Rakdos92
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Happy 4th of July to you all. Hope you have a nice BBQ.
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Worry about the car insurance is also fading. I'll just have to accept whatever happens. No point in getting excited about it.
60$ for the renewal this month, normally it's 45$
Turns out the program for that costs more than what I currently haveAlso isn't there something about the state picking up your insurance if you fill out some forms? (I live in NYC and don't own a car so this "car insurance" stuff is all a mystery to me.) Obviously you'll need money to pay for this month but you may have a way to avoid that going forward.
I'm currently riding Wi-Fi from a gym that I got the password for. 24 hours, no restrictions. Unlike McDonald's Wi-Fi I can get porn through thisFor telephone, have you looked at the free Google phone number thing? I tried using one for a while -- and there was an app for my phone to transparently use Google's number -- but I never really got into it and eventually they took the free number away because I wasn't using it. You'd need wifi to use it without a phone plan but parking somewhere with wifi may be a lot cheaper than a phone plan.
17th
Support services all charge money. That's why I sleep in my car.... how much gas would it cost to get to someplace with better support services?
You do need to post at least once on the forum to unlock some account privileges (like editing your custom title, but probably other things too), and your posts are invisible till your first is approved (spambot measure). There's an introduction thread, but there's no rule about where your first post needs to be, and most everything is on-topic in this thread anyway.Hello QQ, just making a first comment post in case there's any kind of rule about that. Apologies if this isn't the place for that, or is unnecessary.
Hello QQ, just making a first comment post in case there's any kind of rule about that. Apologies if this isn't the place for that, or is unnecessary.
Guys, how could I change the signature under my profile? I can't find how to do this(
If you want to change the 'Your first time is always over so quickly, isn't it?' to something else:Guys, how could I change the signature under my profile? I can't find how to do this(
Try to keep your time in your car minimal, stay in shade and downwind. (If your having problems with mosquitoes or any other blood-sucking vermin, get a metal pot/pan and as much greenwood and leaves as you can. Don't try and turn it into a fire, just let it smoulder: the smoke keeps the vermin away in until the night. Spreading crushed wild garlic and mud on your skin also helps keep vermin away.)
Again: get out of your car once in a while, it's an oven. Two, stay in some good shade. Now as for the water problem... stop chugging it down the second you get it. Like it took a while for me to get that dehydration is more about your kidneys than a parched throat. I know for a fact that you feel like shit after you gulp down whatever water you got. Feel bloated as hell, wanna piss but can't, maybe even some nausea or stomach cramps.I'm constantly at least mildly dehydrated because I honestly can't drink enough water to keep up with being squeezed out like a sponge by the fucking sun.
Keep your shit loose, let it breathe and most importantly - KEEP IT DRY! Like dude, it's gotta be stagnant wind with like 30+ weather and 100% humidity where you're at if you're sweating that fucking hard.At least once a day I have to take my shirt off and wring it out like a soaked washcloth.
It's some miserable shit, lemme tell you.
Could be worse. Strip your upper layers if you can.Today is pretty overcast, so it's not quite as bad, but the humidity is up so everything is still sticky and sweaty as all hell.
Here's a nugget of injun spiritual survival: get into a state of being half-awake and half-asleep, during the process - focus your mind and try to dream of what currently holds your interest. Make it as concrete as possible and approach it with the intent of learning or surviving. After that you'll be educated on that specific thing; all the way down to its most minute details. That's what we Cree call "Pawaachikan." Literally "Vision Dreaming."Gonna see if I can meditate today. Still have the tree here so maybe I can "transcend" for a little while and spend time not feeling miserable.
Oh I do. I'm sitting under a tree right now.
Yeah, I generally keep three shirts on tap to switch between. Also have a rag handy to mop up sweat with.Keep your shit loose, let it breathe and most importantly - KEEP IT DRY! Like dude, it's gotta be stagnant wind with like 30+ weather and 100% humidity where you're at if you're sweating that fucking hard.
That sounds really cool, Im going to try it. Might take some work to get there but it sounds like it's worth itHere's a nugget of injun spiritual survival: get into a state of being half-awake and half-asleep, during the process - focus your mind and try to dream of what currently holds your interest. Make it as concrete as possible and approach it with the intent of learning or surviving. After that you'll be educated on that specific thing; all the way down to its most minute details. That's what we Cree call "Pawaachikan." Literally "Vision Dreaming."
I should've mentioned this in my post but the thing is: is that in order to practice Pawaachikan properly, you need to fast and deprive yourself of any physical enjoyment and that includes internet and porn.That sounds really cool, Im going to try it. Might take some work to get there but it sounds like it's worth it
As with any disaster preparedness. Start with your mindset on how you want to approach the situation and plan for it. After that, prepare in anyway that's within your power.Here's a thought to put to the group; what should I do if/when a hurricane is rolling this way?
SAS Survival Handbook on Disasters said:SAFETY PRECAUTIONS
Get out of the hurricane's path if you can.
