Everyone's Dream
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Whenever this get posted people comment about ACKTUALLY this is bad because no food/water/electricity or whatever but I think we're missing the point. If you magically woke up one day and had rightful ownership of this land and this house, presumably getting out of paying housing costs or rent, well, if that happened to me that would be the highest point of my life so far. Solving the problems of all the other stuff you wouldn't have is still a more realistically solvable problem than trying to make a sustainable income in the face of rigged housing costs in this absolute clown show of a society we live in.
Honestly, I'd be ecstatic with owning any property right now....
The fact that I'm not only not alone in this, but the sentiment is held by a statistically significant percentage of people.... That is the problem.
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Nah, fuck this. This isolationist mentality from larpers is what lead us to this fucking mess. This is fucking terrible, and people shouldn't be living in this shit, and 99% of those who tried know it.
Damn. God forbid people romanticize having some peace and quiet.
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In the winter you freeze your ass while in the summer the smell will floor you.
Solution is to settle in the tropics. No winters and you will smell all year round, all other smells will be masked.
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I wonder if there's some sort of oil you can pour over it so the scent molecules can't escape into the air
Petrol maybe
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Damn. God forbid people romanticize having some peace and quiet.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I mean yeah... cities aren't loud, cars are loud.
I live in a village but between semi-trucks, loud motorcycles, and trucks with mufflers modified to be louder that you can hear from miles as they motor away... it's too loud for how much nowhere there is here, particularly during midday.
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We all just want to be left alone, in some form or other. Ironically, in order to be left alone, we need to ban together.
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Petrol maybe
And the Molotov Crap-tail is born. We did it.
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Well that and food. Might need food to survive.
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Okay, I'm drawing a line in the fucking sand, here. Do not read the Latin.
Do not read the Latin.
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I guess starlink is your only choice then? Or some other ISP that can extort you, since its your only option in the countryside?
Could meshtastic reach 56K?
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Do not read the Latin.
Counterpoint: you used to be lonely, but now that you have summoned your "friend" you will never ever be alone (now matter how much you try)!
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Well that and food. Might need food to survive.
Theres food in the forest, I'll need a oversized soaking tub.
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A poo bucket is not nearly as bad as it sounds. (Saw dust and distance keep the smell down.)
Otherwise, great list.
you have not smelt my brand
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you eat bismuth subgallate and it neutralizes the scent when you digest. it's for people with missing digestive tracts.
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Theres food in the forest, I'll need a oversized soaking tub.
You gotta pick a fuckton of berries and hunt a lot of squirrels unless you have both the acres and knowledge to actually farm and homestead.
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We all just want to be left alone, in some form or other. Ironically, in order to be left alone, we need to ban together.
You are absolutely right. Our world is imbalanced.
We are a social creature, we are such a social creature shaped by millions of years of cooperative survival, that we literally fall apart and die without social identity. We have "loneliness epidemics" while being more connected to each other than we could have ever imagined.
We desperately need social support, not just from friends and family but from communities. The whole "single family home" is a brand new concept in human society, we used to all live in villages where we knew each other, before that, huge tents and dugouts where we piled together and talked and cooked on fires together and shagged like animals day and night. We raised our kids as a community and nobody ever felt alone or adrift, and in fact being expelled from your community was one of the harshest punishments anyone could do to you.
So why are we all retreating to discord chats and AI text predictors? Why do we want to avoid our neighbors so desperately that we want to remove ourselves even further from our societies?
We are sad because we are alone, and we are alone because we are sad, and we have massive corporate machines pouring every placating, dopamine-numbing distraction down our gullets so we don't actually start hanging out and socializing and forming communities again. If we did that, we might start sharing ideas and motivations and we might start changing systems... can't have that! So best to keep reinforcing isolation. Show big, empty minimalist homes with huge TV screens as your "peak" goal in life, having isolated cabins in the woods with all the amenities as a measure of success. We run from people who think different instead of trying to convince them to be better and we argue with people ostensibly on our side and we get so stressed by it all that we do everything we can to turn off actual conscious, narrative thought.
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you eat bismuth subgallate and it neutralizes the scent when you digest. it's for people with missing digestive tracts.
Haha TIL!
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Pass, I like being able to walk to the store and concerts and stuff. Maybe with the hydroponics and aeroponics boom everybody can just live in a city and leave nature alone?
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You gotta pick a fuckton of berries and hunt a lot of squirrels unless you have both the acres and knowledge to actually farm and homestead.
Depending on where you are long pork is an option, people go missing in national parks all the time what's a few more?
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Depending on where you are long pork is an option, people go missing in national parks all the time what's a few more?
wrote last edited by [email protected]While I was going to make a point about diseases being transmittable through human meat, it did remind me that CWD, or Zombie Deer Disease is raging across now a third of the US or so, and a huge swath of Canada as well. It's a prion disease, not a virus or bacteria, there is no cure or antidote, cannot be cooked out and can even survive autoclaves, and it's 100% fatal over time, and we have no real good idea how it's spreading or how readily it can be transmitted to humans. (There have already been some infections.)
If you do ever end up in the woods, do not eat the deer unless you're starving and even then, avoid lymph nodes, brains and organ meat generally. Even still they think it can be spread from blood.
