And since all of those are videos without me realising

https://dn710009.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-ultimate-encyclopedia-of-knots-and-ropework/The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Knots and Ropework_text.pdf

Fill yer boots mate!

Top three that I use on a regular basis

Bowline (quick knot that’s strong, a common error is that when you try to pull it tight it falls apart, dont panic, you just went the wrong way through the loop you make in step 1)

Sheet bend (a bowline that’s gone horribly wrong somewhere (you’ll get that joke after a bit of practice)lmao but theknot can attach two completely different ropes together)

Figure 8 loop (like a bowline but no matter how much weight you put in the loop it’s still easy to undo)

Reef knot - the most common way to tie two ends together

Monkeys fist (impractical unless you’re throwing ropes into trees, but real fun to make out of old climbing rope if you’ve got pets.

If you want to save your hands and your floor from being shredded and filled with tiny shards of nylon fiber, pick up some of the stuff that has a core and a woven cover from a local hardware store or talk to an outdoor shop to see if theyve got any unusable lengths.

I picked up some Dyneema offcuts dirt cheap from a local sailing chandler’s on ebay (Dyneema’s the brand name for an often overpriced rope made from UHMWPE - “Ultra high molecular weight poly ethylene”, same material as plastic bags but DENSE and as a result hilariously strong- my 3mm thick rope can pull 1 ton before breaking, shit’s WILD)

MAGGOTS

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Tech Ingredients - DIY-ing machines that seem way more complicated than they actually are

AvE - tool teardowns with the kind of crude humour you only get from being a spannerjockey

Greenhill Forge - Chap that builds homesteading/self sufficiency/off-grid equipment, brilliant at explaining the underlying principles without any jargon

Maximus Ironthumper - An off-grid living guy that’s currently building a portable pipe organ in an old Zil truck (and refurbishing said truck in the process)

Styropyro - Master of the question “How dangerous can I make this high voltage device/ Laser without dying?”

Nilered /Nileblue - A mad scientist with the budget to do things like ‘making a bacon flavoured apple’ just for the hell of it

Dankpods - A channel with the widest variety of music tech and creator of the “Nugget dip” - a series about looking at second hand MP3/phone/early 00’s tech that ended up in second hand stores

Alexander the ok - Highly researched and well written videos on topics such as “What is the dumbest nuclear bomb ever put into service?”

Just to name a few off the dome in a variety of Science/STEM topics

Fires that entrap passengers are a well-documented and recurring problem with every model in Tesla’s lineup of vehicles

How is this a perfectly valid statement about the worlds richest man’s car company without us beating him to death with hammers/ seeing how many of those baseball sized steel balls he can handle?

Spent the past decade too poor to pursue romantic interests, led to me ruining two potential relationships by being so stressed about not being able to provide even enough for myself, let alone supporting or going out on dates with another person.

Damn, now that sounds like a strong read.

Definitely know what it’s like with the long list of books, there’s a stack of them staring at me from across the room right now

The concept of DDoS-ing hell just to annoy god is funny as shit

If you’re interested in one of the most interesting reads ever, there’s a book called Surface Detail by Iain M Banks (Author of The Culture series of scifi books, Use Of Weapons and The Wasp Factory, to name a couple of well known titles)

It follows a couple of storylines, one of which is a War against a civilisation that has developed a digital recreation of biblical Hell to trap and punish dissidents, and the physical war that led to a back and forth of digital fighting after military accelerationism reached a stalemate.

Good on you for making sure, wouldn’t call you a pushover for standing by your decision.

Wearing a condom is like wearing an n95 mask when going into a hospital or public space, it’s a matter of protecting yourself and others, especially when the only argument against wearing one is a matter of comfort.

If you like watermelon sweets his flavour is top tier (and the art is way less nsfw than some)

Honourable mention for the flavour called snake oil, don’t watch JFJ but the drink tastes like a top tier apple pie

Unironically recommend Gamersupps, despite their whole marketing schtick of ridiculous art on some of the flavours, the actual drinks themselves are undeniably good.

None of the canned energy drink blood thinners and aspatame /acesulfamine sweeteners, none of the sugar since theyve replaced it with sucralose, none of the Lead found in other energy drink powders, they actually pay their artists and outright refuse to use generative images.

“AI” built into the CPU :(

Well we all know musk has desperately wanted to get on the island, who knows, maybe hes got some of those unredacted files in his personal collection

Is there a version that doesn’t have the AI cuntery baked into it?

Not to mention how every “AI” company is actively participating in the surveillance of not only citizens, but of people in other countries, actively being used by the US military to pick targets for bombing, or how it’s being used to spread misinformation at a rate that would make the cia’s efforts in the 60s sound like that guy you met at the pub who has MANY opinions on geopolitics.

Could not agree more, hence why it’s a war crime, yknow?

They could have ran a conventional air bombing campaign against tactical targets, but they decided to drop nukes on a “tactical” target in the middle of a huge city!>

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but they did that AS WELL.

Operation Meetinghouse was the US firebombing of Tokyo on 9th-10th of March 1945 which destroyed a 16 square mile area, killing over 100,000 civilians and making millions homeless

There’s also the B-29 raids america launched from the Marianas that lasted from 17 November 1944 until 15 August 1945

Congratulations for failing to address anything I said.

In response to your piss poor argument of “would you rather suffer a poison that makes your children deformed and gives you and everyone in your village/town/city turbocancer, or would you rather have your city turned into a smoldering crater?”

Considering that modern nuclear weapons, excluding a couple of nuclear artillery shells, ‘viable deterrent’ devices and dirty bombs, are Thermonuclear devices capable of up to and beyond the triple digit megaton range.

The weapon known colloquially as ‘Tsar Bomba’ would have had a yield of 100Mt if they used the original Uranium tamper instead of the Lead they used instead, so as to stop it from irradiating the entire area of their test site. As a result it ‘only’ had a yield of 50Mt.

The blast wave it created circled the globe three times and shattered windows 500 miles away.

So, you tell me.

Turbocancer for you, your family, friends and their family, your neighbours, their neighbours, any livestock, pets or wild animals, because the scientists that got picked up by government agencies after the last war, wanted to test out their new chemical concoction on the newest group they had deemed to be an ‘enemy’.

Or everything you’ve ever known being converted into a high temperature plasma setting fire to an area 60 miles in diameter, then afterwards everything downwind gets covered in radioactive ash (and also given turbocancer) when the 40 mile high cloud of debris falls out of the sky, all because the scientists that got picked up after the last war wanted to see how much physics they could fit into a bomb.

Or are you willing to admit that maybe comparing the two is like comparing Fluorine and TNT.

This isn’t school, kid. This is the internet. You aren’t a teacher and this comments section isn’t a research paper.

You posed an obnoxious whataboutism, as if the horrifying things America has done to multiple asian countries somehow cancel each other out because one is ‘worse’ than the other despite both being war crimes.

Though as an aside, would you consider firebombing every Japanese city they can get a plane over, for a period of months ‘worse’ than wiping two cities off the map because they wanted to test out their new toy (in the case of little boy, potentially running the risk of it failing to go off and leaving a functional mass of enriched uranium right at the feet of a country they were at war with)?

Would you consider the use of agent orange and napalm ‘worse’ than them say, creating AIDS, or destabilising any nations that were getting a little too successful, any part of the MKultra program, funelling huge quantities of money to a country that has still to this day never signed the nuclear nonproliferation agreement?

Would you consider it worse that there are widespread birth defects in multiple arabic countries due to the use of depleted Uranium munitions for so long that the ground became radioactive?

Or would you be willing to stop comparing piss and chocolate for the sake of being neurotic on the internet?