

None of them paid off a 50 year mortgage they couldn’t even afford to start at 40 years old.


None of them paid off a 50 year mortgage they couldn’t even afford to start at 40 years old.

He tried! He paid a porn star that reminded him of his daughter to straiten him out! He sought out the most boyish little girls, younger and younger, like your own little precious daughters, children, just to feel accepted. The devil sold him that fruit and he ate it all. You know, Moses was never allowed in the promised land. Would you stay with Moses or follow God?
No one has paid to replace it or has the money to do so. I faced this challenge in bike shops with advertising media. It is risky to accept large stuff like this from brand reps. It comes down to a plan and the level of investment in the product. Looks like someone bought in and had no long term plan for the space. Looks like a business on the threshold of black to red finances.


It helps to have modern elastics to make a riffle like spear gun. When under water, big fish are easy game. You’ll see them easily in the ocean and reasonably well in large rivers and lakes too. With rivers and lakes you can just noodle with large catfish. If you reach into holes and cervices, catfish will bite your hand. It is more like sucking. You just pull them up, no tackle or equipment needed.
Without modern elastics, any bow or torsion based energy storage system would work to make a crossbow like action. I could easily flake a rock to make a crude knife, and fashion something out of some sticks.
I would probably struggle most with my chemistry using organics I find in nature. I know stuff like the best bows are recurved with composite wood. Ultimately, I am loosely aware of the innovations of Watts with the pressure regulation of a steam engine. I know how to make bloom iron. And I know the basics of indirect heating and atmospheric control of the Bessemer process. Additionally, I am aware that the key to lathe precision is a heavy base, and that a lathe screw lead is able to cut a more accurate lathe screw lead, and eventually achieve any machine precision desired. Prussian blue or any dye based pigment, is used with a special thick chisel to hand scrape metal flat. Magnetite is the primary ore for iron. Steel is all about precision control over the carbon content. Heating calcium carbonate is super handy. Boxite requires chemistry to get to the aluminum. High voltage arcs across electrodes in air will make nitric acid, but guano is the most accessible form of nitrates at smaller scales. Potatoes are the most important food source to scavenge.
A general deep curiosity and willingness to explore are the key personality traits. I love learning at a fundamental level where I actually understand stuff. I am not all that bright, just a jack of all trades type person where I have a very broad set of skills and understanding of the world. I’m a swiss army knife – all the tools, but the world’s shittiest scissors.


You did not understand the abstraction. I covered all of human history from hunter gatherer to modern.


It is easier to spear fish underwater. You do not have the refractive index of light to deal with.
Counterstrike with my friends at the cafe 20 years ago


I’m pretty good at hunting and gathering. Back before my broken neck and back, I was super into wanting to buy some remote place in the Appalachians and pseudo homestead. I have messed with many of the required skills. I wanted a place in the mountains with a year round creek for a water wheel, building a foundry and forge, along with a manual machine shop. I was into what I could do using junk from pick-a-part type junk yards. People often only think of parts for whatever low end car, but if you actually have a fundamental understanding of cars and the various technologies in different applications, a junk yard gives tremendous access to industrial technology for many types of machines and equipment. Junk yards are not setup for that kind of thing either. A little bit of flattery and flirting with a cashier goes a very long way when none of the collection of parts on your cart have legitimate prices on the menu.
Even with my disability now, I could probably survive in the wild by trapping game and some minor gardening if the population was low enough and I was in a decent location compared to where/when I live now in the era of the 50 year mortgage fuckwit dystopia.
You cannot design products to retail like this. That is the problem. The design must be sold to everyone to make it competitively viable at large scale for contract manufacturing. Making many sizes is something that is untenable and will fail as a commercial venture. It causes overburden and poor turnover rates in the supply distribution and retail chains. The product does not have sufficient margins to support this type of system. The competition that already exists has set the price expectations. No one will pay the required pricing needed to support this business model. You would be paying 2-3 times as much per unit in order for retailers and distributors to justify the enormous investment and management of the overburden risk.

That is what I have wanted to see all along! Thanks!


If the redneck psycho of Rome was not getting death threats at any point in her political asylum jaunt, I would be very surprised.
It’s a spectrum of chaos! Normative is a contest of charismatic academic favoritism and idealist oversimplification.
Everything about her… She was engineered from her uncle’s dna because of his chemistry with Leto. She was like an abstract layer to the argument about the validity of prescience. Like was it imagined hubris and overconfidence or was it real. He did not see her coming, and yet she still fit perfectly into a plan that just happened to work out… or was it just random chance and a tyrant monster.


Fear the engineers of the ancients, as one fears the physicists of today.
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The worst worst is the stuff that never numbs. It does not seem possible that such a thing exists. All pain you have ever known eventually goes numb… until something doesn’t in perpetual november.
Commodity housing is a crime against humanity.