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co-found @myconautmi | forager | homesteader | father |

[🇺🇸 🦅Detroit Dutch™ SSgt USMC (Ret.) 🇺🇸 🪂 @DetDutch]

From 250 miles above Earth, most of the United States blurs together into a continental mass of brown and green with no obvious landmarks. Then Michigan appears and the confusion stops completely. The mitten shape of the Lower Peninsula surrounded by four of the five Great Lakes is one of the most distinctive geographic features visible from the International Space Station, a natural outline so clean and so recognizable that astronauts have confirmed it repeatedly as one of the clearest views of any state from orbit.

The Great Lakes are what make it work. Superior, Michigan, Huron, and Erie create a water to land contrast that defines Michigan's borders with a precision that no cartographer could improve on. The mitten sits in the middle of all that blue like it was placed there deliberately, which in geological terms it essentially was, carved out by glaciers over thousands of years into a shape that somehow ended up being both geographically functional and immediately identifiable from the edge of the atmosphere.

Michigan residents have been using their right hand as a map their entire lives and that same gesture works from space, which is not something any other state can say. Astronauts have photographed Michigan more than almost any other state passing beneath them because the view rewards it every single time. For a state already sitting on the greatest freshwater system on the planet, being unmistakable from 250 miles up is simply Michigan being exactly what it has always been. Impossible to miss. Even from space.

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Vision for us all

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Solarpunk is a movement that imagines a sustainable and optimistic future where humanity thrives in harmony with nature.

[Out of Context Human Race @NoContextHumans]

This is what robots should be used for👍

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@jacob__titus Shhhh 🤫

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@1998kokko Hempwool timber frame ICF home

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@LindeAron @pirooooon3 But might is relative sometimes. Cut off banking. Cut off fertilizer/food production. Cut off water. Cut off power. Fire power and military power still depends on these fundamentals in order to maintain might. Sun Tzu or Machiavelli is a good place to start.

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Never thought I’d repost a farmer speaking at the heritage foundation

[Farm Action @FarmActionUS]

Farmer Rick Clark took a brave stand against Big Ag.

“No herbicides.”

“No insecticides.”

“No synthetic fertilizers.”

He’s living proof that farmers can succeed without Big Ag’s chemicals.

"I made a stand that we are not going to involve our team members [or] family members and put them in contact with these chemicals."

"We are now going into our 12th year on the farm.”

"Do we win the yield contest at the county fair?"

"No."

"Are we profitable?”

“Are we safe?"

"Yes."

“That, to me, is all that matters."

"When I started to look down the family tree of my heritage, [there was a lot of] cancer [and] diabetes."

"Why is this happening?"

"We've got to increase nutrient density."

"We've got to make our products healthier and safer for the consumer to eat."

“We've got to make it healthier and safer for the farming community."

@Heritage

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What do you mean when you say gone ? I think if I was stuck in HK, I’d still be trying like hell to figure out a way to get free of Chinese domination. They are so community lineage oriented, the mainland will always have sway. But if China looses energy imports , Iran + Venezuela, that might drastically change chinas ability to sway.

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A note on American culture To our Japanese 友達 :
Gore Vidal once called the U.S., the ‘United States of Amnesia’
de Tocqueville wrote that ‘Americans clutch everything but hold nothing fast’

It’s truly remarkable that right when a vast global and intelligence agency driven network of child trafficking was being exposed, all the way to 🇮🇱 & 🇬🇧, a war diverts Americas attention, and that story seemingly goes silent. Time will tell, but I think those comments on America ring true.

In my experience, Americans struggle with feeling connection to place, history and lineage, as a country of immigrants (unless you’re indigenous to Turtle Island) - we don’t have deep historical connection to place, maybe a several generations deep. This allows us to both be not restraint by history , maybe more creative , maybe more riskier , but also leaves us wanting something we’re not even fully aware we need, community.

My experiences in Japan showed me the kind of hospitality we only experience here in parts of the Deep South and a few hidden corners in the Midwest. On top of the fact that many Japanese have a stronger sense of community and family - for better or worse. Being around that as an American is palpable. Something I positively reminisce on during my time in Japan.

Just a few thoughts. Take it or leave it. Thanks ✌️

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@NatalieLew22586 @pirooooon3 Meh - the UK colonization and hollow constitutional set up is a major distinction between Taiwan. Both strangely hang in a similar opaque limbo of autonomy or not. And possibly Japan /SK hold more sway in both HK & Taiwan than the U.S. v China

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@InternetNewsAg2 @pirooooon3 No shit. That’s why I used the word similar, not exact.

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So this is hopeful. Turkey tail and oysters. Hydrocarbons and then PFAS are next. Anyone got a spare $million for a few pilot projects in the U.S. https://t.co/4Nor19Jra4

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@pirooooon3 China. Plain and simple. SOH + Venezuela = chinas energy flow. Without those two, China will be unable to progress. USD maintains petro dollar dominance and regional allies.

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@nikutaberuru Studio gibli

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@26ers_bp115 Not in the least

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@sakegorilla Doooo it!!

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@seirogann101 いきます!

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news.”

— John Muir

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@DWeissLab @PLOSBiology @grakoui @anuradhaiitm @Johnkempf this makes me think of rhizophagey and endophytes