I'm a machete enthusiast.
Order yourself an Ontario brand machete (no saw-back those suck). Get the sheath, too.
Whole thing should set you back less than $30
Be sure to get the right size sheath for your machete.
I recommend the 18" for indoor use.
And if you want a great novel about the current situation in Congo, I recommand this marvelous book of dark humor https://www.amazon.fr/Congo-Inc-Koli-Jean-Bofane-ebook/dp/B07BQQ8NS2
If you have an Android phone, you can go to https://newpipe.net/ and download a YouTube client that does not recommend anything. The opening page just shows the most popular videos currently, you can exit the app and still listen to audio (perfect for music!), and you can import your subscriptions from your YouTube account. Seriously, it's the most used app on my phone for a reason.
Homage to Catalonia is also available to read/download from the Anarchist Library. You can get it in a number of formats and if there’s a specific one you want and can’t get, Calibre is a nice, open-source ebook manager that you can use to convert between formats.
Sure! I made it when 'Talk to Transformer' site was still open to the public. Although I have some theoretical knowledge on neural networks, I wouldn't be able create one, so I used already existing, powerful and mighty GPT-2 (now even more powerful brother GPT-3 is causing ruckus). Talk to Transformer webpage allowed for short text input (300 words or something), you clicked 'generate' and it created output.
Now, GPT model is not ideal, but it is amazing at mimicking genres and styles. It could uncannily create romance, erotica, fantasy, news reports, poetry. It is astonishing what can it produce, based on limited input.
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So what I did - I fed it with bits of desired narration, got the output, saved the output in a text file, put the output into the input, generated the output again (or repeated generating until I'm satisfied), repeated the process x1000. The narration was like a river, and I was creating it on a spot, sometimes nudging the neural network into the desired direction, and sometimes taking for granted what it vomited on me.
It was a weird period for me because I felt like I lived with an access to news from the parallel universe. Sometimes the network generated emails and names and addresses and I had to check them to ensure myself whether they are real. They never were.
Finally, I generated about 100 pages, I started editing it. It was a long process, but extremely funny. Then I made a cover art (with a mix of thispersondoesnotexist.com and my own naked chest xD ), and used evil amazon selfpublishing process to make it online.
And that was it. The grift never worked because I sold something like 3 copies, but it was super fun and I'm happy that I did it
I am not sure whether Tostoy was Christian. He feuded with St. John of Kronstadt and was excommunicated by the Russian Orthodox Church. It has been a long time since I read The Kingdom of God is Within You, but if I recall correctly it starts out sounding like most Christian pacifists/anarchists (a viewpoint I very much respect) but diverges from the beliefs most Christians would recognize toward the end.
By the way, you might be interested to know this book is on Librivox: https://librivox.org/the-kingdom-of-god-is-within-you-by-leo-tolstoy/
Check out the farmers almanac and other resources for tips on gardening and food storage.
Basic first aid kit and an understanding of how to use it will help
Learn fishing knots and what to use as bait Heres a good app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jatek82studio.fkr3dpe
Learn how to make a fire
Good socks and boots
Learn survival knots
Get a wilderness guide for your area, ive seen pocket ones that have maps and a least of edible local plants, etc
Leatherman tool, bug spray, Firestarter, sunscreen, life straw, camelback, paracord, signal mirror,whistle, compass, 30 day lantern are all good things to have.
UsT sells pretty survival gear for cheap.
I was gifted the Hazard Fraught 90A special. It's...fine... sure, but it's stupid finicky and AC flux-core wire welding is, IMO, too messy to focus on improving your skills once you get past a certain point.
I ended up modding it to output DC and it's much better now, but to your average person, that's a whole lotta effort and high risk redneck engineering that most folks feel.comfortable doing. (Plus, just buying a DC welder to begin with is much cheaper, and modding is only smart if you already have it.)
