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For context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster

And in summary: Soviets build nuclear weapons plant with the usual Soviet care for safety. It predictably goes wrong, but since the effects only hit the Soviet Union, they cover it up till practically the end of their nation.

You can engage targets at any range, as long as they’re big enough

Columbus was convinced the world was a lot smaller than it is, and a lot smaller than pretty much everyone with more than 2 braincells said it was. So, since the world is small, and getting to India from Spain requires a long detour around Africa, with the hardest part going against the prevailing winds. He figured he’d just go west and get to India from the other side.

And, being the luckiest bastard in the entire Iberian peninsula, he didn’t end up lost in a giant ocean of nothing, but instead found land only slightly beyond where he calculated India to be.

Except of course it wasn’t. He’d go his entire life denying he was wrong though.

I would teach rich bastards the errors of their ways just for the love of the game.

It is. Being a hunter gatherer is significantly worse, but you won’t find many reenactors who will go for a weekend of prehistory.

If that sounds like a lot, it’s 12 euros in the Netherlands.

Block .ml won’t block comments from their members in other instances, unfortunately.

I invite everyone who holds this opinion to go do some reenactment. The earlier the better, but really, anything pre 1800s will do for an idea of what life was before modernity.

Being nomadic hunter/gatherers was so amazing, we invented subsistence agriculture just to get away from it. And people would abandon subsidence agriculture in favour of a career as a beggar/day laborer.

So yeah, have fun going back to that.

Now write it a hundred times

time is the one resource Big Tech steals that we can’t ever get back.

That’s an odd argument, since DIY takes significantly more time than just buying a solution.

By… Stepping outside and talking to people? I think all neighborhoods have that ability, even if we don’t really use it much.

Because you, and everyone, is in a huge bubble.

Normal people don’t give a shit where stuff is hosted, or if it’s hosted at all. The vast majority of people couldn’t care less what happens to their catpics if their phone gets crushed and they don’t want to use a separate messaging platform just to talk to you.

The things you think are important absolutely don’t matter to them. Most people don’t give a single second of thought to where their documents should live, and will just download it again on a second device instead of synchronizing anything.

It’s really nice that these things exist, but why would someone do anything with them if they literally don’t have a purpose for it?