>>49000
nice get btw

>>49006
It's dont. Just really slow but still active

>>49078
I've tired posting here a few times, but often the board doesn't load properly or my posts are rejected. Such cases.

Just as I typed this post a few hours ago, the page was "undergoing maintenance" or something.

>>49080
*tried lol. Freudian slip.

>>49080
The qbunker is under attack for couple of weeks now, on and off. Endchan is getting fixed and updated and whatnot, to mitigate the flood. So this causing usability issues.

>>49020
>>49022
You must surely recognise that his presentation in them is very poor.
>It has its market.
Defence contractors?

>>49024
It's reconstituted food. His opinion is "as good as any such can be", and it is a good review for these. Except that one meal which he spits.
>Defence contractors?
No. Civilians. Tourism, camping, and hiking is a consumerised industry in itself. Bunch of people spend money on all kinds of useless shit, clothing and gear and packaged food, and go glamping with their shit. These types of food packets with Mountain House brand and the others fit into this.
Maybe you don't buy these, maybe I don't buy these, but there are plenty of people out there who do. Mostly Americans, ofc.

I'm thinking about Western Euro markets, if they buy these stuff. Because instant food ofc as popular as anywhere. I dunno what Western Euro hikers would prefer. Most Hungarians will laugh about these things, they probably never heard any of these.

>>49026
We usually just do meat and or seafood on the bbq here. I can't imagine wanting to buy any of that dehydrated stuff unless I were going to a very remote and unfamiliar conflict zone.

>>49027
Their pro is the shelf life, the ease and quickness of preparation. They are also light, so it's good if one can get water and don't need to bring that too.
So those will use something like these who are out for a "longer" (more than 1-3 days) period and don't have the means to keep food cold, and don't have much time for preparing meals. So those who don't camp in place, don't go by car, but are on several days hike on a trail. There might be others, like who create adventures for themselves like the straight line missions GeoWizard does, and ofc larpers, who play survival in their backyard.
In Europe however you walk liek 20 mins and you'll be in a settlement with shops and restaurants. Okay, there are areas, like national parks where this isn't true, and maybe the towns, villages would be out of way or add a considerable amount of distance.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=HGKrKJ1iKtg [Embed]

really makes you think

>>38646
One pasha of Buda had a thing for wine. But since it's haram he had to sneak out from the castle and visit wineries in secret. On one occasion he found such a good drinking buddy, that he made a blood-pact with him, forming a brotherhood. The Hungarian didn't know whom he made the blood-pact since the pasha was incognito. I'm sure there's a story following, that the guy finally called on a favor (or vice versa) but I don't know about that.

>>38648
Do you have a link for the story bernd?

>>38648
Have not looked it up yet. I'm not sure I'll to be honest.

But here's another thing. Not entirely related to the Ottos.
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=UZ7KN3-RlQ0
https://youtube.com/watch?v=UZ7KN3-RlQ0 [Embed]
So this Jew is talking about the Solomon temple and its lost treasures.
When I saw this first time, I had an opinion about this. The place was ransacked and destroyed a couple of times, rebuilt, used, refilled, and as this guy says it wasn't anything that could rival the temples of the surrounding large empires. Egypt, and the Mesopotamian civilizations and then Anatolia, the Hittites were immensely rich in those times, building wonders, amassing wealth. They frequently clashed in the border region which was the Levant, with the Jewish tribes and other tiny states populating it. Eventually the nth original temple was destroyed and the Jews brought to captivity. There they met these civilizations up close, personally, and they lived there for generations. They saw those temples there, but noone remembered their own as the first generations died, the tales remained, and the viewpoints of the first captives, who probably spoke scornfully about the temples of those nations. So the coming generations inherited this view but only knew the riches and looks of these temples, so they dreamt their own more lavish and rich, filled with treasures and exotic stuff. And well where could all the treasures disappear? They were hidden ofc.

>>48909
I had another thought, and I watched again. This bloke also has that Shatner-esque pauses what Paul Harrell has. Kinda. This isn't the other thought, but this:
In the ancient civilizations the temple was the center of the economy, in fact in Hungarian we call it temple economy because of this (and also palace economy, how the English calls it too). The main settlement had the temple with the scribes who doubled as priests, or the priests who doubled as scribes. They did the administration of the state, they were the ruling class basically. The surrounding lands were dotted with smaller settlements with specialized functions. Fishing villages, orchards, quarries, farms, mines... they produced food, pottery, building materials, tools, weapons, etc. and the products were sent to the central temple where they made an inventory and decided about the use of the stock they amassed. Some sent back to the villages for consumption, the others they used in communal building projects and such, and ofc the priesthood lived lavishly from what they kept.
And this Jewish myth about the treasures of the temple, seem to reflect this type of economic organization. Besides the rabbis and their tribe had an exceptional place in Jewish society.

