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.

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

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.

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.

It surely will.

Yes, people suffer and die in armed revolutions. But there are very few “peaceful” revolutions that have been successful in history. Even Ghandi needed to benefit from armed revolutionaries fighting the British in the background to be the more reasonable choice. MLK needed the Black Panthers openly carrying firearms to advance black rights.

Until the populace is willing to die, nothing changes in a dictaorship. Sadly, the tree of liberty sometimes needs to be refreshed with the blood of patriots.

Meh, 5 second rule applies here.

Not surprising. Since high velocity rifle bullets very often get very deformed on impact and some are even specifically designed to fragment on impact. Unlike low velocity pistol rounds which don’t move fast enough to deform a lot.

People need to stop watching CSI reruns.

At some point you are going to need steam to spin a turbine to generate enough energy to compress the CO2.

A little potato makes for a pretty good thickener in a soup.