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more land for me (also i have the unique escape hatch of being a radio dork so as long as some other geezers are on the air i can have some social interaction and tech tinkering without being Jacked Into The God drat Internet)
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Chris Knight posted:one! one use case! ah ah ah!
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the biggest thing is that shitloads of people have been tricked in to thinking that stuff is invented because of money and without soul crushing work nothing would ever be done again. im a scientist and i spend a shitload of my non-work time messing around with stuff and making new things because im curious and i like figuring out how stuff works/making things. if you told me 'hey you don't ever have to work again' i wouldn't be sitting around doing nothing, i'd be doing the same stuff and getting way more done because i wouldn't have some exec telling me that actually what i'm working on and is 99% done isn't economically viable anymore and it's time to start another thing. i've talked to people that seriously think that with out huge monetary rewards no one would ever invent anything or spend time trying to make things better for people and it blows my mind. and besides, the people discovering that poo poo aren't the ones that are making money from it anyway, they're just there because they have to be to survive.
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Nov 5, 2021 03:10
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Jonny 290 posted:more land for me and them
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am i supposed to be scared of coiners or something
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Jonny 290 posted:am i supposed to be scared of coiners or something depends on how close to a coast you live and how well you can swim i suppose
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Jonny 290 posted:am i supposed to be scared of coiners or something no but big sky bitcoiners trying to make yet another blockchain town are at least cyberpunk related maybe fewer bears this time
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Sexual Lorax posted:depends on how close to a coast you live and how well you can swim i suppose i will be dead by 2035 im not soooooper concerned (also quite well)
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Nov 5, 2021 03:25
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i'm not a millionaire so i don't get to live on a coast
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Nov 5, 2021 03:25
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haveblue posted:the hedge against famine is long term food storage which usually means freezing/freeze-drying, preservatives, canning, or something like that. most of which require at least some level of technology canning is preindustrial as is salt and smoke curing. Long term food storage has been a solved problem for some time now.
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Jonny 290 posted:i'm not a millionaire so i don't get to live on a coast i'm not a millionaire either. not even close. there's a lot more coast than "san francisco, los angeles, nyc"
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Nov 5, 2021 03:33
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yes but i need to buy a house cash so unless i'm a millionaire it aint gonna happen
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Nov 5, 2021 03:35
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or just wait for your credit to clear. "i can't do something right this minute" is not the same as "i cannot ever do something or plan to do it"
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Nov 5, 2021 03:45
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Woolwich Bagnet posted:i've talked to people that seriously think that with out huge monetary rewards no one would ever invent anything or spend time trying to make things better for people rich people set the discourse. in the same way that society has to pretend that the stock market is important because rich people think it is, we must pretend that the only social driving force is making or spending money because that's what rich people believe. after all, they wouldn't do anything to help anyone else unless it was going to make them a lot of money. the richest person i know is also the absolute cheapest stingiest miser, to the point where he actively dislikes universally pleasant experiences like going to a fancy restaurant for dinner, because while he's there he (apparently) can't feel anything but the pain of number going down.
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Nov 5, 2021 03:46
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i've known plenty of rich people and they were all cheap as gently caress
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Achmed Jones posted:or just wait for your credit to clear. "i can't do something right this minute" is not the same as "i cannot ever do something or plan to do it" i mean, yes, in 2025, if i still have my low six fig job, and i haven't stroked out, i can go try to get a mortgage on a house that at that time will be 1.7 million dollars which means that i won't qualify for it
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i've been patient and have been living very lean for the past four years and have a year of income in the bank and another half year vested and another year unvested, and it won't mean a _god drat thing_ by the time i'm able to get anything.
