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Like, I finish a lot of my projects but the last few years I've failed at a lot of them. If I were to go into it I could defend each one but then also I think I would be really proud or perhaps financially much better off if I had finished some. Others seem stupid in hindsight.

Now I don't know how anyone can call themselves a citizen if fighting covid-19 nonsense is not their current project, perhaps second only to something like raising their kids.

The problem is I'm not equipped for the fight. I'm more of an engineer. I don't know how to influence people. So many times this last year I've taken a step forward and then soon after a step back because in spite of searching I don't see what if anything I am supposed to do about covid mania. I just know that I won't be good with myself unless I try.

So here I am fighting a hurricane with kite. I dream up grand ideas about how to have an impact and then abandon them after a couple days when I realize they won't help anything. I've never felt lost before in life but covid changed that. I now have this vague mission of stopping covid zealots from stealing freedom away from humanity lmao. fuck my life.

I just can't stop dreaming of perpetual motion machines. Machines that can't be built and even if they could I don't have the tools or enough time to read all the books. I wish I was a stupid lefty so that all I had to do to make the world a better place was beat people up in the street and burn down buildings.

Like, I finish a lot of my projects but the last few years I've failed at a lot of them. If I were to go into it I could defend each one but then also I think I would be really proud or perhaps financially much better off if I had finished some. Others seem stupid in hindsight. Now I don't know how anyone can call themselves a citizen if fighting covid-19 nonsense is not their current project, perhaps second only to something like raising their kids. The problem is I'm not equipped for the fight. I'm more of an engineer. I don't know how to influence people. So many times this last year I've taken a step forward and then soon after a step back because in spite of searching I don't see what if anything I am supposed to do about covid mania. I just know that I won't be good with myself unless I try. So here I am fighting a hurricane with kite. I dream up grand ideas about how to have an impact and then abandon them after a couple days when I realize they won't help anything. I've never felt lost before in life but covid changed that. I now have this vague mission of stopping covid zealots from stealing freedom away from humanity lmao. fuck my life. I just can't stop dreaming of perpetual motion machines. Machines that can't be built and even if they could I don't have the tools or enough time to read all the books. I wish I was a stupid lefty so that all I had to do to make the world a better place was beat people up in the street and burn down buildings.

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Perpetual motion machines are a dream and a nightmare. However, if focused on the task of making the world a better place as an engineer then that is easily done as engineers are problem solvers. Example Problem - it gets cold in the winter in the northern hemisphere and people can't grow food. Solution - a farmer in Nebraska realized that the temperature at about 8 feet down into the Earth is a constant 58 degrees. So, he dug some trenches, put in piping with a solar-powered fan system (with battery backup), and now his greenhouses are a constant 58 degrees minimum no matter what the weather is outside. He has reportedly grown orange trees and other tropical plants in his greenhouses. His experience however, could be an anomaly. Interested engineers should investigate this farmer and come up with engineering parameters (size of pipe, speed and number of fans, depth of trench, trench backfill specifications for all kinds of environments for various sizes of greenhouses, etc.). This investigation/project could also be expanded to houses and even apartment buildings to reduce winter electricity bills (because the homes would never get below 58 degrees). Or, if you're not interested in that project, find another. Good luck!