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Thomas Hardy’s Ale

this is without doubt the best beer in the world. i would be very surprised if i tasted better than this in my lifetime.

Scarce, subtle and complex, Thomas Hardy’s Ale is the beer enthusiast’s equivalent of rare cognac. Bottle-conditioned to mature in the bottle like fine wine, this old ale/barley wine will improve with age for at least 26 years (and we’re still counting!). Not for the faint of palate, especially when young and brash, maturity brings an elegance of flavors unmatched by any other beer—if you have the patience to cellar it for at least 10 years.

2012-03-15: Tasting the 2004 vintage.

Hyperlocal manufacturing

wow. the future is indeed unevenly distributed. combine with open source blueprints, autonomous power, and you only need a feedstock.

The US Military Special Operations Command is building 8 “mobile factories” that fit into standard shipping containers. Hyperlocal manufacturing is real. Think of it as one of the economic hearts of a thriving resilient community.


this isn’t as far-fetched as it may look like:

Hyperlocal manufacturing is real. Think of it as one of the economic hearts of a thriving resilient community. It’s a revolution already in motion, as you can see in the rapid spread of hackerspaces. Connect these hackerspaces, and the communities they serve, with networks that allow people to share, buy/sell, modify, customize, etc. designs for products/parts, and we are on our way to a resilient decentralized economy that can survive the economic dislocation to come.

2024-05-07: Rheinmetall is another example

The MSF consists of 2 mobile shipping containers, one serving as an office and the other for production. The office container houses a workstation and storage space, as well as a polymer AM machine and handheld scanner for quality control. The production container is equipped with a Metrom P700, a 6-axis hybrid machine combining Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) with an integrated CNC milling facility. This enables on-site finishing and postprocessing, giving Battle Damage Repair personnel additional options for repairing and overhaul.

The machine can produce components with a maximum size of 700 mm in diameter and 450 mm in height, with a metal deposition rate of up to 600 cm3/h.