Stephen M. sent this: A One-Horse Town Down to Two People [1]
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My “Taking the Gap” interview on Radio Free Redoubt [2] is now available as an archived podcast.
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The publicized drug shortages expand to old standbys like Tetracycline [3]. (Thanks to Damon S. for the link.)
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I heard about a company in Florida called Rainwater Warehouse [4] that markets American-made rainwater harvesting equipment such as downspout diverters and rain barrels.
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Vince W. wrote to note that Dave Canterbury has been doing a series of YouTube videos called the “Journal of the Yurt”, where he is living in a yurt on his property in Ohio for 30-45 days and documenting the process daily with multiple videos. Part of that series is dedicated to learning principles of self reliance similar to those used by the early frontiersmen (He calls this the 21st Century Long-hunter Series). In one recent video [5], he does an experiment using ground up strike-anywhere match heads to reload 12 gauge shotgun shells to be fired in a single shot 12 gauge with surprisingly good results. [JWR Adds: All the usual safety provisos apply! Most importantly, never attempt to “process” more than 10 match heads in one batch. Just ask Kurt Saxon [6], who is now missing several fingers on one hand…]