– Hurricane warnings are usually issued when one is expected within 24
hours and will give you plenty of time to evacuate its path, if you are prepared.
– Keep away from the coast, where destruction will be worst, with flooding and a tidal wave, and from river banks.
– Board up windows and secure any objects outdoors that might be blown away.
– At sea take down all canvas, batten down the hatches and stow all gear.
If you are in a solid building and on high ground STAY WHERE YOU ARE
—travel in a hurricane is extremely dangerous. The safest place is usually in a cellar or under the stairs. Store drinking water—water and power supplies may be cut off by the storm—and have a battery-operated radio to keep in touch with
any instructions issued. If not in a sturdy structure, evacuate to a hurricane shelter. Shut off power supplies before you leave.
Seeking shelter
Outdoors a cave will offer the best protection. A ditch will be next best. If unable to escape lie flat on the ground where you will be less of a target for flying debris. Crawl to the lee side of any really solid shelter such as a stable rocky outcrop or a wide belt of large trees. Beware of small trees and fences which could be uprooted.
SURVIVAL ADVICE
Stay where you are when the hurricane appears to have passed—there will usually be less than an hour of calm as the eye passes and then the winds will resume in the opposite direction. If sheltering outdoors move to the other side of your windbreak in preparation or move to better shelter if close by.
I don't think there's any urban building in the world outside of actual disaster shelters that can withstand a hurricane. In the event that one does end up coming through/close to town. Refer to your local resources. With all that said: does the area your in suffer heavily when a storm like that passes through?The local homeless shelters are built like shit and tend to get torn up and/or flooded out when storms hit, so that's a miss.
If you have an actual plan of where you want to go and do when you get there, and have the resources to make the trip? Absolutely.
Ouch. Fasting is no problem, I do that all the time anyway, but no internet?I should've mentioned this in my post but the thing is: is that in order to practice Pawaachikan properly, you need to fast and deprive yourself of any physical enjoyment and that includes internet and porn.
...Yeah, it's an ascetic thing.
Pensacola has been hit by a good few hurricanes and plenty of buildings do okay.I don't think there's any urban building in the world outside of actual disaster shelters that can withstand a hurricane. In the event that one does end up coming through/close to town. Refer to your local resources. With all that said: does the area your in suffer heavily when a storm like that passes through?
I was more talking about driving 20-30 miles north and chilling during a hurricane, not moving entirely.If you have an actual plan of where you want to go and do when you get there, and have the resources to make the trip? Absolutely.
If you are wanting to leave because you feel like it... uh, no. Stay where you are.
Well, the ascetic part isn't about cultivating virtuousness and learning to be grateful for what you have. It's more about - actually... the thing about pawaachikan is that it's both an initiation and a path into learning Mitewiwin. And unlike my tribe's Anishinaabe siblings to the south with their Midewiwin, there is no grand lodge for us. No church, community, school, anything like that. It's a teacher and apprentice sort of situation in that regard, IF something like that ever happened. (And the reason for that is because of all the Mitew, back then, slaughtered each other, lusting for greater enlightenment and power. After a while, the wisest of these surviving Mitew realized that: with all of them dead, their knowledge would be forgotten and a dark age of suffering would pass onto the people because of it. On that day they passed down an unwritten law, in that no more than two could be in any given area with four being the absolute limit.)Ouch. Fasting is no problem, I do that all the time anyway, but no internet?
Fuck.
I'll be trying it anyway, but that's a harsh condition.
Would it help if I'm physically miserable all the time anyway?
Well in that event that hurricane does pass through, I'm sure there's a law that states that anyone exposed to the storm without proper shelter must be housed/protected until relief and aid comes. On the shelters, dude. They either gotta be dilapitated as shit with a tin-roof poked full of holes if they're that fucking poor at keeping the weather out. Is it a Tent-City/Skidrow situation?Pensacola has been hit by a good few hurricanes and plenty of buildings do okay.
The shelters are major cheap shit though, so they often have issues with thunderstorms, much less hurricanes
Just make sure it's an area that you can sustain yourself in and quickly evacuate if it comes over there.I was more talking about driving 20-30 miles north and chilling during a hurricane, not moving entirely.
After a while, the wisest of these surviving Mitew realized that: with all of them dead, their knowledge would be forgotten and a dark age of suffering would pass onto the people because of it. On that day they passed down an unwritten law, in that no more than two could be in any given area
HAH! IT DOES SOUND LIKE DARTH BANE'S RULE OF TWO WHAT THE FUCK!Are you a Sith?
Because that totally sounds like something George Lucas would write.
(Or did Lucas rip off your tribe? Er I mean "discover" your tribal history, to use the more popular term.)
HAH! IT DOES SOUND LIKE DARTH BANE'S RULE OF TWO WHAT THE FUCK!
Anyway. I don't know, maybe. George Lucas did study anthropology but then again the concept of enlightened people keeping their knowledge of the world occult is nothing new in cultures across the world.