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"From the beginning the American barn was big, like the hopes and plans for the New World.
It was unlike anything built anywhere else. It was entirely American." - Sloane
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The American Interstate system is so underrated.
You just grab some nicotine and a hot conglomerate of meat and travel the equivalent of 3 European countries in 7 hours.
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God is good, and my wife is a legend.
We're officially outnumbered.
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Men only want one thing and it's to start a shipbuilding company on some abandoned Great Lakes shoreline
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"We're waiting to have kids until we can find a nice house in a walkable neighborhood"
says great granddaughter of lady who lived in a sod hut in the middle of Nebraska
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The German American farmer must mow his lawn. His wife must refresh their landscaping twice a year. He must paint his barn and put new gravel in his drive.
He needs these things like a fish needs water.
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Here's a little sauna I'm wrapping up for our family.
My goal was to source as much as I could within 20 miles.
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Made in Milwaukee, WI - purchased by US Steel - used in Gary, IN.
Give me some tariffs and take the reigns off of US energy policy and I promise we can make this country cool again.
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There exists a certain type of house that lie all over the prairies.
It looks something like this - maybe has a small barn with the roof caved in.
It comes with 5 acres, because the remaining 35 is owned by a large operation down the road.
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There's basically 4 "first order" jobs.
Machining, Construction, Mining, Farming
Every other job exists solely to support these people.
GM. Got interrupted on this yesterday—picking back up. Make a hole where there was none, make that hole bigger. Simple enough. I will kindly direct all know-it-alls to LinkedIn. That’s where you can fit in with other know-it-alls…and fucking Chinese salesmen/spies. That’s all.
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Feels like boomers are dumping inventory
Boats, RVs, and Model Ts everywhere rn -
Hold tight for the good stuff (land)
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@aaron_renn
"Low ambition" as used here means "people that do things I don't understand because I'm consumoor economist guy who only interacts with the world through my phone"
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The longstanding Heartland loyalty only lasts so long.
Anytime someone brings up "nearshoring" remember this.
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There is like 30 guys building in a standardized protocol - do we really need to study it?
Why are the Amish so much more efficient than modern builders?
This is what should be studied in universities, not gender studies
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One of my goals as a dad is to instill the art of tinkering in my kids.
Look at these Scientific American covers - all printed before 1930.
This was a society that was not limited in their imagination - they believed they could make anything. And they did.
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Are we ready to have a conversation about how clothing should cost 5x of todays price?
Cancel your streaming service honey, we're giving Appalachia their textile mills back.
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Somewhere in Toledo there is a 70 year old guy chain smoking heaters out the back door of a fab shop.
He knows how to read them.
U.S. Strategic Command on the Minuteman III
"there are also no technicians who fully understand them."
"They're not alive anymore."
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POV: You're coming to the realization that random middle aged men in a factory in Rockford, IL are the backbone of the American empire.
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Does anyone on here have an opinion on good species for windbreaks?
Bonus points if it's not a full-blown tree.
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Can we do it again?
Can we dot the Heartland with small farms and small towns and loving families?
Families that raise children who will fight the evils of the world and defend God.
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Split his skull and broke his back.
By the will of God he somehow made it to his truck a few hundred yards away. Bled out for a few hours before he was found.
He's doing good - tough as nails.
Old man still thinks he's a young buck, wrestled a tree a little too big this afternoon ...
Maybe you can say a prayer for him.
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This is likely the most common class of farm across the Midwest, but there are others:
-Scandinavian, prairie and northwoods subgroups
- Dutch, two main pockets in MI and SD
- English, mostly in the New Yankeedom belt of IN, OH
What am I missing?
The German American farmer must mow his lawn. His wife must refresh their landscaping twice a year. He must paint his barn and put new gravel in his drive.
He needs these things like a fish needs water.
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First time I ever got asked to pick rocks I went out with a buddy after school.
Three days later the farmer asked me what was taking so long.
Then realized you only needed to pick the big ones, not every one...
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Here's a question - when was the last time someone built a brick factory? Not just a facade but like the real deal.
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How would you feel if you received a post card from Spring Green, WI?
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Thinking about Iowa again
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Real shame about milk consumption ... one of the literal reasons for dainty little kids these days.
Hard to articulate how obsessed Americans used to be with milk.
I imagine the trend started long before 1970s.
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New piece of dirt is official - this is where we hope to be for a long time
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@poast_bridau
My brother is a '99 and he is incredibly different than the "zoomer" this app speaks of.
97-02 generation seems like a transition generation and you can probably find massive disparities in lifestyles across this age group.
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A small town corner store tweet did numbers - glad we can all rally around something.
