Self-Sufficient Meta Thread - Discussion about the board, not the topics of self-sufficiency.

[Orange Rhymer]

I mean, you had a whole suggestion for categorizing topics by depth and topic. Did you not want adirectory?

Yup, I agree. Stratifying would be weird, because it requires the user to understand the basis of (my) categorization.
Directory is the way to go.

 

[Sithis]

I feel like this board needs an archery thread, I want to learn more about bows and arrows and the combination of them in the absence of boomsticks. I think that an archery thread could do well but don't know nearly enough about the subject to start one, any kiwis interested?

 

[TH3 H4NG3D M4N]

I feel like this board needs an archery thread, I want to learn more about bows and arrows and the combination of them in the absence of boomsticks. I think that an archery thread could do well but don't know nearly enough about the subject to start one, any kiwis interested?

Here is a condensed summary of archery, for what it is worth, based on my limited knowledge:

There are three different types of bows, and they are: longbows, recurve bows, and compound bows. If you have to pick one exclusively, pick a compound bow, as you can adjust the draw weight (long bows and recurve bows have fixed draw weight). You need roughly 30 pounds of draw weight (or greater) to kill a deer. It you plan to hunt big game, you will want to look at arrow weight, maybe around 500 grains. You will also want to get broadhead arrow tips.

Women typically do not excel at archery due to the draw weight being a significant challenge at 30 pounds or greater, as well as the bow string whacking them right in the tit. You will want to get a wrist guard as it protects your forearm from the bow string.

It you live near the ocean, you can also try bow fishing. You will need a special reel which attaches to your bow for this, and you will need carbon fiber arrow shafts (or something like it), since aluminum shafts break instantly when they hit the water, due to the viscosity of salt water. You should refrain from shooting any fish which is large enough to pull you in. You might be surprised at how stupid this advice is, but I have personally seen two different people do this and one of them lost his bow in the process. Again, you will need broadhead tips for bow fishing, and it will take some practice to adjust your aim to match the salt water refraction index (aim lower).

There are also crossbows, but I do not have experience with them, and I do not typically think of them when I think of "archery". I know they have considerably more draw weight, and they use "bolts", not arrows.

 

[888Flux]

Does anyone want to help me put together a OP for navigation? Pen, paper, map and compass navigation is probably one of the most important skills you can have in a grid down scenario. Most people have no idea how to even read a road map, let alone a topographical one. Navigation without the use of satellites, GPS, and phone displays is becoming a lost art much like radio.

In any shit hitting the fan scenario GPS satellites will be the first to go. It's trivial for any state actor to take down GPS satellite constellations either through jamming or simply blowing the shit out of the sky.

DM me if you want to help, I can send you what I have so far. Thanks!

 

[DeutschfagAufAbwegen]

What about growing cannabis?

Was thinking about making one as soon as outdoor season starts. Indoor cultuvation, while a shitload of fun, is more of a hobby and not a methode of self-sufficiency

 

[Hweeks]

Was thinking about making one as soon as outdoor season starts. Indoor cultuvation, while a shitload of fun, is more of a hobby and not a methode of self-sufficiency

Yeah I agree which is why I decided not to make a thread. Maybe if society collapses and everything goes mad max style it would be a good skill to have.

 

[DeutschfagAufAbwegen]

Yeah I agree which is why I decided not to make a thread. Maybe if society collapses and everything goes mad max style it would be a good skill to have.

Growing cannabis is also a good and diverse entry drug to turn ordinary people into farmers. Alot of people i knew started off growing a plant or two knowing nothing. One of them turned his outdoor garden now into a completely biodynamic organic farm and another one has taken liking to hydroponics, so he started growing all kinds of fruit and berries not suitable to local climates hydroponically indoors. Really kind of fascinating how it just takes one plant for people to discover a completely new hobby which is also higly productive and high maintenance.

 

[Orange Rhymer]

I propose a category on a different sort of self-sufficiency.
Interpersonal Communication
Focusing on how to talk to people. Maybe expand into writing as well.
Stuff like: Body language. How to fucking answer a phone call. How to ORDER FOOD AT A RESTAURANT WITHOUT HAVING A PANIC ATTACK. (this happens now, no joke). Enunciation.
In a survival situation:
Utilizing leverage. How to barter. How to command a group/Basic Leadership.

