https://youtu.be/ckDcqmEZeUc?si=77gswIXYsgoFL4E1
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nostr:npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmleku watch out my dude
i walked past the GNR/police search team out looking for them last week when i walked to pay my customs extortion at the next post office
been seeing it on the TV also at the nearby snack bar on occasion
seems like there's some kind of gang activity going on, but it's a funny thing to note all of those dudes are clearly fitness freaks, what is the connection between them?
i had to listen to it a bit more, it's very rambly... just to pick up some of the gist of it...
all of these dudes were practically elite level athletes... probably some of them may have been former military, would be my guess... and this island is dangerous land... i sit here and look to my right and there is a mountain blocking my view to the east that is over 1km tall
there are hidden places and holes all over the place here, and as he points out, the majority of the place is unoccupied, because the terrain is too steep and it is worthless for agriculture or any human use case except hiding
i'm quite sure there is loads of holes and tunnels everywhere, and if a person is out climbing around on this insane landscape, there is always a chance if they are unlucky to fall in such a hole and not be able to get out or to simply die during the fall
notably, the building of the aqueduct network around this island also cost probably tens of thousands of lives over the last 600 years, this is not your picnic location, this place is dangerous af, if you are unsure about whether you can cope with the dangers it presents, don't come here, i beg you
i like it precisely because it's dangerous, and if SHTF that danger is more familiar to me than any invading force
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oh yeah, that reminds me
i was just looking at a bunch of scythe like tools, quite common agricultural hardware here, there is several variations, and they would be vicious weapons, when not used to chop plants down, and it just occurred to me
they would also be quite good climbing tools on this landscape, like, if you lose your footing, swing one of these things at the ground to get a grip
oh, interesting... seems to actually be difficult to find photographs of these tools
maybe i just don't know the right name for them, gadanha doesn't seem to match... they are small, like hand tools, like a scythe, but not really made for simple cutting of grasses (ie wheat) but rather, a general cutting tool
anyway, just occurred to me that this tool would be effective at climing the steep hills of this landscape, although you'd blunt it pretty bad using it this way, they are available at all the agro stores, and they are used to clear scrubby weedy areas and cut spent crops
https://www.picclickimg.com/2dMAAOSwaohjm4M8/Primitive-Hand-Scythe-Sickle-Farm-Tool-Antique.webp
this is close but they hook over more to 90' and are wider and sometimes there is a spike that emerges from the outer edge for some reason
i saw one of these devices for the first time sitting on a table across from where a goat slaughter was taking place
just making the note because i just realised that the smaller ones might actually make a good climbing axe, and general weapon
i will follow up with some photos of the ones i buy in the near future, it seems to me like these might be good, incognito tools, as well as weapons, both for climbing, gardening and fighting
been wanting to get a climbing axe for some time now, but this would do, just something to peck deeply into the ground to pull oneself upwards for a climb on a steep incline