God bless rural America and thanks for 1500.
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Hard to articulate just how fast nature works.
This homestead has a very beautiful barn - large for the area.
50 years of vacancy and the pasture has completely reverted to forest.
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There was a cougar photographed last night on the island. Which means it had to swim.
Cougars range appears to be expanding incredibly fast.
Many large mammals have natural ranges stretching
from Tropics to the Arctic
There is no rational reason to think that variations of a few degrees in average annual temperature are of any great relevance to them.
It's 99% just a matter of habitat and not shooting them.
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A lot of people get along decent even though the have a middling job because they're smart enough to make a good investment here and there.
Housing, small business development, etc
Taxing the last ounce of financial freedom seems like a recipe for disaster.
Biden's newest budget calls for a 44.6% federal rate on investment income and other earnings, per Bloomberg.
The plan also calls for taxing assets when an owner dies, ending a benefit that allowed the unrealized appreciation to go untaxed when transfered to an heir.
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"One of the most fertile places on Earth, with cheap housing and 4 beautiful seasons seem soul crushing" says the anime account who reviews movies online
downstate illinois seems like one of the most soul crushing areas in the entire country
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@krus_chiki
Also funny how you can decipher the motivation of the owner by the branding of such businesses.
Just passed a new car wash with edgy signage called "Rayn"
Internet coded
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60 yr old tractor
90 yr old plow
Pumpkins 2024 - c'mon
Pumpkin stand this fall?
Seems like a good return or am I just naive?
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Going to start a thread of great American made companies. Geared for the "standard consumer".
Feel free to bookmark and/ or make recommendations.
Hopefully we can patronize these great folks.
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This site was home to "real wealth" creation.
From the 20's to the 60's copper was smelted here.
Munitions, wire, and tubing all began on this shoreline.
Men only want one thing and it's to start a shipbuilding company on some abandoned Great Lakes shoreline
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Reminder that you can still by incandescent "appliance bulbs"
Be a true American patriot and do your part.
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Almost all early American cities have a "millionaires row".
If you pair architectural styles with timelines - Cleveland's was probably the most impressive.
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Imagine ripping heaters at the Cub Cadet factory
American Empire
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As promised, here is the exterior.
Memorial Day Weekend project complete.
Here's a little sauna I'm wrapping up for our family.
My goal was to source as much as I could within 20 miles.
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What can be, unburdened by what has been
"Pack your bags honey, we're going on the 2024 Fall Barn Tour hosted by the Iowa Barn Foundation"
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A truly free market would go crazy for this thing.
Toyota’s $10,000 future pickup truck is basic transportation perfection.
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Round Barn Thread
This will not be about the biggest, or the most intricate barns.
But rather about team from northern IL who built 13 round barns throughout their life.
And that is 13 "that we know of". There could/ and likely were more.
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Old industry photos serve as a stark reminder that "we" made a choice to limit industrial production.
We can make the choice to revert any time.
There is no Law of Economics stating that we have to permit enemy nations to sell goods into our country at rock bottom prices.
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America should take this opportunity to expedite every bridge project in the que.
Don't say "we don't know how" - we do. And we have rigorous standards.
Sideline the bureaucrats and let ironworkers, concrete pumpers, and excavators get to work.
BREAKING: Ship collides with Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, causing it to collapse
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Illinois is a paradox and in many ways a microcosm of the US
>most fertile place on Earth
>access to Mississippi and Lake Michigan
>fiscal and political environment makes it difficult to keep residents
I would like to, once again congratulate my governor and the government of Illinois. You caused a population decline of 104,437 in 2022, that’s 9 consecutive years of declines. 👍🏼🎉🎉.
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The farm crisis is an underdiscussed period (understandably) that defines the rural Midwest today.
Does anyone have any reading recommendations on it?
Listening to John Cougar Mellencamp from the "Farm Aid" era.
80s farm crisis was when American farming transitioned from an inherited activity for average ruralites to a high-stakes business pursued by the most financially sophisticated 10% of the old farm population.
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Is a trip to the World's Biggest Pheasant a good anniversary gift or no?
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If I were a young entrepreneur I would pursue similar angles.
Vehicles, appliances, farm equipment,etc
People are yearning for fixable stuff.
If I were a billionaire, I would make a truck that is a very close knock off of a Defender 130.
But without the British parts. Would have a 2.8 Cummins, manual transmission, crank windows, etc.
No need to be clever, some things have already been figured out.
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idk how to describe it but the clouds have been different this year
reminds you of old paintings
hardly ever remember seeing clouds like this the past 20 years and now they're like this daily
1800s weather, lindy
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Tight squeeze.
