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You dont take the water from one place. Take 1/3 from desalination in California, 1/3 from the Mississippi, 1/3 from the great lakes, and some to spare from somewhere else. And punch whoever opposes you with money.

You have nation-spanning networks for things like gas, so why not water? Because the pipes are bigger?

Maybe the real solution is for humans to get out of dodge and wherever else they are not meant to live.

What’s a CPC?

I dont quite remember exactly but Gordon always uses a big one, a pairing knife and a flexible one for fish and filet. ( ah I found something, different from memory but what does that count? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-av6cz9upO0 he uses: carving, chopping and a large serated knife)

Metal is just metal if its shaped right and sharpened it will do its job. The only reason for a modern person to get those expensive katakana folded steel knives is to look cool.

The only reason the tradition even exists in the first place is that the ore and smelting techniques of the japanese islands made them try to purify the metal through repeated folding and heating.

Meanwhile in european Forgecraft the temperatures got higher so that even low-quality ore could be fully smelted, drastically improving metal quality, allowing for faster forging.

The faster forging has another benefit, the hot metal is in contact with air for a shorter time, so it oxidizes less and looses less carbon, and it needs to spend less time being re-heated in the forge (potentially re-introducin unwanted carbon), both contribute to the final steel being of a better quality. Because its just easier to get the carbon distribution right.

Hard, nearly brittle high-carbon steel on the cutting edge(s), low carbon, flexible steel on the spine of the sword/knife. Where is that with folded steel? That nearly impossible to do! While you could just put two blocks of the right steels together and hammer into shape and then sharpen.

So many people do these bogus “experiences” with these beautiful japanese knive sets, where the only feature for cooking is that it has been adequately sharpened.

A good chef need only 3 knives. ~ Gordon Ramsey

A knife is only a sharp, flat piece of metal. ~ me

You dont need knive-sets, no need for japanese foulded metal. ~ Huggbees

Just sharpen your knife and get rid of it if it aint good. ~ me

Who is Karl Mars?

Torrenting has inherent dangers, downloading something and executing it on your Computer can place any number or variation of viruses on your system.

It is nice to have an uploader you trust, as once a torrent is out and proven safe, it remains safe. But you could also just fake being any uploader and nobody could prove otherwise, until no one seeds the infected torrent anymore.

Reminder to support Archive.org. They have thousands of TerraBytes of Data in all forms, for free, and only a shoestring budget.

Reminder to scream at the admins of Archive.org to get their security set straight, if you have a connection to them.

China?

ahh, okay, maybe actually makes sense, but one needs much more context and knowledge to understand than I have of australian(?) politics.

looking further into the website there was this cartoon, which confuses me:

The Graph go down, its labeled as being a projection of future deficits. which means the losses will be lower. Avoidance of a loss is equatable with gaining of a win. but the guys are drawn as stupid and are obviously for nuclear power, which statistically speaking isn’t quite profitable.

So are they just stupid for wanting to make profits off of nuclear power and investing into the economy? Or did someone make such a basic mistake that it is questionable whether they should be trusted in their judgement of other issues?

That was a very funny refference when they set it up back when.

Improved black bars:

always the same…

Is this a wholly unnecessary amount of blackspace around my mediocre meme?

yes.

am I complaining?

yes.

is the complaint necessary?

yEs!

oh that could be. maybe the mobile version of terraria couldnt easily do that. why would anyone play the mobile version of terraria?

looks like switzerland! until you look closer, then its just wrong (the train tracks for example)

you can easily transfer saves in terraria.

Depending on your tech-savyness you can transfer saves in nearly all games.

One catches more idiots with platitudes /s

I am caught in an eternal strife between one thing and another. I like the position of not being locked into one “correct” way, having the ability to pivot. I too believe to be superiour to other people. I do however not think of my ideas as fully formed perfections. I dont quite yet know if you do think that way, but just pointing it out.

What wonders can or can’t a single individual achieve?

Theres just so much, but I’ll boill myself down to us prioritizing different things. I am advocating for a certain needed level of chaos, for the system to be able to be shook and subsequently changed, preferably by those who will improve the lives of all. While you, I think, try to protect each and every valuable ally and even extend your grace to your opponents. You value stability, even in the interim period, and prefer a slow, methodical way to get through change by using the proven systems. I however believe that these proven systems may need to be looked at regularely, maybe taken out a bit, given a scrub, some new oil… and then be put back into place with sone nice words and a comfy blanky.