>>35967
Do people still go to 4chan nowadays?

/int/ is the only board that I'm still missing now, after I got banned years ago

>>48586
While one could make abstractions, find common themes, deduce underlaying rules, set up criteria, etc. the individual cases will be different enough if we take closer look. Geography is certainly a decisive factor for state and country formation, how the people live there. Other circumstances, like the historical background, and starting point also matters. The fate of Americas were all changed and basically all parts of it was put to a similar course when the colonizers set their foot onto the shores from their ships arriving from the motherland, and then they spread from the shores to inland.
I think historians, political scientists and the like view the region of the Eurasian steppes wrong. There are people with different ideas ofc, but they are fairly marginal. I'll take now an idea, a fragment of an idea, and will add a couple more fragments.
Eurasia should be viewed as a big pond, or a quite unusual river flowing in two directions, with ditches and banks on each (Eastern and Western) end, trying to deflect the flood, keep the water out. These banks are such empires as the Roman and the Chinese. Maybe even the southern borders with Iran and India are in similar position. In this giant region too empires formed but they are more changeable, more fluid, than what the brick people (Roman, Chinese, Iranian, Indian) build on the periphery. And they create waves as they emerge and put the water in motion, which then run towards the banks, sometimes over it causing floods and crises and changes. The point of emergence is always a different place, and when the flood reaches to the end will differ. The last wave was pushed by the Russian colonialism towards the East. The Mongol blokes appearing in this war with Ukraine now as soldiers are the waves reflected back from the Eastern banks (there were earlier waves too, it's like when one pebble causes many waves in a puddle, and stones are thrown generously into the Eurasian pond). The Central Asians appearing in European Russia is the sames.
Compared to this the countries emerging from the overseas colonies will have a very different fate, organization, and behviour.

>>48694
That 8 wheeler looks badass.
Are they... symbolic? Any meaning they want to express?

>>39782
It sounds annoying.

>>48676
Depends.
Some think they are the greatest blessing a man can have while they are nothing but a problem to solve, or even a chain of problems.
Others just lift you up. Some even in literal sense...

I'd love too but im starting to think im magnet for bad women.

>>48683
It's too much work and I don't like dealing with people, I just want to do my own thing. It's why I don't have a dog either, I would like a dog, but then you have to train them, take them for walks, groom them, feed them etc and it's just too much work.

>>48691
>dog, but then you have to train them, take them for walks, groom them, feed them etc
Basically that's the point of having the dog, to do those activities. Otherwise get a plushy instead.

>>38435
>don't have a choice
Do we have at all? This is the question since democracy was invented.

>>38505
>Do we have at all?
no

>>38507
I think this could be changed.
First people need to be allowed to get involved on the lowest level of governing, at their settlement, or if it's a larger city, then at their borough, neighbourhood. They need to be let govern directly, they need to feel that they do stuff together. This have to go for years. Then it could be taken one step further, city or county level, then to the state/country. Even indirectly can be done responsibly and can be done in a way that the representatives could be told directly how they should vote in the Parliament, or they could be called back and someone else be sent instead of them.

>>38521
>I think this could be changed.
Maybe vote for change to start? It's a step in the right direction.

>>48671
As a grassroot movement could be initiated with a referendum by people.
They have to collect a certain amount of valid signature to do this. A disorganized group however has less chance to do so. They also need to send their message to wider audience so people will know what's this about. As a first step it could be about direct democracy in their locality. They could face considerable amount of bureaucratic headwind since it means ending the politician profession. Some live very comfortable doing nothing but acting important as politicians do. They won't like this. Also there or powers (for example lobby groups) who enjoy the simplicity of having certain politicians in their pockets who does what told. They just need to own couple of key figures, as the bottlenecks of exercising governing power. They won't like this either.
Direct governing also has it's own problems. Many people feel they just want to work their 8(+) hours daily and then leave them alone. They don't want to bother with getting informed about current issues and making up their minds on their stance on it. It could be a bother to go vote on every other day, but we possess the knowledge and possibility to do all that electronically now, so it could be done with less hassle. (But we all know that the politicians in power would use this as an excuse to block the initiative, claiming it's too expensive to build the infrastructure, and even if we would manage to go through them, the thing would be made poorly and even more expensive - most of the cost would wander into the pockets of the politicians.)