Tops Knives Mini Slingshot MSLI-01 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KRN6GSB?ref_=cm_sw_r_apin_dp_QPN1X2JY4PMXXNYYWBNF
I enjoy this one, it’s small enough and comes with a sheath so it can be attached to your belt! I suggest pairing with some 8-10mm steel ball bearings and get some practice in the backyard/wherever you can! It’s pretty accurate and plenty strong, but being so small it does take a little bit of practice to become proficient.
It was supposed to be based on this series of comic books: https://www.amazon.com.au/Alt-Hero-2-Rebels-Vox-Day/dp/952730301X
Also the penny only just dropped that when the sad puppies were trying to rig the Hugo awards that this guy was one of them/tried to hijack them
You’ll still get ads for other podcasts, they’ll just be very random. You should get a VPN in general. I personally switched from NordVPN to ProtonVPN, and I’m happy with the change. Proton is the same company as ProtonMail, so they’re as secure as anybody can get. If you’re truly worried about government monitoring of your traffic you can even run your VPN connection with an extra hop through Switzerland or Iceland so your data is never logged, and even the servers it passed through have no idea what you requested. Proton is currently working to get Iranians through their wall of censorship and I believe they’re the only one able to do so at this point.
This is, for my future reference for when i upgrade did the asus rog b450 I work with have been using this under desk mounted one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07QJ9JZZX/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Included screws are worthless but I had an elite with white keycaps before switching to verify it is good enough you can pay a transfer fee of $50ish and $25 to use the guns on.
It is a really old series now, but back in the late 70s / early 80 Time Life put out a series called World War II. It is something like a 39 coffee table books, slightly oversized, and filled with pictures. From what I remember, the writing in them is good. I started re-reading them recently as I have been scanning my old copies. You won't be able to buy it anywhere except Ebay or possibly a used book dealer. But your local library probably has them. That is where I first discovered them decades ago.
This is it, so Amazon has at least one copy. But like I said, check your local library first.
I have a book on the Death March of the 2nd SS Panzer Division through France by Max Hastings. The book was well done. But Max is one of those problematic people who says with a straight face that the German soldier in WW2 was in all ways a superior fighter to everyone else. Which is uttter and complete bollocks of course.
James Holland has a number of good books. He's on of the hosts of the podcast We Have Ways Of Making You Talk, which is a WW2 podcast. So you can listen to that to get an impression of him. But again, he's got his downsides. For one, he has no problem with General Montgomery having a young male "friend" (which the rest of us would call a victim of Monty being a pedophile). He also gets really pissed off at people who dare to say that Churchill committed genocide in India. You know, because of that genocide he did in India. I gave up on his podcast because of that.
I use AirVPN. It has servers all over the world and has great speeds but its kind of expensive. Ive heard Proton is cheaper and one of the most secure so I think im switching when my subscription runs out.
Ads seem to be added depending on the location iheart thinks your at. I only get iheartradio ads or robert telling me about NordVPN and specifically calling me out for being a german listener. So i guess, they added this ad for you specifically.
A little pushback to the idea that he "hated women animators". For one thing, there weren't that many women animators during Walt's lifetime. Women were generally only allowed to be inkers and painters. And it doesn't seem to be because Disney hated women, but he had a very typical for the time paternalistic attitude towards women.
Disney had terrible, regressive views about a lot of things, including sex and gender roles, but to say he hated women seems like a bit of a stretch.
Source: Ink & Paint: The Women of Walt Disney's Animation
Oh Absolutely! Fwiw, I did find a 44 page book about their relationship on Amazon. I read it in less than an hour & there are some inconsistencies between Oki's doc & the book. Oh & if you haven't read gotten the chance to see it yet, here's Penni's Blog that she kept around the time of Jack's death
Made me happy to see them cite Kristin Dumez - @kkdumez multiple times in this one. For anyone raised in fundamentalist evangelicalism in the US, Jesus and John Wayne is a required purchase.
Hooyman Bush Machete with Heavy Duty Construction, Ergonomic No-Slip Handle and Belt Sheath for Gardening, Land Management https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082BWWCRN/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_i_BS0W49TT3WVR1F79P6QW?psc=1
I'll do you one better and say, get a toilet auger. Yeah it's $40 but if it saves you calling the plumber once, it's paid for itself twice. Probably should get a drain auger too, its the same thing but for sinks
I would say skip over some articles and go straight to this book: It Came from Something Awful. It focuses on the runup to the 2016 election and how the edgelords became such a force for rightwing politics but it delves well in the history of the site/forums as well.