Paul R Tregurtha headed to Fraser Shipyards in Superior, WI for maintenance.
Winter Fleet 2024, Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. h/t Ships on Great Lakes
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Been holding off on the news - but we traded in our lake lot for this 20 acre piece.
This flatlander feels much more at home.
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Michigan arguably the most versatile state.
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Visited a specialty plastic film extruder today. Rural Wisconsin, 140 employees.
Medical fabrics, automotive liners, and food packaging.
Good people are getting it done in every little 'one light town' across the Midwest.
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Feature not a bug.
Keep whatever it is you think these places have and we'll keep making America go round.
A major problem for the Midwest is that it attracts low ambition people.
This used to be true for the South too but that's changed big time.
Atlanta became a magnet for many of America's black elite. High finance has set up shop in Miami/Palm Beach. Austin, despite its deep
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I've gotten to the point in life where my material desires revolve mostly around millwork.
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The thing that is so advantageous about old equipment is that it is intuitive - even for a rookie.
PTO leaks, undo 3 bolts, replace seal
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This is the most foreseeable disaster in the last 50 years.
Beautiful farms all over the country commiting aesthic suicide to be propped up by unsustainable gov't funds.
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My proposal is simple.
You put a quarry in every town - and the unemployed earn their benefit by splitting rocks.
Unemployment would plummet and/ or you would have an endless supply of beautiful building material.
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Bethlehem before her downfall.
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You can just make your wife a flower garden by the road.
No one will stop you.
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On your drive to work you pass your wifes favorite all black cow.
At lunch your boss tells you that you have to pose with the big check for the local school district.
It's Friday, so you order a pizza from Fat Boys on your way home.
Welcome to BLOOMER,WI.
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My politics are basically -
Create an environment in which these are made forever.
They are produced and consumed en masse.
Eternal Power Wagon Theory.
Seems like several 20th century mechanical designs reached a sort of ideal form.
Just simple enough that they can be endlessly rebuilt by Pakistan-style street workshops, backyard stand casting, etc.
May become part of Man's permanent inventory for rough/limited conditions.
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"As you approach any unspoiled American village, the first heart warming sight is the tall white spire of a church"
-Sloane
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Breakfast at the chicken coop.
Why?
"Because it's their eggs, we should show them"
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Another example of the recent past being extremely foreign:
Fat cattle were driven to downtown Chicago by the thousands within your parents lifetime - maybe even your lifetime!
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Is the 150 Case the most perfect encapsulation of "American Empire"?
Iron, coal, steam -
Plows, prairies, road grading -
Manifest Destiny -
Ungodly amounts of HP
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We need more big showy infrastructure projects.
What are some good options?
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Third child inbound.
Lord willing we become a family of 5 in early May.
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A little birdy tells me China is flooding the US fiberglass market.
Unrelated - Owens Corning is thinking about selling their US fiber reinforcement manufacturing assets. A US based Fortune 500, with $1.3B in reinforcements alone.
We love our global trade don't we folks.
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Me: "It keeps the riff raff out"
[voice cracking, dread laid upon my face]
Blizzard warning for Marquette, Michigan with 31"-41" of snowfall expected from powerful storm over next 2-days.
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California grows 1/3 of American veg and 75% of American fruit.
But before modern refrigeration and incredible logistics this wasn't possible. Even major metros had farms immediately to the periphery.
"Onions in bushel baskets at Chicago Heights, Illinois"
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Photos that go extremely hard.
Dropping a CAT generator into an NYC skyscraper. 1997.
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Lot of talk about "reshoring" - no clear objectives, just talk about it, throw some money at it.
Not a serious policy.
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All these are from a fella named Roland Illick - a geography professor at Middle College.
He's long gone, but not forgotten.
I've been hitting this archive pretty hard but it's time to set it free - some of the coolest American landscape photos of all time
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For American manufacturing to sustain a real revival-
It needs to poach that guy that loves fixing his Chevy but decided to get some bs accounting job working for Lowe's Corporate.
A caliber change that likely requires tariffs.
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Huron Mtn Club is one of the great Upper Peninsula lores.
The elite club has a strict 50 member policy and comprises of 24,000 acres.
Early members included many of the Rust Belt industrialists like Ford, McCormick, and Edison.
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St. Louis lost the battle with Chicago to become the Heartland's Hub, in part, because it's vision for the future was static.
It was (for some inexplicable reason) not a fan of rail - thought river trade would maintain dominance.
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Rent goes up disportionate to income because half of America never had a father that whooped them.
Our entire lower unit smells like dog urine because the renter decided the no pets rule doesn't apply to them.
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