Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed?

biofaust@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• feddup@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The definition of succeeding just becomes not dying.

  source

  • biofaust@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Given the rate at which people would become mentally or physically disabled because of diseases, you could argue it would have a network effect (probably a better term exists): I would have more chances to meet people and influence them, to learn something useful, to accumulate and use wealth for the above, so yeah…

    source
  • nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Everyone dies. You just get to try to make the leaderboards, if that’s your thing. There isn’t a killscreen that we know of.

    source
• Kookie215@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Now you’re a witch

  source

  • biofaust@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That would be a warlock I guess.

    source
• jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Where do you wash your hands? Hope you brought a big bottle of disinfectant.

  source

  • biofaust@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Running water would allow for 30% reduction in bacteria, according to some sources.

    Also, in that time period soap was known in Spain, France and Italy, and I personally made it in the summer using either olive oil or pork fat.

    source

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      you can make impromptu harsh soap by just washing your hands with some wood ash, your hands will probably be chronically dry and red but at least you can definitely have reliably clean hands and tools, combined with wearing some thin leather gloves whenever you’re outside the home.

      source
    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you’re lucky enough to be middle class you might get easy access to soap and olive oil

      source
  • Soggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Crude soap is easy to make. Wood ash + water + fat. From there you just fiddle with ratios and timing while trying not to burn your skin off with strong alkalinity.

    source

    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Thanks, that will be useful knowledge to have when it happens to me

      source

      • Soggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It can also just be a fun hobby. Old-fashioned soap making is a very approachable historical craft. (Modern soap making is also very approachable if you’re comfortable handling lye)

        source
  • Thavron@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Any body of sufficiently rapidly running water should suffice.

    source