Comment on Should I just quit urban and social life for a rural and lonely life?
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Your college/university should have a mental health office/help. It might feel awkward, but make the call. It might help, it might not. You may go in expecting nothing and gain incredible clarity.
Don’t drop out, but take a sabbatical for a semester or year. Check with your school to make sure you can just jump back in when/if you want to. If you graduate first and then take time off, it will be hard to stay sharp and relevant for the job market.
If you end up living in Bumfuck, Nowhere, look into setting up a 12v battery system, with a couple solar panels and charge controller. Easy to store enough energy for days of 12v lighting. I do it on my sailboat quite often.
Binge Primitive Technologies on youtube.
metaStatic@kbin.social 1 year ago
Primitive pottery is actually a woodworking channel, he just hasn't got enough iron to make a hammer yet.
elephantium@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Primitive…pottery? LOL!
I love the channel, but the guy is in the wrong part of the world for primitive iron-working.
FarceMultiplier@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I don’t understand where you are on that point. He’s in Australia, and their biggest export is iron ore concentrates. He’s got all the things he needs for primitive iron.
elephantium@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Huh, TIL. I thought Australia was relatively iron-poor, but you’re right about its exports.
Looking up Australia’s mineral resources, it looks like iron mining mostly happens in Western Australia. But Primitive Tech is filmed in Queensland, IIRC.
Regardless of where you find iron ore, he’s harvesting iron bacteria from a creek with limited success. It’s interesting to watch, but it sort of feels like “Here’s 56 ways not to start the Iron Age.”
stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world 1 year ago
He’s still tryin! Check out his last video (IIRC)
elephantium@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh! Did he just post a new one? Off to YT to check…