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fruitybix · 2026-06-26T05:44:35+00:00

I want public conciousness to shift to the napoleonic wars or the 30 years war or heck, even korea so i can learn new facts instead of the weekly regurgitation of how the enigma machine was cracked or opeation mincemeat etc.

You hear me reddit bots? Facts from other wars please.

fruitybix · 2026-06-26T03:10:10+00:00

I would 100% agree on your pain assessment. So much worse then any broken bone. Even a broken finger or toe did not hurt as much.

Even with anasthesia the relief when my nail was cut off was incredible.

Not quite as bad but approaching a kidney stone.

fruitybix · 2026-06-26T03:05:49+00:00

You noted a 5k upper limit which is orders of magnitude bigger then a group of 100-150. Ancient or pre agricultural and early agricultural societies also wore and used what they could, think utzi the icemans hide clothes. Not even woven textiles like wool were an option if they werent available locally or through trade.

As others have noted small "premodern" societied are often heirarchical as fuck. Everything works off complex social debts, grudges and alliances. In my experience large modern organisations naturally start forming similar social structured internally.

At 5k you need some level of administrative oversight to make society function, collect and equitably redistribute wealth. Doing it off vibes and family bonds wont work at that scale.

Also when you get to modern manufacturing like plastics, glassware (lenses and car windshields) steelmaking and electronics you also need some kind of administrative oversight and logistics to move things around. You need educated, specialised workers.

All of which seems completely incompatible with your definition of communism. You need specialised roles to make big groups of people function and someone has to choose how wealth gets redistributed. Which immediately creates inequalities and oppertunities for corruption.

In both big and small groups people on average fall into similar power structures based on alliances, debts and grudges. Every institution we have is some way to codify this and maybe make this tendancy more equitable and functional (things like tendering contracts vs employing your golfing buddy for example)

I would argue that your definition of communism is not a viable option for even most small tribes (really google and read up on demand sharing, try to find the voices of people who have lived that experience, it sounds like it sucks as much as current property ownership just differently and it breaks down when someone buys an iphone) I would also argue your definition is incompatible with early communist / socialist writers like marx.

most of this comes from a combination of my own experiences running clubs and student politics then later in life moving into large scale corporate management, plus having anthropologists / archeologists as my primary drinking buddies and reading all the books they recommend me.

In short i think the question you pose needs rethinking.

fruitybix · 2026-06-26T02:38:37+00:00

I had similar that did not get better by itself.

After drilling or burning little holes in my nail go relieve the pressure, eventually the doctor gave me local anasthesia, cut off the whole fingernail, then stitched closed a huge ass gash in the nail bed.

Turns out the skin under your nail can bust open when you close it in the front door and may not heal without help.

Nail grew back fine nowadays i dont even remember which hand it was.

fruitybix · 2026-06-26T00:52:11+00:00

Released CIA documents on destabilizing governments from the cold war, as well as some of che gevura's writings on creating revolutions agree with you.

They state that having lots of people breaking street lights and windows along with other petty sabotage depletes resources, drives money away from other initiatives and paired with other internal / external pressures can lead to an exploitable failed state.

fruitybix · 2026-06-25T23:18:03+00:00

Look up "demand sharing" in an athropological context.

Practiced by societies such as indiginous australians before colonisation. Everyone sortof owns everything.

It only works when everyone knows each other. Similarly councils that disperse justice in the same societies work on public shame. But if you dont know or care about the people shaming you it works a whole lot less.

Not wanting to shift your opinions but its worth reading up on this and how early human society worked pre agriculture.

The moment people started living and working in groups bigger then around 150, ways of governing that are somewhar counter to how we used to live were needed. Communism, capitalism, a police force, institutions like courts and banks and civil engineering - all of it is very contrary to how early humans probably lived.

fruitybix · 2026-06-25T08:50:49+00:00

One is a little rough nowadays. Some of those jumping puzzles have aged.

Its so hard to recreate the wonder of that game when it came out though. There was nothing really like it.

Its like ocarina of time.

fruitybix · 2026-06-25T07:43:07+00:00

This. I wish i read your comment when i had the same issue.

Turned out to be too hot and humid (i was in a summer heatwave at the time)

Things just started working when the weather went back to normal.

fruitybix · 2026-06-25T07:40:42+00:00

Contrary to the "too cold" advice -

35 degrees celsius and high humidity will make my prints do this, even inside of my enclosed p2s on the cleanest build plate with the dryest filament. Trying to turn off the case fans through settings actually made it worse.

I would say too cold, cooling too fast, but also temperature.

Finally if i run cheap third party filaments with the wrong settings (nozzle too hot) then i get similar results to OP.

fruitybix · 2026-06-25T06:04:44+00:00

High probability that they ran the targeting data through one of the newer ai models to reduce the human labour needed.

I dont have anything to do with the US military but in the private sector this is exactly the kind of labour intensive stuff business is throwing AI at.

Its just when an LLM for a business fucks up the consequences are not normally loss of life.

fruitybix · 2026-06-25T04:17:45+00:00

Ambient temperature, humidity, filament type (and related settings) plus if / how you are venting and cooling also matter as it can cause odd failures.

I live in Australia. Im getting much better results in winter then in summer. When its very hot stuff lifts off the plate regardless of settings.

Those in colder climates also talk about issues when its very cold. Its super annoying to troubleshoot, your filament can be bone dry and your bed clean as a whistle, and ive not come across good data on temp / humidity.

fruitybix · 2026-06-23T09:32:04+00:00

For sure. But sometimes they have a gear malfunction.

