YoMomz @YoMomz@merovingian.club

@n3f_X - Nice!

@charliebrownau - Needless to say, I don't expect to maintain modern living standards. I'm planning for no electricity & no petro-energy. Overkill? Maybe.

But if my gamble pays off, it will be the best living standard available. In theory, whatever is most in tune with human nature will prosper, in societal terms.

I plan to create a civilizational seed. 🫡

@charliebrownau - I see a biblical amount of death coming up. I don't know if it's on any divine agenda, but with the sheer number of people available to die, compared to biblical times...

I was hoping to make a success of myself, and set up shop with multiple properties located in some secluded mountain valley. But we seem to be quickly running out of time.

So, I'm now setting my sights on a rural homestead on small acreage - with an eye to future expansion under the right conditions.

@Zeb @charliebrownau @Tfmonkey - Yes, this is also my plan.

I believe a worthy society can exist, even as a subculture (see: Amish). It requires vigilance, patriarchy, and monumental catastrophe to allow the opportunity.

Normally, that last bit would render the idea a non-starter... But hey, just look around. I know I'm feeling pretty lucky... kinda liking the odds these days.

Just remember kids, patience is a virtue. 🫡

@TenaciousGoat - One of the best fitness investments I've made, is a set of adjustable dumbbells. With a handle twist you can adjust them from 5-50lbs.

They were a spendy $300, several years ago. But I justified the purchase because they were compact, and fit in well with driving a semi cross-country.

But the investment could be easily justified by the convenience & speed of adjustment alone. That makes it less of a hindrance to use them, and all the fiddling with weight adjustments adds up.

@dander - Nothing so dramatic... It's just the vibe of professional driving with the TFM crew in the background.

@Chimi_Chuang_Tzu -

@sardonicsmile - Nice!

@basedbagel @VeganMGTOW - I think the generation thing is useful as a loose sort of shorthand way to generalize.

But yes, people are often too rigid with it. And the people over the age of 25, who take generational pride in a bureaucratic categorization... Well, they're in for tough times as reality continues to defy their expectations.

@dander - This gives me flashbacks... To last Friday when I was working. And all the workdays before that...

@ButtWorldsMan @Tfmonkey - "Regret vet"...

That's got a nice ring to it.

@Scubbie - "...I wasn't fucking up"

Well, I'm not trying to be ass, so I'll just say this: it is impossible to learn from our mistakes, if we refuse to admit to our mistakes. 🫡

@Scubbie - Well, you're not gonna win a fight with six feds. That's just unrealistic.

You were into some shit, and it went bad. That happens.

I've been in some shit myself - a warzone, and I've had local SWAT at my door too. That was a bad day, I gotta say.

But I learned from it. And if I ever decide to rebel, I'll know better what's required to succeed. But more likely, I would just choose a different course for as long as I can.

Best skill in life? Might be making the best of bad things.

@Scubbie - I mean, did your friends expect you to get in a shootout with the feds? 'cause that's not friendly.

It sounds like a lot of poor decisions led up to that. And you know what? That's pretty normal. Life is a learning process. We start as babies, and if we're doing things right, we get better as we get older.

If you met an 18yr old today who was fucking up, what advice would you give? Probably wise words, I'd bet.

So look to the mirror, and give those wise words to the 18yo there.

@Scubbie - Well real talk: There is no shame in fear. Only a madman or retard is truly without fear.

At 18, I was kinda both... But back to you: weak link? I dunno... It depends on a lot of things I wouldn't/couldn't know. But you're still here (as am I). And all we can do, on any given day, at any given moment, is our best.

If shame belongs with fear, then I'd say it's only true if one allows fear to prevent them from doing what needs done. And FWIW, that doesn't sound like what happened.

@Scubbie - I feel like this was a prior poll... I'm pretty sure I woulda said "See you in Valhalla, muthafuckas!!" ... and I would be dead now.

I'm sorry you got caught in that situation. 🫗

@basedbagel @ugly_bastard_reborned - I don't count anime, because it's escapism without pretense of being anything else.

If there were actual anime girls walking around... 5ft tall with 3 inch eyeballs, and heads like a sports mascot... then

a). I'm all about it. And

b). They would clearly be an alien species, kinda like "the greys" in proportion, but much hotter and with fantastic tits... and who's to say the females wouldn't be overpowered?

@Scubbie - and yet, they get raped - or more commonly, they get carried away in a moment of sluttiness & no self-control.

Then these people have to reconcile these contradictory conditions... and when they can't, we call that PTSD.

If we dropped the Christianity, and either accepted the sluttiness of women socially (never gonna happen until we go full-bonobo), or we restrict their ability to be slutty or get raped (as in patriarchy)... then we would see a lot less PTSD.

@Scubbie - voted "yes", because it's closer to my controversial take on modern PTSD (excluding WWI shell shock where you can see the crazy eyes, for example).

Basically, I suspect about 90% of PTSD boils down to a conflict between whatever is socially acceptable, and whatever a person did or suffered. Soldiers are filled with Christian ideals that say "don't kill", and yet they killed people. Some women are brought up to not be sluts (not as many as should be, I know. But still, they exist)

@shortstories - Fuck it.