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“walkable cities” are a nice idea until you end up in the part where there’s plenty of (violent) crime so you just end up taking a car because its relatively safer than being out in the open

@cell is there a lot of crime in your city? I thought it was super safe

@cell >car

surely you mean APC

@hj unironically would be helpful against the types of thieves who smash windows
get some reinforced glass and armor and bam you have a mobile fortress

@kaia this is a huge consideration when going across the causeway to johor bahru tbh, singaporeans become easy targets because suddenly you don’t have effective police or public transport

@cell personally i'd prefer floating/flying mobile fortress but it's just a fantasy.

There is another way, however...
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@hj killdozer is unironically one of my favorite examples of “modern techniques and knowledge applied DIY simply”

composite armor technology that was completely alien to WWII industrial giants applied in such a way DIY effectively stopping all police small arms, it’s so elegant

@cell and the fact that you don't even need any weaponry, just raw brutal force and a lot of armor.

@hj you try to show modern jet engine design to wwii powers and it won't be that helpful because the prerequisites (advanced metallurgy) didn't exist back then

but show them composite armor concept and suddenly you would have changed the course of history

@cell yeah but at the same time tank engines would need to be more powerful to move all of that armor

@hj ..which in return requires more advanced metallurgy
so you're saying if we travel back in time, any time, we better max out our metalworking skilltree?

@cell metalworking is nice, but it requires tools, which in turn requires lesser metallurgy, which also requires tools.... It's the classic "who made the very first anvil and how" problem. And then there's a problem of getting resources, chemicals, electricity, fuel, workforce. Very often it's not about knowing something is theoretically possible and more about is it is practically possible/viable/profitable.

@hj @cell Probably can bootstrap an anvil from strong stones or even just molding one in clay.

@lanodan @cell >strong stones

ah yes, tungsten, aka wolfram.

but yeah, first anvil probably was extremely shit

@Hyolobrika @cell because it's one guy vs. uncaring government

@Hyolobrika @cell private businesses and governments go hand-in-hand, more likely to protect business interests than individuals.

@Hyolobrika @cell all businesses are ran by individuals. It's a group of people bullying one person, whether government, organization or both. People love those "vs. World" stories.

@cell @hj > City: "Sir please stop shitting in the irrigation canal what the fuck."
> *Goes on a retard rampage, destroys half the towns infrastructure and then shoots himself."
> "Reasonable man."