KevonLooney

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I know. This other dude doesn't. Expensive camping gear is just lighter by a few oz. Just carry less.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago (6 children)

https://www.amazon.com/Coleman-Sundome-3-Person-Dome-Tent/dp/B019N9W6EQ

These will last 20 years. They haven't even changed the design.

Also, why are you camping in crazy ass weather? Like I said, a tarp is even cheaper and better when it's hot.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (9 children)

You can get a good tent for $50, or a tarp and some rope for $30. You can get all your camping stuff for $1000. Less is more with camping.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Yeah, just block any unknown numbers. Who do you actually have calling you that you don't know?

If they are blocked they'll leave a message: "Call me". It's like no one has ever heard of screening calls with an answering machine.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

But it doesn't even say "Sign in" in German. It says "Das Bootton" because someone thought it would be funny and never changed it.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago (14 children)

Actually the front end stuff is more like "we need to make the 'sign in' button bigger. No one can click it because it's tiny, and it's in German."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I think you're just wearing that look wrong:

You can make almost anything look great, but it's a skill.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Competition lowers prices because ideally no one has a lot of "market share". Think about a small farm community where 10 people have chickens, 10 people have pigs, 10 people grow wheat, 10 people grow carrots, etc. Maybe everyone grows potatoes or something, so those aren't sold at the market. They're just eaten.

This is a situation where no one person can control the price of things, but they still fluctuate based on supply and demand. Say it's Christmas and everyone wants to make egg nog. The cost of eggs and cream will rise because farmers can't just increase the amount of eggs and milk produced. Say there's a crop sickness and half of the wheat dies. The price of wheat will rise, since farmers can't make enough to satisfy the demand for bread.

After both of these problems have passed, the prices will come back down because no one person controls more than 10% of the price for their goods. If one person charged $6 per dozen eggs after Christmas was over (everyone else charges $5, as normal), they would not sell very many eggs. The average price is not increasable by one person. And any one person could quickly sell all their eggs just by charging slightly less. (This assumes that goods are interchangeable in quality.)

[–] [email protected] 83 points 8 months ago (10 children)

People who invest are betting that the problems can be solved by a new team or when the company is sold to Facebook.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

On some apps you can block specific words. Block the words "Elon" and "Musk" and you'll never miss anything important.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This guy is 100% correct. There's no way you will ever be able to start the "industrial revolution". There's not enough people mining coal or metal ores. There's not enough organization to do any of that.

These are the technical dreams of children. The world wasn't organized enough to even support feudalism. The average person was a subsistence farmer who made a little extra grain to turn into alcohol. They lived in family groups and barely knew what the emperor looked like.

You may already know more important ideas that you use in your everyday life. You probably: wash your hands, wash your clothes, bathe regularly in fresh water with soap and wash your hair, filter or boil water to clean it, use the restroom away from where you eat, know that alcohol kills germs, and most importantly know that you should stay away from someone who's sick. These things make you as knowledgeable as the best doctors in Rome.

If you payed attention in elementary school, you may have a better understanding of astronomy than the best Roman minds. You may know enough mathematics to chat with Archimedes himself. You already know a superior numbering system to what the Romans used. Literally anything you remember from school would be priceless.

If you bring anything, just make it a telescope and a book of Roman history. Give the telescope to the emperor.Tell everyone you're a messenger of Minerva or something. They'll put you in a temple where you can invent a sandwich one year and a toasted sandwich the next. Use the book to stay out of trouble.

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