Oh, I download e-pub/PDF copies of books published before 2022. Because of shadow libraries, almost all publicly available knowledge is accessible if you know the right places or have the right friends :)

Not a scout, but I’d wager the majority of information regarding plant types can be found in wikipedia or in any hiking pamphlet, and you can find survival books that explain core concepts like building a shelter for free on sites like Anna’s Archive (just use a VPN so your ISP doesn’t throw a fit).

I usually read a wide variety of books regarding random skills that may or may not come in handy one day - not as good as in-person demonstrations, ofc, but it works :)

(Honestly, as an engineer - most of what I know for improvising solutions in dangerous situations or to solve problems came from what I read in downloaded books XD)

1033 program giving surplus military weapons, equipment, and vehicles was definitely federal.

It is normal and mandated, but unfortunately is also underfunded and often low quality/small portions (for perspective, after including costs of labor and maintenance, schools have roughly $1.50 to work with at scale for each meal).

For parents who can afford it and (crucially) have the time to prepare lunch for their children, they do so. Growing up, I always enjoyed making my own lunch or bringing leftovers from last night :)

That’s not the case for many, many people though. The amount of children who count on the school meal as their only reliable source of nutrition each day is staggering. The meal program was expanded during Covid, but afterwards some conservative areas walked it back substantially in an attempt to “save costs for taxpayers”. It’s counterintuitive as all hell though, as my parents (who are/were teachers) would put it, “You can’t teach a hungry child”.

Ubuntu is quite behind the update curve tho. Something like CatchyOS or Arch probably would have been much better in comparison.

Nothin’ like a nice act of kindness to brighten someone’s day :)

“BACKBLAST AREA CLEA-”

“The spy has already breached our defenses.”

That seems a bit of a stretch in terms of geopolitical cooperation, and if we are going off nuclear arsenal concentrations and overall military budgets, it would likely end up with the majority of WWIII’s damage coming from the US and China regardless.

You need some brutal doom modding then, pally :)

Lol, I’m sure it wouldn’t take too much engineering to make one with commodity parts. Hardest part would be the long term liquid storage, I’d reckon.

Free and open software

Not locked to a certain platform of development

Normies just realize this

You’d be better off contributing that ticket’s cost as a contribution towards an index or money market fund. Reliable returns compared to that ticket lol

Wow, they ran out of ideas that quickly?

Old money vs new money. You can read about that more in books like The Great Gatsby.

High net worth individuals don’t have the same income on paper (because that would be taxable at a very high rate), so most of their wealth is tied in assets and investments that can be pulled from and taxed at a much lower rate (or even tax free in certain cases). An ordinary person with a sudden windfall doesn’t have the same treatment, and get the full amount taxed.

Also, the lottery is a tax on those who don’t understand (or are willing to learn) about statistics. Never play.

Running the server at the same time as your client (separate steam library entry) isn’t very taxing, fortunately.

BANG

“Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown!”

3D printing and modelling, since the material is dirt cheap and the cost of the printer only really depends on scale. If you have the will you can make one from an e-waste DVD drive.

An encased bread mould that restricts the expansion to certain sides for the dough?

(Or more likely, someone carved this from an existing loaf).

There’s gotta be a nexus mod that handles the issue.