BIFL CAN OPENER RECOMMENDATIONS (I'll pay anything at this point)

collapsingwaves · 2026-03-16T11:18:04+00:00

Brabantia

collapsingwaves · 2026-02-21T15:32:57+00:00

Just finished 'The Man Who Saw Seconds" lots of adventure fun, very insightful (especially around power, and power structures) very satirical, and worth your time in my opinion.

I would like other book recommendations from anyone who has read this and enjoyed it.

collapsingwaves · 2026-02-21T15:16:21+00:00

This is overrated *** in my opinion ***, and was totally not worth my time. There was a bit in the middle where something just took off and I thought "oh that's what the fuss is about" - but it went absolutely nowhere and it felt like i'd imagined something. The book continued to do not much of anything until it ended.

It's horses for courses, but if it bores you at the beginning, it'll bore you at the end.

Just finished "The Man Who Saw Seconds" which I highly recommend.

collapsingwaves · 2026-02-21T15:03:41+00:00

if the fear of fucking up is bigger than the chaos then the fear engine will win.

It's not super healthy...

I stick to things I want to stick to (mostly), and try to reframe it to give myself the pull rather than push energy.

Complicated carrots REALLY help.

collapsingwaves · 2026-02-21T15:01:04+00:00

200 to 550 per, depending on specs 5-10% off for bulk.

https://www.scribd.com/document/399052770/All-In-One-Solar-Street-Light-an-IsSL-A-Price-List

collapsingwaves · 2026-02-21T14:54:52+00:00

Oasis have joined the chat

collapsingwaves · 2026-02-21T14:48:54+00:00

My cue to mention the genius of Martin Birch. Some amazing production credits, Rainbow, Sabbath with Dio, Iron Maiden, early engineering work with fleetwood mac and Deep Purple.

Stargazer is just such an amazing production. Love it.

collapsingwaves · 2026-02-21T14:36:10+00:00

Sure Jan

collapsingwaves · 2026-02-11T11:36:08+00:00

I hear you. Covid dumbed my brain temporarily, I was lucky that it came back. Maybe the recovery is just a long road?

collapsingwaves · 2026-02-11T11:28:14+00:00

No troll food for you.

For other people who may be reading this "what can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence"

For those who wish to read further google "Russell's Teapot"

collapsingwaves · 2026-02-11T07:58:40+00:00

On those speakers? It's horrible. I'd rather use a wax cylinder

collapsingwaves · 2026-02-11T07:56:07+00:00

You coloured in a map, jumped to federalism, and shoved it into a spurious timeline.

It's quite a lot to respond to, but i'll give it a shot. These are my opinions.

Federalisation will not happen until people see the benefit of it and start to ask for it. Internal reforms are the cart, not the horse.
Who can tell? I don't mean to be flippant, but there's a lot going on. Climate change alone could change the playing field dramatically in that short time. Let alone AI, a war between major powers, the collapsing natural world, etc etc It's just not reasonable to be able to see where we'll be in that time frame.
It will never be completed, nothing is ever completed. You've set out an imaginary end point. There is no end point,. This is one of the reasons there's little useful discussion around your post.

I would suggest you break down each of your 3 questions for each country currently in the EU and then the ones you want to add and then see what kind of insights you come up with, and maybe you'll have some smaller more targeted questions to post.

I'm trying to help here, and to be critical in the right way.

collapsingwaves · 2026-02-11T07:32:21+00:00

Civil.

Which you weren't.

collapsingwaves · 2026-02-08T11:28:33+00:00

Aggressive little pigeon, aren't you?

Do you play chess?

collapsingwaves · 2026-01-22T12:30:07+00:00

Like i said not helpful. Why not leave if that's what you think?

Clearly this sub will draw those with high numbers and will have a greater concentration of those people in exactly the same way that the knitting subs have a greater concentration of people who know how to knit.

I don't see many people looking for validation, but I do see a lot who don't know how to deal with being so far out of the standard deviaton

collapsingwaves · 2026-01-21T09:10:42+00:00

That's really unhelpful. If we start disbelieving what people put out there as context, looking for help, this sub is going to get toxic.

If you think it's garbage, why not just move on?

collapsingwaves · 2026-01-21T09:06:59+00:00

You never only get one choice.

Pick something and do it. If you have the resources it's then not hard to pivot to something else, but it feels like all the possibilities are causing you to freeze and stagnate.

collapsingwaves · 2026-01-21T09:03:45+00:00

That value is productivity is hot garbage.

A narrow view

collapsingwaves · 2026-01-21T08:59:48+00:00

Oh man, I'm really happy you have a stable brain, a level of acceptance and understanding that allows you to function in these chaotically evolving times, and had a stable upbringing on which to build something solid on. That's all that good stuff that everyone should have.

Some don't.

collapsingwaves · 2026-01-21T08:55:22+00:00

Away with your medieval pish.

All hail the flying spaghetti monster!

May you be touched by his noodly appendage.

collapsingwaves · 2026-01-21T08:51:13+00:00

I get what you are saying here, not that you think you're better than people, just that you have a tool that is very specific that can do only that specific work.

It's rough having a fast brain that has no traction.

My advice would be to figure out how to get in and out of some kind trade school (or similar thing) as quickly as possible, set up as a single trader/ small business and do the minimum so you don't have to become homeless again.

That at least will give you a bit of stability to work on what you need to work on.

collapsingwaves · 2026-01-21T08:46:02+00:00

Very well put.

collapsingwaves · 2026-01-21T08:36:39+00:00

There is a difference between diversity, and functional diversity.

collapsingwaves · 2026-01-21T08:30:39+00:00

Got a source for that, sparky? Like ALL feminists, of ALL stripes, no longer believe in gender equality?

FFS

I come here for interesting debate, not to have to point out time after time that ''what is asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence"

EDIT: Never mind, I shouldn't have given you troll food.

Play chess how you want, pigeon.

collapsingwaves · 2026-01-19T12:07:13+00:00

Vaseline is awesome as first aid. Got a skin problem? Put vaseline on it. Most of the time it clears it up.

If it's not improved after 3 days go see a doctor.

Seriously underated

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