Might be good to get homeschooling resources together for members? recommended textbooks and books?

ron paul has a home schooling curriculum

cool!

if you all are looking into buying a home, I really recommend Nolo's Guide to buying your first home

https://www.amazon.com/Nolos-Essential-Guide-Buying-First/dp/1413317626

good point

might be good to make a section in the Skills server about moving/buying houses

good point

Scottsdale seems alright

curriculum is secondary to me atm. something that can be settled in time with ease imo

renting a house in a poor la area sounds like a landlord's worst nightmare

It's been a pleasure talking with you all, hope to be back next weekend, but I gotta take off. 😃

I am trying to build a few tiny homes on my 12 acres, also have an opportunity to build one extra home on a lot. The goal is to bring young men wanting to start families and help in their community with other brothers.

wow!

bye1

@PatrickAZ let me know if you have actions in AZ and I might be able to make it, I'm in NM. I'm not on your slack

@apronandlace will do. I am hoping to do an open invite party to IE members. After I get the property in nice order.

cool!

@PatrickAZ that sounds great!

October?

i guess I was not around then

https://www.roadsnacks.net/whitest-cities-in-new-mexico/

k

@Mick it will take a couple years but it's an option I want available.

@PatrickAZ Any irl action people take is fantastic!

There are many approaches, and some people like yourself have skills that can have a greater irl impact than others, ie building physical structures

you own land in AZ?

@Mick yes.

That's a great idea/plan

I am very excited to get it moving and build a nice conclave of upstanding white men and women.

Building a fleet of tiny houses is great. It gives people a place to start to build something more substantial. Get a bunch of folks physically there for a low cost. Great idea!

How many are you trying to build?

Much of our evolution as a distinct
species took place before the invention of agriculture, during the millions
of years our human and proto-human ancestors lived in hunter-gatherer
bands. The members of small bands were usually related to each other,
and it was important for them to cooperate and even sacrifice for each
other. At the same time, strangers were potentially dangerous competitors
for food and territory.

As Edward O. Wilson of Harvard has explained:

"The strongest evoker of aggressive response in animals is the sight of a
stranger, especially a territorial intruder. This xenophobic principle has
been documented in virtually every group of animals displaying higher
forms of social organization." 4

Groups that did not defend territory against intruders were less likely to
survive. “Our behavioral predisposition to ethnic nepotism evolved in the
struggle for existence because it was rational and useful,” explains
Finnish scholar Tatu Vanhanen.5

Many kinds of animal behavior can be explained by genetic similarity
theory. Animals have a preference for close kin, and study after study has shown that they have a remarkable ability to tell kin from strangers. Frogs
lay eggs in bunches, but they can be separated and left to hatch
individually. When tadpoles are then put into a tank, brothers and sisters
somehow recognize each other and cluster together rather than mix with
tadpoles from different mothers.6

Female Belding’s ground squirrels may mate with more than one male
before they give birth, so a litter can be a mix of full siblings and half
siblings. Like tadpoles, they can tell each other apart. Full siblings
cooperate more with each other than with half-siblings, fight less, and are
less likely to run each other out of the territory when they grow up.7

Even bees know who their relatives are. In one experiment, bees were
bred for 14 different degrees of relatedness—sisters, cousins, second
cousins, etc.—to bees in a particular hive. When the bees were then
released near the hive, guard bees had to decide which ones to let in.
They distinguished between degrees of kinship with almost perfect
accuracy, letting in the closest relatives and chasing away more distant
kin. The correlation between relatedness and likelihood of being
admitted was a remarkable 0.93.8

Ants are famous for cooperation and willingness to sacrifice for the
colony. This is due to a quirk in ant reproduction that means worker ants
are 70 percent genetically identical to each other. But even among ants,
there can be greater or less genetic diversity, and the most closely related
groups of ants appear to cooperate best.

Even plants cooperate with close kin and compete with strangers.
Normally, when two plants are put in the same pot, they grow bigger root
systems, trying to crowd each other out and get the most nutrients. A wild flower called the Sea Rocket, which grows on beaches, does not do that if
the two plants come from the same “mother” plant. They recognize each
others’ root secretions and avoid wasteful competition.10

People often behave according to genetic similarity theory, and the
scholar who has probably written most extensively in this field is J.
Philippe Rushton of the University of Western Ontario. “Genetically similar
people tend to seek one another out and to provide mutually supportive
environments such as marriage, friendship, and social groups,”
12 he has
written. For example, spouses tend to resemble each other, not just in
age, ethnicity, and education (r = 0.6) but in opinions and attitudes (r =
0.5), intelligence (r = 0.4), and even in such things as personality and
physical traits (r = 0.2). They are even like each other in undesirable
traits such as aggressiveness, criminality, alcoholism, and mental disease.
It is possible to predict how happy a couple is by knowing how similar they
are. Best friends are as similar to each other and in the same ways as
spouses. Likewise, in mixed families of adopted and natural children, the
friends of biological siblings resemble each other more than do the
friends of adopted siblings.13