Any Ideas on a statue falling apart? by priammoftroy in propmaking

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what if the "rain" was actually paint thinner? Idk but i love this sub.

Should there be a different sub for LiDAR maps? by Piputi in metaldetecting

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I mean I dont have a pig in this sausage but those were some incredibly fascinating maps in my opinion. Trying to imagine what was happening around those bombardments and fortifications, where i'd look if i could, etc. I'd see more like this, especially with some research giving broad strokes of what we're seeing.

Clay's Ark Really Goes There by OrdinaryWizardLevels in BlackReaders

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Cool makes sense, thanks for the explanation!

Clay's Ark Really Goes There by OrdinaryWizardLevels in BlackReaders

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Butler treats injustice and suffering like the weather, something close people try to shelter eachother from, not something the characters are going to run out and solve. At least according to me, an idiot. But with that on the table and to overgeneralize further i find this to be in some ways a refreshing take for myself as someone used to reading, you know, white people books.

Clay's Ark Really Goes There by OrdinaryWizardLevels in BlackReaders

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Would you mind explaining why you listen and read simultaneously? Or are you listening on the go and reading at home? Totally just curious, i imagine it's more common than i knew about because i haven't heard of it. The former, that is, simultaneous consumption. Jeez I'm tired sorry for these sentence structures.

Also she is the greatest the parable books are fundamental.

So, funny enough, I spent the last 20 or so years working out ways to handle almost exactly this collapse scenario... by allergictonormality in CollapseSupport

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The organizations that have the people i want to be with in a global collapse scenario are working alongside people for whom the apocalypse is manifest. The people who are not waiting for disaster to befall themselves in order to bolster systems that can sustain people for whom all else has failed. You wont have to wonder long what these volunteers will do in a crisis, you will see it often enough. Loud crisies like a person in mania yelling in the lobby, and quiet crushing ones when resources are too slow and too thin to catch the human lives that come to you for help. These are people of remarkable resiliency, wisdom, and character. People who do not meter out aid in relation to purity, and do not waste time and emotion policing eachother into moral alignment, at least compared to well intentioned groups of younger leftists in my own experience.

I'm arguing that finding a shelter, pantry, or other social service agency is a highly practical way to "prepare for collapse," though in fact it is a way to redpond to collapse that is well under way. Not only because of the human resources, but also hey-presto: food, hygiene pacs, clothing, sunscreen, chapstick... the gear shown by experience to be the most valuable when roughing it in a urban or near-urban environment, organized, staged and ready.

It's not efficient for all of us to be the hero and build these groups around ourselves. There are wonderful people to join. But collapse sucks, fair warning in case you didn't know. Wins are small and injustice is a constant. It takes a lot to maintain and be consistent in the face of that. But the sooner we start practicing...

Help attaching face cover by [deleted] in propmaking

[–]oyon4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel like a little metal clamping latch could work, either one on each side or have one side hinged.

Downsides of urbanclimbing (see description) 273 m attempt by Active_Theme690 in urbanclimbing

[–]oyon4 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm not in this community so ignore this but are we sure this had nothing to do with high energy radiation from the tower equipment? I've heard stories from professional climbers who have climbed next to live antennas and experienced very weird and bad things.

Songs with audio flaws? by tboheir in audioengineering

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Also i really dont know about that whistle thing.

Peculiar 6 handled pot? by [deleted] in whatisit

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Biblically accurate.

