What are some ways to mitigate covid infection after spending time with someone who is sick? Nasal sprays? Iodine mouthwash? Zinc supplement?

DROWNING IN LEGISLATION

The law is a weapon used by the government to strangle the life out of Australians.

The average citizen is suffocated through their perverted obsession with safety.

You’re not allowed to go fishing, hunting, buy a weapon, build the type of property you want, take cash out of the bank, smoke where you want, drink where you want, gamble, hike, camp, light a fire, or own an animal.

And I notice that the people around me are too scared to do anything for fear of breaching a rule.

They’re not sure which rule specifically, but they know that if they simply behave like a human for a long enough period of time they’ll be in breach of some piece of fake legislation.

It’s gotten so out of hand that no single lawyer or politician truly understands the patchwork of legislation that’s been put in place.

And I think that all these convoluted regulations serve a purpose

In this way, if the government ever wants to make your life hell, there will always be some legal avenue available for them to do so.

They can just dig through your past and find some obscure regulation that I didn’t adhere to in 1987.

And so all that concern about your safety is fake.

It's just a guise under which they can pass laws which restrict your freedoms.

Obviously.

It's the oldest trick in the book, but you fall for it every time.

And I think it's obvious that we don't need all these rules

Because we already had the laws right thousands of years ago.

Moses realised that we only need 10.

And in 1946, Radbruch explained to us how a slavish adherence to man-made law is what enabled the Nazi party to take control.

And I see the same thing happening in Australia today.

Our laws are totalitarian and the people love it.

They love the smug sense of self-satisfaction they get when they write to the Council about their neighbour who put a shade sail up without approval.

And when I see this, I understand how Nazi Germany happened.

I think we’re probably closer to that point than we care to realise.

Because human nature is inert.

We've always craved power and control.

And left unchecked, it runs rampant.

Stop trying to get people to leave twitter.

The people still there at this point need to stay there.

too many people seem to start things and then never finish them because they get distracted. What happened to finishing what you started?

Does this generation of people have no discipline or have i just become a hoary old croak?

Tell me, is self-discipline just dead with the new generation of 35 and unders?

Discussed it with a coworker who is trying it in his garden where he planted cover crop.

He started after a week of growth putting the copper in half of the garden. A week later and the non-copper side is growing better.

Building materials for seasteads

The high seas are (theoretically) open and free, but come with many construction challenges. Waves and winds should be familiar to all of us. I'm going to talk about construction materials options in the presence of the unholy trinity of biofouling, chloride corrosion, and UV.

Aluminium. Lightweight, inexpensive, easily recycled, handles UV well. Moderate difficulty to work and to repair. No particular resistance to biofouling if left in contact with water, but is not vulnerable to burrowing. Is destroyed very quickly by chloride corrosion. Not a practical option unless you are in a low-chloride environment like the Great Lakes of North America.

Cupronickel (including gunmetal, admiralty brass and similar). Moderately easily worked and recycled. Heavy. Invulnerable to UV. Extreme resistance to biofouling (toxic to invertebrates but not mammals or plants). Decent strength in tension compression and shear. Decent creep resistance. Horribly expensive. Resistant but not immune to chloride attack - no crevice corrosion or pitting, but sheds material very slowly across its entire surface. Combined with its cost this is like watching banknotes blow over the side. Can be practical for piping and similar when too small or inaccessible for inspection and maintainence.

Polymers (plastics). Lightweight, inexpensive. Uniquely vulnerable to UV, this can be managed with coatings, free-radical stabilisers and UV-absorbent fillers such as titanium dioxide. Mostly low strength, lower stiffness and no creep resistance unless reinforced with glass fibre, carbon fibre, or metal fibre. Easily recycled... unless you add fillers or reinforcement: you need both. Good resistance to biofouling. Essentially immune to chloride attack (though metal fittings and reinforcement might be vulnerable). Cheap and practical to build, moderately easy to repair, impossible to recycle.

Steel, coated. Very easily worked and repaired, moderately easily recycled. Cheap. Moderately heavy. Immune to UV. Coating can provide good resistance to biofouling. Excellent strength in tension, compression and shear. Excellent creep resistance. Quite vulnerable to chloride corrosion and related sulphate corrosion, can be managed with constant inspection and maintainance. Best option for working boats / infrastructure that expect to be damaged and repaired almost constantly.

Steel, stainless 316. Easily worked and repaired, moderately easily recycled. Expensive. Moderately heavy. Immune to UV, highly resistant to biofouling, more so if coated. Excellent strength in tension, compression and shear. Excellent creep resistance. Resistant to chloride and sulphate corrosion, doubly so if coated. This is not true of the cheaper 304 stainless and similar. Best all-rounder if you can afford it.

Your thoughts? Other options I may have overlooked?

Nostr has helped me cut down on mindless scrolling time almost completely. I’ll scroll on here 10 min in the morning & 10 min in the evening usually. You guys seem to be pretty good filters of world news.

I find myself logging out of Instagram immediately these days. Just go there for my fiat friends memes. Deleted twitter months ago

We just need YouTube Nostr

Yoink.

(Stealing this.)

"Stop resisting, Stop resisting!" is one of the most instantly recognizable phrases of the new American century. When you read the words, you can probably still hear them shouted in your head, the echoing memory of a generational trauma, the indelible recollection of the moment that the citizen became subordinate to the state.

“off grid” is short for, “ im taking responsibility for the reliability and functionality of my power, water, and waste systems, instead of paying the state to do it.”

nothing about this is glamorous. regardless of what instagram “influencers” tell you for clicks.

its not glamorous, but it is fulfilling.

especially in grid wide power outages.

#memes #memestr #grownostr

What audio book should I listen to next?

Aside from audible, where do you guys get yours from?

Ooh what niche interests? We can always invent new hashtags here. The world is our oystr 😂