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Re: We Are Living in a Dystopia [Re: SoloTrip]
#23913769 - 12/10/16 04:38 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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SoloTrip said: Do you know who I am? Ronnie Pickering!
Who the fuck is that?
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SoloTrip
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He was just some guy whose five minutes of road rage footage went viral. Image search on his name to see all his photos and memes lol.
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Re: We Are Living in a Dystopia [Re: SoloTrip]
#23913868 - 12/10/16 04:57 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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SoloTrip said: He was just some guy whose five minutes of road rage footage went viral. Image search on his name to see all his photos and memes lol.
I know i watched rhe vid on ridiculousness lol shoulda put quotes around it lol
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Crystal G said: it would have to suck waking up at 3AM every time the rooster crows so I can plant my harvest and chop some wood by axe just to be able to stay warm in the winter. Take 4 hours to scrub all my laundry by hand, have to walk 3 miles to reach the closest neighbor just to send and receives messages into the real world, have to carry heavy buckets full of water all the way from the well just to have enough bath water to ration and reuse with the rest of the family.
I would love this life as long as I could keep getting coffee. In fact I'm going outside to shovel the driveway in the dark because it's best to do it while the morning is still calm and undisturbed.
I don't think you guys realize (or maybe you do) that that kind of rural life is hard labor from 4 in the morning until 10pm at night usually.
You have to wake up before sunrise, feed the animals, tend to your plants or seeds (which takes a long-ass time by hand if you aren't using a tractor)...
You want to eat a chicken but you have to pluck the feathers off and butcher it in parts first, then take out all the organs to turn into some kind of sausage or pie later. You need to forage out there and chop wood to heat your food and home which would suck if there was a blizzard in the wintertime. There is no refrigeration, so all your meats you would have to pretty much salt, brine, immediately cook, or spend months turning into a jerky. And I don't even know where you would get seasonings like salt and spices, or cooking oil.
Butter was something only the wealthy could afford centuries ago. None of your pots or pans are coated with teflon which leaves a lot of burnt residue stuck to the pan, so you have to really get in there and use some strength to scrape all those bits out. Even a simple cooking task would take out 6 to 8 hours out of your day.
The laundry part would irritate me the most, because what used to be the press of a button now takes 4 hours of you manually washing and scrubbing each article of clothing by hand, and then hanging it on a string to dry. And if the weather is bad and it rains or snows, you have to do the entire load all over again.
Really, there's no time to have a hobby for anything, because everything is work. There's obviously no light or electricity, so you have to do everything you can during the daytime while the sun is still out.
If you aspire to live like that, you might consider joining an Amish commune. They live probably the closest to the old days out of anybody in the USA.
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Re: We Are Living in a Dystopia [Re: Crystal G]
#23914132 - 12/10/16 06:09 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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it's only hard because they had to do it for other people some families in rural parts of russia perfer living like that then someone comes and visits them decades later and 2/3rd's of them die
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Re: We Are Living in a Dystopia [Re: Konyap]
#23914144 - 12/10/16 06:13 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Konyap said: it's only hard because they had to do it for other people some families in rural parts of russia perfer living like that then someone comes and visits them decades later and 2/3rd's of them die
That's called social justice
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whats with all the OGs in this gay thread
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Re: We Are Living in a Dystopia [Re: Crystal G]
#23914196 - 12/10/16 06:31 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Move to northern Maine, there's a LOT of folks that still live this lifestyle. I have at times of my life and it isn't that much work if your not lazy, you plan and pace.
Your days are not 4am -10pm they are more like 4am-8pm. no electricity = no lights except candles or oil, that gets old and expensive quickly unless you have a glass door wood stove in your living room or something, then you get some glow from that. Otherwise it's pitch black an hour after sunset and not much to do in the dark so go to bed.
You don't do firewood everyday, I can hand chop a years worth of firewood in a couple weeks. Splitting stuff for kindling you do every few days but thats maybe 20 minutes.
Having a well does not mean hauling buckets of water across a few acres of land either. you put it close and put a hand pump on it fixed to hosing that leads indoors. You got a holding tank upstairs in your house for water so that you can take warmish showers whenever, and if you wanna hot bath you boil some on the stove.