After hearing a zoomer on a youtube refer to phone calls as 'creeper behavior', I am thinking some people might need a course. The 'restaurant menu anxiety' crisis also triggered me.

 

[DeutschfagAufAbwegen]

I propose a category on a different sort of self-sufficiency.
Interpersonal Communication
Focusing on how to talk to people. Maybe expand into writing as well.
Stuff like: Body language. How to fucking answer a phone call. How to ORDER FOOD AT A RESTAURANT WITHOUT HAVING A PANIC ATTACK. (this happens now, no joke). Enunciation.

Sir, this is the self sufficiency thread and not the replacement father thread, im sure Jordan Peterson and top rapist Andrew Tate offer the proper course for that

 

[Orange Rhymer]

Sir, this is the self sufficiency thread and not the replacement father thread, im sure Jordan Peterson and top rapist Andrew Tate offer the proper course for that

Doesn't fatherhood ---> Self Sufficiency ?
Fuck knows it isn't working in a single mother household.

Kiwi Farms. The Father You Never Had.

 

[ThrobbingWalloper]

Doesn't fatherhood ---> Self Sufficiency ?
Fuck knows it isn't working in a single mother household.

Kiwi Farms. The Father You Never Had.

This came up on one of the Brit News Threads.

Raising children in a low trust society requires a different approach to some parenting challenges.

Raising children that are capable and self sufficient seems prudent in 2025.

I work with young people who cannot make a phone call yet always have their phone in hand when they're meant to be working, cannot read a clock, cannot descalate a tense situation professionally, have no idea what a fuse is, and live on processed food.

Perhaps a thread for the kiwis who have spawned young people and are trying to raise functional humans who eat vegetables, don't chop their dicks off and aren't vulnerable to being culterally enriched by Muhammed?

 

[Null]

If you want to make a parenting thread go for it

 

[PyrrhicRustle]

If you want to make a parenting thread go for it

We have like 4 and they’re all dead.

 

[Null]

We have like 4 and they’re all dead.

The KF is not a great place to talk about your family, likely why.. you can always just make it undead

 

[Joe Shmoe]

Perhaps a thread for the kiwis who have spawned young people and are trying to raise functional humans who eat vegetables, don't chop their dicks off and aren't vulnerable to being culterally enriched by Muhammed?

If you need the Kiwifarms to teach you how to be a parent maybe you shouldn't be one.

 

[PyrrhicRustle]

If you need the Kiwifarms to teach you how to be a parent maybe you shouldn't be one.

They usually end up being more commiseration and general support threads for the couple of months they last, most people aren't stupid enough to reveal identifying information about their kids. I'd enjoy them having more life but I think the population of parents, especially of younger children, is pretty low. I see more posts from boomers with adult children than current parents.

 

[VIPPER?]

I feel like this board needs an archery thread, I want to learn more about bows and arrows and the combination of them in the absence of boomsticks. I think that an archery thread could do well but don't know nearly enough about the subject to start one, any kiwis interested?

I have a bow but I'm lazy and honestly not very up on my jargon; what would you even put in the OP though?

I'd post in that thread but I wouldn't be able to make a decent OP. Just covering the various sorts of stave bows (non-recurve non-compound types) could be an entire book on its own that wouldn't even include manufacture or selection of arrows. Compound bows are new (only date back to the 70s iirc!) but are still complicated enough and have enough silly aftermarket attachments that that alone could make another book. And bows are not a replacement for boomsticks either, so I foresee a lot of shitposting about that. Then there's crossbows. It could be a good thread to have but would require a knowledgable and experienced archer to make only to get drowned in people asking why not just get a FAL

I propose a category on a different sort of self-sufficiency.
Interpersonal Communication

we have a ham thread thoughbeit

 

[888Flux]

A QTDDTOT (Questions That Don't Deserve their own Thread) thread for short questions might be useful to some and a good way of organizing information so that it concentrates activity in one place. There seem to be quite a few threads made that quickly fall to Page 2, and the QTDDTOT thread could have discussion persist for longer and also receive more input across a wider variety of topics.

 

[ludwigvonmises]

One day i will live in a log cabin in Alaska and ill have a family, guns, and be as far away from the government and people as possible. I don't care how long it takes