And since all of those are videos without me realising

I know we’re living in the backward world, but this isn’t satire, its pretty much historically accurate.

https://dn710009.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-ultimate-encyclopedia-of-knots-and-ropework/The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Knots and Ropework_text.pdf

Fill yer boots mate!

Top three that I use on a regular basis

Bowline (quick knot that’s strong, a common error is that when you try to pull it tight it falls apart, dont panic, you just went the wrong way through the loop you make in step 1)

Sheet bend (a bowline that’s gone horribly wrong somewhere (you’ll get that joke after a bit of practice)lmao but theknot can attach two completely different ropes together)

Figure 8 loop (like a bowline but no matter how much weight you put in the loop it’s still easy to undo)

Reef knot - the most common way to tie two ends together

Monkeys fist (impractical unless you’re throwing ropes into trees, but real fun to make out of old climbing rope if you’ve got pets.

If you want to save your hands and your floor from being shredded and filled with tiny shards of nylon fiber, pick up some of the stuff that has a core and a woven cover from a local hardware store or talk to an outdoor shop to see if theyve got any unusable lengths.

I picked up some Dyneema offcuts dirt cheap from a local sailing chandler’s on ebay (Dyneema’s the brand name for an often overpriced rope made from UHMWPE - “Ultra high molecular weight poly ethylene”, same material as plastic bags but DENSE and as a result hilariously strong- my 3mm thick rope can pull 1 ton before breaking, shit’s WILD)

If you’re making a decision for yourself, because you feel better for not doing something, where the alternative is to do it out of habit or some form of compulsion that makes you feel bad or like it’s a waste of energy, then you definitely don’t need strangers on the internet telling you anything about it (doubly so if it doesn’t hurt anyone.)

And by the sounds of the olympics, good luck getting the athletes from around the world that you put in one place to stop finding other athletes attractive XD

The commander in chief can’t even bother to sit through briefings, I’m now under the impression the guy doesnt have any strategy at all, and instead thinks that all is well and Iran is just another stretch of desert that he can bulldoze like Israel did Gaza.

<3 o7

In related positive news, Iran just hit one of the facilities used to produce white phosphorus

Going to refer to my favourite meme of the pandemic and say masks work both ways

Hard to find one small enough

WEARING A MASK IS LIKE WEARING A CONDOM.

Would you risk a permanent disease for the sake of “ehh I dont like how it feels”?

Aha I literally came into this post trying to find out if it was Tai Chi that used a sword, cheers

And just in case you’re still scared of links. Heres the graph showing updated information, the line in BLUE is this year.

I’m not the one who can’t even read a graph.

But here, just in case you change your mind here’s an interactive map with an extra graph that provided the original data for the graph

https://nsidc.org/snow-today/snow-viewer

This one. The one in the post.

That’s the wrong graph. Look for the one with all the pretty colours mate.

Yes… Now look at the black line. The one that’s labeled as 2026.

The top graph in the post shows March data, as does the link

Not sure how much is militariaganda, but there was a dude slinging one of these around during a couple of big diplomatic events in the past couple of years, so probably partially effective at the very least.

Oh and there’s also whatever aircraft mounted variant that the americans used when they invaded venezuela, the one that made Maduro’s guards “bleed from the eyes, ears and nose”, while describing feeling like someone had parked a car on their head.