You’re right. And wrong… I went way down that rabbit hole. Gilligans island, mosquito coast, National Geographic…. Somewhere in there. Wd40 is shit, it’s a water displacer (formulae 40 as 1-39 didn’t work) and can be bested by things I create. Plant trees and bamboo and you have material for structure and fire amd rope. Learn fire and bricks and you have a house. The earth itself is all I start with (though until it quits I have the device I am typing on now, which is ancient). We live well, we eat very well and are really happy and healthy and nearly totally unaffected by the craziness in the world today. I watch with sad amusement.
Yes I brought tools with me, quality ones. Likely with care they will be handed down a generation or two. Others are a few days work. https://yewtu.be/watch?v=mUH884Ew4Ow We enjoy these. Everything we build is ours forever, nobody can ever take it away. I build a stone house for the animals, it will be there for generations. The children will benefit from it and use their energy to create more things. We create everything we need. Grain is ground using the power of water, lights powered the same way. Fans, cooling systems, power tools, all water powered.
It’s an older lifestyle, we went back to where humanity use to be and chose a different fork. We enjoy it and every day immensely. In my research, this is the only viable long term survival plan. Your choices may be different, and that’s just fine, everybody is allowed to choose their own path.
And as far as AOU, I thank him regularly for his work here, it is appreciated.
I'm totally right my friend, if programmers can't work anymore because the entire network is down it means we're all screwed, it means nothing works, at all
>Wd40 is shit
It's just used everywhere in pretty much every factory, no big deal, let's just use soap instead that will do it...
> Plant trees and bamboo and you have material for structure and fire amd rope. Learn fire and bricks and you have a house. The earth itself is all I start with (though until it quits I have the device I am typing on now, which is ancient). We live well, we eat very well and are really happy and healthy and nearly totally unaffected by the craziness in the world today. I watch with sad amusement.
Yeah I like camping too, I used to spend roughly 2 month a year in the woods when I was in my late 20s, and wood cabins are fun
I also know how to use a hammer and a saw, now what?
>Fans, cooling systems, power tools, all water powered.
Yeah a sedentary lifestyle then? Because you aren't going to carry your river around....
Good luck with that...
You rely on systems, on others. Power system. Network system. Financial system. Highway system. Medical system. Etc. any of these go down, where does that leave you? We don’t rely on anyone, it’s much more work but we get everything done, and never left out in the dark by some one else’s screwup.
Wd40 is shit. Sorry, it is. Test it. Terrible lubricant, absorbs water and creates acid that rusts parts overnight, low smoke point…. No factory I’ve been in uses it. There’s simply better answers for every scenario.
We aren’t camping, we are restarting society from an old fork in technology to live well.
This is a great site too. Www.lowtechmagazine.com
No, we aren’t leaving, we are building, growing, investing in the future of our children. I take great pride in craftsmanship, I build things to last.
A sedentary life style isn't necessarily suited post civilizational collapse... Just saying. You might need to evacuate because a fucking horde of savage spotted your little paradise, because they were evidently looking for exactly that, what do you do? You grab the back pack and that's about it
And yes there's a bottle of wd40 in pretty much every fucking garage and factory on this planet, it's mostly used as a penetrating oil on rusted pieces
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