Sandbags are also your friend. Keep a bunch of empty sacks in your garage. Identify sources of sand to fill them quickly. They can be stacked to absorb bullets and fortify positions. For best bullet proofing use sand not dirt.

Blood and soil. One cannot exist without the other, yet some speak only of the blood while ignoring the soil.

The soil is what we were molded from, what we have worked and stewarded, and where we shall lay when our work is done. We take care of it, and it takes care of us.

It was this way for our grandfather, and for his grandfather, and God willing, it shall be so for our grandchildren. This is our soil, after all, and we shall not have it taken from us, or allow ourselves to be taken from it, lest we are both destroyed.

We must keep a firm grasp on it, as our ancestors did, as they taught us to do, and as we must teach our children to do, else it will slip from our hands along with our blood.

Communication is vital in any community. We have all seen first hand, the big tech industries censor and ban anyone who dares speak logical truth. Until a year or so ago, I thought HAM radios would be our best option. HAM radios are a great tool to have and use for communications off the grid. @beechatnetwork was developed to offer a means of communication as an alternative to HAM. Bee chat is simple, you assemble your own node which then uses radio frequencies to connect to nodes near by. The idea is once enough people have the required hardware, we can create a network quite like the internet, but without the dependency of big tech companies. They also offer a slick interface that is easy to learn and use. Go ahead and check out their channel and give them a warm welcome to telegram

Today we have launched the code of #JNIPQC on our GitHub.

https://github.com/BeechatNetworkSystemsLtd/JNIPQC

This repo allows any Java project to use Post Quantum cryptography on x86 architecture.

We are working to bring this project to ARM64 so it can be applied to mobile, IoT applications, and the Beechat Network, which will be the first network protected from Quantum Attacks.

Great video on a very cheap cabin build.

A few things I'd change:

Don't use cheap used plate glass for a window. For a variety of reasons, first and foremost safety. It'll break off into chunks and lacerate you pretty severely.

Also, the cheap concrete discs seem like an unnecessary cost cutting measure. You could at the very least pour posts very easily.

Other admins with much more homebuilding experience can chime in.

Obviously an experienced builder may raise their eyebrows at some of the materials/methods used here, but the budget aspect can't be denied.

The guides above will teach you in depth how to make your own machine shop out of scrap and parts. The ability to work and machine metal is the final frontier to self sustainment. You can fix tools, firearms, automobiles and make almost any part you would find on the items above. Not having to rely on anyone to make repairs should be a goal we all strive for. Next up, some forging resources and bullet crafting / reloading resources

Word to the wise... you know those all in 1 harbor freight mill / lathes? You can get those in SAE and Metric. Don’t be like me and get the SAE... all they did was replace the metric knobs with SAE knobs. The carriage on the lathe for example goes around 0.0254 per rev.... good luck counting revs. You‘ll need a digital readout to know where the damn carriage is. Just buy the metric version and /or a DRO.

As awesome as it would be to make these machines (and I'd never dissuade anyone from going down this route seeing how cool they are), machines considered "obsolete" or broken in some way are often found at scrap yards all across the world.

In our throw way society, people often junk stuff because hiring a specialist shop who's labor can exceed 50-100$ an hour simply isn't economically viable when cheap chinese alternatives exist.

So, a good option to keep on the table is visiting your local scrap yards periodically to check for older machines that may be repairable with some time, elbow grease, and studying.

Visit the post apocalyptic inventor on YouTube for some inspiration. He makes a living repairing and restoring old machinery like this in Germany.