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

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.

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.

When 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.

I 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.

That’s nice. But the materials don’t matter, you could make them out of burlap and they would still be cargo pants. It all about the design.

I just don’t care what they think about my cargo pants or shorts. I’m going to wear them anyway.

A rose by any other name is still just a slightly different type of cargo pants…

So cargo pants? I catch grief from my wife and daughters if I wear those.

Relevant Dr Glaucemflecken

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!

Don’t be so sure.

As long as you tie his shoelaces together when buried, there won’t be any risk of zombie trump…

We would be paying for it anyway.

While the Brits outlawed slavery around 1830s for themselves, they had no problem loading slaves onto their ships and smuggling them to the Americas for a good while after. Plus they openly supported the Confederacy throughout the Civil War to keep the cotton rolling in. And of course we don’t need to mention colonialism that lasted until after WW2 now, do we? Of course the French, Dutch, Spanish, and Germans also colonized every inch of some else’s dirt to exploit them back to the Stone Age. And there was little hesitation to kill any and all that objected the “civilizing” effect of European influence.

And slavery is ongoing even as we speak in certain parts of this world. But we do nothing and care little about that. As long as they keep it on the down low we need not be overly concerned.

Already taken.