Outstanding report, thank you! I'm happy you were able to communicate with people through Meshtastic. I, for one, would be very interested to get a full article about how Meshtastic is working for you, how much it costs, how you set it up, etc. I believe many people would be interested in that.

You were actually able to go to a large department store, on the day of the power outage, and buy a solar panel and battery? Sounds pretty lucky. Were they even able to light up the inside of the store?

Yeah I was thinking that as well.

Yes it's gone from there being competition at around a 1.9% premium, to ALL of those offers disappearing. The best premium is at 2.7%, and the amount is FAR lower than it was.

I'm thinking something happened. This is a pretty sudden, drastic change. Wonder if Strike did some kind of terms of service change?

Or...maybe it was just one person doing all the different Strike offers, and that person quit, or lost access to their account?

Looks like all the Strike offers have disappeared or gotten much more expensive. ?

Cool!

Here's the unpaywalled version: https://archive.vn/fw1tQ

So what is it, 80% or 30%? 30% sounds more realistic, though still horrific.

Ah, okay, that makes sense. I'm learning that meat actually keeps pretty well in the fridge.

I've actually had really good experiences (on a car camping trip) with having pre-cooked ground beef patties just in a cooler. They lasted for about 3 or 4 days, even though the ice had melted.

I deliberately keep on eating these beef patties past the point of where more cautious people would have stopped because they may have gone bad. I think it was on the 4th morning, after eating it, I did get some diarrhea, nothing too serious but enough that I stopped eating them.

I'll write up a post soon about another method of having great meat, without needing refrigeration - shawarma.

I have big regrets over not having MORE kids. Folks, don't discount this. Many people have these regrets.

Also another thing to think about - if you don't have kids, you will be the ONLY ONE in all of your line, of all of your millions of ancestors, who did not have kids.

That blows me away.

We sometimes do night walks around the house with a white light, to find scorpions. Very cool for people who haven't seen it before.

Hmm, interesting, here you get the higher fat percentage meat easily. However, only at the "lower end" grocery stores. The ones that are a little bit higher on the socio-economic scale, with lots of organic, gourmet foods, won't have that type of ground beef.

I guess the wealthier people are more bought in to the idea that animal fat is bad?

So you'd freeze the sides of ribeye whole, and then I guess you have to thaw and then cook them as a big roast?

I'm definitely no expert on cooking the big roasts, I just have memories of Christmas dinners, where my mother-in-law would stress about everything.

The temperature of the oven, exactly how long to leave it in and then let it rest, and all the different meat thermometers, which ones are accurate and which ones are not. It seemed like it was tough to get right.

I really haven't noticed a difference with frozen meat not tasting as good. The ground beef, we buy in the tubes, they're very well packaged, air-tight. And most everything else seems to be fine. We either keep the packaging from the store, or vacuum seal it with one of those little devices. If a meat came on a styrofoam tray with thin plastic over it, I'd probably try to use it quickly, because that's not the best packaging.

Where I really noticed a degradation of quality with frozen items was with frozen veggies and fruits. They got freezer burn REALLY quickly, surprisingly so.

Primal - I assume that means the big hunks of meat, like the ribeye roasts, that you have to cut up yourself?

What's Sprouts like? We may be getting one in our town.

I just checked out the Sprouts weekly ad from a nearby city, and it's had ZERO animal products, except for some (regular, sugary) yogurt.

73% meat, 27% fat.

I did the calculations a while back - depending on the price differential between 73/27 and 80/20, you may actually be getting a better deal (meat only) on the 73/27 even if you THROW AWAY all the fat on the 73/27.

Of course, you're not going to throw it all away, so in all likelihood, 73/27 is the best deal. It's certainly the tastiest, once you're fat adapted.

He wrote up an FAQ on how to do it here:

I think a lot of the sellers are just buying, from Strike or others, and immediately selling.

You know what would be cool? A graph, showing changes in the above stats.

And also total offers, in each currency (like 50 USD, 20 EUR, etc)

I believe you about the Mossad link, but I need some "hard" evidence to show someone. Is there anything like that?

Thanks for this information. I think on Stacker.news there would be a lot of interest in articles on how people in Venezuela are getting by, specifics.