The expected outcome is internet collapse. The internet is a mass communication tool that allows bothersome peasants to organize and educate themselves if they are inclined to do so. Which means it must be destroyed.

The poor, disenfranchised, and uneducated are significantly easier to manipulate. So the goal of the 1% is to break society, eliminate the ability to educate, eliminate the ability to organize, and the use their near total control over mass media to assure everyone that they are better off under the thumb of the technocratic state.

You will be really excited to tell someone important news today, then forget what you wanted to say as soon as you see them.

This is my favorite opening hook of all time.

Sounds like we need to make getting a driver’s license more difficult then, since that seems to be where the danger is.

Especially since driving kills so many more people by itself anyway. Maybe make it so that if you ever get done for impaired driving, you can never drive again. In fact, let’s make it more difficult to purchase a vehicle. That will make sure that you cant drive impaired in the first place.

Crushing your enemies, driving them before you, and hearing the lamentations of their women.

I want to like this game so bad. On paper it is exactly the kind of game that I love, but trying to play it multi-player with my partner is just an experience in frustration. It seems so perfect for multi-player, but so much of the interface just seems setup for one player only.

This is a great one shot adventure and introduction to the system. I cannot recommend it enough.

This is going to end badly.

So many board games! My current obsession is Massive Darkness. Great co-op, but I also love that it can be played solo.

Unfortunately, I had the opposite day today. A 5 minute check-in in turned into a 96-minute meeting.

This is exactly how I used to do it. Roast a whole chicken and make multiple different meals out of it.

When I lived in an apartment, we did balcony heirloom tomatoes. Once you get some of the tomatoes you can’t buy in the store, even a few plants are well worth it.

We have strawberry and blackberry from planting a few years ago, and it look slike this may be my first year actually getting grapes as well.

It is always rewarding seeing the literal fruits of your labour.

Frigidaire FFMV164LSA MFG in 2012

Checked there and searched online for any demo modes/ testing codes that would allow me to mute it. Evidently, a lot of folks online absolutely hate my microwave as well, because no one can mute it. That said, the community of microwave haters has provided me with instructions to rip out the speaker if I choose to silence the wailing banshee for good.

My microwave has an un-interuptable 6 shrill beeps, that then repeat if the door is not opened in 10 seconds. There is no mute option, and it can be heard everywhere in the house. I have seriously considered just ripping the speaker out of it. It is, without a doubt, the appliance I hate most in my house.

I did the exact same thing today, it was super gross.

I disbelieve.

Some will probably exist as exhibition pieces in places like Williamsburg, but a lot of the practical skill and techniques are in danger of being lost due to lack of use. Among the skills that I would like to see preserved are things like flint knapping, blacksmithing (blade smithing is still doing fairly well), foraging, manual land navigation, and to an extent manual stone carving / banking masonry.

Much of the manual nature of these skills has been replaced by automation or handheld electronics, so they are practiced by a dwindling number of artisans.

Open a non-profit primitive skills school. There are several of these skills that are rapidly dying and will likely be gone within a generation.