i just learned that Myers-Briggs personality test is trending in south korea
how to say that people are desperate for connection without saying people are desperate for connection
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I was made to do one as part of job interview, to see if I would 'gel with the team'. Lol
I love South Korea and have been there a few times, but their government is explicitly run by a small set of oligarchs who suck up all economic opportunity and put the lower 99% of the population in a state of desperation and wage slavery, and their regulations are primarily aimed at capital controls and preventing people from saving and owning and escaping in any way.
yes, i'm aware of that... it's a lot like how it is in most english speaking countries except USA, which is getting close to that
the whole world is turning into this kind of hellscape
i'm not living on the edge of nothing for no reason, i don't want to be too close to crowds when the dam breaks
Makes sense. I really need to fix my current situation... Texas is great for now, but there's a kind of spirit here that I want no part of... It glorifies death, confrontation, power games, and I doubt it will be any safer than the leftist urban hellscapes to the east and west.
It could play out like the end of Rome - the places that prospered and seeded future civilization were the villas and monasteries. "Villain" originally meant someone who worked at a villa, and it was a sweet gig. That could be bitcoin citadels... Find some place away from crowds, and build, and plan for expansion and becoming the nucleus for renewal. I'm really hooked on that dream
yup
villages means small towns, under 1000 population, there are thousands of them all across the world and they are the best place to live
technically i think my locality is above 1000 pop but technically i live in a little edge of it next to the sea called "saint christopher" beside a larger town called "good fortune"
sao christoval and boaventura is the proper portuguese names
just get out to the edges, you can do the research to verify that in almost all cases this was where very little bad happened when all the bad stuff was happening, both ww2, ww1, in the napoleonic wars, and all the way back to before jesus
same, same, same. there is just no strategic or tactical value in little villages that are mostly subsistence... feeding themselves with their own vege patches, raising their own goats and sheep, and brewing their own wine and distilling their own brandy, bonus points if there is a decent amount of forest around so they are literally building their own houses too
that's not how it is here right now but i'm pretty sure that if the concrete supply dried up the new houses would all be the old traditional thatch a frames like they used to build before the 20th century
So much wisdom in this...
And some trees are so easy to grow, you could have some building and cooking material pretty quick, even if there's no forest nearby. Poplars are one option. Bamboos can be another option, though not a tree.
Also cob... If I can pull off the move I'm trying to set up, one of the first things I'm gonna do is go find the cob building club, of which there's a surprising number around the country.
yeah, there is a lot of elephant grass around here, the farmers use them as beanpoles, and some kind of straggly thing that i think is the basis of the thatching that is used for the thatched roofs.
as for actual big tall trees, that's literally just a matter of climbing some mountains around here, there is all the straight tall eucalypts you could want, on land you can't use, that is hard to get to but hey, you get up there with an axe and the hardest part is dragging it back down to where you gonna use it, but there is no shortage of viable building materials, stone, that's another one, if you have got concrete, but even if not, the centuries of people living here were piling these basaltic rocks up to make terraces for ... centuries, and i'd guess that between mud and thatch and piles of rocks you can make a very cosy dwelling here
the modern concrete shit is actually crappy, mainly, because there isn't a fire in the middle of the house, it's damp here, you need to have heating about 6 months of the year, not a great deal but more than you need to just cook your food
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.
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
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.
Where do you want to build?
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.
What makes Tuvalu more ideal?
Further from people, fewer people
But simultaneously closer to other similar island groups
Does that not feel a little bit “claustrophobic” to be cut off and limited like that?
People bring other kinds of limits, but still.
Yeah, potentially. But as long as there are airplanes, its easy to ameliorate.
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.
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
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
That test actually helped our family understand each other. Smoothed over slight misunderstandings.
Ahh the moodring test.
I am either the world's rarest genius personality type, debater, or protagonist hero. All depends on my mood at the time of me taking the test.