guyrocket

joined 2 years ago
[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We value you regardless, guazzabuglio.

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Apocolpse probably needs something stronger like distilling skills.

Or how to make edibles.

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Interesting, I will have to check that out.

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

I will now tell people I have a millionaire's phone plan.

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Yes, I could. But that allows the phone company to be lazy about coverage and building their network. The primary reason I pay a monthly cell phone bill is for a good network.

It also gets into security issues that are different from cellular network use.

And what if my internet is down and I have an emergency?

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I wonder if a book along these lines already exists. The nearest I can think of is The Art of Manliness website.

I would probably buy a book that covered a lot of the basic skills needed for a society if it were done well. I want to try a lot of those things like smelting, house construction, metalworking, etc. I'm sure books exist for each of these but I doubt one book tries to give overviews of all.

Also an interesting question: What ARE the skills needed for a civilization? Start from skills needed when dropped off alone in the wilderness and work your way up to "needing" bureuacrats.

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago (12 children)

I have both a smartphone and a flip phone.

I kept both because the flip phone lets me make phone calls from my basement and many other places that the smartphone cannot.

I have never met anyone else with this setup.

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

That is interesting.

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 20 points 2 years ago (5 children)

That is an odd phrase, isn't it? I wonder why we say that.

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Happy birds.

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

If everything at the library falls under free and the internet archive and wikipedia stay available then yes.

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

The smart employees are scarce on Friday afternoon.

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