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@judgedread really want rfk jr to go to confirmation hearings
listening to him rattle off how much pharma money each senator gets after they ask him a question would be kino af
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@sickburnbro @ChadleyDudebro luckily they all have insurance
it's such a stereotype people use it as an aphorism
"more insurance than a mexican driver"
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@ChadleyDudebro @sickburnbro i've had some success with "imagine 30 million fewer cars on the roads"
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@sickburnbro locally i see a lot of people buying mid-priced ones for Airbnb/rentals
they all think they're going to become rich landlords
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@WTFPurpleAlpaca @jb @feralphilosophernc @sickburnbro i had to think for a bit so it wouldn't come out "foot tits"
which would have been really on-point for fedi tbh
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@jb @feralphilosophernc @sickburnbro you see 23-foot tits for free and you're complaining?
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@Heil_Honkler @sickburnbro yeah, i'm handy as all hell, but concrete?
use the specialists, they know the things you don't know you don't know
don't let the gang of spics out there fool you, there's a white guy out there who is some sort of alchemist sorcerer that runs things
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@Escoffier @BattleDwarfGimli @djsumdog @cosmonautkatyusha @iamthejeeves @mangeurdenuage not honey, but date palms have been cultivated for so long we don't know where they come from, possibly as far back as 6000 BC
beekeeping is at least 4500 years old, but going winnie the pooh on a hive is certainly older
(props to the first dude who said to himself "those flying pain engines must be hiding something boss" and waded in)
the human love for sugar is well baked-in, we just use way too much of it now
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@Escoffier @BattleDwarfGimli @djsumdog @cosmonautkatyusha @iamthejeeves @mangeurdenuage carbs are somewhat different than sugar, but yes
that said, carbs, i.e. grain, i.e. agriculture, is what built civilization, or at least one of its mightiest pillars
(whether civilization was a good idea or not is a fun but completely different argument)
of course, now that we have civilization--maths, sciences, buildings that don't fall over on really windy days, Tamagotchis, etc.--we can kill off the excess population and go back to a largely carnivore diet
i volunteer Africa
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@Red_Hat @TimeSpent @NotoriousDOG @penguin @KiKi88 @NoDoxGregBrady and i'm out again
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@NoDoxGregBrady huh
i look like the drummer for The Cranberries
i bet i coulda hit that
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@ACL9000 @Clapp @WilhelmIII @s2208 @Will2Power i have no real information on what it's like out there for dudes right now, but from what i've seen it's a nightmare if you are just a regular dude
online dating just seems like a bad idea from the jump
regular dudes will treat it like it's Call of Duty and take it seriously, but the chicks will treat it like it's DoorDash
your average woman is marinating in a stew of "i can have babies any time" and "all men will rape me", so cold approaches seem closer to navigating a minefield
i dunno
take up chess and go to chess club meetings and pick up an autistic chess chick? i got nothin
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@sickburnbro @jb @monsterislandcolonizer The country at its most bare is subsistence farming.
The number of people who can be a blacksmith, a civil engineer, a doctor, an architect, a large animal vet, a chemical engineer, a teacher, a geoengineer, a musician, a craftsman, a miner, a carpenter and a farmer is so small you can fit them in a church van.
Western NC should be a wakeup call. Those hillfolk are quite self-sufficient and very canny, but even they need help after a disaster. When you are a civilization of one family out on a homestead, the size of the disaster it takes to wipe you out shrinks proportionally.
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@sickburnbro @jb @monsterislandcolonizer I'm thinking of an even more fundamental problem. Cities aren't something we thought up in 1968 as a way to store the National Negro Reserves. It's an innovation that created civilization and progress by allowing specialization and encouraging interdependence. And from that we gained roads, communications, protection, and a number of other things that everybody takes for granted.
The man whose kneejerk reaction to "what if we lose the cities" is "but I don't live in a city" has a serf mentality. He cannot see beyond the horizon, and his natural place is to be kept on a plot of land that he works for the benefit of other men who can see beyond the horizon.
I understand the individual who can't see anything reasonable to do to save the cities. America washed its hands of them with the automobile, and it's a rare person that can see that the utter dependence we have on the internal combustion engine is a weakness, not a strength.
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@jb @sickburnbro @monsterislandcolonizer I've talked to a lot of preppers. Some low-key; some really, really into it. An awful lot of them are just funko pop collectors, but their funko pops are storable food and bullets.
The movie 'Reign of Fire' never gets a lot of props, but it's a fun movie. One part I really like is when Christian Bale and Gerard Butler are acting out a bedtime story for the kids, and they're retelling the scene in 'Star Wars' where Vader tells Luke that he's his father. It's a great example of what happens in a total collapse: you carry forward what people carry in their heads. When you're running for your life from the zombies, nobody's carting off copies of the 'Illiad'.
The White People Breakfast Question remains: "What happens when we lose the cities?"
>but i don't live in a city
These people are ngmi.
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@sickburnbro @InvictusManeo cloud is okay, for complete defense in depth, but yeah, it's daft to depend on it
>buh buh buh muh heckin fotorinos
embrace the power of photo albums and scrapbooks, these are superior to any gimmicky interwebs thing anyway
i wish folks would treat their phones like a physical photo album
"oooh, i have a photo of this cool thing/my dog/my special needs child doing a kickflip"
>proceeds to swipe like a moron for nine minutes while everybody just stands there slowly dying
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@InvictusManeo @sickburnbro there is no real off-line storage anymore
well, tape, if you want to spend the time and moneys
i keep everything in ZFS mirrors, with 3-deep replication on- and off-site, where i can keep an eye on the health of the rust and rotate drives out as they reach EOL, but my storage requirements are relatively modest
that's pretty much the best one can do without going nutso
but if you're backing up a personal laptop or something similar, you have to have two disks, rust or SSD, and swap them out regularly
or stop caring about your data, which would be wildly freeing if i were capable of it
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@sickburnbro @theshortbus >"doing my own research"
not sure what this meme is supposed to be, but i've been hearing it with the Harris campaign
even Taylor Swift used it
like, what research? what are they supposed to be looking at?
isn't the Harris campaign mostly famous right now for not saying anything of substance at all?
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@sickburnbro fact checking comes off as well-akshuallying
which everybody hates, except the people who well-akshually all of the time
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ngl, those suspiciously cheap Baofeng radios are seriously tempting me
and not just because there's a lower chance the jews have put bombz in them
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