Cooking isn't that bad in the winter because the stove is always hot, in the summer though when its already hot out you wanna cook outdoors as much as possible, but when it rains..... its gonna get warm in the house or build a roof over your outdoor cook area. And cast iron or enameled cookware is the way to go.
cheese and butter are handmade at home whenever you want if you have a dairy cow.
Laundry sucks but a little more soaking, and yeah hand scrubbing shit sucks but you get into a rhythm after awhile. Drying on a line is nice though, even in the winter you can hang your clothes, let em freeze, beat the ice off and do it again. after a few times bring em in to finish by the wood stove.
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Re: We Are Living in a Dystopia [Re: ModestMouse]
#23914199 - 12/10/16 06:32 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Don't you know, trump being elected means his supporters get to be assholes.
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Re: We Are Living in a Dystopia [Re: nuentoter]
#23914226 - 12/10/16 06:41 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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nuentoter said: You don't do firewood everyday, I can hand chop a years worth of firewood in a couple weeks. Splitting stuff for kindling you do every few days but thats maybe 20 minutes.
That's a pretty interesting life, but I do have to ask, how do you chop a year's worth of firewood in a couple weeks? Cause I remember from putting up fires in camps, that one single log might last only 10 minutes or so. It's not very energy-efficient. And I can imagine in the winter-time you're using firewood pretty much 24/7 to avoid freezing to death in your sleep or something, so I'm curious how do you make firewood last that long?
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Re: We Are Living in a Dystopia [Re: Crystal G]
#23914244 - 12/10/16 06:51 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Crystal G said:
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nuentoter said: You don't do firewood everyday, I can hand chop a years worth of firewood in a couple weeks. Splitting stuff for kindling you do every few days but thats maybe 20 minutes.
That's a pretty interesting life, but I do have to ask, how do you chop a year's worth of firewood in a couple weeks? Cause I remember from putting up fires in camps, that one single log might last only 10 minutes or so. It's not very energy-efficient. And I can imagine in the winter-time you're using firewood pretty much 24/7 to avoid freezing to death in your sleep or something, so I'm curious how do you make firewood last that long?
You may have been burning soft wood when camping, hard woods burn longer. Wood stoves also have dampeners to restrict airflow, which increases the length of time the wood will burn.
I can get madrone pieces to burn 4-6 hours in my wood stove.
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Re: We Are Living in a Dystopia [Re: California]
#23914265 - 12/10/16 06:57 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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A good mix of hardwood and softwood.
I can hand split around 3/4 - 1 chord a day if you stick at it but your arms will kill ya. About 1/2 a chord in 3 hours per day will keep you at a good pace and get 6-7 chords done in 2 weeks which is plenty if your house is built smart and insulated well.
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Re: We Are Living in a Dystopia [Re: California]
#23914278 - 12/10/16 07:00 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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I got arrested for expressing political discontent on election day.. By local BACKWOODS law enforcement. I got my civil rights trampled and indefinitely detained... Until I was lucky enough to get arraigned and made $2000 bail for , 1 Count Felony Resisting Arrest, I truly did not resist the officer i simply questioned him why i couldn't be loud in public broad day, without being profane or harassing anyone he tried to cohearse me into silence and arreted me simply because he didn't like my attitude or submit to his will..
Read that? I got arrested because i didn't do what a cop said when i wasn't even braking the fucking law in the first place...
They stole my last $80 for and old jail bill for 9 grams of weed, i did 4 years, ago..
Still waiting trial
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Thoughtcrime
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Banned from polls... For simply behaving strangely... This my cat, he aquatic..

Poor G. Georgie A.k.a.
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Re: We Are Living in a Dystopia [Re: nuentoter]
#23914283 - 12/10/16 07:03 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Damn I looked up what a cord of wood is.
My hands hurt just looking at this 
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Re: We Are Living in a Dystopia [Re: Crystal G]
#23914291 - 12/10/16 07:09 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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mix the tree sizes though, dont gotta chop every one.
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Re: We Are Living in a Dystopia [Re: nuentoter]
#23914805 - 12/10/16 10:46 PM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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im sure plenty of people in africa don't know what that shit is lol
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Re: We Are Living in a Dystopia [Re: Crystal G]
#23942176 - 12/20/16 12:48 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Crystal G said: Damn I looked up what a cord of wood is.
