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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's life in the face of work that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. I was crazy and could be not working. All i had to do was ask; and as soon as i did, i would no longer be crazy and would have to work more. I would be crazy to work more and sane if i didn't, but if i was sane i had to work. If i work i was crazy and didn't have to; but if i didn't want to i was sane and had to.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Looks like glacier national Park

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Don't forget your copious amounts of insect repellent.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just find any thing that smells like mint or citrus and you'll be fine.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I live in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and spend a lot of time in the summer camping in and around our national parks (Yellowstone, Grand Teton, etc.). Often, the only thing that will do the trick is taking a bath in deet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Deetz nutz. Gottem.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (6 children)

yes, instead of scrounging for berries when you're 75 and dying of an infected wound from when you fell over on that mountain

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Oh boi 🤦‍♂️

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I'm very anti-work, but one night in that environment with no shelter and food and I'd be dreaming of an office space. That being said, there is definitely a better world somewhere between working 50-80hours a week and sleeping outside with no shelter or food.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're comparing what even our ancestors before sapiens had against the modern world. How about Babylon? Or the native Americans that so many "civilized" Americans ran off into the woods to join. Survival of the fittest was absolutely a thing sure, but at the same time, look at people's lives now, look at healthy people's lives in Brazil's favella, Gaza, Sudan, war zone or not. I live in the wonderful capital of Scotland yet there are people on the edges who have lives worse than a 3000bc person.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah that's kinda my point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why wouldn't you have shelter or food? Emergency shelter takes an hour to build if you've never done that before and as long as you can tie a knot and find both woods and stone you can have a reasonably durable shelter in a week.

Food is even easier as long as you did literally any outdoors skills as a kid. While the picture suggests a landscape a bit north and a bit alpine, fish, berries, root vegetables and/or tree nuts will be available to you all year.

Take a survival and foraging course. A couple weekends of education will save your life when capitalism inevitably collapses.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have taken a foraging course! My wife and I actually forage a small amount. But I've never taken a survival course. I'll just freeze to death and I'm ok with that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You should, at least one working with primitive shelters. Once you understand how easy it is and the relatively low maintenance requirements you'll start getting into Bushcraft, and from there you'll want land just to make little log-based moss covered shelters that can last for decades.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I'd love to do that someday. Maybe when my daughter is old enough to learn as well.

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