As for adventurism, or the more comertial form of adventourism, it really is just one of my more horrible idea-obsessions. I have several of these and discussing them is much more fun than not discussing them. I would rather like to do some once again, though I think it rather unlikely to get a good chance anyhow. And I think I am quite capable of evaluating the possible consequences to my actions. Or do you want to even forbid myself this capability? Surely not. Its more fun not thinking it through anyways.

Often when talking to certain people in my personal life, they seem to adhere to the concept of truth, you seem to invoke said concept too. What is truth, is it measurable? absolutely not. I have done many-a-thing and not a single once have I stumbled over the truth just next to some Roots in the forrest floor. Truth is something made up. I forget which philosopher I am badly paraphrasing: Truth/power is a sort of currency, the powerful use their truth to create more specific truths, bending the world to their will in a certain sense. Most of the thyme one subordinates oneself to said truths, just because denying it is more destructive than helpful. I’m sorry, I can’t seem to quite get the edge of his arguments again.

You personally seem to think that the material world holds the truth and that history can predict ones success or failure. You are not wrong, just to have said that, but you are also not right. There often is more than a Yes and a No in the world, so any “binary” approach to the “truth” will lead to “failure”. (So far I feel you and I are on a similar page) There however is also no ternary way of truths in this world. The Daoists call these the Daos, the ways of the world. Any finite number of ways of truth will inevitably reach an edge-case not fitting the previous models.

You surely have heard of Descartes saying “I think, therefore I am.” that is an acceptable baseline for most of philosphy, that at least ones mind must exist, because at least that is currently doing a thunk. However there are acceptable versions of the world way into either direction. One says that a stone falls down, when let go, so that is a fact. and thus it is true. another says there is no way for anything to even provably exist, and thus nothing can be true. Where on (or off) this spectrum you want to place yourself is actually not for me to judge (though it would interest me). An important Condition one can apply is the contradiction. When ones theory of truth calls for stones to always fall down, one can just remove the down. Out there in outer space, where gravity is weak, possibly cancelling itself through multiple mass-bodies, a let-go stone and the hand which has let it go will hover next to each other till near eternity. Thusly having disproven one extreme? On the other side where nothing is provable nothing becomes disprovable, thus losing any meaning and many dislike that. dunno why. As to my personal oppinion, I usually are near Descartes, until I am driven into a corner, where I will revel in the simplicity of the undisprovable corner of inexistance. And if the other person has a better grasp of such far out ideas, then I can always mimic those blessed souls not burdened by constant overthinking and go feed some cats and touch grass.

The discussions of this world truely are kept fun by the misunderstanding :) ~Paul Watzlawick said something similar

There cannot be a truth, and there cannot be an untruth. thinking someone is right or wrong just requires infinitly less energy than finding each and every instance they’re wrong. THAN FINDING EACH INSTANCE THE’RE RIGHT. Being truthful in ones statements is quite the easy feat, but expecting others to do the same will only lead to sadness, or is that a generalization integrated by a worldview of generations-old half-truths. Half-truths which crumble under the slightest scrutiny, under the most mere of merecats, the slightest of slight edge-cases. And as a result of merecat-induced sleepiness I am only able of thinking about sleep and merecats. Thus the truth has become irrelevant. Since it wouldnt be helpful, even if it existed.

Foregive my ramblings: any kind of truth can only be useful if another party has at least achieved a similar level of truth, all else is wasted. What can even be discribed, be helped by the truth? I cannot feed something with truth. I cannot heal. I cannot protect. I cannot do anything with a sufficiently pure truth. It would help ne to know which pill allieviates suffering, tough it wont help without knowledge of the underlying issue causing the pains, the possible negative co-effects with other pills, or longterm side-effects.

What ridiculous truths people have held on over the years, all in favour of the end-goal, abandoned by future generations, recognizing the futility of truth in face of other factors.

how many Self-Contradictions do I contain? How many do you? I can only ever ask questions, because there are no answers. I am so sorry.