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by aklemm 5y ago
What if prepping is an over correction against our increasing detachment from nature and the fundamental skills of living? In this case, preppers would be better off hiking, hunting, fishing, gardening, and learning homestead skills for the
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by aklemm 5y ago
There might not be one because a morality requires considering others, but simply pursuing knowledge does not. Unfortunately, you’ll soon have to reckon with how that knowledge affects your actions in order to call it a morality.
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That's awesome.
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by aklemm 5y ago
Well this and the thread are fascinating. At first I was excited by a succinct little rebuttal to the world that wants me to follow a bunch of nonsensical details and rules, but HN is pushing back pretty hard. lol
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by aklemm 5y ago
This is a good one not mentioned often enough.
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A group tennis class or a soccer team or ultimate frisbee could be more useful.
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> I need to do more research Where will you publish the study?
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Apocryphal and dubious. Likely a myth to prop up the collective confidence in being breeding stock.
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by aklemm 5y ago
You're thinking of "splouge" (too much).
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Putin is a particular kind of evil; the autocratic, personally liable kind. He murders and jails opposition, which I find more abhorrent than the bureaucratic and societal evils of American power. While American atrocities have equaled auto
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by aklemm 5y ago
That was the first time I’ve ever read something that seemed plausible but also made me feel like I was being carefully sucked into a Q-anon type world of “analysis” and “reporting”.
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Seconding Google Maps for ratings.
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Exactly. One prize of playing diabolically is you get to apply a double standard to your opponent. Works great for them.
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It seems to me the fatalism comes from the game-theory side of it; when your enemy has no ideals except beating you, his diabolical tactics really undermine morale.
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That assumes the immigrants don't become part of the tax-paying economy, which they have a great record of doing.
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by aklemm 5y ago
When I was a teenager a guy at the gas station in my small town pulled up with a petrified femur bone taking up the entire trunk of his big sedan. It was found in a nearby quarry, and I guess no one wanted to report it so as not to disrupt
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by aklemm 5y ago
I'm curious what you mean by "empty promises"? If it's what I hope it means, those are things I experience as thwarted dreams instead.
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Dürer was unknown to me until I took a community-based art class. What a genius. His innovations in perspective inspire me considering 1493 is both so long ago and so recent at the same time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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by aklemm 5y ago
This is EXACTLY my experience. I took an adult learning class at a community art center and it almost literally opened my eyes. On day one, we were to draw an egg and mine looked awful. The instructor said I draw like a child, which really
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by aklemm 5y ago
From a culinary perspective, packed in oil tend to be tastier.
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by aklemm 5y ago
> a week dedicated to all waking hours doing a variety of exercises What does this mean? A blast of energy every hour? How many minutes?
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by aklemm 5y ago
So fun to see someone start the journey. Enjoy.
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Sure, but would it be worth it? I suspect yes; the alternative is continued population growth leaving very little natural world on the entire planet and all of us eating an industrially farmed diet.
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Is this helpful? I mean, we’ve already passed the point of too much natural habitat lost and too much industrial ag needed, so I think a number less then our current population is reasonable.
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by aklemm 5y ago
Remove tax deductions for more than two kids per couple. Tax the suburbs more highly. Encourage couples to only have two kids just like we encourage people not to litter. Trade less with countries with high birth rates and raise fees on tho
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by aklemm 5y ago
Fewer people is the answer. Is there a way to humanely, ethically, and justly limit the population? Conventionally, talking heads seem to indicate the right way forward is to use tech and industrial agriculture to support 20bn+ on the plane
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by aklemm 5y ago
Can someone provide context for this?
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I would guess this has to do with maneuverability. It's very hard to back up a trailer when the drive vehicle wheelbase is long compared to the trailer. Adding a bunch of tongue length helps a lot.
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by aklemm 5y ago
Sign up on iOS isn’t working for me. I put in the code, it looks like its going to work then it just asks me for the code again. Also, I found a big even before that. When you start typing your phone number, the process will lock up if you
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by aklemm 5y ago
Are you American? I feel like Americans have almost completely abandoned the near-axiomatic points you made here.

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