My hands hurt just looking at this 

hard to tell, but that looks way more than a cord. one cord is 128ft3 (8'x8'x2') those chunks are 18-22" long, offhand; the stack looks to be at least 6' tall, and 8-10' long. the larger (longer) you buck the rounds, the harder it will be to split by hand. 14-16" is ideal for hand-splitting, even for heavy oak (live-oak) or madrone, so long as you aren't splitting wood seasoned enough to toughen, or over-seasoned verging on punk.
you make country life out to be this incredible hardship. neighbors miles away, water acres away. sure, some places might be like that, but many rural/country areas are not.
1) high-lifter OR solar pump
2) knowing when/how to split firewood and store/season it
3) food canning/preserving/storing, including fermenting
life don't have to be so complicated. also, 4am to 8pm doesn't mean non-stop work, either; especially true if one enjoys the labor and its fruit. now if you want to negate modernities and not use solar panels/batteries, or a chainsaw, or other low-impact technologies, that is fine. personally, i'll stick with the best of both worlds
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Re: We Are Living in a Dystopia [Re: demiu5]
#23942182 - 12/20/16 12:51 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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demiu5 said: you make country life out to be this incredible hardship. neighbors miles away, water acres away. sure, some places might be like that, but many rural/country areas are not.
1) high-lifter OR solar pump
2) knowing when/how to split firewood and store/season it
3) food canning/preserving/storing, including fermenting
life don't have to be so complicated. also, 4am to 8pm doesn't mean non-stop work, either; especially true if one enjoys the labor and its fruit. now if you want to negate modernities and not use solar panels/batteries, or a chainsaw, or other low-impact technologies, that is fine. personally, i'll stick with the best of both worlds
You forget that I am also referencing a time in which people did not have automobiles and the only way to get somewhere is on horse or on foot, which is no easy task of course when it's snowing or raining or the weather isn't cooperating. Living miles away isn't a big deal to us with gas and automobiles and water sources aren't needed anymore with the advent of pipes.
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Re: We Are Living in a Dystopia [Re: Crystal G]
#23942193 - 12/20/16 12:56 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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Crystal G said:
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demiu5 said: you make country life out to be this incredible hardship. neighbors miles away, water acres away. sure, some places might be like that, but many rural/country areas are not.
1) high-lifter OR solar pump
2) knowing when/how to split firewood and store/season it
3) food canning/preserving/storing, including fermenting
life don't have to be so complicated. also, 4am to 8pm doesn't mean non-stop work, either; especially true if one enjoys the labor and its fruit. now if you want to negate modernities and not use solar panels/batteries, or a chainsaw, or other low-impact technologies, that is fine. personally, i'll stick with the best of both worlds
You forget that I am also referencing a time in which people did not have automobiles and the only way to get somewhere is on horse or on foot, which is no easy task of course when it's snowing or raining or the weather isn't cooperating. Living miles away isn't a big deal to us with gas and automobiles and water sources aren't needed anymore with the advent of pipes.
i'm telling you that in many rural areas, people aren't miles away. i have five neighbors within a mile walking distance. two of those are within shouting distance. one was across the canyon at such an angle we could get each others' attention when needed. there's also cellphone service in many rural (populated) areas, including 3/4G.
you're referencing what is, for the most part, a by-gone era. people can live sustainably and close to the land without having to live like amish/menonites, which have all kinds of socio-political/hierarchical discord within their groups. many people that live in those strict ways ARE NOT happy
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Re: We Are Living in a Dystopia [Re: demiu5]
#23942203 - 12/20/16 12:59 AM (7 years, 1 month ago) |
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demiu5 said: you're referencing what is, for the most part, a by-gone era.
No shit, that was exactly the point of my post. Did you even read my posts? The whole point was about how life is far more convenient now than it used to be centuries ago.
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Life right now for almost everybody in this country is a lot better than it used to be centuries ago.
I'm pretty happy right now with my cushy life, it would have to suck waking up at 3AM every time the rooster crows so I can plant my harvest and chop some wood by axe just to be able to stay warm in the winter. Take 4 hours to scrub all my laundry by hand, have to walk 3 miles to reach the closest neighbor just to send and receives messages into the real world, have to carry heavy buckets full of water all the way from the well just to have enough bath water to ration and reuse with the rest of the family.
So yes, I am in fact, referring to a by-gone era. That's the point. You saying how things are different now in the country is little relevance to my post.
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