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i have a friend whose dad is an 8 figgy fuckoid. i remember the summer before we started college going with the two of them to buy random dorm room supplies (at wal-mart, of course). my friend put a pack of mach 3 razor blades in the cart. his dad started haranguing him about how expensive they were, these are a ripoff for stupid people, why can't you use these knockoff bic disposables instead, etc. my friend had really bad acne at the time, and said the mach 3 blades didn't hurt his face when he shaved like the cheap ones do. his dad blew him off, said he'd been using these cheap ones for years, you don't need anything fancier than that, we're not getting those other ones they're a waste of money. and that was that. absolutely sick
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Sagebrush posted:i have a friend whose dad is an 8 figgy fuckoid. i remember the summer before we started college going with the two of them to buy random dorm room supplies (at wal-mart, of course). my friend put a pack of mach 3 razor blades in the cart. his dad started haranguing him about how expensive they were, these are a ripoff for stupid people, why can't you use these knockoff bic disposables instead, etc. my friend had really bad acne at the time, and said the mach 3 blades didn't hurt his face when he shaved like the cheap ones do. his dad blew him off, said he'd been using these cheap ones for years, you don't need anything fancier than that, we're not getting those other ones they're a waste of money. and that was that. not that i'm a figgie fucker, but this is me: $3,000 motorcycle: hey sure looks good heres a stack of money $6.79 USB cable 3-pack: let me spend an hour seeing if i can find these for $5.99
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Jonny 290 posted:i've been patient and have been living very lean for the past four years and have a year of income in the bank and another half year vested and another year unvested, and it won't mean a _god drat thing_ by the time i'm able to get anything. gently caress. i sure hope you're wrong but i see where you're coming from better now. sorry if i was coming on too strong
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no its fine you know ilu. its just that despite me putting the finance machine to warp 7, we'll need warp 8 to secure a place to retire and grow old in, and it's frustrating.
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new mavic just dropped 4/3 and 45 mins run time on a buzzing hatebox for roughly one paycheck kinda want it
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Jonny 290 posted:new mavic just dropped i have been waiting now i just need a FAA license how does babby get
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I will never understand the insane appeal of travis scott he sounds exactly like 1000 other autotune dudes but I am an old so this is the natural order of things
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how often do you get to go to a concert by a fortnite character irl
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haveblue posted:how often do you get to go to a concert by a fortnite character irl yeah it's been a while since apollo smile stopped touring.
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Alan Smithee posted:i have been waiting you gota register the drone and do a 20 min cert course. if you plan on using it commercially then you also got do the part 107 stuff https://www.faa.gov/uas/getting_started/register_drone/ https://www.faa.gov/uas/recreational_fliers/knowledge_test_updates/ https://www.faa.gov/uas/commercial_operators/
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rotor posted:canning is preindustrial as is salt and smoke curing. Long term food storage has been a solved problem for some time now.
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iirc before the can opener was invented, standard methods of opening canned food were chopping the top off with an axe or shooting it with a gun. you probably didn't have any other choice anyway because those early cans were made from eighth inch thick tin-plated wrought iron and the lids were soldered on.
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i meant canning like in mason jars you oaves
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rotor posted:i meant canning like in mason jars you oaves Achmed Jones posted:like you want to can reasonably? hope you got some industrialized jar production otherwise you're gonna be doing it in clay pots which, let's say, might not work as reliably. not impossible by any means (witness every culture having fermented/pickled dishes forever) but ya feel me
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Sagebrush posted:iirc before the can opener was invented, standard methods of opening canned food were chopping the top off with an axe or shooting it with a gun. tin canning in its early days used lead solder, too, which was a hell of a time for navel ships with long ration use
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so like my deal is not "we should ban all knowledge from after the 13th century" it's just that we should deindustrialize where possible. Yeah, ceramic pots will not have the multi-year shelf lives that glass & metal jars do, but you can make them easily and they'll keep your poo poo for a year plus.
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there's good arguments for preserving industrial capacity but they're mostly medical. Food storage? We have a pretty good handle on that.
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Sagebrush posted:iirc before the can opener was invented, standard methods of opening canned food were chopping the top off with an axe or shooting it with a gun.
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rotor posted:so like my deal is not "we should ban all knowledge from after the 13th century" it's just that we should deindustrialize where possible. Yeah, ceramic pots will not have the multi-year shelf lives that glass & metal jars do, but you can make them easily and they'll keep your poo poo for a year plus. we're on the same side i think. i'm not gonna die on the "no seriously we gotta keep industrialized glass jars" hill cause while i think it's true the real point is maybe pulling back on the stuff that doesn't fuckin matter. and we can all agree that funkopops don't matter, insulin does, and the stuff in the middle well it's not exactly a pressing question
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