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post 1634413713 03-23-2021, 05:30 AM
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How Skilled Are You? (The Competent Man)

As humans our great skill is essentially the ability to learn.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyse a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.Specialization is for insects.

— Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competent_man
How much can you do brahs?

The world is at your fingertips and it's NEVER been easier to pick up something and learn it.

What are you working on?

What do you want to learn next?

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post 1634413963 03-23-2021, 05:37 AM
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10/10 srs

Live completely offgrid farming, can fix or build just about anything. Licensed HVAC, licensed elevator mechanic, built my own house, barns, shops, winterized greenhouses.. Fix all my own a machines etc... Plus I train jiu-jitsu, run my own business
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post 1634414043 03-23-2021, 05:39 AM
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I want to learn to sing. No I dont have the illusion of becoming rich of it. I just wanna have fun with it.

Otherwise, video editing. Wanna bring lulz to people I know.

Currently Im only well versed in researching on the internet and some sports like riding mountain bike.
post 1634414143 03-23-2021, 05:41 AM
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subbed for future apocalypse team
post 1634414383 03-23-2021, 05:47 AM
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Fukking awesome drawing. At one point I started learning Latin because there were so many old untranslated books that I was interested in reading. Doing so was pretty much the equivalent of learning to play an instrument at an advanced level, so I never saw it through.
post 1634414483 03-23-2021, 05:51 AM
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Originally Posted By Mike1991⏩
10/10 srs

Live completely offgrid farming, can fix or build just about anything. Licensed HVAC, licensed elevator mechanic, built my own house, barns, shops, winterized greenhouses.. Fix all my own a machines etc... Plus I train jiu-jitsu, run my own business
How do you live off grid and farm with no electricity? You power everything with your own (unreliable) solar?
post 1634414553 03-23-2021, 05:52 AM
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Originally Posted By Mike1991⏩
10/10 srs

Live completely offgrid farming, can fix or build just about anything. Licensed HVAC, licensed elevator mechanic, built my own house, barns, shops, winterized greenhouses.. Fix all my own a machines etc... Plus I train jiu-jitsu, run my own business
Srs?
post 1634414793 03-23-2021, 05:58 AM
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I feel like I have to work twice as hard to be half as good as someone who's good at something. Nothing is easy. Only things i'm good at are the things I do all the time. I can do a wide range of things but I'm not very good at them.
post 1634417323 03-23-2021, 06:47 AM
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Very
post 1634417393 03-23-2021, 06:49 AM
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I do alright...
See BrianDaMans sig.

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post 1634417473 03-23-2021, 06:50 AM
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Hilarious because it overlooks the most important skill of all

Which is layin pipe on deez hoes

Obviously the quote in the op was by an incel

“Muh hobbies”
post 1634417523 03-23-2021, 06:51 AM
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Not as much as id like. I think im above average, but I do have a desire to improve/learn so much more, but I have no energy and very little time. I suppose if it was super important to me I could give a little from some of my other goals and make time, but I just feel like I am already going 100mph


The ONLY regret i have, is that I didn't use my free time in HS and Undergrad to pursue interests and learn valuable things. I have a degree, sure and I am smart, okay, but I do feel like I missed out on great opportunities to learn more tangible skills.
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post 1634417673 03-23-2021, 06:53 AM
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Originally Posted By r32gojirra⏩
Hilarious because it overlooks the most important skill of all

Which is layin pipe on deez hoes

Obviously the quote in the op was by an incel

“Muh hobbies”
This. Imagine caring about how good you are at learning or doing pointless BS rather than how many girls you made coom
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post 1634418703 03-23-2021, 07:13 AM
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don’t even know what conning a ship is so guess I’m fuked :/
post 1634421223 03-23-2021, 07:57 AM
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Originally Posted By Hutrapper⏩
I do alright...
I call first dibs on Hutrapper for apocalypse buddy.
I'm not DrewDarden

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post 1634421303 03-23-2021, 07:58 AM
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I can do a lot of things.

I am lacking in hunting and primitive survival skills. Would love to learn both.
I'm not DrewDarden

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Best Raw (gym lifts): S:540 B:380 D:515

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post 1634421513 03-23-2021, 08:01 AM
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in on tradie thread
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post 1634421953 03-23-2021, 08:08 AM
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I’d like to learn
To sail
To fly
To farm at small scale

The goal is to be out doing things and not miscing but such is dat dere 9-5 life
Posts are for fun, not to be taken seriously or as truth.