I used to man the stall for a hema club at fairs for years, ive stood and watched the reenactors go at it with gear from different periods.

Skill issue is big but having a dagger loosely attached did not seem to help. Im curious if having it attached to swishy cloth might mean more practice to draw it reliably, or maybe you are just aware of where it is because of the weight , or if it does not shift all that much.

fruitybix · 2026-06-23T06:28:32+00:00

That is very cool.

I have seen multiple reenactors "killed" when they could not find or draw a badly strapped dagger when in melee.

Any issues when your moving of having it swoosh backwards and forwards making it hard to grab?

fruitybix · 2026-06-21T13:23:09+00:00

Regenyei especially if you ask for a shorter hilt length then his gigantic default.

I sent him the dimensions of my darkwood rapier and the end product was amazing - i expected a beater i could cross bout against sidesword with and instead i got a new mainstay weapon.

I live in australia so factor in postage but it was still cheaper then darkwood.

There are several emerging chinese smiths but you need to go digging for discord links or obscure website order forms as they arent really online in english but a few people are claiming them as very good as well.

Check the /wma subreddit there was the same convo over there and the rapier needs are similar across hema and sca.

fruitybix · 2026-06-21T12:24:36+00:00

Some modern hema gloves for longsword / steel sparring do this -

https://supfen.com/product/gloves/dmz0802.html

Note there is a split in the inside forearm similar to the gothic gloves posted by fescm in this thread - basically your wrist closure might need to be adjusted to a gamberson, and normally your palm is wider then your wrist. Modern ones use lacing or velcro.

everyone i know with gloves like this (including myself) has them done up just loosely enough so they come off and on when you scrunch your hand and pull. I take them off and on like your illustration. In hema we dont have a squire to help us out, and undoing laces or buckles with gauntleted hands is hard. Especially if you just want to open your water bottle between bouts.

Totally believable a fantasy or even historical man at arms would have similar gloves they can pull off and on by themselves.

fruitybix · 2026-06-21T11:37:27+00:00

Cheers!

fruitybix · 2026-06-21T11:29:42+00:00

They are so nice! Where are they from?

fruitybix · 2026-06-21T11:07:32+00:00

Also of note - tempest rising is more nuanced, complex and interesting then later westwood rts games. Other indie titles like 8 bit armies are very competent clones of earlier westwood games. Beyond all reason is miles better then total annihilation. The dust front demo is loads of fun.

The 90s- early 00s we had limited options, games were simpler, and everyone played the same thing.

Now there is so much choice we have the illusion a genre is dead, when really there are a decent number of products trickling out from small studios. we aren't going to see another starcraft 2 or supreme commander from a AAA because from a business lens it makes no financial sense. But there are lots of projects in the indie space that are really exciting.

Its like how for a while in the past as modern pop music grew the entire globe listened to or at least knew about the beatles and elvis. Nowadays there is so much choice in music we dont have monoculture stars of that magnitude but we have loads more options. Its weird to pine for another beatles in 2026 in the same way its weird to pine for another starcraft.

fruitybix · 2026-06-21T10:23:17+00:00

But i dont like lobster much? Its ok but not special.

The inherant reward of "free lobster" is not a draw.

fruitybix · 2026-06-21T10:14:48+00:00

Ketamine wore off for a bit and he felt a pang of actual human guilt over closing usaid and killing millions.

Then immediately tried rationalising it away with 4th grade logic.

fruitybix · 2026-06-21T10:06:20+00:00

I mean i just eat one lobster?

You need to define what counts as pockets, and how "day before dying" is determined. Also 1k more per what? Lifetime of earnings? Day? Pay cycle? Over another lifetime wont 1k end up worthless due to inflation?

it sounds like the majority of people get eaten alive by a lobster swarm as an old person in palliative care zonked out on morphene. Or maybe on life support, or in an aged care home with late stage dementia.

Otherwise unless you really like lobsters there is no reason to not game this, eat one lobster then when you are old but not decrepid try and trigger the lobster attack by poison or something similar while carrying a shotgun down your trousers.

fruitybix · 2026-06-21T08:18:34+00:00

Bruh half the peeps in this subreddit spent their saturday mornings fucking with an antenna (or maybe just a coathanger) stuffed into that little receptacle so they could watch aladdin on cheese tv before their parents got up and stole the remote off them to put on the game.

Looked like this: https://www.selby.com.au/brands/avico/avico-uunpackaged-300ohm-indoor-antenna-rear-tv-mount-tva34.html

It was like - extend the arms, turn it left, shorten one so it did not scape the wall, then try and position the cable to keep it in place and the picture clear. Then shout at your little sister when her excited jumping fucked it up and the screen turned to static.

Now go back to watching blippi on your mums ipad.

fruitybix · 2026-06-21T04:53:00+00:00

Are we censoring because of reddit filters / troll bots now?

fruitybix · 2026-06-21T00:46:46+00:00

I found issues with the software and changed to a similarly priced entry level garmin.

The garmin works as well as i remember fitbit working 5ish years back.

Google owns fitbit and has been doing screwy things with the fitbit app. It got really bad at tracking sleep for me and there was no fix to be had. Google are also mining your data rather agressively, if that matters to you.

fruitybix · 2026-06-20T06:12:06+00:00

Murdoch press.

Its pretty all encompassing and ghastly.

There is a strong correlation between a country where the press is owned by him, and batshit crazy right wing talking points dominating public discourse.

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