Regarding climate change as cultural destruction, something interesting, and in the "Pantyhose and other stuff" department...
I've been watching a couple of YouTube channels of folks fixing up boats and, apparently, making it up as they go along.
It's both painful and cringeworthy to watch.
What's even worse is while the tyros doing the FUBAR glass and epoxy work admit that their work is akin to a dog's breakfast, they shrug it off with a "If I'm doing something wrong, tell me how to do it right in the comments".
Which, of course, gives viewers ample opportunity to give advice that is if anything, worse than what they're already doing which sets up a negative Möbius strip cycle. Which is all kinds of depressing as well as making the various fit-out projects both problematic and expensive.
I mean it's not like someone wrote books on how to do epoxy and glass work or anything like that on boats...
So, if you happen to be looking for information on using epoxy I'd suggest "The Epoxy Book" from System Three (a free download), "The Gougeon Brothers on Boat Construction" (also a free download), and if you really want to up your skillset buy/download a copy of Russel Brown's excellent "Epoxy Basics: Working with Epoxy Cleanly & Efficiently". I've been using epoxy on boats for three decades and these are the books I still use on a regular basis.
There's an incredible amount of real (as opposed to conjecture/opinion)
knowledge available in books that far surpasses what's available in
forums, comments, and the odd passersby. It just makes a lot of sense to
avail yourself of existing information instead of getting on the trial
and error bandwagon which seems to be the norm these days.
Just read the damn books.
Listening to an album's worth of Rolling Stone's covers
So it goes...