If you don't want to buy it, borrow it from your local library. If you need help snagging a copy, let me know.
Agreed.
I'm a bit of a connoisseur.
If I'm going for a hike, and I just want to keep the trail clear, I bring something fancy like the parang
If the world has ended and I can only bring one big tool like that, it's the Ontario SP8 (not a fan of their new sheath. Look for the one with leather backing and pay whatever they're asking)
I have beat the fuck out of this thing and would choose it over any of my hatchets or machetes if I didn't know where I would end up.
The flat end is awesome for digging a latrine, prying open a door, or flipping a potato in the fire.
It just fucks
The saw back... I've used it to make notches for cord, but I could do without it. I ground off about 4 inches of it for batoning so it doesn't fuck up my club as much.
The Nordverse is the greatest bit of marketing in human history.
I have no idea how it's been as an investment for NordVPN, but the countless hours of entertainment it's generated are infinitely more endurable than any other advertising since the first caveman tried to convince the second caveman to trade him berries for mammoth meat.
It's not an edifying sight, esp. the last 10-15 years of his rule. Milovan_Djilas and some other insiders and Stevan Pavlowitch have useful details on how ramshackle and image-based his setup was. As for worker self-management, he kept sabotaging any attempts at workplace democracy by sticking to the One Party dictatorship which he was not willing to budge from.
that chili oil from trader joe's is fucking great, on everything
this stuff is an decent substitute if there isn't a trader joe's near you and you can stomach shopping at Bez-Mart
or to make your own, this video from Serious Eats
I had a look at the 'active' ingredients. I don't think there's anything close to any kind of speed.
It's more like a bunch if dubious supplements than a stimulant unless I'm missing something.
So, probably bullshit but a nothing particularly bits unless I'm being a dope.
Ingredients listed here.
Just one episode, but Jake Hanrahan of The podcast 'Popular Front' did an interview with a guy who runs a website called militia watch about done of these groups.
Him are Robert are kinda buddies on Twitter and seem to be mutual fans.
I make a podcast called Swords, Sorcery, and Socialism where we talk about the politics and themes in fiction books, both those the author intended and the ones they didn't intend. Next month we should have an episode out interviewing BtB alum Joe Kassabian about his scifi series.
There's a podcast called Who Is about people like McConnell. I can't speak to the quality of the podcast, I haven't listened to it I've only heard ads for it.
December 3-10. I think that was in Jerry Falwell Ep. 2. Footnotes are with Ep. 1's description, not sure if they cover all three eps (the website got changed by iHeart and lots of info is gone)
I believe robert goes into that a bit in this episode of WYE https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vSFNXNjA5OTQ2NzAzNA&ep=14&episode=MDIwNDUyOTQtMzc0YS0xMWVhLWFlOTMtZDMyMTU3N2Y4NTVj
Its either that one or the next one
Thank you for this! I’m a huge audiobook listener, and try to borrow them from the library, but they don’t always have what I’m looking for or there’s a crazy long waitlist.
https://librivox.org is great for free, public domain audiobooks. They’re read by volunteers, but most are really great readers. I’ve listened to a bunch of classics this way
In Part 3 Jason mentions the OJ Simpson case being a pretty straightforward story with only so many players. You're Wrong About has a bunch of episodes to prove that's not the case at all.
Here's the Google Podcast link for the episode in the meantime.
I recently finished the Imperial Radch trilogy by Ann Leckie. I'm not a good judge of how great or realistic the politics are, but it felt like it stressed the importance of local action.
https://www.amazon.com/Ancillary-Justice-Imperial-Radch-Leckie/dp/031624662X#
Yes. If you’re confused but want to learn more, A recentish book does a great job hashing out the history from an American theological perspective.