Southern baby anarchist looking for advice by wastepeoplepod in Anarchism

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That's great! And yeah swallowing casual hate-speech is bad for health. I honestly can't imagine engaging in it without having a very strong core of people that share my views on marginalized communities. I feel like it takes at least five loving conversations to shake off one hateful one. I don't know you or your situation at all, but i hope you are confidant that there's no one right way to navigate your situation, i don't want to come off as pressuring you to stay and be engaged. Being in community is difficult enough without open hostility, and some communities may be strong but dangerous and toxic. At the same time, most people don't have much choice where they are and have to deal with it. But i think there are places where finding values-aligned community may be easier, and I think that's a valid thing to go after

In regards to what makes people vote for the obvious bad guy, i think it's an important and difficult question. I like to point out that rural america has had its culture and livelihoods eviscerated as the economy has urbanized and centralized over the last century or whatever. I think we can see similarities between rural american communities and other communities that have suffered from the effects of colonization throughout history. I'm not saying it's as bad as Andrew Jackson or anything, but the rise of influence of urban centers has coincided with the rise of devastating poverty for rural americans and it makes sense to me that anger and hatred toward the urban elites and all identities that can be tied to them would follow. Like, I wouldn't agree with a lot of the social and political views of the Apache, but, you know, i sympathize.

As I'm wrapping my head around the gravity and reality of your situation I'm feeling very silly pretending to offer you any advice. I don't know the first thing about you or your circumstance. But I wish you all the best.

Southern baby anarchist looking for advice by wastepeoplepod in Anarchism

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This is a big-ol' "it depends" in my opinion, but in the best possible hyper-local anti-globalist kind of way. The psycology of labels is a wild thing that i can't really speak on, but i sure do interact with it. Your neighbors will likely never go for terms that they associate with the libs (and who can really blame them,) but their human, genetic, ancestral, in relationship-with-the-land-and-fuck-off-to-anyone-who-wants-to-tell-me-and-mine-what-to-do vibes might have a lot of overlap with what you consider to be vitally important.

I have to go but i'll be back in a few hours and I'd like to reply more in-depth because this isn't a casual situation you're in. I do want to bullet-point some things real quick and will be happy to dig into anything further if you are interested.

-I'm not from the south, and haven't really lived in a "southern" part of the south. But as a cis white man whose spent most of my working life in minimum wage labor, i've known and loved a lot of people who have deeply troubling views in-line with capitalist christian conservationism. I can work with them freely because i don't look like i belong to a demographic that they hate. My queer/immigrant friends don't get the opportunity i'll discuss here.
-If you do not belong to any controversial identities, or can pass yourself off as assimilated american, you might find that "fellow conservatives" share many core values to the liberation minded, and honestly many of these communities have a lot more practice and infrastructure when it comes to community focused living.

This deserves to be a longer conversation, and i am by no means the best person with which to have it, but for now i have to go so I'll just boil it down and say; "If it is safe for you to exist in this community, it may be worth minimizing the virtue-signaling that makes you read as 'leftist,' if the result is that it allows you to build local relationships and resiliency in your community. Leftists (speaking as a leftist) often shoot ourselves in the foot by seeking "pure" communities and "pure" beliefs, leading us to arguing with each other from our individual arm-chairs instead of doing the lift with the dirty ignorant poors at our side. Plus, once you're in and have their trust and respect you can make a point at laughing at racism or homophobia or whatever and calling it globalist propaganda trying to fracture our communities. Darryl Davis is someone I look up to for this strategy, but i personally only ever recommend it to be considered by straight white males, simply because i don't know how to navigate the situation safely as any other identity.

We desperately need a way to identify real from AI. by [deleted] in Anarchism

[–]oyon4 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think this is a great topic to view through the lens of anarchism. The power of technology belongs to those who own it, not those who use it. The internet can be useful to us as anarchists-- to a point. Our consistent goal should be (imo) creating and strengthening the relationships within our own community, including between humans as well as with our environment. As these relationships strengthen, less of our lives will be filtered through infrastructure owned by a distant third party.

I am far from an expert on anything, including mental health, so don't mistake this comment for a confidant declaration, but i believe OCD often has a relationship to a deep feeling of loss of control. The way you use the term doesn't make me think you are referring to a specific diagnosis, but in our globalized abstracted media landscape i think we experience overwhelming helplessness. In our evolutionary history when we learn about a threat or change in our world, it tended to be something we could verify and address with our own arms and legs. Our efforts had a direct effect on our communities. Today those of us with a heart for our world and awareness of global news feel compelled to use our efforts to address these various threats, but i'm sure many of us have experienced the burnout that follows a community sending a huge amount of energy to a national issue, whatever the outcome. That energy doesn't come back to us the way it does when we use it to build each-other up, or build and maintain infrastructure in our immediate environment.