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post 1634422183 03-23-2021, 08:10 AM
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Originally Posted By proudmanlet⏩
don’t even know what conning a ship is so guess I’m fuked :/
Can you atleast plan an invasion
post 1634422573 03-23-2021, 08:15 AM
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Originally Posted By SmashinYoungVag⏩
Can you atleast plan an invasion
yes, with lube and foreplay
post 1634422833 03-23-2021, 08:19 AM
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you aint never seen no one that at' nobody as skilled as me
Beer is my brush and the road is my canvas
post 1634423453 03-23-2021, 08:29 AM
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Originally Posted By GaryRidgway⏩
you aint never seen no one that at' nobody as skilled as me
fuk u *****, im da fukkin king
post 1634423533 03-23-2021, 08:30 AM
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Originally Posted By Firas3⏩
Srs?
100% srs

If an apocalypse happened I could comfortably feed 5000+ people even without a power source

I have a 5 million btu wood boiler hooked up to acres of insulated greenhouses, and thousands of animals

As well as a 20kw wind/solar combination power source
RON PAUL 2012
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Originally Posted By nickh04⏩
in on tradie thread
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Originally Posted By overtrainbrah⏩
As humans our great skill is essentially the ability to learn.



How much can you do brahs?

The world is at your fingertips and it's NEVER been easier to pick up something and learn it.

What are you working on?

What do you want to learn next?
Guy that wrote that was in the navy so a lot of those skills he learned while being paid to do it, which is great and all but its not as realistic if you have a day job to go learn celestial navigation in your free time after work in addition to a million other things. So he is a bit hypocritical because not everyone enjoyed that luxury, and if everyone was in the military nobody would be producers of anything and all the items and services he bought over the years wouldnt have existed because everyone would be a generalist paid by the government like him.

He also had failed marriages and promoted sexual debauchery.

Also his claim of having "designed a house" could have amounted to telling his contractor he wanted a house built with a specified list of features or design traits.


And his "plan an invasion" would have been a table top exercise that every other naval officer would have done in some school at the time.
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Originally Posted By proudmanlet⏩
don’t even know what conning a ship is so guess I’m fuked :/
navigating a ship while giving steering orders to your minions but also having a broad knowledge of all aspects of that ships so you know what to do if an emergency occurs. If it is a big ship, someone will always be in charge 24/7 while the other sleep ect. Not unlike someone driving your modern cruise ship or an airplane pilot.
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Originally Posted By elterrible987⏩
Guy that wrote that was in the navy so a lot of those skills he learned while being paid to do it, which is great and all but its not as realistic if you have a day job to go learn celestial navigation in your free time after work in addition to a million other things.

He also had failed marriages and promoted sexual debauchery.

Also his claim of having "designed a house" could have amounted to telling his contractor he wanted a house built with a specified list of features or design traits.


And his "plan an invasion" would have been a table top exercise that every other naval officer would have done in some school at the time.
some damn good points there bro, i was unaware of his promotion of sexual debauchery

still, i think the point (becoming a well rounded person and upskilling yourself in whatever way you wish) is a good one, though practical matters of a 9-5 life need to be considered too
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Originally Posted By Mike1991⏩
10/10 srs

Live completely offgrid farming, can fix or build just about anything. Licensed HVAC, licensed elevator mechanic, built my own house, barns, shops, winterized greenhouses.. Fix all my own a machines etc... Plus I train jiu-jitsu, run my own business
Originally Posted By Mike1991⏩
100% srs

If an apocalypse happened I could comfortably feed 5000+ people even without a power source

I have a 5 million btu wood boiler hooked up to acres of insulated greenhouses, and thousands of animals

As well as a 20kw wind/solar combination power source
lmao, mirin hard bro srs, you and trapperbrah must be among the most elite self sufficient and multi-skilled miscers
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Originally Posted By overtrainbrah⏩
some damn good points there bro, i was unaware of his promotion of sexual debauchery

still, i think the point (becoming a well rounded person and upskilling yourself in whatever way you wish) is a good one, though practical matters of a 9-5 life need to be considered too
well he was around 07-88 and looks like there was some hippie chit he was into in the 60s but he wouldnt have known at the time the damage that would be done by marxists 60 years later so cant really blame him.
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Only real skill I have is related to my job which is very niche and otherwise useless. It also takes up more than 80 hours per week leaving little time for learning other more useful skills.
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