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paul wheaton wrote:I am a few weeks away from finishing the trail.  What to call it?

Willie Smits once went to the caldera and for a while we had a sign up there that said "Willie Smits Was Here!"  I think we need that sign again.  And maybe the trail will be called "orangutan trail".

Yeah for Willie Smits and his Orangutan project!

Camille McConnell wrote:So earlier today I went to buy the ebook and clicked what I thought were the right buttons and I landed on a portuguese language paypal page that didn't look like other paypal pages I'd been to so I didn't complete the purchase.  I wanted to but it just felt weird and you never know with the internet.  

I replied to the email and was asked to post this here.  It's my first time.  

Welcome to Permies too, Camille.

Esan Azore wrote:Missed the super sweet sale...
just got that deal with the natural swimming pool.
Been on this site for years, but just now starting to use the forum.
peace be.

Welcome to Permies Esan!
This was your first post, please don't let it be your last.

Congratulations for having 'five or six' books sold!

Of course this thread is about 'being angry at bad guys' or not.

One of my important life principles is 'do your best not to be angry at someone', or even better 'love all people'. Sure, many people do very bad things, but I do my best not to become angry on them. Only hate the behaviour, not the person.

Of course I do my best too not to behave in a bad way ...

Derek Thille wrote:...

Another example may be urban municipalities shifting roads to more cycling paths / lanes and in some cases reducing or restricting lanes for automobiles.  It can certainly be a positive more if it results in people making a switch from an automobile to using a bicycle from a fuel use perspective.  One consideration is where the money comes from for municipalities to make these changes.  Fuel and road taxes and related charges were ostensibly put in place to pay for roads.  How do municipalities pay for the roads if those revenues are decreased?  There is a sustainability to that question.  However, if few to no automobilists make the shift, have we made changes that will actually increase their fuel use and perhaps created resentment toward cyclists, which could have a negative impact on safety.  

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I searched Permies for 'bicycles' and this was the first (most recent) post I found.
This is exactly the subject I wanted to tell something about.

I live in the Netherlands and have never been in North America. The Netherlands is famous for being a very bicycle-friendly country (maybe the most bicycle-friendly, but some other European countries are very bicycle-friendly too). It's so very bicycle-friendly that some people from North America moved so they could live here, and they have Youtube channels about the way traffic works here in the Netherlands.

I like to watch Youtube videos on 'cycling in the Netherlands', because I do bicycle trips myself, and they give me 'inspiration' to visit regions I have not yet been to.
Some of those videos are made by North Americans.  The algorithm of Youtube started showing me more videos on bicycling in the Netherlands by North Americans ... so I found this channel. It's called 'Not Just Bikes'.

What interested me most in that Youtube channel was how a Canadian showed the difference between his former hometown, and other towns in Canada, and the towns (including 'cities') in the Netherlands. That made me aware of how terrible it must be to ride a bicycle in Canada! The way I live, without a drivers license and only using a bicycle and public transport ... it would be impossible there!

I think for you, North Americans, it must be interesting to see how different traffic is organised here.
Here is a link to Not Just Bikes: https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustBikes  

One of the knitting youtubers I follow said something about knitted parasols. And she showed the yarn used for such a parasol, the kind with different colours slowly changing.
I thought it was a good idea. But if I start now, the parasol will be finished next Summer (or later) ...

If you search the internet for pictures of knitted and crocheted parasols, there are many beautiful ones!

Someone at the allotments, an elderly man, who said he was very experienced with fruit trees, told me that there is no reason to prune in a certain season. He said something like 'prune whenever you want it'.

Now I do it like that. When I want to cut away a (part of a) branch, f.e. because it grows over a path, or it is too close to another branch, I just do it.

I have 'inherited' my mother's cactus. It's a long thin one, looking like a cat's tail (it looks soft and fluffy, but there are spines hidden between the hairs!
This cactus was with our family for as long as I remember. So it's probably over 70 years old.
During those years it must have been cut back several times. Since I have it (a few years) it has already grown over a meter!

Odin R K Eldarin wrote:Has anyone woven  'the silk of the North
' ? . Most here are wrestling with the beginning of the processes. It would be useful and inspiring to learn more about the classic finished product (for bedsheets, Shirts ,etc.)(-and, eiderdown  comforters ! ). It sounds here as though some people in The Netherlands are somewhat familiar with that. Could we hear more about that aspect  ?

I think I follow the 'scene' in the Netherlands quite well, and my impression is that the real knowledge and skill of processing stinging nettles and weaving fine nettle-cloth ('neteldoek') is lost. It must still have been there in the early 1900s. In museums there are garments of 'neteldoek' (caps, baby and lady's blouses, slip-dresses), but often those are not studied really well, so they can be made of fine linen too.

Nowadays nettles are coming back 'into fashion'. But the products I see in online information are not at all like the old fine material. There was a company growing nettles and selling clothes made of nettles ... but they didn't make the fabric and the clothes themselves. Those were made in Asia! And that was years ago, the 'nettle park' was changed into a park with holiday cabins.