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.
Discussion
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