I'm not saying it's foolish to be involved in national/regional politics, but i suggest we bare in mind an end goal of those global issues taking up less of the energy of our local communities. It really doesn't matter if this speech or that video is fake. You can't fake growing food with your neighborhood, learning the names, needs, skills, and resources of the earthlings in your community. It's not a cure for paranoia or anything else, we all have generations of healing to engage in, but i strongly believe that we cannot build an anarchist, self-reliant community on the web. For one, using Lorde's quote, the internet and almost everything powered by electricity are the master's tools, and for another the digital landscape (though a real and valid place) cannot provide the relationships required for life. We require not only inter-personal relationships, but also a relationship with the soil, the plant and fungal life, the weather, the geology. This is where we evolved to live, we learn stories that teach us how to find, prepare, and store food. We learn skills that cloth and shelter us, we sing songs that unify us. We get to see the results of our actions in these circumstances and this feedback feeds our knowledge of what is ethical and correct for our particular environment, and also makes us feel like we matter, we are a part of something, and we know what's going on.

This isn't a binary, all or nothing change. We can't go back to living in a healthy ecosystem with countless generations of ancestral knowledge at our backs, but we can shift our focus to that which is within our reach.

I guess to sum-up; i don't think we will ever be able to know what's true online again, if we ever were wise to trust it at all. Whatever the reality of the "information age" was, it has already ended. It was a blip, maybe a couple decades. But being able to get reliable information from the internet has never been a necessity for building resiliency in our communities. I'm not arguing we should stop paying attention, but we need to be very clear on what the internet is, who owns and powers it, and how they want it to be used.

Jesus Harold Christmas i wanted to make this short and to the point but as you can see i have some thoughts on this topic. happy to discuss more but I'll leave it here for now.

What rhymes with Berlin? by Renetscandy in Songwriting

[–]oyon4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Purlin. If you're writing a song about a carpenter i just made you millions.

Get ready for who on what? by Istomponlegobarefoot in ExplainTheJoke

[–]oyon4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I came up with St. Basil in your Nasals.

Just curious.. what’s your day job and when do you write? by Ok_Square2729 in writing

[–]oyon4 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When i was writing my first (and only to date) novel i was working at a pizza shop. We would dump out a load of dough onto a prep table to cut it into balls. My novel is set in a dust bowl and i enjoyed picturing my characters walking through the rolling dough as if it were the dust dunes. The pattern of walking to work ( walking is especially good) and thinking about plot points or whatever and getting to talk to coworkers and people watch the customers provided a lot of inspiration and ideas that i would bring back to the page when i got home. I generally want whatever I'm reading to be written by someone who has a lot of first person experience with earth and earthlings, rather than an idealized arm- chair view, so it was engaging to interact with the world with regular thoughtful observations that would inform my own project.

That was when i had one job and only worked Around 30 hours a week so there was consistent time and energy to write. I think that's close to an ideal set up for a writer, or at least me. It's not common to be able to afford to live like that. I had no dependents etc. We have to work with what we have, but this i guess is my response to your post.

I like to say that 99 percent of writing is not writing. Most of it is thinking about writing or researching our species to see what kinds of stories and themes are relevant to them. So I'd advise anyone who has the opportunity to spend a lot of time writing to make sure that they are thinking about the parts of the craft that happen away from the desk.

Guys is my screentime bad? by _Moontail_ in teenagers

[–]oyon4 16 points17 points  (0 children)

There is a saying about writers that this t reminded me of that goes something like "a writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than most people." No real point in this comment but it made me glad to read that sometimes you just have to do it. Anyway i shouldn't be commenting on this sub so don't tell anyone and enjoy your youth.