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Actual stone masonry is another thing I intend to learn. Its so weird that structural masonry is almost nonexistent now. Its all just facades. I want to actually use a plumb and level and learn the geometry they used to use, and build stuff that lasts.

Like, the future citadel will have parts that are cob and parts that are stone masonry, and stained glass throughout. That's how I'm envisioning it... Kinda interspersed with food forest and ponds and grazing animals, over several acres. Laser turrets, too, for the pesky drones.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 9mo ago

yeah, i can tell you are quite young

but i agree, why not take those rocks and form them into nice blocks we can stack

like i said, here on this island there is so much big chunky blocks of various grades of basalt, people mostly use them un-carved but if you can put together tools to chip them into bricks then they stack very nice

probably the hardest problem is what tools to use... i think steel can do this but you gonna wear them out pretty fast... tungsten tipped spinning disks are the more practical way but that's also a lot of layers of tooling and production to get to that

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Comte de Sats Germain 9mo ago

Ah, what's making me seem young? I really feel like fiat world has conspired to keep from doing things I'm actually interested in, and it feels urgent to learn these things because time is running out.

Sat Nakamoto 9mo ago

Where do you want to build?

Comte de Sats Germain 9mo ago

Ideally? Tuvalu. Been reading about Tuvalu recently because of something I saw here. But realistically... Probably the best I can manage is Hawaii. And that'll be difficult... They got some kind of hate for outsiders going on. I don't want the touristy places... There's cheap land where there's no utilities and where banks don't do mortgages. That's my kind of place.

Sat Nakamoto 9mo ago

What makes Tuvalu more ideal?

Comte de Sats Germain 9mo ago

Further from people, fewer people

Comte de Sats Germain 9mo ago

But simultaneously closer to other similar island groups

Sat Nakamoto 9mo ago

Does that not feel a little bit “claustrophobic” to be cut off and limited like that?

People bring other kinds of limits, but still.

Comte de Sats Germain 9mo ago

Yeah, potentially. But as long as there are airplanes, its easy to ameliorate.

Sat Nakamoto 9mo ago

When we get real robots, I want to send them out to build a bunch of land bridges and connect all the damn land masses. Print more land.

Comte de Sats Germain 9mo ago

Okay, but I'll be sending them out to demolish the bridges. The world is already far too connected.

Sat Nakamoto 9mo ago

Then burn the planes.

Comte de Sats Germain 9mo ago

Actually... Yes.

At least get rid of anything faster/bigger than single prop

Sat Nakamoto 9mo ago

Either way, I’ll be printing ocean front land!

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 9mo ago

pacific has a lot more islands than atlantic and atlantic more than indian

i was told a story about how WW2 went down in iceland, from a friend who spent some time working at a bitcoin mine over there

basically the danish customs/coast guard guys got swapped for germans for a while, and then back to danish, but nothing actually happened to the rest of the island

even iceland is a pretty safe place from world-wide bullshit, places smaller like madeira and cape verde and tuvalu and tonga, the biggest dangers in these places is earthquakes, volacanoes and tsunamis

probably everything smaller than hawaii is much the same... too small and mostly full of fishermen and farmers to be a drop in the bucket for the warmongers economic strangulation

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 9mo ago

well, cutting stone is a pretty intense thing to learn is all, and double difficult if you have to do it with only hand tools, and the machine tools are pretty expensive, and it will be several years before you can do it well enough to build even a little shack

i guess this means i'm an old fart tho... i'm now just past my 7th jubilee and all