That’s not insurmountable to learn, even something like watching Cody’s Labs videos on gold reclamation would be a good starting point.

Overall it would still be tricky to fully pull off without raising suspicion unless the amounts were kept consistently low, at least if you kept it to a 1 person operation.

If you started a gold mining company, hired people to run it legitimately, you could fudge the books on how much was actually mined, sifted, and processed, that probably wouldn’t get a close inspection.

Long term plan, but…

Begin legitimately prospecting a piece of land legally in Alaska, document that you do so, do some substantial digging/panning etc.

Melt a large bar down into much smaller amounts that are worth only around $500 to $1000 in weight. Sell the melted gold at a local gold precious metals dealer in small batches over the course of many months/years. Claim the profit on your taxes as spoils from your prospecting.

This technique would not work with huge amounts or quantities, and even as I described it, it may bring an audit, since it is likely most prospectors are not that successful.

For the writers out there, NovelWriter is a fantastic FLOSS alternative to Scrivener (has similar organizing features), and it entirely uses markdown.

The VA part was especially noticeable in CP2077, the male VA sounded like someone doing a stiff stereotypical mobster accent, while the woman VA was excellent, with far more emotion put into the lines, couldn’t imagine playing it any other way.

Same! Lately I’ve been going back to 90’s titles to see what I missed out on and trying new genres, which has been unexpectedly rewarding, found quite a few gems that really stood the test of time.

Hm, the captcha worked on my end without issue and I was able to watch with audio.

I tested it just now with Freetube instead (should be available in most linux repositories), and that appears to work well for me without any captcha. Hopefully it should allow you to watch it without as many issues.

I don’t see a way to download the video from within Freetube. I suppose a much more inconvenient but guarenteed method of capturing the video would be to capture it live by recording the video and audio in OBS.

Would an invidious proxy count? https://yt.chocolatemoo53.com/watch?v=0jco-RKzRSo

If not, the video could be downloaded from there with the help of a browser addon or perhaps the youtube-dl application, then re-uploaded elsewhere for you to share.

Ahh, that explains it. Eternity was my preferred app as well, but the developer unfortunately abandoned it a year ago, and it hasn’t received an update since, making it incompatible with newer versions of Lemmy.

You may want to switch to a different app that’s actively developed. I personally switched to Summit since it has some of the best mod tools in an app, but there’s a lot of other good ones too, like Blorp or Voyager.

I purposefully made my example not function to demonstrate how it’s constructed. If done without the quotation marks, and the ::: spoiler is on its own line, it should work and show up in your app.

Here’s what it looks like before posting on my end:

You can read it here: The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin

To do a spoiler tag write “::: spoiler This Is My Spoiler Title” on its own line (don’t include the quotation marks)

Then put the text you want to hide below it, separated by white space (enter key pressed twice).

Then end the spoiler with another 3 colons, again separated by white space.

:::

And it should work :)

It’s full-on defense of tankies, I’m afraid. They unfortunately completely drank the coolaid :(

As a theory on why that may have happened; Marxist-Leninist groups can offer a feeling of belonging, friendship, a comforting worldview, and the belief that if we just follow the directions of long dead prophet-like historical figures (Lenin, Stalin, etc), then we will someday have heaven on earth. These are extremely appealing aspects to someone who may be very lonely, or who may have suffered a severe trauma and may not have their basic needs met (which may also be what leads to some people being attracted to the MAGA cult)

To someone well versed in history and a desire to find multiple viewpoints for a historical event to avoid propaganda bubbles, the true nature of ML/Stalinism and its authoritarianism becomes self-evident. But for those who never went down that path and are in a vulnerable state, a ‘scientific’ cult offering you hope, meaning, and companionship is very easy to fall into, and thus willingly self-delude themselves to attain in-group status.

Just like with normal religions/cults, once they are deep inside it, they are heavily encouraged by the in-group to suspect any outside information that challenges their narratives or isn’t approved by the group, and thus the cognitive dissonance they could create if looked at more objectively can mostly be avoided.

Red Fash is a useful term when applied toward people who simply cannot resist a tasty centralized state dictatorship (and who also can’t ever seem to beat the ‘don’t murder your allies in cold blood’ challenge).

Historically, we Anarchists called left-authoritarians Red Fash, and have a long and bloody history of being betrayed and murdered by them once they see their chance at consolidating power.

Off ebay (though I’ve seen thicker ones in hardware stores too), they should pop up from searching 20x20x4 Merv filter (or whatever dimensions your fan is).

The thicker ones are much freer flowing compared to the thin ones due to their increased surface area, making them comparable to a Corsi box, but easier to move around.

Was it a 1" thick filter, or 4" thick?

Personally I use a single 4" thick HVAC filter taped to the back of a box fan, which has similar advantages to the Corsi box, but in a smaller footprint, and allows it to still be pointed at things besides the ceiling.

The 4" thick filter has far more surface area than a single 1", giving it much less flow resistance, so no danger of potentially overheating/straining the motor.

They are also known as HVAC or MVHR filters, which appear to be available in the UK

Based on this chart, you’d want an M5 or M6 rated filter to remove car exhaust particulate, something like this (though I have no idea if that’s the best deal to be had, that site was just the first one that popped up from searching UK HVAC Filter).

Edit: Hm, I guess the bigger problem is that you guys don’t really have box fans over there, and the ones available online there need a 120v step down transformer. Bugger :\

I guess you could still attach a 4" or 3" thick filter to the back of a large round fan, then tape cardboard cutouts on the corners that the fan doesn’t cover, and seal the sides of the fan with tape so it doesn’t try to draw air from the sides, and exclusively pulls from the filter… That should still be pretty effective.

Throne of Miscellania

Ahhh, I loved that quest as a kid, was so neat to be able to fix up the island and then pop in to collect what they’d gathered.

I remember spending a lot of gold trying out different hair styles, nice that that’s free now too, as well as the romance options! :)