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  • Lots of people do that. It's how they end up in crippling debt.

  • OK, let me rephrase, because i'm misrepresenting the book.

    Colonizing Mars is extremely, insanely complex and we have no idea how to even start, and there are SO many better places that we need to try first unless we're just willing to throw away lives (and trillions of dollars). It goes pretty deeply into all the stuff we either don't know but need to know, or know but can't fix, and of course there's all the stuff we don't know we don't know. It discusses the insane logistical effort you need just get the bare minimum going, and how it's not remotely like living there for a year, or colonizing a new country.

  • There's a great book called "A City on Mars" and it's mostly about stuff like this. Why colonizing mars is absolutely stupid

  • Also, have you seen how HUGE the thing was?

  • Brick walls are OK, you'll get through baked clay with most drills (eventually). My current ceiling might as well be a bunker though, I'm so glad I've got a basic 1800 watt hammer drill.

    Isn't still not exactly easy, but it will get through.

  • Especially when it's super basic stuff. You don't need a lathe or a planer for DYI stuff, and you don't need four kinds of saw and three sanding machines. They're nice to have, but you can do almost everything with sandpaper and a handsaw and a mediocre set of screwdrivers if you take the time.

    But how can you live without a power drill? I'm Dutch, so all the houses here are brick and concrete, and basically nobody owns a good pneumatic drill. If you live in a house where a little 18V battery drill with a vibrate function works, that's great, but a large group of people just accept that they can never make a hole in a wall ever.

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  • Going from 20 to 21 takes 7 years, going from 37 to 38 takes 10 weeks.

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  • Silence Unknown Callers and Filter Unknown Senders on iPhone.

    Doesn't iphone have a "auto silence spam callers" function? The one Android is amazingly good.

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  • Are there? I find unlocking my phone takes more time than shaking.

    Since I have a shake-for-light feature, I've started using it numerous times every day.

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  • Wifi spectrum analysis is so useful, because despite all the routers being "smart" they somehow still suck ass at picking an empty(er) band.

  • Go to gym

    Pick up heavy disc

    Brain turn off

    Realize that I can chose to stop rethinking the thoughts I've already thought and replanning the things I've already planned.

    Find that that's WAY harder when I'm not physically active.

    Get healthy mentally AND physically

  • No distractions. Of course "shit will come up". Accept it. Don't react. Let it pass.

    And if this is hard, then feel free to react. React once, and move on. If you've got that covered, you already went from dozens of reactions to one, and the next step will be easy.

  • Let me break down that comment.

    So, you want to feel better about yourself, but only through supernatural means?

    And when I point out that that is getting in your way to achieving what you call "enlightenment", you not only straight il refuse, but insist that magic is definitely a potential correct path.

    And you cover it all with a nice sauce of insulting my intelligence.

    You have a VERY long road ahead, and you're currently walking at a right angle to it.

  • Love this blog! There's a great resource for world-building and a wonderful section how some very basic things like bread or iron making actually work in real life in the middle ages.

    In a similar way, I can really recommend the "timetravellers guide to" books.

  • I know that was sarcasm, but stop thinking about it in pseudoscientific religious nonsense terms like "spiritual" and "*enlightenment".

    You're a human, humans can be figured out, we're not magic.

  • Growing and using your own poppy seems efficient

  • It's certainly better than the reverse.

  • Maybe you're just really bad at it?

  • This entire thread is a gigantic Yo Momma joke, only real