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 ⁨days⁩ ago

• feddup@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The definition of succeeding just becomes not dying.

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  • biofaust@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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…

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  • nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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• Kookie215@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Now you’re a witch

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  • biofaust@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That would be a warlock I guess.

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• jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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  • Soggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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      • Soggy@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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)

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  • biofaust@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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  • Thavron@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Any body of sufficiently rapidly running water should suffice.

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