Where I’m from (France) this is how you pay deposits for rentals.

We also have “bank cheques” for big expenses like houses.

Paying with cheques in regular shops is getting rarer, often requires providing two ID, and gets you weird looks. Debit cards have mostly replaced that usage.

We don’t really have credit cards afaik.

Yeah this one is pretty niche nowadays.

I did it for my nephews because I found it funny to give them time capsules of what kind of music was broadcasted when they were born. And cassettes are a good medium for long time storage :p

Yeah I was thinking about renting physical copies not streaming.

I’d count digital ones as well.

That’s how I didn’t get the point since none of my leatherback encyclopedias is a complete set (yay backyard sales).

Like a getting movies in a public library can count as renting at Blockbusters imho?

0 points if you count public libraries as “blockbuster adjacent” and I’m only a year older than you.

I’d assume it’s the floppy one but same lol

Same and I’m not even 30 ^^`

What’s the thing you’ve never done?

He is a dumb fuck who’s dense enough to have an event horizon. Add the narcissism, possible dementia, and a general lack of anything remotely human.

I tried explaining to a SO why stappling bread to trees was funny or why “Cat.” was peak humor.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone questioning my sanity and theirs by association this clearly in any other conversation.

dies from cringe

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Oh no there’s a bear in my bed!

“The young ones are lacking conservative quality that we had” - Every old cohort going back through time

Ah the duality of humans :p

Neither am I.

I don’t mind insects most of the time. I do beekeeping and love spiders.

But there are two bugs that scare me: roaches and centipedes (millipedes are cute though).

We had roaches a few times when I was a kid and it just scared me for life. They’re fucking everywhere, they’re noisy, and you can always see one in the corner of your eyes. fuck roaches.

Size 13?

Do your shoes work as a tent for smaller folks?

So credit goes to Ryan North then.

Thanks for the info, I might even get the book \o

No way in hell.

Good content deserves credit.

This is awesome, thanks for putting in the effort!

Quick edit: do I credit you as /u/klear or do you prefer another handle?

Copper is very ductile and has a low melting point. Making a crude wire isn’t that hard. Oiled fabric is good enough to insulate it.

Finding a permanent magnet would be hard but you don’t need one. A simple salt/acid battery is enough to make a temporary one and use it as your generator’s rotor.

Depending on what metals you have at hand, a lead/acid battery is quite easy to make. It would require some light chemistry skills to make an acid that’s strong enough though. My best bet would be concentrating ethanoic acid.

Your battery only needs to act as an exciter. Once the generator is running you can use some of the current it produces to keep the rotor excited.

Once you got your generator assembled you can just hook it up on a water mill which the greeks knew about. You could maybe even fiddle around using late ancient Greek knowledge about steam engines (see aeolipile) and make yourself a very simple steam turbine.

With a bit of metallurgy know how you can make a DC generator like the ones used in the late 19th and early 20th century. All the materials you would need have been available since antiquity.

An AC generator would be a tad harder to make but not by a huge margin.

It wouldn’t be efficient at all but imho it would be a good PoC and you could then pool up some knowledge and brain power from people around you.

The hardest part might be convincing folks around you that it’s actually more than a party trick.

I currently have three practical ideas that are quite easy to set up:

• lighting with a simple air filled carbon filament light bulb.
• metallurgy with an induction heater.
• fumeless heating with a crude convection heater although this one might be more of a stretch.

edit: I wrote this without consulting any external ressources as it would be cheating.