 88%

return to monke is a home for lighthearted promotion, discussion, critique, and memeing of anarchoprimitivism and neoludditism. [ReturnToMonke](/c/returntomonke@lemmy.basedcount.com) !returntomonke@lemmy.basedcount.com

Amateur Radio kingludd • 1 year ago • 100%

Hi all. Does anyone know whether I can use the $50 QRM Eliminator X Phase as a cut-rate antenna phaser? I thought maybe I could just use two of the same antennas, one on each antenna input, and phase between them to beam steer rather than to reduce interference.