To back up what @wtypstanaccount04 is saying, I don’t drive but I still rely on highways to get to my job. I make $33k a year and spend maybe 1k a year chipping in for carpool. Carpooling is the cheapest option; public transit would cost 50% more and would double the time of my commute.

At this point our entire civilization is car-centric; to replace cars will mean radical civilizational change. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all about setting that change in motion, but it will involve abandoning and/or rebuilding most of what was built over the last 110 years.

if you have chickens I will send you worms very close to at-cost

The plan is to sell them as live feed to pet shops and zoos and online to pet owners. In doing so I’ll be competing with my erstwhile employer from the past 2 years. If I can get sales going and expand into a dedicated facility, I know I can compete them into the ground. But before I do this I need to figure out how long it will take me to get a population up to 2 million. Best case scenario, 2 generations. Worst case, maybe 4 generations.

I also plan to collect kitchen scraps from restaurants and sell the insect waste to farmers and gardeners.

Do not, my friends, become addicted to cholecalciferol. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!

The bugs all have an r/k value that means that, like most else toward the bottom of the food chain, most of them in the wild are going to die before reaching adulthood, or even full size as larvae.

All of our crickets live pretty full lives. For the mealworms and wax worms, the ones we keep to breed have absolutely bangin’ lives: barely any predation or other threats, a nicely regulated environment, very good nutrition, and when they reach maturity they basically get to fuck and lay eggs all day until their bodies give out. The ones that get “harvested” get to reach full larval size in a low-stress environment. Idk what a bug wants but I can tell when nothing is going wrong.

So briefly, bugs’ conditions are far better than in the wild, almost as good as they could possibly be, as long as my coworkers and bosses don’t make mistakes…

no

Because I don’t give names to my bugs. I don’t check up on them individually, I monitor their progress and health in bulk, 5000+ at a time.

Idk. We just call most of our rooms “grow rooms”. It’s what I’m used to saying.

Ok

A few months ago I was excluded from an anarchist server for defending the USSR.

Sucks for the libs that those turned out to be… since then I’m now on a regional anarchist server, an intentional community server, and a permaculture server where my presence is appreciated.

I hope you find something good

Did someone say the magic word?

Busco compradores para mis gusanos