My exercise bike gives me a calorie count and apparently they are a bit better because the bike can actually measure how many watts of power you are generating which is the dream scenario for any calorie counting device. However even then they are only 80-85% accurate in counting calories because apparently we humans are all differently efficient in converting calories into watts. Despite this I still use that calorie number, but not to measure how many muffins I can now eat post workout, but just to compare my different workouts to each other. Recently I have been doing 1k kcal per day. Who knows maybe I’m efficient and it’s actually 800kcal. But it gives me a goal to move towards each day.

China is living in the future because they have highway intersections? I really don’t get this meme. You can find large highway intersections in the US too and that doesn’t make the US any better. Honestly I would say the opposite.

When the water wars start are you planning on ending your own life?

Me saying I’d rather live through them is not me saying I would enjoy them. Of course my life quality would go down. But I would rather live a shitty life than no life at all. We only get one chance at life and I would rather not give it up.

I personally would rather live during the water wars than not live at all.

How big of a disruption a kid is in your life really depends on what you were doing before having a kid. If pre kid you loved going to concerts, partying, travelling internationally, or other activities where having a kid makes it difficult to do the things you enjoy, then the kid might feel absolutely life changing.

However me and my wife are true home bodies whose hobbies pre kid were all either in the home or outside in nature or our garden. Having a kid made absolutely nothing we did before impossible, it merely made us have less time to do those things. The fact that my wife didn’t work even before the kid also helped as I can imagine going from work to a 1,5 year parental leave as being a huge life disruption.

Having the kid absolutely changed our life in a major way. But probably far less so than it does to other people. And I would absolutely not say it was life ruining.

And what will the chickens eat? You still have to grow their feed. Buying feed from the feed store is not self-sufficiency

It doesn’t take much land to be self sufficient in vegetables if you are willing to limit your vegetable choices to your climate and to preserve them. However vegetables are the by far easiest part of being self sufficient. Getting your carbs and your proteins is far harder. Say you eat around 300g of grain per day. Then you would need about 219 square meters of grain if you have a typical organic yield. Replace your carbs with potato and maybe you can reduce that by 50%, but then you run into the risk of potato harvest failing, which they often do in organic systems. For proteins you would either have to have animals plus area to grow their feed, or grow a huge area on par with the grains to get enough shelling beans to meet your protein needs. But vegetables? Just a dozen or two square meters should be enough.