Predestination: The American Career of a Contentious Doctrine
I second Bring the War Home. I am now reading Field Guide to White Supremacy which is edited by the author of Bring the War Home.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0520382528/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_P7RES0WR9REJR15EFR5K
It was just Lockheed then. Ben Rich's book about working at Skunk Works during the SR71 program and running it during the F117 program was amazing to me as a kid.
https://www.amazon.com/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoir-Lockheed/dp/0316743003/
Essential local lore. They kind of made a mess of Burbank, though.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-01-24-fi-23784-story.html
you can find the isb here i’ve seen that multiple japanese libraries HAVE the book, but as i said in the post i can’t get it. some of them you can request to have it scanned and faxed too which would be ideal cause like… i don’t want to pay for a physical copy of this garbage book lol
this page has the cover art and isbn, and here is the amazon page. there are two options even tho it says you can buy three (maybe one just doesnt ship to australia? idk) one of them is $30.09 usd and the other is $76.26 usd. thats 45 dollars shipping and it still only arrives about 7 days earlier than the other one which has shipping of 2.40?? idk man i hate amazon. amazon page also has the isbns.
> Paul Williams
This guy appears to be a lunatic.
>He has appeared on Fox News, NPR, and MSNBC, and penned articles concerning Islamic paramilitary compounds that he claims have been established throughout the country.
No citation, but his other work seems to support the idea he'd say that.
And read the description for this book and tell me you wanna trust him. I'm sure there are way less nuts sources for history about Gladio.
Taking the opportunity of Corona episode, I want to advertise more my erotic book about coronavirus that I wrote after being inspired by Behind the Bastards one year ago
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B087955G8F/
Also available for free on libgen :)
If you want a good Christian perspective in that same vein, The Gospel of the Kingdom by Ladd is the definitive read.
It was foundational to me as a theologian and argues from Scripture that the Kingdom of God is a spiritual reign in an individual’s life— that is, living how Jesus taught, is what he was talking about.
Christian Dominionism is antithetical to Jesus as it seeks power of a fallen, passing world.
An absolutely wild thing I realized while listening to this episode is I've heard about this cult before, tangentially, in a book documenting the work of Cesar Chavez and the beginnings of the UFW. Apparently Chavez had an alliance with the cult and used "The Game" in staff meetings, at least according to The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement by Miriam Pawel (2009).
I don't think there's really any chance that Chavez could be made an episode subject, but if the Pawal book is accurate, that dude was absolutely an extremely mixed bag and the book is worth a read if you like the content and style of this cast.
I'm from Europe and the only ad with Robert I ever got was for ExpressVPN where he says that he uses it every time he is in Europe to watch Parks and Rec on Netflix. First time I heard it it sounded legit. Until I heard Zach Braff telling exactly the same story.
Found this sub just in time to join in, and would love to read Homage. I'm not sure if Robert's ever talked about it on the pod, but <em>The Anti-Fascist Handbook</em> could also be a good choice for future reads, and it's on brand even if Robert hasn't talked about it specifically.
Printed out maps will turn to shit after about a minute in even pretty mild rain, unless you laminate them. They're also a nightmare to stitch together to route plan over much difference, especially if you're in a hurry. I'm sure you can find some more resilient ones for sale.
Additionally, there are good apps where you can pre-load topo maps so you don't need to internet connection to use them - just GPS (or just use them like a regular map without GPS. I use All-In-One maps but I'm sure there are a ton of options out there. It's fiddly to figure out how to download and store maps for offline use, but you get used to it after a bit of playing.
Just following up with your reply to me the other day. Found the documentary available here outside of that iwonder service which seems to be limited to just two or three countries right now.
https://www.amazon.com/People-You-Know-Charles-Kriel/dp/B08JFZ1YLP
In college one of my classes had Ordinary Men as required reading. It was far scarier than most books I’ve read about the Holocaust, and I have read a lot of Holocaust books. I don’t want to give away the whole book, but in the end, it and The Banality of Evil were eye opening when it comes to what regular people are capable of in an environment that encourages inhumanity.