I second the Seed solar nodes, they have been great

Client_base is another option! The docs say it always rebroadcasts packets from or to its favorited nodes and handles all other traffic like normal client.

So it helps your personal/neighborhood mesh without the negative big picture effects you get if you set a home node on router or something

Gotta start somewhere, we were all inexperienced once. But yeah this is a case where you should take your time and learn what you’re doing

Right a big selling point for digital was the ability to make a ton of copies and not have to physically store it in a file cabinet or something

Back in the day there was a fire where they stored military records and a ton of “permenant” records went up in smoke

Really you need the ability to have both in case one fails

I agree and I do the same! Like others have said this is for someone who might have just learned the 4 safety rules for the first time and I didn’t want to dive into that just yet

Companies can do things without investors, but investors can’t do anything without companies.

If I invest in stock on my toilet at home I’m technically helping the company financially, but I’m not actually developing or making things of real economic value. I’m just betting they will and that their numbers will go up.

Look at finance! They don’t make anything of actual value, they just bet what’s going to happen to the people that do

It’s annoying but I take it as a sign that it’s working and marketing money is being wasted on me

Some people think it goes to nukes immediately. I don’t think so. It will stay sidelined like chemical weapons that were used in WW1 but avoided and unused in WW2.

The US does not have the industrial capability that it once had and has struggled with manufacturing of electronic components. Now maybe that can be changed, but maybe not fast enough to matter. But as far as current capability they got combat experience and are the only nation that has proven ability to project military power worldwide. As long as logistics keep up they can kick serious ass.

China makes a ton of stuff already, and that would make a hell of a wartime production rate that can scale too. Their military is untested, but large, new and growing. They are the gorilla in the room. Hell they might think Russia is the easier fish to fry and take them on first.

But there’s also the chance of everything falling apart where most nations desintigrate into a long term state of fracture with infighting and homeland problems overriding any possibility of winning a global fight, and therefore preventing a large world war like we’ve seen in the past. Rand calls it neomedievalism

https://everynoise.com/

This is one of the cooler websites I’ve found over the years

This reminds me of an old history book about how the Nazis took over Germany, and one section was about how they hired people. I’m going to quote it verbatim

“Conservatives, socialists and moderates had been ousted from virtually every organization and replaced by Nazi sympathisers. There had been a continuous clamor for ‘jobs for the boys’, and most of these party workers who were remotely worthy, and many who were quite unworthy, had been awarded posts. Germany was now largely controlled by social misfits, incompetents, cranks and sadists - and because most of these administrators could not in fact administer without guidance and control, the true power lay more and more than ever before with the central government.”

The best thing to do right now is to work with others and help build your local community so you have people and resources in case of hardship or emergency. Build and grow things. Be peaceful but have a plan if trouble comes to you.

My first thought was the flag patch, then “get your hands off the fucking panel”, then “why is his knee there”

The most memorable videos are the ones you can’t forget if you wanted to

Right there’s people you see on the range with tricked out rifles with hand picked components, and then there’s mall ninja bubba open carrying four pistols at the food court

There’s so many optics and rails and lights and slings and suppressors and triggers and grips out there. People that get into it spend a ton of time min maxing their setups for competition, home defense, long range or whatever else suits their fancy

And that’s just the guns themselves. But there is a difference betweem gun nerd and gun nut as others have said

Many current gun owners aren’t affected by what is going on, and the people that are affected haven’t decided to become gun owners so far.

If you’re an american citizen you (yes you!) have gun rights just like you have any other right. You don’t need to be a car person to safely use a car, or a tech wizard to use your phone. You can have essential equipment and skill with firearms and still be a normal person.

I’m paraphrasing but Deviant Ollam once said owning and knowing how to use a gun is the difference between being peaceful and being helpless

And you suspect DDG first and not the social media company known for spying on everyone?

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Wait you can do that?

Ice isn’t so bad unless you step on smooth rocks

Humans: Lets make EVERYTHING like smooth rock!