It has become sad that when a lot of people see someone else take a pocket knife out and open it, the first thing that goes through their small heads is “That’s a weapon! I’m going to die now!” And that it’s just a simple tool that humans have been using for millennia for daily tasks.
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Well, a traditional Puukko really isn’t made for stabbing, they got a seax for that. But they can pull kitchen duty just fine if you choose to grab one.
I own a couple of them and have used them for everything from filleting fish I’ve caught to dressing and butchering deer, dicing onions and peppers, cleaning a fouled spark plug, and a myriad of small wood working tasks. They are fine tools for those of us that don’t live in a city.
Now if you want something that can go from the kitchen to the battlefield and back again, then get a Kukri.
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News@lemmy.world•US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional
2·18 hours agoWhen you can go on amazon and buy an 8 gallon electric still you plug in to the wall for under $200, there ain’t much sense in redneck engineering a still.
It’s kind of like brewing beer, you could floor malt your barley, but ain’t nobody doing that at home.
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News@lemmy.world•US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional
12·1 day agoI doubt even the risk of fire will a problem since modern home distillers will use small electric stills. And the alcohol boils of at about 170F, (about 76C for our challenged brethren in Texas). So the explosion risk is also very minimal.
The challenge is to maintain a steady temperature while distilling your booze. Just enough heat to drive off the alcohol while leaving the majority of water behind.
It does. I’m far closer to dying than living. I maybe have 10 more years, 15 if I’m lucky, (a debatable form of “luck”).
There are many good applications for FDM printed items. But I still have a metal lathe, mill, drill press, and welders for all the other times that FDM is a poor choice.
Pencil and paper for me boys. I’d do cave painting, there are no caves around me.
Ahhh, sackcloth and ashes! Tarballs. Yum!
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News@lemmy.world•Trump Trends Online After Unconfirmed Reports Place Him at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Saturday
1·7 days agoAs long as you tie his shoelaces together when buried, there won’t be any risk of zombie trump…
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News@lemmy.world•Trump Trends Online After Unconfirmed Reports Place Him at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Saturday
2·7 days agoWe would be paying for it anyway.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Tesla Is Sitting on a Record 50k Unsold EVsEnglish
5·8 days agoAlready taken.
A little potato makes for a pretty good thickener in a soup.
A shoutout to steve1989! For eating US Civil War Hard Tack and Boer War canned Bully Beef! And every WW2 ration he can get.
He sure can wax poetic about the flavors of each one.





As soon as I get approved I will add a few things to help get things off the ground.