Mogensthegreat

Sadly, such a simple solution is no feasible, as some need-to-be-preserved pure conservative white bloodlines still reside here as a result of the old white supremacist compound.

My school teaches a mandatory Latin 1 course (which I am now taking) and after 1 year of such, an option for your remaining school career between Latin, French or Spanish courses. I plan to take Latin, because I'm not like the fucking filthy plebum that is the rest of my grade who can't distinguish the difference between the verb portare (to carry) and the noun porta (gate), or don't know what ego means or cant decline or conjugate shit. Peasants. Anyways... I have realized throughout this course that Latin and its conjugations and declensions are wonderful because they provide for the possibility of far more free sentence structure, and you can always know what adjective is describing what or what is performing the verb, or whatever problems far more conjugation- and declension-free languages like English may encounter.

Goddamnit... Hippies have taken root in my area, which i believed was safe from infection due to its high gun-wielding redneck population. One of these monstrosities just opened up in my town, which i believe will act as an egg sack, breeding ground, place of worship, and hive for the soon-to-be vast local hippie population, which will allow for them to start spreading in significant numbers throughout 'Murica in areas east of the West Coast,

Valerian and The City of a Thousand Planets In a glorious pan-galactic, hyper-industrialized Communist utopia where all work is done by robots and all humans are required to serve in the military to serve the purpose of bringing more territory into wondrous Socialism, all species are equal, except for one alien species who attempts to become a little more equal. This race, led by Jabba the Hutt a totally original and unique character have been tricked by the dark time-travveling wizard Adam Smith's evil magic into believing that Capitalism will bring them good things, (when in reality the evil Scot plans to feed them into his giant soul-to-haggis converter and take over the nation as the great Merchant-Khan, perish the thought). They begin smuggling vast quantities of Adamantium-Krypton, to destabilize the economy and become wealthy. Returning after completing a long mission to extinguish the last traces of Capitalism known to exist in the galaxy, two individuals of the few pure Russian bloodlines remaining after The Great Trump War of 2017, receive visions from the Force Ghosts of Stalin, Lenin, and Marx-Yoda. These heralds of class equality tell them of the impending doom to their great system, and our heroes decide to take action. This movie is an action-packed masterpiece great for young children and/or re-education programs.

Ooh, Solar Roadways is at it again:

I wonder what contemporary animals that would apply to. Obviously something like a mammoth is slow enough to have the atlatl be a superior weapon, a deer as an opposite example, but an elk, I suppose would be something of a grey area. I can't think of any reasons it should fall on one side of the spectrum or another.

Inspired by Primitive Technology, I made some Neolithic-Style Ground stone tools, a knife and hand axe/prospective axe head. http://i.imgur.com/4b3Myyi.jpg http://i.imgur.com/f8gdRxT.jpg http://i.imgur.com/XZuMGTK.jpg http://i.imgur.com/gWKoOBd.jpg

I've been watching more of his videos, and the shit he does is impressive.

Holy shit indeed. I'm really impressed that he was able to get such accuracy without fletchings or a tip.

TIL this exists: http://www.mars-one.com/mission/roadmap http://www.mars-one.com/ It's such obvious BS to me.

I personally really enjoy reading skaldic poetry, especially in the original Old Norse versions. The common metrical pattern, drottkvaett, has some pretty confusing rules, and it's amazing that the skalds of the day would be able to compose and memorize 40-verse epics. One of my favorite single verses, by Egil Skallagrimsson ca.925: I've been with sword and spear' slippery with bright blood where kites wheeled. And how well We violent Vikings crashed! Red flames ate up men's roofs raging we killed and killed and skewered bodies sprawled sleepy in town gate-ways. As you can Imagine, many skaldic poems, like this one, had to do with wars or battles or stories of lords and kings, and the rest are Norse myths.

I think that the people in both these articles are of the same strain, and that they'd jump at the opportunity to permanently separate all predators and prey because they feel bad for the deer. They think that to avoid the extinction of endangered animals like the rhino and tiger we should start crucifying all, (and I mean ALL), hunters, when the obvious solution is to domesticate them. Edit* Both the animals and the hippies, the latter as slaves bred for working on the oil rigs of the Trump caliphate.

Colli and I recently went with our brother to the Chapungu Zimbabwean Sculpture Park in Loveland, and there were some really interesting pieces there. I didn't take any pictures, but I was able to find a few for this post.

So I figured out a good way to keep the dart shaft from splitting due to the head, and keep the tip of the dart from shattering upon impact with a hard surface, ( as often happens with meticulously knapped quartzite pieces), and that is to saw off ~1" off the end of an antler tine, smooth and sharpen the small piece, then bore a hole in the center of the end at the thicker part of the taper of the tine, and whittle the end of the wooden shaft to fit in the bored hole, and glue it in there as well as using string to support the tine in small notches cut into both the tine and the dart shaft, which holds the tine in place both while the glue is drying and afterwards.

Something interesting about atlatls vs bows is that atlatls have a greater effectiveness against larger game and, i believe, greater effectiveness over short distances. http://twipa.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-pros-and-cons-of-hunting-with.html

I have heard that it was a common practice to soak the end of the dart/arrow so that it was malleable, and then to put the dart/arrow head in the slot and tie it on then and let the shaft dry in place to make it less likely to split.

Either the dart-head splits down the shaft or the shaft snaps where the string used to tie the head on ends.

Yeah, ash works very well for my atlatl, it's strong and hasn't ever cracked. However, I can't seem to keep my darts from breaking upon impact after some number of uses , they always seem to eventually snap. I can not seem to find a way to counteract this.

That would work pretty well, better than what I've got, for sure, but it's a purist thing.

Do you mean wood for bows or arrows? I once made a bow and arrow set entirely out of green willow pieces and it worked pretty well for a few hours until the bow dried up and cracked.

I do not have a good source of straight pieces for dart shafts, so I have to use willow limbs that I find/cut, meaning I can't make very uniform darts at all. The darts I make tend to be about the same weight, maybe 2.5 to 5 oz, depending on the thickness of the wood and the dart-head I use. I have noticed a noticeable spread in accuracy between heavier darts and lighter ones, a heavier dart will fly more accurately than a lighter dart with the same throw. At about 25 m I can pretty reliably hit the target I use, which is an empty box of beer standing up.

Wrong, Colorado State flag is better.

I forgot to mention Woomeras, which are super cool. They are Australian aboriginal atlatl, and also could be used for carrying and cutting the food that they caught.

For many years, humans had only one way of flinging sticks with pointy rocks on them, and that was the atlatl. Atlatls have been used for ~30,000 years and was what people used to hunt fuckin' megafauna, so you know they're cool. There are many interesting varieties of atlatl, like the Baton of commandment Loop Fork and Cord Cup (one that holds the dart in a hollowed-out area at the back of the atlatl) Spur or Hook (one that has a spur at the back which hooks into the dart like a bowstring in nocks on an arrow), which is my favorite It is really easy to make an atlatl and a couple darts with hand-knapped tips and some fletchings. I use an atlatl with an antler spur tied on to an ash stick, which is more secure than it sounds, and 1.5 m willow darts with hand-knapped quartzite dart-heads, (sadly without fletchings due to a personal lack of feathers), and they go pretty far, 30-50 yds, but they tend to flip around due to the aforementioned lack of fletchings.